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By Relaxing “Market-to-Market” Rules, Has the U.S. Switched Off its Financial Crisis Early Warning System?

By relaxing the U.S. financial system’s mark-to-market accounting standards, the U.S. government is effectively deactivating the financial “early warning system” that let investors know that a global credit crisis was brewing – and kept it from turning into a total…

8Oct2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

The Next Victim in the Banking Fiasco

A New Short Idea in the Banking Sector

“You know, you saw subprime go first, and then, on a slight lag, you saw home equity, and now in the lag, you’re seeing prime go. And it’s exactly the same loss factors.…

28Aug2008 | The Penny Sleuth | 0 comments | Continued

A WORLD WITHOUT INFLATION

From Spiegel.de we read “The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve” by Gabor Steingart, thankfully translated from the German by Christopher Sultan.

The article starts out with the fact that governments around the freaking world have been creating more and…

8Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | 0 comments | Continued

Below the Radar: A Guide to Penny Stock Pitfalls and Profits

Penny-stock traders are like the Rodney Dangerfields of the investment world - they get no respect from their bigger brethren.

If a penny-stock trader made a killing on a few penny-stock trades, there’s a good chance he or she orchestrated a “pump-and-dump” scam -…

1Jul2008 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued

U.S. Market Crisis: Paulson saves the day

Oh, good, I was worried there for a minute. But the government says it’s going to make sure we never have another mortgage crisis. Hoorah!

And how, exactly, is it going to do that? Well, Treasury Secretary Mark Paulson has an…

31Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | 0 comments | Continued
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