Rally “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”
> In 2007 and 2008, Barry Ritholtz, CEO of Fusion IQ, became one of the Street’s most notable bears, at first chastised and then...
Is U.S. government-data being “massaged”?
> Many market-watchers claim that U.S. economic statistics are increasingly being revised downward in subsequent periods, suggesting...
Nassim Taleb: Gold, Copper Could Rally “Massively’
Which is worse, the great depression or the financial crisis? Taleb, has a definite answer. (Bloomberg News)
Greetings from Amazon.com . . .
Now shipping: Bailout Nation I got about a dozen emails just like this one below last night from various friends around the country! >...
Claims, PPI data
Initial Claims totaled 637k, 27k more than expected and up from a revised 605k last week and Continuing Claims rose 202k from last week...
Green shoots with inflation?
In addition to the heated debate over whether the global economy is experiencing a bottoming process or is just an inventory head fake,...
Morning Reading
Some days, there’s not much to read in the papers Today is not one of those days: Bailouts/Financial Crisis • Bankers Told by...
William “Bill” Seidman: 1921 – 2009
Reflecting on the work and life of former FDIC chair and CNBC commentator Bill Seidman, with Richard Breeden, Richard C. Breeden &...
Three Keys to End the Recession
There have been positive quarters of GDP growth in 8 of 11 recessions since WW2, and the stock market rallied in sync, Shilling notes. As...
Dissecting J.P. Morgan
Author and journalist Gillian Tett talks about her new book, “Fool’s Gold” in which she analyzes J.P. Morgan and its...