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    Lou Dobbs on CNN - about China

    Excellent commentary as always.... What is particularly interesting is bien raices (compra/vende) in the Latin region.... The Latin region is in a $200 to $600 per month world....and are highly dependent on Chinese manufactured essentials.... The point being the only "price protection"...
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    50/100 year bond coming

    One should question.... Who will buy.... 50/100 debt ? At extremely low rates .... .......................................................................... Usually when this type of issuance happens it is a legal issue to cut short term needs..... And is a last resort type of...
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    Planned Economy or Planned Destruction??

    Seems like economies ..... Have been at these crossroads ....before....
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    Brokers Abandon Wall Street

    Actually....well designed internet sites....wiki type format.... Could easily replace "brokers".... ....................................................................... Combine this ....with a fully electronic marketplace.... ie ....Full....worldwide implementation of the BATS...
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    Brokers Abandon Wall Street

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124156648439789537.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us_business One should question....just what is there to abandon away from....? The obvious ....is obvious....
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    Rating Agencies Sympathy

    Thus the term "justice" has been granted a new meaning ? US Justice ? IS A JOKE !!!!!!!! In the US justice means.... "Whatever one can get away with"..... Very "Third World"....
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    Rating Agencies Sympathy

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/134612-regulatory-musings-at-harvard?source=feed There are several cogs in the financial failure wheel.... One of which are the rating agencies.... At this point....almost everyone in the world is aware that had the problematic debt been properly...
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    The Arms Race in High Frequency Trading

    Bottompicker....correct.... But what happens when high frequency traders gradually kill off the population - take Bund/Bobl and Schatz on Eurex and 10/30yr on CBOT, not so long ago they were THE place to be but high frequency algos with deep pockets have cleaned out the smaller people - now...
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    Who REALLY Caused The Financial Meltdown... and who tried to stop it

    Scataphagos.... Of course the deals were bad. But you are missing the point. The responsibility for the problem and all of its offshoots lies in the government (Democrats specifically) CHANGING the ground rules for getting a mortgage loan. Up to this beginning of Affirmative Action...
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    Fidelity Says ‘All Things in Place’ for Bull Market

    One may take note on how Fidelity's revenues are dependent.... Revenue growth is largely dependent on "long only" strategies" in that their funds which generate fees are mostly long.... And to the contrary they were remiss in letting customers know to leave their funds before most indices...
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    Who REALLY Caused The Financial Meltdown... and who tried to stop it

    http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awVpSgnAKPGw Volcker ....gets it....
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    Who REALLY Caused The Financial Meltdown... and who tried to stop it

    The comments made earlier about the economy being down for some time is correct.... A significant percentage of total wealth has been lost....nothing more....nothing less.... It is lost....gone.... ............................................................... There is no way that the...
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    Bernanke Says He Is Comfortable With The Rating Agencies

    http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13527929&source=hptextfeature For committing massive fraud these folks get another $400 million in fees via Bernanke approval etc.....
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    Who REALLY Caused The Financial Meltdown... and who tried to stop it

    Tavakoli needs to be known by every household in the US....and the world.... The best....
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    The Arms Race in High Frequency Trading

    High frequency trading ....will do well in highly populated markets....no matter what the label.... The more populated the better.... Thus one would focus on the lowest transaction cost, highest populated .... And perhaps most importantly....the most diverse base set of cheerleaders....
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    Late Stage Growth Obesity

    http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/04/the-next-great-bubble/
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    Who REALLY Caused The Financial Meltdown... and who tried to stop it

    One might approach this issue by describing under what conditions this would not have happened.... The two party system is flawed.... The lobbyist system....and the voting by advertising dominance are flawed concepts specifically.... The system itself has to be revamped whereby politics...
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    Ok....So WHO Pays ?

    Bair nails it.... http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agbKRl8lbr8w&refer=home
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    Tim Geithner = Owned, Bought & Paid For By Wall Street; A Damning Indictment

    The two party system by advertising....lobbyists.... Must be done away with....
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    Stiglitz

    Agreed .... Politics and Economics.... Are like Oil and Water.... ................................................ The two party by advertising/lobbyist system has got to go....
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