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The difference between Poland and USA is that Poland -- along with the rest of Eastern Europe -- still looks like 1945: broken roads, bombed out downtown areas and people earning 450 EUR a month. Large parts of the economy are a shadow and underground economy: most of it is still cash based...

Didn't Newscorp pay 650m for MySpace? What would be a fair value today? 65m?

But isn't it amazing you keep losing money averaging into these 3x bear ETFs even though we're down on the year and we're in a bear market? The worst bear market in generations, economy imploding, unemployment soaring, market in panic mode and ET's "told you so" über-bear S2007S still can't...

Nobody believes China's propaganda. They purchased record amounts of US treasuries in 2008, they knew what they were in for. I wouldn't doubt for a second they keep talking tough and still accumulate more US debt.

Short EUR. Not a macro bull or bear, will just follow trend. If EUR breaks ~1.39 to the upside on the weekly I will go long. Until then, let's see if we can ride this pig down.

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The correct translation would have been "fell apart in a dramatic fashion", but you get the picture :cool:

Top two headlines on spiegel.de right now: * German February Machinery orders implode, down 49% YoY * German secretary of finance Steinbrück worried by worldwide inflation Gotta love Steinbrück :cool:

And the 30 Dow stocks won't gap down before you're able to short them? Only on ET.

London is finally turning into a wasteland:

Reuters should have what you're looking for. http://about.reuters.com/productinfo/fundamentals/

"Foreign" from the point of view of German taxpayers. None of these non-German producers have any production facilities in Germany, mostly because labor cost is too high compared with Asia and Eastern Europe.

And as Hussman outlined, the toxic asset buyout plan will do NOTHING to improve the equity capital position of banks, it merely improves the QUALITY of the bank balance sheet, replacing junk valued at $X with $X amount in cash.

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/03/view-at-consumer-balance-sheet.html The following snapshot compliments of David Rosenberg: * Households own $20.5 trillion of residential real estate, even after the value destruction of the past three years. * Households own $8.8 trillion of...

Nicely 'uncorrelated' and 'diversified' bets by a long-only manager. I'll go all in :cool:

The effectiveness is amazing. 62% of the new purchases of this "bailout" go towards foreign car producers, securing foreign jobs. Germans shooting themselves in the foot once again :cool:

Zero Hedge is rarely speechless, but after receiving this email from a correlation desk trader, we simply had to hold a moment of silence for the phenomenal scam that continues unabated in the financial markets, and now has the full oversight and blessing of the U.S. government, which in turns...

No more "bull market" in FDAX? Down 4% :confused:

Once Greece or Italy blow up Merkel will have to pay, if she wants to or not :cool:

Not sure if Washington will get the message http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tea-Bag