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Here is the flaw. You are looking at it as a decrease of .25% from 5.25% to 5%, but you have to look at it as a decrease of .25 from 1.0525 to 1.05. Over a year, you are collecting 0.0025 less interest for every dollar. Or 25 cents per every 100 dollars. Actually, the currency that lowers...

You have the math all wrong. According to interest rate parity, with a surprise .25 cut in the discount rate, the currency value apppreciates by the amount of interest that is foregone, which is 0.25% over a year. For example, if the interest rate is cut from 5.25% to 5%. So the 1 year...

The Fed should raise rates, look at the dollar, its bleeding too death. Who wants to hold dollars when there is massive printing of it going on plus you get low interest? Sounds like a crap bargain.

LOL. You actually believe this crap? This is all stuff that Bazooka Ben wants people to believe, he says one thing and does another. Like Hank Paulson saying that he supports a strong dollar policy. Give me a break! Hank and Ben have no credibility.

Most people will scoff at what you say as nonsense but what I saw last week with all the program trades jamming the futures late in the day and in premarket and between 4:00 and 4:15 pm show me that a big player or players were pushing the market higher and forcing sentiment to change by buying...

Pump and dumper

Gas will go up soon. There is always a delay between the rise in crude and the rise in gas prices at the pump.

Oil is at $93.50 and rising fast. You think people are dumb? A share of an overvalued overhyped company RIMM which has been split a bunch of times is $122. A barrel of oil is $93.50. What's the better value. I'll take a barrel of oil anyday. The funny thing is most people think RIMM...

What a bullish market. So many skeptics too who think people are buying because of some meaningless tropical storm in the Atlantic. I think we see $100 oil by Thanksgiving, which is less than a month a way. And demand won't go down until we get to $200+. There are just too many dollars...

If inflation is at 7% a year and GDP growth is 2%, does that really mean there isn't a recession? Its worse to have GDP growth of 2% and 7% inflation than GDP growth at 0 and inflation at 2%. And no, inflation is not 2% according to the Chocolate Factory in DC. So we may be in a...

We are at historically high profit margins for corporations, that's what has kept earnings growth up. It is not sustainable, when profit margins get too high, competitors naturally enter and lower profit margins in the industry. Price/Book ratios are high, especially for tech stocks. The...

We're living in a world of bubbles. 2008 is going to be a hellacious year for the markets, Wall St. will be able to hang on for 2007 with only 2 months left, but 2008 with rampant inflation and bubbles in worldwide equities is going to rear its ugly head. 2008 will remind many of 2000, the...

The price of oil is going up a lot faster than the euro vs. the dollar. Oil went up $7, or 8% in 3 days last week! The dollar lost about 1% in that timespan. Oil is going up in any denomination. Simple supply and demand problem we have. Geopolitics is the red herring for what the real...

You guys don't get it. OPEC is pumping out all in can! Do you think the Saudis have this unlimited supply of oil that they can just turn the faucet and infinite amounts of oil just pop out? Demand isn't slowing down even at these prices, until demand goes down, oil will keep going up. It...

That's now how microeconomics works. There isn't a linear relationship between an increase in demand and increase in price. Everything is priced on the margin, the marginal buyer is obviously going to pay a lot more for something when he knows there is more demand than supply, than when there...

The thing is, inflation is actually good for the stock market, because inflation also leads to inflated earnings and inflated dividends, of course, all in nominal terms, in real terms, it means nothing. We may have a rising stock market but the actual real value could fall with high inflation.

The turds aren't going anywhere despite the rally today. A bad sign. Symbol Last Trade Change Shrs Price Paid Gain - - 44.13 100 3,289.00$3,289.00 CHNR 4:00PM ET 32.89 Up 1.90 100 44.13 -1,124.00Down $1,124.00 Down 25.47% - - 11.78 400 3,652.00$3,652.00 CSUN 4:00PM ET 9.13 Up 0.09 400...

This is a company that has the real possibility of going BK and it is valued at $10bil! Wow, what a deal.

Only on Wall Street can an $8 billion company lose $1.2 billion and go up 30% on the news!

It looks like some big boys are moving the market with S&P futures totally disregarding price and jamming it in random intervals painting a pretty chart for fools to jump in and buy near the highs. I'm sure the buy program will be unwound next week sometime, probably after the Bernanke Wall...