Creating 50 Million Jobs

The US economy lost 2.4 million jobs in the last four months of 2008. At the current rate of lay-offs, another one million will be lost this month.  read more »

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Boeing to Cut 10,000 Jobs

From MarketWatch: Boeing plans to slash 10,000 jobs as the economy weakens Boeing Co.  read more »

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Washington Report: Expectations for Housing

An article from Realty Times, examines what we can expect in terms of housing and mortgage-related moves with a new president and Congress running Washington.  read more »

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Trade Fresh

Jared at Condor Options checks out the behavior of VIX term structure during the Fall volatility explosion. And notes this.  read more »

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Teen Entrepreneurs Invited to DC to Hear Millionaires Speak

Internet icon Yanik Silver and teen business coach Shonika Proctor are challenging teens to apply for a free pass to the Underground Online Seminar: a weekend conference where people like GoDaddy.com`  read more »

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Irish banks do not deserve desertion

Don't cause another bank run by rushing to pull your savings out of Ireland. Just calm down and have an ovaltine instead


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Travelers - Did They Say Enough?

Travelers (TRV) reported what looked like pretty good numbers for a financial institution. They actually made money. Quite refreshing under the circumstances.  read more »

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GMI: 1; GMI-R: 4 T2108: 61%

The GMI rose to 1 (of 6)  and the more sensitive  GMI-R to 4 (of 10).  There were 5 new highs and 21 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Wednesday.  The QQQQ will change to  read more »

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Wells Fargo Sanitizes Terminology

Wells Fargo (WFC) A sharp eyed reader brought this one to my attention. Apparently in a CNBC interview there was mention of Market Disruption Costs of $4.3 Billion by Wells Fargo executives.  read more »

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Fortunes Even A Hack Can Tell

| Mike Sykuta | A couple weeks ago, Brad DeLong included me in a list of ethics-free Republican hacks because I was among a number of economists who posted comments on Rep.  read more »

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Grading the House stimulus bill

The stimulus plan approved by the House Ways and Means Committee last week gets a C+ grade from one tax policy group.  read more »

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Fed Adopts "Throw The Kitchen Sink" Policy

The Fed is using all the tools it has available including a threat to buy long dated treasuries to break the downward spiral of the economy.  read more »

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Regulator to Bank: Find Buyer or Else

We rarely get advance notice for Bank Failure Friday, but this might be one ...  read more »

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"Unprecedented and shocking" Decline in Air Cargo

More cliff diving ...  read more »

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Possible breakout from bottoming pattern in energy ETF (UGA)

Rather than waiting for the Fed to provide the fireworks at 2:15 pm, major indices gapped nearly 2% higher on the open due to news of the government establishing a "bad bank" to remove toxic  read more »

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AIG (AIG) To Pass Out Another $450 Million To Keep Workers

AIG ( AIG ) will make $450 million in payments to workers at it derivatives unit to make sure that they don't leave.  read more »

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For better or ... apparently just better

"It's the Economy, Girlfriend"  looks at a group of women who date or are married to bankers.  read more »

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Amex: "Harshest operating environment in decades"

From the WSJ: AmEx Earnings Drop 79% "Our fourth-quarter results reflect an operating environment that was among the harshest we have seen in decades," Chief Executive Kenneth I.  read more »

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Treasury Secretary, Not Citigroup (C) Board Killed Corporate Jet Buy

Citigroup (C) walked away from buying a corporate jet for $50 million. It seemed, at first, that management and the board at the bank had done the right thing.  read more »

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Time To Short US Treasuries?

Barrons thinks that the yields US Treasuries are too low and are due to bounce this year, causing a major correction in the bond prices.  read more »

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Facebook and iPhone apps selling like hotcakes

And by that, I mean, one at a time.  read more »

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Speaking of Buying Quality

Yesterday I wrote a post on buying good quality American-made products.  After work I came home to a soaking wet basement ceiling and a leaky kitchen faucet.  read more »

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Angel Investor Groups: The Desert Angels

Arizona-based Angel Investor Groups: The Desert Angels The Desert Angels are a Tucson based non-profit organization of accredited investors who seek opportunities to invest in regional startup or earl  read more »

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Time to File GST / HST Again

GST / HST is due January 31st for the reporting period October 1 through December 31st.
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The Night Before Extreme Home Makeover Tucson Begins

Extreme Home Makeover Tucson It is Monday evening here in Tucson and excitement is building around town as many volunteers are getting ready for an amazing week.  read more »

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Roubini: Bloomberg Interview from Zurich

All this fiscal stimulus is necessary, because the alternative is a depression.  read more »

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Discount vouchers: have we taken leave of our senses?

Discount vouchers are all the rage. They are, I fear, a senseless way for business to operate and a sorry way to try to save money


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Fed Day Snoozer

Well, big gap up, now sit and and wait until the Federal Reserve Board (shown) releases their proclamation.  read more »

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Major averages continue to bottom out on the hourly charts

Investors seemed content to play it close to the vest ahead of today's Fed meeting, as evidenced by the tight-ranged intraday action that formed an inside bar on the daily charts of broad market in  read more »

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NetFlix (NFLX) Earnings: Consumer Spending Still Alive, Shares Jump

NetFlix (NFLX) benefited from two trends. The first is that consumers don't have money. The other is that they need entertainment even when the world around them is awful.  read more »

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More Ponzi madness!!!

And yet another suspected Ponzi scheme is uncovered .  read more »

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What if Your Employer Drops its 401(k) Match?

What do FedEx, General Motors, Frontier Airlines, Eastman Kodak, Motorola, Sears and Unisys all have in common?  read more »

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Introducing the Exchange-Traded VIX

Very good news for us.

Barclays has filed to trade ETNs on the VIX.  read more »

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COF: "Strikingly high FICO customers" Defaulting

From the Capital One conference call, on Closed End Unsecured Loans (hat tip Brian): Analyst: When you look at the closed in loans that are clearly under performing at this stage, what is it about eit  read more »

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Tax concerns of the unemployed

Today's media reports are full of horrible employment news. Heavy machinery giant Caterpillar says it will eliminate 20,000 jobs (12,000 employees and 8,000 contractors).  read more »

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Stimulus certificates?

A former advertising giant says the current approach to stimulating the American economy won't work. His idea: government certificates. Philip H.  read more »

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Existing Home Sales Increase in December

From the NAR: Existing-Home Sales Show Strong Gain In December ExistingExisting-home sales rose unexpectedly while inventory declined, led by a surge of sales in the West, according to the National  read more »

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Should we let a bank go bust?

As attempts to keep the UK banking sector afloat threaten to drag the whole country down, should we just let a bank go bust?


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Microsoft annnounced the first ever layoff of 5,000 workers. This means

* The economy is reaalllly screwed
* Just a precautionary measure, all will be well in Redmond
* Sell all your stock now!!
* Vista is the deathknell for Msoft, all will be well in the land of *good* tech


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Creeping Market Volatility?

We noted last week that based on analysis of 10-Day historical volatility vs. 30-day implied volatility, options just exhibit too much Fear these days.  read more »

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Britain Officially in Recession

From The Times: It's official - Britain is in recession Britain is in the grip of its sharpest recession for three decades, grim official figures confirmed today ...  read more »

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"Piggybacking" In the Brokerage Industry (From Knowledge@Wharton)

Are market makers "naive providers of liquidity -- uninformed players operating from behind a firm Chinese Wall", or do they trade on information they get from insider trades?  read more »

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High yield bonds pulling back to support

Stocks ripped higher out of the starting gate, with major indices up more than 2% in the first hour of trading.  read more »

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Obama Announces "New Rules" To Address Crisis

As part of his rescue plan, Obama Signals Tough Restrictions on Banks in Rescue Package .President Barack Obama signaled that he would toughen restrictions on and oversight of banks as part of a fre  read more »

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GE: "2009 to be extremely difficult"

From the WSJ: General Electric's Net Slides 44% . Here are a couple of slides from their investor presentation : Click on table for larger image in new window.  read more »

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Building a Wall of Worry

It is axiomatic that sentiment and social mood begins to improve even as objective reality still looks pretty lousy.  Generally what we see is a key conflict between the general misery and a g  read more »

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Is It a Good Time to Start a Business?

Our Small Business Information Guide Darrell Zahorsky says "yes". He points out that starting a business in a recession offers particular advantages such as lower start up costs and talent.  read more »

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From Bad Policy to Worse

It seems that we are going from one administration that fumbled and bumbled its way through what was called an economic stimulus to a new one that is using the economic crisis as a springboard towa  read more »

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No Deflationary Spiral Forthcoming

Over at VoiceofSanDiego.org I've put up a two-parter explaining why I believe a protracted period of deflation is an exceedingly unlikely outcome.  read more »

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TWI stuck in a daily range

TWI if you look on the daily you will see that it's stuck in a trading range and the volume today is avg. When a stock peaks it's head up in the range on avg.  read more »

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Gold sector showing relative strength

Fighting off a significantly lower open, broad market indices held the opening range lows, and ripped higher through much of the session to close in positive territory.  read more »

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Warren Buffet's Musing

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) And then God saw it was the best value in town and publicly mused about if he should buy himself.  read more »

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Banking System

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  read more »

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Waiting for resolution

Reversing the previous day's precipitous drop in a surprisingly convincing fashion, stocks roared back to life yesterday.  read more »

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Ruminations on Tax Planning for 2009

If the present economic malaise does not extend past 2009, chances are good that tax rate increases will be enacted for the highest tax brackets in 2010.  read more »

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Geithner Confirmation Today

Here is the CSpan2 feed (starts at 10 AM ET) From the NY Times: Tough Questions Expected for Geithner Today The Senate Finance Committee hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ...  read more »

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IBM (IBM): Corporate America's Last Man Standing

The number of large American companies which have effectively dodged the falling safe of the recession can be counted on most people's fingers and toes.  read more »

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Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President; Good show, and good luck.  read more »

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SKF Riff

OK, we all know, or at least we hope we all know, that options volatility constitutes a prediction of of where *realized* volatility will go over the next X Days.  read more »

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Widening Sovereign Spreads and "Re-Coupling" are dominent Themes on Inauguration Day

The short-term, bullish reversal attempt that started just three days ago promptly fizzled out yesterday, sending the main stock market indexes careening lower.  read more »

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Cliff Richard and a Post Office song for Europe

The Post Office competition may not be such a glittering sequinned affair as Eurovision but it is also now open to international votes.


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California tax refunds on hold

Arnold wasn't kidding about California's fiscal problems. The Golden State's finances are deep in the red right now.  read more »

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Reading Assignment for New Administration

Stephen Moore in his essay at the Wall Street Journal offers a reading assigment for the new administration before they take office tomorrow: Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian  read more »

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MLK Day 2009 and volunteerism's payoff

Each year, many Americans spend the Martin Luther King holiday as a day of service with nonprofit groups.  read more »

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Mood and the Miracle on the Hudson

Along with the upcoming inauguration of president elect Barack Obama, the Miracle on the Hudson - in which a US Airways jet plane made an emergency landing in the Hudson River late in the day on Thurs  read more »

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Open Letter To Congress On Sharing The Pain

President Obama has called for sacrifice and sharing. I wholeheartedly agree. However, before sharing the pain, and before working towards a solution, we must understand the problem.  read more »

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Phoenix Landlords Rapidly Losing Renters

Renters rejoice! Your apartment choices are growing in Maricopa County.  read more »

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Can money alone save The New York Times (NYT)?

What is it with billionaires and newspaper publishers? Carlos Slim, the Mexican telecommunications tycoon, is considering increasing his investment in the New York Times Co.  read more »

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EU Recession Gets "Official" Status

The EU finally owned up to what everyone already knew. It will face its first recession since it was formed over ten years ago.  read more »

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Markets Stage Midday Reversal to Close at Highs, Yen comes under Pressure

Over on Stocktwits , about 5000 thoughts or so on AAPL since last night. I truly find it impossible to make a determination this soon about the long term implications.  read more »

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Broad market indices setting up to break hourly downtrend lines

Broad market indices followed through on Wednesday's weakness by plunging more than 2% across the board in the first hour of trading.  read more »

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Tucson MLS Statistics for December 2008

We have put 2008 behind us and many bid it a fond goodbye much the same as they did 2007 with the hope the new year will be a better year.  We shall see.  We are 3 days away from the new adm  read more »

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Uncle Buck behaving?

Could it be?  read more »

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Tax trouble for another federal appointee

What is it about folks in high government places? So many of them just can't seem to keep their taxes in order.  read more »

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Booze Is Big But Doesn't Make My List

In the first show of their new season, CBC's Fortune Hunters heralds booze as one of the best-performing industries in the country.  read more »

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The power and promise of snowdrops

Did you ever see little snowdrops forcing their unstopp able way through inches of snow?  read more »

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Consumer Deflation, The Risks Are Real

The December Consumer Price Index, or CPI measuring consumer-level inflation, is showing that the risks to deflation are actually real.  Low prices are good.  Low prices that go lower can ge  read more »

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Disaster In Jobs Accelerates In 2009

Large corporation layoff announcements total over 120,000 in the first half of January.  read more »

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Crude Situation

West Texas Intermediate Crude (WTIC) typically trades at a premium to Brent Crude (North Sea).  read more »

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Angel Investor Groups: Pennsylvania Angel Investor Network

This Pennsylvania angel investor group can connect you with over 2000 investors.  read more »

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When Will China Be The World's Largest Economy

Very recently there was a news article that China officially passed Germany as the third largest economy in the world, behind the U.S. and Japan. Most people shrugged, it was inevitable.  read more »

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CRE Loan Distress Levels Escalating Rapidly

Commercial real estate distress levels are escalating rapidly. CoStar says Volume of Delinquent/Defaulted CMBS Loans Could Triple in 2009.  read more »

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CNBC: Circuit City Will Be Liquidated

From CNBC: Circuit City Will Be Liquidated, Sources Say Not good news for mall owners ... Just a reminder, from Bloomberg last week: U.S.  read more »

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Want to Achieve Your Goals? Focus!

Because even though we're only two weeks into the New Year, many of the goals people set at the beginning of the year have already been abandoned. And we're into fade season.  read more »

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Interview with Ideablob winner, Tom Krieglstein

Tom Krieglstein won the $10,000 indeablob.com award for his business idea and concept - a freshman orientation software, Red Rover.  read more »

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Sector, Country ETFs Among Best for Short Term Traders

Yesterday I mentioned
that not all ETFs are equal when it comes time to tr  read more »

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Gold setting up for pullback entry

Tuesday's indecision resolved itself to the downside yesterday, as the major indices plunged sharply lower, slicing through key support of their late December lows.  read more »

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Our Only Shots to Catch Madoff

So I heard Charlie G. making the argument that it pays to keep Madoff cloistered in his duplex so as to best get some info. Um no, send in Jack.  read more »

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Bank Of America (BAC) And The Incredible Disappearing TARP

Congress is fighting with both the administration that is leaving and the one that is coming in about what should happen to the $350 billion left in the TARP.  read more »

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Preliminary Bad News From Refinery Sector (MRO, TSO, VLO)

Lower oil prices were supposed to be good for the refiners.  Yesterday, Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO) released its interim update for the fourth quarter of 2008.  read more »

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Despite Capital Infusions, U.S. Government Should Not Dictate Bank Behavior

With at least a mini Citigroup (C) break-up plan coming to fruition, there is chatter that the U.S. government has a hand in some of these decisions.  read more »

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Satyam Rearranges Governance Chairs on Titanic

Satyam Computer Services (SAY) new board named Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International and KPMG as auditors to replace PricewaterhouseCoopers. The senior culprits are under arrest in India.  read more »

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Our baby boom problem

How demographics are set to make this financial crisis last for decades


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Credit card Laurens won't be disciplined

The Lauren Coopers of the credit card industry (the obnoxious Catherine Tate pupil) didnt shuffle into Whitehall chewing gum and skip out an hour later smelling of roses


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Monitoring the short-term downtrend lines of the S&P and Nasdaq

A tug-of-war between the bulls and bears led to an erratic, indecisive session of trading yesterday.  read more »

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Footballers are for entertainment not financial advice

Dubai's Steven Gerrard Tower shows football property investing endorsements have not disappeared, despite the slump


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Rags, riches and college costs

"No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls." -- Horatio Alger Today is the birthday of Horatio A  read more »

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When Cows Shower

Take ordinary things, put them together in inordinate ways to create new ways of getting things done. The results: an explosion of creativity and innovation.  read more »

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Look Into the Volatility Prism

So the other day, we discussed what was wrong about comparing 90 day historical volatility to 90 day implied volatility (pretty much everything). But that begs a question.  read more »

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Trade Deficit Declines Sharply

Both exports and imports are declining, but the decline in the trade deficit was mostly about oil prices.  read more »

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CPSC Relieves Used Clothing Stores of Lead/Phthalate Testing Rules

A week or so ago, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal , and other sources reported that used clothing stores were planning to stop selling items for children under the age of 12 in resp  read more »

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The UAW Finds Out Detroit Is "Too Big To Fail"

The UAW is dragging its feet in negotiations with GM (GM). That could be risky business.  read more »

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Bloomberg Options: Nothing But The Finest Analysis

Bloomberg out with yet another gem of an options article.  read more »

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Hologic: Decline in Hospital Spending

This is interesting because medical spending is frequently considered recession proof ...  read more »

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Stocks in "no man's land" for now. . .

Bearish momentum from last week's losses spilled into the new week, causing the main stock market indexes to move sharply lower and break below key support of their 50-day moving averages.  read more »

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Search Tucson MLS For Sold Comps

I live outside can I get a CMA? Unfortunately this is not a public feature. It is reserved for members of the MLS.  read more »

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The Companies That Will Dominate Retail Job Cuts (SHLD)(M)(JWN)(TIF)(WMT)(BBY)(GPS)(M)

Several estimates from retail analysts predict the tens of thousands of retail outlets will close this year. Some put the number as high as 70,000 in the first half of 2009. Wall St.  read more »

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Stance under threat - time to take action

It is now time to consider alternatives as the indicator in the previous post , the VIX, the continued under performance of BKX-SPX ratio and the declining momentum suggest.  read more »

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Zandi: The "Lost Economic Decade"

"It's sad to say, but we really went nowhere for almost ten years, after you extract the boost provided by the housing and mortgage boom.  read more »

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Enron . . . Madoff . . . yadda, yadda . . . what about Maryland??

Now that kicking capitalism is all the rage, let's not forget how wonderfully the government sometimes performs. See, for example, " Math Error To Cost Maryland $31 Million ".  read more »

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Professorship in Strategy and International Management

| Nicolai Foss | The Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School invites applications for this professorship .  Contact me at njf.smg@cbs.dk if y  read more »

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The 1997 Asian Financial Crisis

The East Asian Financial Crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of Asia beginning in the summer of (July) 1997 and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown.  read more »

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Trade Followup: Solar Edition

Mentioned last week I put on twin backspreads in FSLR. I did both sides 2:1, so as the stock moves away from 150 (where I put it on) I start to generate positive gamma.  read more »

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FINTAG COMMENT - Skateboarding.

FINTAG COMMENT Skateboarding. I was given a skateboard for Christmas. Skateboards get you from a to b without polluting the planet and cost virtually nothing to run.  read more »

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Jobs Contract 12th Straight Month; Unemployment Rate Soars to 7.2%

Before taking a look at the monthly jobs data, let's take a look at Initial Unemployment Insurance Claims from The US Department of Labor.  read more »

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Sign of the Times: Bailing Out the Porn Industry

It's a bailout plan as only the San Fernando Valley could bring you.
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Over 8 Million Part Time Workers

From the BLS report : In December, the number of persons who worked part time for economic reasons (some-times referred to as involuntary part-time workers) continued to increase, reaching 8.0 milli  read more »

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HOW TO BEAT BUSINESS BURNOUT

       Burnout and boredom are the top reasons small business owners pack it in and either sell out or shut down.  These two factors account for 50 percent of all  read more »

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Solar Energy ETF (TAN) provides ideal pullback to support

Stocks got off to a lower start, indecisively chopped around throughout most of the day, then grinded their way higher to finish with mixed results.  read more »

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Hopeful skepticism about the IRS

Yesterday's post about the IRS move toward compassionate tax collection has gotten a lot of people thinking. Actually, it's gotten them rolling their eyes.  read more »

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I can envision a nasty outcome for honest people...

The president-elect is going to go FDR on steriods. Government perceives this to be the only solution even though it was such government meddling that created the gross distortions in the economy.  read more »

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Developments in the Financial Advisory World

The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards periodically modifies the standards that it sets for the individuals that it certifies.  read more »

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Speculators or Investors?

From Bloomberg: No Recovery for Real Estate as Speculators Dominate Sales (hat tip James) As the U.S.  read more »

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Economy prompts change in IRS attitude

There really may be a silver lining -- OK, silver-plated -- to our horrid economic situation. It's helped the IRS find a heart.  read more »

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Buying a Franchise May Be the Best Way to Start a Business

...especially if you have no business experience. Many franchises are turnkey operations, so you can literally walk through the door and start running your own business.  read more »

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Russia, Ukraine & E.U.... The Politics of Natural Gas

As the dispute drags on between Ukraine and Russian over the price of Russian natural gas, the weather gets colder in Europe and the European Union has demanded an immediate solution to the problem.  read more »

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An Excellent Resource On Investment Banking Interviews

I've been a long-time reader of Mergers and Inquisitions (at least, I've read it since its start).  read more »

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As Pink Slips Mount, So Do Concerns

Increasing numbers of "Pink Slips" are weighing on the minds of consumers. Every industry, every service is affected, not just in the US, but globally.  read more »

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Intel Business Deteriorates Rapidly

Intel provides another example of the rapidly deteriorating business environment. On Oct 14th, Intel projected revenue for Q4 2008: Revenue: Between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion.  read more »

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Famous tax cheats of 2008

2008 tax-related reviews are still coming into my e-mail box. A particularly fun one is AccountingWeb.com's look at last year's famous tax cheats .  read more »

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Sign of the Times: Bailouts for What was Once a Prurient Interest

It's a bailout plan as only the San Fernando Valley could bring you.
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Housing: Declining Rents

With investors buying low priced homes to rent (see previous post) and the economy in recession, guess what happens? More rental supply, less demand and falling rents ...  read more »

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Unemployment Claims Crash Multiple Websites

As pink slips mount, so do calls to state unemployment centers. Those calls are pouring in so fast that state unemployment claim systems are overwhelmed .  read more »

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Walking on Sunshine

News flash: Formerly hot stock sees price tumble, volatility explode. Then two month's later, volatility has halved from the top, while stock volatility itself falls off a cliff.  read more »

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Mall Vacancies Reach 10-Year High

From Bloomberg: U.S. Shopping Mall Vacancies Reach 10-Year High as Stores Fail Vacancies at U.S.  read more »

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Footballers are for entertainment not financial advice

Dubai's Steven Gerrard Tower shows football property investing endorsements have not disappeared, despite the slump. But remember footballers are for entertainment not financial advice


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Predictions

FINTAG COMMENT Predictions. I started a website last year that exposed people who said one thing and did another.  read more »

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Congressional Budget Office: Forget Stimulus, 2009 Hole Is Already Stunning

A look at the Congressional Budget Office figures for 2009 and 2010 is enough to drive most strong men to despair.  read more »

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Our ounce of caution was indeed warranted

As anticipated, stocks followed up Tuesday's "churning" with a sharp pullback across the board yesterday.  read more »

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Nailed It

Hey, so on the subject of whether these Inverses add to market volatility, I had this sage opinion back in June.  read more »

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Richest fictional characters

Monopoly money is OK with these uber-rich folks. They're all make believe.  read more »

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The World Of Oil Prices: Iran, Hamas, and Israel: Who Benefits?

Analysts already noted  the increase in oil prices resulting from the fighting in Gaza.  read more »

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Energy ETFs ignore broad-based pullback

Stocks took a well-deserved breather from last week's gains yesterday, as the major indices consolidated near their previous day's highs before closing modestly lower.  read more »

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Will Investors Be Better Off Post-Madoff?

Today the House Financial Services Committee will hear testimony from the SEC inspector general on the Madoff scandal . It promises to be the beginning of what Rep.  read more »

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The Powerful Case For $1 Gas

In July, the average price of gas in the US was $4.11. According to the carefully followed Lundberg Survey, the number was about $1.66 on Dec.  read more »

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All Revved Up In AAPL

Ahh, so it was just a hormone imbalance , nothing to see here. In fact, Steve didn't even know he was skinny until he read Alley Insider and looked at old pictures like this one.  read more »

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Jobs & Apple Come Out On Health Concerns (AAPL)

Steve Jobs, and the Apple Inc.  read more »

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Reflections On 2008, Themes For 2009

2008 may best be remembered as the year most would like to forget.  read more »

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Interview With Baupost Group President Seth Klarman

Seth Klarman, is the president of Boston hedge fund the Baupost Group. He's known as one of the savviest value investors around, having earned a 26% average annual return over the last 26 years.  read more »

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Tucson Real Estate Dec. 2008 A Quick Peek

The data is just being pulled for the Tucson MLS Statistics for December 2008.  It will be another week or so before we have the report is release. I thought it would be interested to see a  read more »

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How friendly should you be with the customer?

When you are a small business what would you do for customer retention? How will you make faithful customers, and repeated sales?  read more »

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Fed's Yellen supports "experimental approaches" to prevent deflation

Nearly everyone is hopping on the Keynesian bandwagon as the urge to try something, anything, to halt this economic slide is simply overpowering.  read more »

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Does Saving Money Kill The Economy?

Many economists think that when consumers save money instead of spending it, a recession gets deeper. People start to stick money into mattresses for safe keeping in case they get fired.  read more »

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Fed Fears Long Recession

The Fed projects GDP to decline in 2009 "as a whole", and unemployment to "rise significantly into 2010". The Fed also expects disinflationary pressures to continue into 2010.  read more »

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Other commodity ETFs waking up

Stocks concluded the holiday-shortened week with a third consecutive day of sizeable gains that enabled the major indices to break out above resistance of their multi-week highs.  read more »

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Even The Pros Get Things Wrong!

We all make mistakes even if our name is Warren Buffett or George Soros. But when great investors such as Buffett and Soros make mistakes, the lessons for the rest of us are so much more interesting!  read more »

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Taxpayers pan New York 'fat tax' video

Back in my middle- and high-school classroom days, we were subjected to various videos on subjects that teachers either didn't want to or didn't feel qualified to address.  read more »

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Expect a Gain in January

Happy New Year!  If market history is any guide 2009 should begin on a good note.  We analyzed the DJIA going back to 1900 and looked for years where the index was down 20% or more.  read more »

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