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A Crashing Dow and Rampant Fear
Is The Worst Over … Or Is There More to Come?
You’ve no doubt noticed the bloody red ticker symbols streaming across the TV screen and your web pages recently. The bad news is relentless, even good stocks and other securities are getting murdered, and nobody seems to really know what to do.
The Federal Open Market Committee, Treasury and government in general has been putting on a fine show of incompetence these past two weeks.
For example, the U.S. Federal Reserve is considering making unsecured loans with the intention of directly purchasing commercial paper. This would be a historical first, but the Fed…
8Oct2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | ContinuedTHE INNOVATOR, THE IMITATOR AND THE IDIOT
While in Vienna last week, I grabbed hold of the international edition of The Wall Street Journal. Over a classic Viennese breakfast of coffee, a boiled egg and pastry, I stumbled across an interview with Ted Forstmann, titled, “The Credit Crisis Is Going to Get Worse.”
I hadn’t seen Forstmann’s name in years. He once lorded over one of the world’s most famous private equity firms, Forstmann Little. For a time, it was, as the Journal notes, “the most successful private equity firm in the world, renowned for both its outsized returns and its caution.” When things got a little too…
24Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | ContinuedIndicators of a Falling Market
Is Calling a Bottom Premature?
As I wrote last week, it’s pretty clear times are tough right now. With three quarters of the population thinking we’re already in a recession and the market sinking by the day, I don’t think there’s any more debating as to whether or not we’re in bear market territory.
So the question for many folks has become:
Are we at the bottom of the market yet?
In fact, that’s what inspired this question on TickerHound (and in turn, inspired today’s article):
“In my humble opinion, if you want to know whether or not we’ve reached a bottom, then all you need…
18Jul2008 | The Penny Sleuth | Comments Off | Continued
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