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Weekly commentary June 09-13
2008-06-08 17:45:00 Gasoline finally hit $4.00/gallon across the nation. Crude reached $140/barrel, on its way to $150 by July 4th weekend. In one month, crude went up 40cents. Supplies? Speculation? More About: Commentary , Blogroll , June , Podcast , Weekly
Financial Tsunami has not reached its Climax
2008-06-06 21:27:00 Full story here. Another in the continuing narrative of the Financial Tsunami by F. William Engdahl. Don’t get swamped by the tsunami, get to higher ground with ShadowTraders. ”The Financial Tsunami has not reached its Climax Credit Default Swaps: Next Phase of an Unravelling Crisis by F. William Engdahl The Sub Prime Meltdown is but the Tip of the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Lehman on the ropes, looking for $$$
2008-06-03 18:50:00 Full story here. Don’t trust your nest eggs to a bunch of foxes. Use ShadowTraders to stay flexible and profitable. “Lehman managed to escape the same fate as Bear Stearns around the Ides of March partly due to the heroic intervention of the Fed, in part to reporting first quarter profits. A member of the skeptically-minded ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Weekly Commentary June 2 through June 6, 2008
2008-06-01 17:09:00 What a difference another week makes. On Monday, the S&P 500 was at 1378. On Friday…1400. So what happened? In a word…Crude. This is exactly what we said last week. Crude. On Thursday, when the Crude Oil Inventory Reports came out, Crude jumped to $132+ a barrel. But by the end of the day, it ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , June , Podcast , Weekly
From Imperialist to Third World?
2008-05-30 22:15:00 Full story here. I love thought-provoking commentary. I will put in my 2 cents about the concept “Third World ”. You may think, no plumbing and unsanitary. Well, that’s one aspect. More generically, imagine your nice house and plumbing, but a busted public works system, bankrupted or hyperinflated out of existence. You can have all the pipe in the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Third World
Waiting for the other shoe to drop
2008-05-29 01:07:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders now, and avoid the heartbreak of finding out that 30 years worth of pension got flushed down the toilet… “Walk On the Wild Side I decided to take a look at the largest pension pool in the U.S. ? the 240 billion Calpers [California Public Employees Pension Fund] - we can see ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Shoe , Waiting
Why gold will get whacked again
2008-05-29 00:01:00 Full story here. “Gold has recovered from its previous two ?whacks? rather nicely this past week and the Friday before, but it will very likely be whacked again very soon, possibly as early as this coming Monday. Why? Because gold is rising while the Dow/US stocks are in ultra-dangerous territory. That is the one thing the ?powers? cannot tolerate. ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Former Fed economist: Fed using the wrong playbook
2008-05-28 20:44:00 Full story here. From the nakedcapitalism.com site, another recent favorite of mine. “Former Fed Economist : Central Bank Using Wrong Playbook A reader pointed me to a great post at Institutional Risk Analytics, which consists of an interview with Richard Alford, an economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s foreign department during the heady years ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Weekly Commentary May 26-30
2008-05-25 23:29:00 What a difference a week makes. On Monday, the S&P 500 was at 1435. On Friday…1385. So what happened? In a word…Crude. Crude went to $135 a barrel and drove gasoline above $4.00 in many parts of the country. This is going to be the least driven Memorial Day weekend in a very long time. ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Weekly
More on the real reason behind high oil prices
2008-05-23 00:15:00 Full story here. More from F. William Engdahl on the machinations of oil-based geopolitics. I suggest you read his other offerings as well (the one on Monsanto and GMO seeds will make your hair stand up on end). ”As detailed in an earlier article, a conservative calculation is that at least 60% of today?s $128 per ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Reason , Real
EU to ?protect? citizens from capitalism?
2008-05-22 21:38:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to protect yourself from busybody bureaucrats, sleazy brokers and any of the other pitfalls of capitalism. “A top cast of European statesmen has issued a blistering denunciation of financial markets and called for a creation of a pan-EU body to protect the citizens against the “social risk” posed by modern capitalism. “The ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Capitalism
Moody?s error gave Aaa rating to debt products
2008-05-22 00:22:00 Full story here. “…Moody?s awarded incorrect triple-A ratings to billions of dollars worth of a type of complex debt product due to a bug in its computer models, a Financial Times investigation has discovered. Internal Moody?s documents seen by the FT show that some senior staff within the credit agency knew early in 2007 that products rated ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Products , Podcast , Debt
It?s a numbers racket
2008-05-21 20:11:00 Full story here. A snippet of a Wizard of Oz theme writing up a new book by Kevin Phillips, which I’d recommend reading. If only we could click our heels and be back in Kansas, but the ruby slippers got repo’d. “…2009 Sequel: Script exposes diabolical cover-up conspiracy Flash forward: Real life, Washington, new leaders, a new ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Numbers
The Shape of US Populism
2008-05-21 19:25:00 Another in a series of articles by economist Henry CK Liu. It reads almost like a detective novel, which is what it takes to discern an answer from people who speak with forked tongues. Use ShadowTraders to make your money fast, and don’t get ‘forked’. “…The Fed intervention was in fact done amid confusion. Information since ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Shape
Credit bubble- red herring
2008-05-19 19:40:00 Full story here. “…Professor Mishkin’s speech offered at best only a flicker of hope that the Federal Reserve is moving away from failed Greenspan/Bernanke doctrine: Financial history reveals the following typical chain of events: Because of either exuberant expectations about economic prospects or structural changes in financial markets, a credit boom begins, increasing the demand for some ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Credit , Podcast , Red Herring
Weekly commentary May 19 thru 23, 2008
2008-05-17 21:51:00 This week we saw the Dow begin to gain ground and hold it. The Dow is very close now to retaking 13,000. And the VIX is back to 16. More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Weekly , 2008
The Global Slump
2008-05-12 23:55:00 Full story here. ”The avalanche of bankruptcies has begun. Six US companies of substance have defaulted on bonds over the past fortnight, against 17 for the whole of last year. As a “non-believer” in the instant rebound story, I am not easily shocked by gloomy reports. But the latest note by Standard & Poor’s — “The Bust ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Global , Slump
Shadowtraders Weekly Commentary May 12, 2008
2008-05-11 13:30:00 This week we saw the Dow lose ground once again. The week started with the Dow above 13,000 and ended at 12,745. We saw the S&P 500 go from 1425 down to 1388, down 1.8% for the week. What happened? More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Weekly , 2008
Crisis of honesty in the marketplace
2008-05-09 01:44:00 Our entire finance system relies on trust, particularly when we use fiat money. Not only is the gov’t printing more money, diluting the worth of the existing pile, it then compounds the sin by handing it out freely to the parties most responsible for the debacle and the most likely to use the money they ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Marketplace , Honesty
Musings on the ?liquidity issue?
2008-05-09 01:14:00 I’ve been subjecting myself to endless articles in the mainstream which preach how we have a liquidity issue in the marketplace. If this were sorted, all else would be fine and we could go back to 20% annual appreciation on our homes, stocks, etc. Uh huh…I’ve assembled some reasonable arguments, from myself and others, to bring ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Musings , Podcast , Issue
Depression of the 2010?s
2008-05-06 21:50:00 Full story here. A great piece by Darrell Schoon. This neatly sums up the present financial/economic situation. Gads, whatever else you do, read and understand the below data. Don’t just go back to watching ESPN or American Idol and think this will go away since the world didn’t explode from Bear Stearns. This is the ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Depression , Podcast
Perhaps 60% of Oil Cost is Speculation
2008-05-05 05:11:00 Full story here. Another great article from F. William Engdahl, who’s made some tremendously astute and timely observations in economics, war and commodities. This is someone you should keep up with on your own. “By F. William Engdahl, 2 May 2008 The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Cost
Weekly Commentary May 5 through May 9
2008-05-04 23:14:00 This week we saw the Dow hold and close above 13,000 for the first time in months. The S&P 500 closed and held above 1400. More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Weekly
Fed sinks the dollar
2008-05-01 21:44:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders to get yourself out of debt and into a level of operation where dumb Fed activities don’t cause you life-threatening impact. “…Changing the interest rate alone meant that the Fed didn?t have to ?think,? didn?t have to regulate markets, raise reserve requirements on bank loans to fuel the asset-price inflation that ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Dollar , Podcast , Sinks
Oil in 2012: $200 or $50?
2008-04-30 18:34:00 Full story here. Trade with ShadowTraders and it won’t matter if the market’s up or down. “CIBC World Markets analysts recently predicted that oil would sell for US$200 a barrel in 2012, as oil supplies grow ever tighter relative to demand. That would imply a continued global boom for the next four years, which would bring ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast
Irredeemable debt
2008-04-29 00:12:00 Full story here. “… Perhaps the worst aspect of the regime of irredeemable debt is the lowest level of morals followed by governments in modern history. It is epitomized by an elaborate check-kiting conspiracy between the U.S: Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Treasury bonds, contrary to appearances, are no more redeemable than Federal Reserve notes. It’s all ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Debt
Credit Bubble - Stage II
2008-04-28 18:54:00 Full story here. Get ahead using ShadowTraders. Don’t wait to ride bubbles. “…I have referred to these policy measures as the supplanting - or underpinning - of Wall Street-backed finance with federal government-backed finance. Or, perhaps somewhat less analytically ambiguous, to avoid implosion Washington had no alternative but to explicitly and implicitly nationalize both system credit ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Credit , Podcast , Bubble
PPT?not so secret anymore
2008-04-28 18:26:00 Full story here. ShadowTrade so you won’t be at the mercy of other shadowy figures. “…The Working Group, or PPT, is much-pondered but reclusive group that has declined to submit to the federal Freedom of Information Act or to testify in detail before Congress about its activities. This is true even though its current chief, Treasury ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Podcast , Secret
Bear Stearns: 100% fraud
2008-04-23 23:25:00 Full story here. I knew the real-deal reason would show up sooner or later. “This article is about how Bear Stearns stock was artificially collapsed so that illegal insider traders would make billions and J.P. Morgan would be paid $55 billion of US tax payer money to shore up themselves and buy Bear Stearns at bankruptcy ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Fraud , Podcast
Dark pools of money
More articles from this author:2008-04-23 19:54:00 Full story here. Use ShadowTraders and don’t get caught on the dark side… “…Dark pools, anonymous off-exchange stock trading venues where traders can match large orders while concealing price and volume, have been rapidly gaining market share. By allowing traders to hide their cards, the pools limit the impact on stock prices before an order is ... More About: Commentary , Blogroll , Money , Podcast 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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