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The marginalization of Paul Volcker

Consistent with the recent theme here, readers are pointed to this fine New York Times piece by Louis Uchitelle on the subject of the ongoing marginalization in the Obama White House of former Fed chairman (the one with his reputation still intact) Paul Volcker, head of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board.Listen to a top economist in the Obama administration describe Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman who endorsed Mr. Obama early in his election campaign and who... Continue Reading

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Know More about Credit Counseling

Submitted By Tushar Mathur
What is Credit counseling in the First Place? People with a bad credit rating, stands a fair amount of chance to repair their credit rating with the advice of a credit counselor from a good credit counseling agency. What this aims at is helping the creditors understand their buying patterns and...

Finding Stock Ideas

Submitted By Jeff Miller
When there has been a nice market rebound, we should expect to hear the familiar refrain: It is a stock picker's market. This wise-sounding expression means that it is no longer good enough to "buy the market" whether through index...

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Option Trading Home Study Course

Submitted By Michael Michaud
Free TrialThis course is the culmination of Professional Option Trader A.J. Brown's more than 5 years of options trading experience teachings, all boiled down into a simple step-by-step system.Doesn't matter if you're still wet behind the ears, or you've got a few years of trading behind you --...

How effective are dividend stocks in downturns?

Submitted By Thicken My Wallet
If history is any indication, economically disruptive rescission, like the 1991 variety, tend to produce two things in their wake. There is a predictable increase in companies reporting losses or profits based mostly on cost-cutting initially and, correspondingly, companies begin to be creative in...

5 pre-deal questions to ask your venture debt lender

Submitted By Mark McQueen
As we spread the good word in the U.S.A. about Wellington Financial, I’ve come to appreciate just how differently various venture debt firms approach the same deal opportunity. CFOs try to find similiar threads between the various product offerings, but as with buying a car, you can’t always...

Interview: Professor David Colander tells Congress econ models are flawed

Submitted By Prieur du Plessis
This post features an interesting interview with Professor David Colander on flaws in economic models...

Canada’s blind MENA eye

Submitted By Mark McQueen
Leave it to a Kuwaiti cabinet minister to tell us like it is! I had the good fortune of attending a luncheon yesterday hosted by law firm BLG. The guest of honour has Ahmad R. Al-Haroun, Minister of Commerce & Industry for Kuwait. He was a very personable and experienced man, just [...]...

Two Quick Intraday Fibonacci Retracement Examples

Submitted By Corey Rosenbloom
Today's intraday price action gave me a chance to show you two specific Fibonacci Retracement grid examples of how to use the "Fibonacci Retracement" tool to find potential trade entries or reversals in price. Let's take a look at them and learn how to use this tool...

Wellington opens California office

Submitted By Mark McQueen
It’s a big ole world out there, and the time has come to tackle a bit more of it. We announced the opening of a California office yesterday, which is our first physical foray outside of our home base in Toronto. Since Wellington Financial Fund II started doing deals in 2004, we’ve been...

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WSJ: China, India Border Stoke Rivalry

Submitted By Trader Mark
Interesting time for this very compelling story in the Wall Street Journal as we were just having this discussion in the past 2 weeks in one of our comment threads - the potential friction between India and China as they "grow up". As Americans conflict is a great thing for us, as one of the last...

Bookkeeping: Limit Purchase Order for Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) Hits

Submitted By Trader Mark
Wow, one of my long term limit buy orders finally hit out of the blue... unfortunately it reports earnings next week so we'll have to keep a close eye on it.  The name is Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) - this was a big winner for us in 1st half 2008.  Basically natural gas engines, much of...

Denninger - No Karl, tell us how you REALLY feel

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
You know, I sit here and twittle my charts and bitch about this and that, but there are some real heavy weights out there who really know how to get to the point, whether written or spoken. Like Karl Denninger for example, flipping the bird to China in this open letter...

Bookkeeping: Selling Half of CNinsure (CISG)

Submitted By Trader Mark
Chinese insurance firm CNinsure (CISG) is up about 4.5% on double the normal volume in just the first 90 minutes. Maybe there was a positive brokerage note out on this name... I don't see any particular news and earnings are not for a while. I assume something is up, but who knows what it is...

Fund Performance Period 11

Submitted By Trader Mark
As a reminder, if you are interested in this type of fund as a worthwhile consideration for future investment, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 7, 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 26, 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund...

NFTRH55 out now & NFTRH 1 year ago

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
NFTRH55 has just been published for subscribers. It portrays a different environment from NFTRH4, dated 10/18/08, excerpted below:...

Nearly 600,000 Americans Walked Away from their Mortgage in 2008

Submitted By Trader Mark
Great news; I believe the number of mortgage "walk aways" is "better than expected" - now how do I buy stock on deadbeats?...

Indexes Do Not Tell the Tale of Damage

Submitted By Trader Mark
First, pardon all the trading today - some days just require it.  I'm already exhausted and its only 2 PM. Second, we've been saying the indexes are not reflecting the carnage seen "underneath" - my watch lists are full of names in the $500M to $5B market cap space which is my sweet spot, and...

The year the game changed

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
In 1999, the price of gold bottomed after having ridden the post-Volcker era down along with treasury yields. This was due to the sound policies the former Fed chief rammed home and the confidence that ensued. Enter the Maestro, Greenspan, who inherited the benefits of this sound policy and used...

NFTRH 1 year ago (NFTRH5 10/25/08)

Submitted By Gary Tanashian
Today we continue with our series of blasts from the past, handily available now that NFTRH has celebrated its 1 year birthday. I do this to subtly remind readers of how important perspective is in navigating the markets. Also, to show newer subscribers how I operate. I think that one theme in...

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