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Weekly Commentary Feb 11 thru Feb 22, 2008
2008-02-10 17:12:00 This last week the Market returned to the lows with a 600 point selloff. Just as it looked as if the Market was recovering, the Market tanked again. Welcome to a Bear Market. More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Weekly , 2008
Coming Collapse of Int?l Ratings Agencies
2008-02-09 01:25:00 Forget the collapsing ratings of bond insurers. This article touts the problems with the ratings agencies themselves: “The problem, the challenge, the scandal, is not that the bond insurers are about to be downgraded. The real scandal lies in the fact that they haven’t been downgraded a long time ago - and much deeper than from ... More About: Commentary , Collapse , Podcast , Ratings , Agencies
Dollar needs a mint freshener
2008-02-09 01:24:00 A great article here. “The importance of the mint is not to be found in its altogether negligible role of coining small change, the so-called subsidiary coinage which people use to make small purchases. The mint is all-important because it is designed to produce real money. The origin of the mint is intertwined with religion. From ... More About: Commentary , Dollar , Podcast , Mint
Do the math
2008-02-09 01:22:00 The United States created 18,000 jobs during November while 270,000 of the population turned 62 years of age in the same month and became eligible for Social Security on January 1, 2008. That’s one new contributor to Social Security for every 15 new beneficiaries. There is no money in the SS trust account. There are ... More About: Commentary , Podcast , Math
CPI and Inflation stats underreported
2008-02-06 23:06:00 Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting. Data on the CPI come from here. Inflation , as reported by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is understated by roughly 7% per year. This is due to recent ... More About: Commentary , Podcast , Stats
Freaking doomed by doubling power
2008-02-06 22:22:00 This guy cracks me up…it’s nice to see a serious newspaper put some truth in a funny wrapper. “…Thanks to the incompetence of government, the dollar has been devalued by 17% since 2001? Hahaha! We’re freaking doomed! Let Shadowtraders help save what is left of your portfolio “And,” he goes on, “God only knows what ... More About: Commentary , Power , Podcast , Doomed
Keeping Bankers in Line
2008-02-06 22:03:00 These guys are more out of control than those drunken co-eds in Girls Gone Wild. Instead of flashing jubblies, your bankers are out there exposing your deposits and loans to fantastic risks. Just as you wouldn’t trust your fortunes to a sophomoric bimbo, don’t let these guys run the show for you. Use ShadowTraders technology ... More About: Commentary , Podcast , Line
Credit default swaps may not work as advertised
2008-02-06 21:41:00 Full story here. “In May 2006, Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman, noted: ?The credit default swap is probably the most important instrument in finance. ? What CDS did is lay-off all the risk of highly leveraged institutions ? and that?s what banks are, highly leveraged ? on stable American and international institutions.? The reality may ... More About: Commentary , Credit , Work , Podcast
Evidence Wachovia Knew and Profited from Theft
2008-02-06 21:23:00 Better trust your own judgement and ShadowTrade. Full story here. “Last spring, Wachovia bank was accused in a lawsuit of allowing fraudulent telemarketers to use the bank?s accounts to steal millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims. When asked about the suit, bank executives said they had been unaware of the thefts. But newly released documents from that lawsuit ... More About: Commentary , Evidence , Podcast , Theft
Economist: Expect Fed to lower Dow to 8,000
2008-02-06 01:39:00 Aren’t you glad you can go short using ShadowTraders? Full story here. Excerpt More About: Economist , Expect , Lower
Economist: Expect Fed to lower Dow to 8,000
2008-02-06 01:39:00 Aren’t you glad you can go short using ShadowTraders? Full story here. Excerpt More About: Economist , Commentary , Podcast , Expect , Lower
Are we there yet?
2008-02-05 22:07:00 Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker used the “R” word today. Finally!
Are we there yet?
2008-02-05 22:07:00 Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker used the “R” word today. Finally! Lacker added: “I can also see the possibility of a mild recession, similar to the last two we have experienced.” Lacker went on to say that he did not think it was necessary for further rate cuts unless “incoming data is not weaker ... More About: Commentary , Podcast
CME profits double as volumes keep growing
2008-02-05 20:46:00 Full story here. Staying in the most profitable and flexible markets is what Shadowtrading is all about. Learn more today. More About: Double , Profits , Growing , Volumes
Commonly held false data
2008-02-05 19:34:00 Full story is here. False data: It’s different this time, or _____ always goes up and I can’t lose. True data: That was said in the late 1920’s and the late 1990s in the US stock markets (Why Bull Markets Go Up Forever), as well as many times in history ... More About: Data , Held
Bankers gone bonkers
2008-02-05 19:21:00 Exhibit One: Commit-a-Felony-Get-a-Bonus Contract. Back in 2002, Mark Belnick, who had previously been one of the legal go-to guys for Wall Street as a rising star at corporate law firm Paul,Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, found himself transplanted as General Counsel at fraud-infested Tyco International. Mr. Belnick inked a retention agreement for himself and it ...
Is it a recession yet?
2008-02-05 16:58:00 Today the ISM (Institute for Supply Management index) displayed contracting growth in business. The ISM report came in at 44.6 when Market economists predicted 53. Service sector includes health care, transportation and retail. Next week, the retail sales report is revealed and is expected show one of the largest drops ever for January. This ... More About: Recession
Backsliding Currencies and Gold
2008-02-04 20:12:00 I’m not being a shill for gold. Trade gold, dollars, any future you like, but this is data worth having and acting upon: http://www.financialsense.com/fsu/editori als/willie/2008/0131.html Most people who evaluate the plight of the Persian Gulf nations think in isolated terms on price inflation, property speculation, local economic effect, and the like. They tend not to take the argument ... More About: Gold , Currencies , Backsliding
Geopolitical Gold Games
2008-02-04 20:05:00 Article here: http://www.321gold.com/editorials/fekete/ fekete013108.html It is a farce to blame the present financial crisis on lax lending standards and rogue traders. What we see is the return of the chickens to roost. This crisis has been in the making for over a century, involving the so-called demonetization of both monetary metals. The move was inspired and led ... More About: Games , Gold
Quantum fund co-founder on US, China and opportunity
2008-02-04 19:29:00 An interview with the co-founder of Quantum Fund on money, the US, and China . http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/30/news/inte rnational/okeefe_rogers.fortune/index.htm ?postversion=2008013103 Read this and go do something about your own financial situation. Get trading with ShadowTraders. “Conceivably we could have just had recession, hard times, sliding dollar, inflation, etc., but I’m afraid it’s going to be much worse,” he says. “Bernanke is printing huge ... More About: Founder , Opportunity
Superbowl — Bullish or Bearish?
2008-02-04 14:43:00 The Giants spoiled the Patriots perfect season. The Giants are an NFC team. Will they spoil the stock market as well? Superbowl theory says that an NFC winner signals a bullish stock market and an AFC winner is a bearish stock market. Last year an AFC team won and look what happened to ... More About: Bullish , Bearish
Weekly Commentary February 4 through 8
2008-02-02 22:45:00 This last week the Market ignored the economic data and began to recover. On Friday, we saw minus 17,000 jobs created for January, with 28,000 jobs lost in manufacturing and 27,000 jobs lost in construction. These jobs were replaced by low paying temp jobs and retail jobs. More About: Commentary , Weekly , February
America’s Teeter’s on the Bridge
2008-02-02 21:44:00 You might want to read this report!!! Best to learn to defend yourself now. Learn to trade Futures with Shadowtraders. More About: America , Bridge , The Bridge
Unemployment is Worsening in America
2008-02-02 16:20:00 Unemployment is worse than reported. We at Shadowtraders are very sensitive to this problem. America ns out of work for six months or more is rising. In December, the number of long-term unemployed was 1.3 million, up 22% over 2007. The 2007 average for the entire year was 1.2 million, and 17.6% of those ... More About: Unemployment
Financial Tsunami, Titanic Shift
2008-02-01 00:04:00 A further continuation of analysis by F. William Engdahl: The worst financial crisis in US history is just now appearing in its real dimension. It spells the end of New York’s reign as the globally dominant financial power, the heart of the power of the American Century. It is a shift whose true significance has not ... More About: Tsunami , Financial , Shift , Titanic
Tapeworm Economics
2008-01-31 20:57:00 If you’ve ever cared to know just how a real racket starts, this will tell you everything. I was facing the futility of trying to craft investment solutions without some basic consensus about the economic tapeworm that is killing us and all living things — while we blindly feed the worm. In a world of economic ... More About: Economics
Just breathe!
2008-01-31 00:36:00 OK, we know you see a lot of “bad news” data on the markets. Some of these market insiders can stoop lower than a pygmy limbo dancer in order to reach their bonus levels. A lot of people, pension funds and institutions, who, thinking their financial assets are being defended by “Joe Broker”, are reaping ... More About: Breathe
PMI and the credit crunch
2008-01-30 23:44:00 An excerpt from an article, The Great Credit Unwind of 2008, found here: So, in practical terms, what does it mean if the bond insurers go under? It means that the system will freeze and the stock market will crash. Listen to TV stock guru Jim Cramer summed it up last week in an interview with MSNBC’s ... More About: Crunch
An interest-free world?
2008-01-30 21:50:00 I read this article and was struck by this data: ============ Compound interest has allowed a private global banking cartel to control most of the resources of the world. The debt trap was set in 1974, when OPEC was induced to trade its oil only in U.S. dollars. The price of oil then suddenly quadrupled, and countries ... More About: World , Free , Interest
Q4 2007 numbers
More articles from this author:2008-01-30 16:26:00 GDP was announced this morning just 0.6 percent for the 4th quarter, 2007. Analysts had forecast 1.2% increase, so .6% is far lower than forecast. That makes 2007 the worst year since 2002. The housing market worsened and credit became harder to get for businesses, making consumers and businesses more cautious in their ... More About: Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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