The Goldman Sachs Tax
Yesterday, we looked at whether GS was front-running, well, everyone, via a sniffer program that saw all trades on the NYSE prior to...
Retail Sales in June 2009
Nice interactive Retail Sales graph, via the NYT: > click for interactive app Data via Goldman Sachs, NYT > Source: June Is Another...
WSJ: Economists Say No to a Second Stimulus
The Wall Street Journal’s latest forecasting survey shows most economists oppose another round of stimulus (43 against, 8 for),...
An Inconclusive Start to the Q2 Earnings Season?
Good Evening: After an upside surprise from Alcoa and much better than expected initial jobless claims, U.S. stocks were poised to go...
Maloney: Commercial Real Estate Is a “Time Bomb”
My friend Dawn Kopecki of Bloomberg News just posted an interesting item quoting Joint Economic Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney as...
Art Cashin: Money Talks
A check on the markets, with Art Cashin, UBS director of floor operations and CNBC’s Erin Burnett. Thurs. Jul. 9 2009
Media Appearance: Glenn Beck
> I am hawking the book on the Glenn Beck show today at about 5:10pm on Fox News. Guest host: Eric Bolling
Thursday Reading
All good stuff: • A law to tame wild bankers (Guardian) • All of the jobs created in the US this century have been lost (Econbrowser)...
Second Stimulus ?
This week’s G8 summit in Italy is going to be more philosophical than market moving, Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, told...