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El USD se ha fortalecido pero esperamos que pronto tenga un resp…
ForexCA News | October 14th 2008
Nexum - www.nexumcapital.com Observamos que los bancos centrales y los ministros de finanzas se han reunido para combatir el crunch crediticio. Parece estar funcionando hasta ahora, animando a los inversionistas a mantener la calma. O por lo meno read more
WHAT THE F*CK ARE THESE GUYS SMILING ABOUT?!?
WTCCTR - Top 5 hot Alice in Wonderlands. | October 12th 2008 by Tim Blaney
Ready for another week? After two days off, my credit card has smoke coming off of it and my nipples are killing me... so I'm glad to get out of this weekend without an STD or appearing before a judge. And it turns out I wasn't the only one who h read more
Bush ‘Relieved’ To Escape the Mess He Made [The Long Goodbye]
PopLife.biz | October 11th 2008 by PopLife.biz
Man, that presidentin' gig was hard, but it's almost finished for George W. Bush, and he's as happy to be leaving it as America is to see him go. It's an even wash. Except that Bush and his goons walk away stinking rich on war swag and a hundred othe read more
Credit crisis could lead to food crisis
Daily Newscaster | October 11th 2008 by Douglas
By: D. H. Williams @ 3:29 PM - EST The credit crisis is having an impact on food shipments as sellers are refusing to load goods on to ships. No longer trusting letters of bank credit many food sellers are wanting full payments from point of origin read more
America: Too preocupied with the Middle East?
Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History | October 10th 2008 by Tai De
That’s what the Asian Foundation says. “While the United States has been preoccupied with the situation in the Middle East, the Asian balance has been shifting quietly, if inexorably, in the direction of others.” China is replacing read more
DOW PLUNGES: FOREIGN MARKETS FOLLOW SUIT
The Common Progressive | October 10th 2008 by Jason
The DOW is plunging today and as we speak sits just above 8,000 which is a more than 5,000 point difference from one year ago. Foreign markets also continued their downward spiral as their markets opened overnight. A meeting of G7 finance ministers read more
¿Que va a pasar ahora?
Investorsconundrum | October 10th 2008 by Marc Garrigasait
Hay que conseguir volver a meter al Jumbo dentro de la pista. Ha descarrilado pero aun no está destrozado. Que creo que puede pasar en los próximos días: 1. Habría que cerrar las bolsas por 3 o 4 días. No pasa nada por estar cerrado, como read more
Dow falls below 9,000; AIG gets more loans
Freeople | October 9th 2008 by Freeople
Are we starting to reach a snowball effect with the stock market? Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell below 9,000 for the first time in five years. The primary driver of the recent drop was an announcement by Standard & Poor's Servic read more
Who Are the Intellectuals, Again?
Kittens and Sunshine | October 8th 2008 by Matt O.
I came across this post Tuesday by Michael S. Rozeff on LewRockwell.com and I think it's important:Beside all else that can be said about the Federal Reserve Board, one other thing should be clearly stated: They know nothing special about money, bank read more
“Crisis Postponement Plan”
hotfudge | October 7th 2008 by Moyo Mamora
A dear reader of my blog, tagged the US $700 billion bailout plan, the “crisis postponement plan”. I sure would agree with him on this one. More than just the fact that Washington’s effort on the bailout plan will prolong the current turmoil, I read more
Ben Bernanke Speech - Oct 7 - Economic Outlook Weaker
Timothy Sykes Exposed.com | October 7th 2008 by Jeremy Krakowski
http://timothysykesexposed.com/bailout/ On October 7th, 2008, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke predicts the global financial crisis is likely to hold back the U.S. economy well into next year. Recent financial developments suggest that "the outlook for econ read more
The Fed Gets Involved: Commercial Paper
The Commercial Mortgage/Real Estate Hotline | October 7th 2008 by Michael Haltman
The Commercial Paper MarketThe Fed came in this morning and said that they would create a facility which would buy short-term, high quality and unsecured highly rated debt in a step which will hopefully grease some of the wheels in this critically im read more
Is the Stock Market at the Bottom?
Happily Oblivious | October 7th 2008 by Coralie
The big financial news this morning is that the Federal Reserve will buy up short term debt from companies in the commercial paper market. This market is where businesses take out short term loans to fund their day to day expenses. The market for co read more
Stop Paying Mortgage Payments?
Freeople | October 6th 2008 by Freeople
Stefan Karlsson, an economist in Sweden, has a blog focused on hard-hitting economics commentary. In a recent post, he opined as to whether or not the current government bailout will cause people to stop paying their mortgages. The bailout provi read more
Financial Crisis could use more focused Politicians
Little Press Reviews and Hermit's Scientific History | October 6th 2008 by Tai De
Bernanke’s, Paulson’s and many other authors’ pork-barrelled rescue plan passed the House of Representatives last weekend. That’s good and bad news. Bad news because it probably had to be passed without attaching conditons t read more
The $700 Billion Banking Bailout Bill Passes - Will It Work?
Real Estate Investing For Real | A BiggerPockets Blog | October 5th 2008 by Joshua Dorkin
Paulson’s $700 Billion bailout bill passed the House on a 263-171 vote and the President signed it into law. Last week I promised a discussion (assuming Congress would pass the bill) on whether or not the Bill would work. So let’s get t read more
Bailout Passes, Economy Saved!!
Clear As Mud: A Market Perspective | October 3rd 2008
Well, at least that's what the Washingtonians would like you to believe. Knee-jerk reactionists would also like you to think that you, the honest taxpayer, are being screwed over for the wealthy, who have the power, time, and resources to lobby and m read more
A Review of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
A Management Consultant @ Large | October 3rd 2008 by JP Farrell & Associates, Inc.
The Library of CongressThe US House is expected to vote today on the Senate version of the bailout plan, HR1424, the Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Following two weeks of intense scrutiny, debate, political wrangling and even some soul searchin read more
Who voted for and against the Bailout Bill in the Senate?
Freeople | October 2nd 2008 by Freeople
While the House of Representatives continues to discuss the bailout bill, the Senate took the opportunity to vote on a revised version of it. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is an amendment to HR 1424, the Paul Wellstone Mental read more
US Senate passes 700 billion Wall Street bailout bill - 74 to 25
Daily Newscaster | October 1st 2008 by Douglas
By: D. H. Williams @ 9:21 PM - EST The US Senate easily passes Paulson/ Bernanke bailout bill authorizing national socialism in America’s financial markets. Tonight’s vote for dictatorial control of the financial markets clears the way read more
Get Ready for Taxation Without Representation
FeedTheBull | October 1st 2008 by FeedTheBull
Regardless of whether a new bailout bill passes, Americans will be taxed heavily in the course of the ongoing “rescue.” Federal Chairmen Ben Bernanke all but guarantees it... read more
What has Bernanke learned?
Mortgaged Future | September 30th 2008 by Michael Zielinski
The Wall Street Journal reports on the lessons that Chairman Bernanke, a student of the last depression, learned from his textbooks and studies in school. According to the Chairman, “The experience of the Depression helped forge a consensus read more
Volatility, Fear, Lack of Certainty...Just Another Day
Clear As Mud: A Market Perspective | September 30th 2008
I intentionally avoided posting on the tumultuous events of yesterday, and in general tried to avoid thinking about them as much as possible. This was not an exercise in denial, but a means of reaching a more meaningful perspective on the insanity th read more
Ben Stein’s money: what else did Paulson, Bernanke, and Pelosi…
Halfway To Concord | September 30th 2008 by Bill Gram-Reefer
Ben Stein is furious! Why fix bad government and oversight with even worse government and oversight? He states: “The people whose conduct got us into this catastrophe have not only taken our money, hopes and peace of mind, but they apparently a read more
Why Killing the Bailout was a Good Idea
Happily Oblivious | September 30th 2008 by Coralie
The American people were strongly opposed to the bailout bill which would have spent $700 billion dollars that the federal government does not have. The strange thing about what happened yesterday was that the congress actually listened to their cons read more
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: We Ain’t Seen Ugly Yet in the…
Successful Trading Tips | September 30th 2008 by john bougearel
The Hopelessly Toxic Institutions have been allowed to almost seamlessly fail, The time is Now to Recap the Good Ones Still Standing ~ Or We Will See Ugly in the Stock Market As I have harped on since the last bear market, when consumer confidence read more
What Does This Man Do All Day???
Mortgaged Future | September 29th 2008 by Michael Zielinski
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the President expressed surprise that the bailout bill did not pass. Earlier in the day, White House spokesman Tony Fratto had predicted that the vote would pass. One has to wonder what kind of indifferent read more
The 777 Point Collapse
Tommy Liberty | September 29th 2008 by Tommy Leung
The House defeated the $700 billion bailout plan today and the Dow Jones responded by dropping 777 points--777.68 to be exact. This was the largest single day drop ever. Analyst and politicians may start blaming the people for being non-supportive of read more
Can we be at least happy the bailout plan didn’t go through?
hotfudge | September 29th 2008 by Moyo Mamora
The weekend seemed pretty lovely, and everyone’s expecting the news that came out on Sunday that reads that congress has reached some kind of agreement on the bail out plan. Now I can imagine that there were loads of traders that went into the week read more
How broke is it?
Tom Rants | September 29th 2008 by Tom Hanna
A common sense conservative refrain is «If it ain't broke, don't fix it.» So now that the House of Representatives (including 90 some Democrats) have rejected the Mother of All Bailouts and the market is dealing with the news, before the ne read more
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