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End the Bailout

Alan Schram | Posted 11.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Insurance Companies, Winston Churchill, Credit Crunch, Libor, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Paulson, Bailout, Wall Street, Financial Services, Business News, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Tarp, Genworth, Business News
Alan Schram

Paulson is now on his third plan for how to spend the cash Congress gave him. Nobody knows what he will do next.

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Let GM Fail

Alan Schram | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

Read More: S, Fdic, Bank Deposits, General Motors, Libor, Economy, Business News, Credit Crisis, Dow, Saving Money, Money Market Funds, Healthcare, Business News
Alan Schram

Throwing taxpayers' good money into that sink hole called the US auto industry will be tantamount to a transfer of wealth from tax payers to GM employees.

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Inflation Prospects

Alan Schram | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Milton Friedman, Deflation, Commodities, Gold, Credit Crisis, Libor, Paul Volcker, Barack Obama, S&P 500, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Copper, Inflation, Business News, Oil, Stagflation, Money Supply, Keywords: Bank Deposits, Saving Money, Dow, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

In the last few months, we have seen the prices of commodities dropping precipitously. Oil dropped from $150 to $60, Gold dropped from $1,000 an ounc...

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Yes We Can... What?

Alan Schram | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

Read More: War, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Congress, Budget Deficit, Libor, Paul Volcker, S&P 500, Barack Obama, Fdr, Dollar, Money Market Funds, Fdic, Education, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Business News, Warren Buffett, Stock Market, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Healthcare, Dow, Financial Crisis, Fiscal Stimulus Package, Business News
Alan Schram

Barack Obama is faced with very high expectations. There is only a small likelihood that any human being could actually deliver a performance commensurate with those expectations.

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Washington Overreacts

Alan Schram | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Credit Crunch, Hedge Funds, Obama, Libor, S&P 500, Bush, Dollar, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Paulson, Wall Street, Business News, Oil, Henry Paulson, Warren Buffett, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

Have you noticed our politicians so often do exactly the wrong thing? They mean well, but in their haste to propitiate us, the voters, they cause more damage than good.

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Why the Stock Market is Cheap Now

Alan Schram | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Volatility, John McCain, Economy, Credit Crunch, Libor, S&P 500, Iphone, Fdic, Money Market Funds, Dollar, Investing, Wall Street, Business News, Stock Market, Bank Deposits, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

We are seeing some of the best stock valuations in the last century. Once fear of illiquidity dissipates, the stock market will get back to normal levels.

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Cash is Not King

Alan Schram | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Dollar, Money Market Funds, Fdic, Wall Street, Business News, Market Panic, Credit Crunch, Bank Deposits, Libor, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, S&P 500, Financial Crisis, Home News
Alan Schram

If you do not find stock prices cheap now, with the market pulverized 45% in the last year, then you probably should never own stocks.

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Credit Crunch and the Money Supply

Alan Schram | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Money Market Funds, Fdic, Wall Street, Mortgages, Business News, Gold Standard, Credit Crunch, Money Supply, Bank Deposits, Libor, Subprime Mortgages, Saving Money, Dow, Financial Crisis, Business News
Alan Schram

Imagine a world in which Uncle Sam is the monopoly supplier of bananas, in the same way that he is now the monopoly supplier of money; eventually people will become anxious about future decisions of the banana board.

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Biggest Heist in History

Alan Schram | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Mortgages, Subprime Mortgages, Bank Deposits, Abraham Lincoln, Financial Crisis, Saving Money, Money Market Funds, Dow, Libor, Business News
Alan Schram

We lured the Chinese, Japanese, Europeans and Arabs to take our currency and our financial instruments, money market funds, SIV's, CDS's and mortgage paper galore.

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Requiem for the Bailout Storyline

Norman Solomon | Posted 10.13.2008 | Media

Read More: James K. Galbraith, Robert Reich, Wall Street Crisis, McClatchy Newspapers, Economy, David Brooks, New York Times, Institute for Policy Studies, $700 Billion Bailout, Congress, News Media, Economic Stimulus, Center for Economic and Policy Research, President Bush, Dow, Dean Baker, Media News
Norman Solomon

Recent events should not be allowed to obscure the reality that the news media played a pivotal role in stampeding the country into a bailout that was unwise and unjust.

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Clean Up GOP Mess Nov. 4

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

Read More: John McCain, Barnum & Bailey, Fed, Gop, Federal Debt, Bernanke Fed, Elephants, Ben Bernanke, Republican Party, Ringling Brothers, Dow, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Mr. Bernanke doesn't say it, but the current crisis in the subprime mortgage market may be a perfect illustration of the financial accelerator at work today.

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Dow Drops

CNN | Alexandra Twin | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Stock Market, Dow, Business News

Markets tanked Thursday - with the Dow falling nearly 700 points during the session - as panicked investors dumped stocks across the board. Bank lend...

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Sarah Palin Speech Makes Stock Market Crash (VIDEO)

236.com | 23/6: The News, But Funnier | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Stock Market, Palin Speech Video, Dow, Palin Speech Market Crash, Sarah Palin, 236.Com, Video, Politics News

During the last two minutes of a Sarah Palin speech, the market crashes 277 points....

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Rearranging The Deckchairs

Tom Gregory | Posted 10.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Paulson, Dow Jones, Wall Street Crisis, Maria Bartiromo, Recession Fears, Bailbout, Dow, James Bond, Dow 8000, Business News
Tom Gregory

It is ironic that real estate, the cause of the economic collapse, may eventually be the unintended beneficiary of our steep downturn.

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Dow Plunges 240 Points

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Dow Jones, Dow, Dow Falls, Dow Plunges, Dow Falls More Thn 200 Points, Wall Street, Business News

NEW YORK — Stocks sank in light trading Monday as worries about American International Group Inc. touched off broader concerns that the deterior...

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Dow Jumps Up As Oil Prices Fall

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Stocks, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Dow, The Dow, Oil, Oil Prices, Labor Department, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street rebounded smartly Friday, shooting higher as a surge in the dollar and another plunge in oil prices eased some of investo...

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Market Happy To Ignore Pessimism For A Day

AP | JOE BEL BRUNO | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Dow, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Stocks, Personal Finance, Ben Bernanke, Interest Rates, Federal Reserve, Business News

NEW YORK — An already soaring Wall Street extended its advance Tuesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and assuaged some...

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Wall Street Tanks On Weak GDP, Jobless Data

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

Read More: Dow, Dow Jones, Dow Jones Falls, Dow Jones Plummets, Weak Gdp Data, Weak Jobless Data, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Thursday, after weak readings on economic growth and the job market touched off renewed concerns about the financial...

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Dow Falls Almost 240 Points

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Stocks, Financial Crisis, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow Falls, Dow Plunges, Stocks Fall, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street again surrendered to investors' anxiety about the financial sector Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrials down 240 poi...

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Dow Negative During This Milennium

Crossing Wall Street | Eddy Elfenbein | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Economic Slowdown, Weak Economy, Wall Street, Recession Fears, Recession, Dow, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Business News

The Dow closed at 11,453.42 which means the index is now in the red for the millennium. The Dow closed December 31, 1999 at 11,497.12. Of course, tha...

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Stocks drop on bank worries, FedEx profit warning

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Dow, Dow Dips, Weak Dollar, Economic Downturn, Economic Slowdown, Oil Prices, Morgan Stanley, Commodities Trading, Business News

NEW YORK — Wall Street sank Wednesday for the second straight day on renewed concerns about the financial sector and FedEx Corp.'s warning that ...

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A Small Window

James Berman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Fdic, American Express, JP Morgan Chase, Fed, Aig, Citigroup, Banks, Bear Stearns, Market Bottom, Lenders, 1929, Dow, Great Depression, Financials, Xlf, Business News
James Berman

There are only a few moments in an investment lifetime where there is fear so thick and the pricing so low that great riches await those willing to bear the risk of buying. This is one of those times.

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How Low Can We Go?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, Fed, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Dow, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

It's ironic that while the nation is engaged in the most hopeful, positive political campaign in decades, the financial markets are hawking up phlegm and getting ready for the Big One.

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Down Dows and Cognitive Dissonance

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 11.08.2007 | Business

Read More: Level 3 Assets, Wall Street, Cognitive Dissonance, FASB 157, Royal Bank of Scotland, Janjuah, Tierney, Dow, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Equity investors perhaps hang on in the hope that the latest Dow drop is the last, or that another cut in the Fed target rate is in the wings, like cavalry imagined coming over the hill.

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