Archive for August, 2009:

President’s Proposals would Produce Lower Deficits than Continuing Current Policies

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Bruce Webb }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
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Of Ideologues and Ranters

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Menzie Chinn }
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Categories : Econbrowser, Money
From Arnold Kling's entry yesterday: Kwak goes on to endorse Chinn's ideological rant that the Bush tax cuts caused the financial crisis. Yes, I know that Chinn is speaking in the tone of economic analysis rather than a rant, but only ...Read More »

Arnold Kling Calls Me an Ideologue and/or Ranter

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Menzie Chinn }
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From Arnold Kling's entry yesterday: Kwak goes on to endorse Chinn's ideological rant that the Bush tax cuts caused the financial crisis. Yes, I know that Chinn is speaking in the tone of economic analysis rather than a rant, but only ...Read More »

Open thread August 29, 2009

{ Posted on Aug 29 2009 by Rdan }
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Whirlpool Plant in Evansville, Ind. Shuts Down, Taking 1,100 Jobs to Mexico

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by Michael Shedlock }
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Categories : All, Globaleconomicanalysis, Macroaxis
Evansville, Indiana continues to suffer from jobs and population flight. It's population was 121,582 in 2000, falling to 113,627 in 2006.Tonight Evansville is taking another hit as Whirlpool to shut Indiana plant, cut 1,100 jobs.Whirlpool Corp. announced Friday it will ...Read More »

Pace of Insider Sales Continues to Escalate

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by Ockham Research Staff }
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At Ockham, we continue to be interested insider trading activity as an indicator of sentiment.  Of course, we understand that insiders do not know what the future holds more presciently than the rest of us, but we think it is ...Read More »

Why Credit Default Swaps On JP Morgan Debt Should Be More Expensive Than Campbell’s Soup CDS

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by John Carney }
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Categories : All, Clusterstock
Is the CDS market underpricing risk again?David Reilly at Bloomberg notes that the pricing of credit default swaps on both the US government debt and Campbell’s is the same, while buying a credit default swaps on government backed JP Morgan ...Read More »

Weekly Risk Report 08/28/2009

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by SignalPoint Blog }
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Our risk indicator has settled in just below 10th percentile of our database. It is showing a Low Risk reading again this week with Price/Earnings ratio dropping back. The other components changed only slightly from a week ago. Selling continued this ...Read More »

Hey Ex-Traders, Go Work For The SEC

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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SEC chair Mary Schapiro was on Fox Biz today, talking about what the SEC can do in the future to step up enforcement. She might have some good news for former traders. Wall Street Pit has the transcript: CLAMAN: How do you keep ...Read More »

Frugality That’s “Outside the Realm of Possibility”

{ Posted on Aug 28 2009 by Trent }
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Categories : All, Learning, The Simple Dollar
If you’ve read The Simple Dollar for long, you’ve seen tons of lists of money-saving tips, from 100 little steps for saving money and 100 free things to do this weekend to fifty ways to have fun by yourself on ...Read More »
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