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Excellent Commentary ............................................................................. There are many good arguments about various forms of taxes.... One may want to view the form of taxation that would put all countries on a level playing field.... This would be a simple...

Excellent Commentary All ............................................................................... The real question here can be looked at this way..... The only way the collective bad debt picture can improve is if the valuations improve.....so how can this happen ? Here is a...

Excellent Commentary All .............................................................................. Let us take this one step further by examining a very simple case.... Bank A makes a business loan for $1,000,000 at 7% for 5 years to be paid monthly.... The loan is personally...

Excellent Commentary ................................................................................ This is a very vivid means of postponing losses Japan style.... Risks were taken.....not countered.....and the system thereby heavily diluted.... The dilution being born by the real...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a3MuSWcHDGR8&refer=home Dear Mr. Paulson, Just how much of that part of the $800 million that you have....which you made at Goldman.....is due to the most onerous tier of assets....which in turn serves as the major asset area whereby...

Re-post.... What is also of interest is not only energy independence and secure supplies....but to retain monies within the countries....who currently are spending over 25% of their GDP on oil....and also causing havoc when the smaller currencies have to convert to pay .... It is a very...

Excellent Commentary ......................................................................................... You are 1000% on it.... And maybe on the high side..... Money does not like severe surprise..... Trading is the name of the game..... Holding is for...

Yeah....anyone paying attention to Fuld's bogus bonus... Hey you SEC scum that peruses the ET sight give a shit ....right ? Or were you just hoping to get a job there ? Wink wink ....FO

Some cracks already appearing.....just as I suspected..... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1pkK_jvGsUc&refer=home Unfortunately.....just the beginning.....and this is a good firm going to bat for its clients....Very rare on Wall Street....Everyone remember when Bear...

The SEC Legal scene is a rigged game to some extent. It is a huge "wink wink" business. The legal fees that an Ex SEC employee makes are 100x plus what he used to make in the SEC.... And this is not due to Bush....This has festered for many years. This is why Paulson will have difficulty...

Excellnt Commentary All ................................................................................................... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction_rate_security your right, they are different from money market funds...usually sold in denominations of 25K to 50K to...

Perfect.... But, but, it says so in the prospectus!!!!!! ................................................................................... Yeah yeah.....you mean you did not read the prospectus that was given to you ? What do you mean ....you didn"t ? Ah.....you really should...

SA....This is an excellent, very thoughtful, and very accurate post.... ....................................................................................................... I can tell you that every Latin American country.....particularly those that have been through IMF...

Excellent Commentary All ..................................................................................... There are two types of money.... Money by which one would like to take on risk.... Money by which one would not like to take on risk...

Excellent Commentary .................................................................................. This is only the beginning ...... The US is going to be absolutely choked with legal largesse....and you can rest assured that at the end of the day, capitalism will find other...

Excellent Commentary All ......................................................................................... All money market funds to date have enjoyed a $1 in $1 out asset invest/liquidation ratio.... Obviously risks have increased for this not to be the case in this...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120672890827072299.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo For many years....commencing with Merrill Lynch Ready Assets....investors have piled in more than a $1 trillion in supposedly cash equivalent money market funds.... This highly suggests that 90 day tbills will...

First and foremost ....one must be clear on what the SEC is.... The SEC is the stepping stone for lawyers that want to progress to high paying legal firms that have become a devasting cost to productivity and thus US competitiveness..... Nothing more .....nothing less.... The SEC does...

Excellent Commentary As Usual .............................................................................................. One way to look at current conditions is to try to visualize what the world will be like in the next several years.... Thus consider the following.... The US...

This is very simple.... http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7816b7d8-f90e-11dc-bcf3-000077b07658.html The Central Banks take in bad debts....call them good debts....and print money one to one to buy them..... PROBLEM SOLVED !!!! NOW THAT WAS NOT SO HARD....WAS IT ? WHAT THE PUBLIC DOES NOT...