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Dowd must be really worried about re-election, because he's actually doing something useful, and apparently ready to take on the powers that be. F**k the Federal Reserve. The less power they have the better. Get rid of the Fed. http://endthefedusa.ning.com/ Dodd Proposes Removing Fed...

Blankfein Defends Goldman Sachs Against Breakup Advocates Email | Print | A A A By Christine Harper All smiles for Lord Blankfein as Goldman Sachs obtains the benefit of being able to borrow money near zero interest rates (a policy crafted by the FOMC that punishes U.S. savers), and use...

This article, along with the one someone posted demonstrating that half of all American children will exist on food stamps... ...well, it's just incredibly sad. 58% of Americans receiving the bulk of their income from government, and Shilling's forecast of an official rate of unemployment...

Quit stalking me in threads, you knuckle-scraping, neanderthal, Rush Limbaugh ass licker. :cool:

Volcker has been ousted, unfortunately, and now the insane and corrupt are the gatekeepers. Bernanke is destroying the dollar and middle class.

Obama the clueless. He's on track to be a one termer, as he's lost independents... Last Friday, a huge crowd of fans marched in a ticker-tape parade in downtown Manhattan to celebrate the Yankees’ World Series championship. More than once, as the fans passed through the financial...

[F]undamentals didn't matter a wit. What mattered was the macro backdrop. Since the March low, stocks of other companies -- both healthy and sick alike -- have risen remarkably, too. Citigroup is up 350% and Crocs is up 500%. [T]he latest shenanigans from government, banks, and big...

Free market flawed, says survey By James Robbins Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News Monday, 9 November 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8347409.stm Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism...

CONTINUED Surpassing China Mitsubishi UFJ bought Treasuries in October, said Shimomura, who expects 10-year yields will fall to 3 percent by year-end. Japan’s purchases exceed those of China, which has boosted its holdings 9.6 percent, or $69.7 billion, to $797.1 billion, Treasury...

“The U.S. economy has faced a double whammy: the recession and credit contraction,” said Akira Takei, head of non-yen denominated bonds at Mizuho Asset in Tokyo, a unit of Japan’s second-largest bank. “The U.S. will face a triple whammy with deflation. That’s good for the Treasury...

Why Bother Analyzing Companies? October 30, 2009 http://jasonkelly.com/index.html For more than a year now, fundamental analysis of companies has been a waste of time. Stocks have traded as a block, first plummeting in tandem a year ago to March as banks froze up the financial system...

A major Wall Street crash is brewing. Bank it. The bad actors have been propelling the markets, while the economy goes to absolute shit, and the retail crown - even the dumb ass sheep - now know with certainty that the "stock game" is crooked beyond words.

The way the gov't reports its stats, 12.6% would be like a real world 22% to 24%, right?

MBS, the man. Hey, by the way, has anyone else heard that Dan Zanger lost half his nut in the last couple years? I have no idea if this is true or not, but read it on a thread on ET that I now can't seem to find. Maybe OP was Zanger.

No, not short - yet. I've been doing gynecology on the side, and before that, I trained Circus elephants.

I know this thread is old, but I just wanted to say: Daytrading, doood! Those daytraders are all zillionaires!

Wall Street: Dumb as It Ever Was by: Todd Kenyon November 06, 2009 http://seekingalpha.com/article/171820-wall-street-dumb-as-it-ever-was?source=hp_wc I had to take a few moments away from shouting at the circus-of-the-inane on CNBC to vent. All the focus on this jobs number this morning...

The inherent greatness of the above article and astute observations contained therein will shine on for a long time.

You jest, and the sad fact is that Goldman Sachs really does nothing, makes nothing, and adds nothing to the wealth, prosperity or stability of the United States. If Goldman Sachs represents the future of the United States, we are in for absolutely calamitous times. Their scumbaggery knows...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1.r1175SlNI&pos=5 World’s Central Banks Signal End to Emergency Policy ‘Largesse’ Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Brian Swint and Jennifer Ryan Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The world’s biggest...