Speculation

Curbing the Wall Street Addiction

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 10.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Gambling, Wall Street Crisis, Speculation, Insiders, Economic Crisis, Addiction, Daytraders, Stock Market, Excess Profit, Stet, Business News

While most of the financial world prays that the market has bottomed, another kind of bottoming out is necessary. And that is our own co-dependence with the addict that Wall Street has become.

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Bailout Confuson -- All Over The Web (Salient Links)

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Hank Paulson, Speculation, Economy, Web, Media, Links, Main Street, Blogs, News Sites, Bailout, Barack Obama, Financial Crisis, Huffington Post, Wall Street, Hank Paulson Plan, Politics News

By Stephen C. Rose Each morning I dutifully post links from sites I value for their news sense or opinion pertinence. Today the general theme is bai...

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Wall Street Under Oath: What Have We Learned?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, John McCain, Wall Street, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Lehman Brothers, Economy, Aig, Wall Street Under Oath, Speculation, Ferdinand Pecora, Financial Speculation, United States Senate, Banking and Currency Committee, Great Depression, Business News

Bailout or otherwise, we don't need no stinkin' commission to understand the roots of the current Wall Street crisis.

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The Long-Term Damage Done by Consensus Thinking

Jeff Madrick | Posted 08.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Manufacturing, Speculation, Trade Deficit Economists' Failure, High Dollar, Exports, Business News

The barrenness of the US manufacturing landscape was very much the consequence of a dollar that was too high for too long.

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Speculation About Speculation: Does A Hedge Fund's Collapse Pin Oil Prices On Them?

ClusterStock | Corey Lorinsky | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Why Are Oil Prices High, SemGroup, Speculation, Why Are Oil Prices Dropping, Oil Prices, Oil Speculation, Commodities Market, Business News

Did the collapse of a little-known private oil-marketing firm, SemGroup, play a roll in oil's 14% price drop over the past 10 days? The Wall Street Jo...

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Behind Skyrocketing Oil Prices

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Market Manipulation, Oil Price, Peak Oil, Big Oil, Speculation, Climate Change, Business News

Market manipulation may be contributing to the recent oil price spike -- though even in the worst case, it is only part of the story.

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What To Do About the Price of Oil

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Gasoline, Big Oil, Speculation, Oil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Chevrontexaco, Collusion, Chevron, Global Warming, Windfall Profits Tax, Business News

The oil companies' staggering profits are a windfall of the purest sort. This is not a moral judgment about the oil companies, it is just a description of what's happening.

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Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor: Everything You Wanted To Know About Investing and Had The Courage to Ask!

Dan Solin | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: 2008 Recession, Regulation, Business, Recession, Speculation, Stock, Markey, Business News

I have nothing against those who want to speculate with their assets. However when speculators regale us with reports of outsized returns, it is important to challenge them for several reasons.

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Reading The Pictures: Bear Stearns' Wanton Ambition

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Skyscraper, Annual Report, Photo, Empire State Building, Speculation, Crisis, Bear Stearns, Business, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Melt Down, Crash, Bear Stearns Purhcase, Bear Stearns and JPMorgan Chase, Bear Stearns Bailout, Bear Stearns Buyout, Financial Crisis, Bear Stearns Collapse, Bear Stearns and Mortgage Crisis, Business News

I kid you not, this is the image from page 4 of the Bear Stearns 2000 Annual Report.

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