Soros, Brady, Reed, Donaldson and Bogle Favor Volcker Rule
No surprise here: The elder statesmen of Wall Street favor the Volcker rule: “Put aside for a moment the populist pressure to...
Gasparino: The Sellout
That’s the name of Charlie Gasparino’s new book, The Sellout. And its also what his colleagues over at CNBC might be thinking...
Shadow Inventory Of Troubled Mortgages
There is a substantial research piece out by S&P looking at distressed mortgages (better late than never). You can read the entire...
Alacra Pulse
> Interesting website that compiles analyst commentary and media coverage on stocks: Street Pulse, finds comments by sell-side,...
The Greek Cockroach
Warren Buffet’s adage “you never see just one cockroach” is going to be tested in Greek. We are about to find out if this is true...
S&P500 Swing Analog: 1938, 1974, 2003
Ron Griess of The Chart Store looks to history for some analogies to the current market. He looked at 1938, 1942, 1974, 1982 and 2003. He...
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Coming Soon: 5 Million More Foreclosures
Studies keep showing what we have known for a long time: Fighting foreclosures is a futile — and counter-productive — use of...
Is the Recession Over?
There is some debate about whether the recession is over. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a non-governmental...
Volcker: Let Big Financial Firms Fail
“If a big non-bank institution gets in trouble and threatens the whole system, there ought to be some authority that can step in,...