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It was back in January, nearly a year ago, after the Congressional Budget Office released its 2010 budget when we called for the U.S. to adopt a Deficit Manifesto. This called for lawmakers to...
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Yesterday marked the launch of many new exchange traded funds, which are actually exchange traded notes, geared to offer more leverage and inverse leverage on several index classes for equity...
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The minutes of the most recent FOMC meeting from November 2 and 3 showed that Fed governors were not exactly unanimous over all of the issues around quantitative easing or QE2. Ultimately, those...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has recently released its quarterly holdings and the changes were more than in any recent quarter. This morning CNBC has been interviewing Warren Buffett about...
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Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is a turnaround which just may never turn around. If you see some of the caution issued by Moody’s today on the corporate debt side, the hopes for a rapid...
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Calling the markets fast to react has become the understatement of the year. Friday felt like a shift in sentiment was really taking hold with bond yields rising, commodities falling, and stocks...
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The stock market and the commodities markets have so far supported QE2. Longer-dated bond yields have risen as a result as the extra $600 billion applies only a few percentage points of the...
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Quantitative easing is forcing investors into riskier assets as Ben Bernanke and the FOMC attempt to manufacture some inflation and after the US Dollar weakness. We are seeing big moves in gold and...
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We already got past the election news in a hurry. Now we know what the FOMC’s version of quantitative easing, or QE2 by many in the press, will look like. The Fed had been worried about...
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The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected. Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2… Decision Day. Now it is time to deal with the...
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Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is supposed to be a toxic mortgage winner in the land of Real Estate Investment Trusts. The REIT is also a serial capital raising entity, which keeps...
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It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 and a decision due around 2:15 PM EST...
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American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is one step closer to being out of debt with Uncle Sam and the U.S. taxpayers. Two recent transaction have AIG now with about $37 billion raised that...
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Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) is signaling that the company is on the verge of implosion, which is not real shock if you have been following the situation since the financial meltdown. ...
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Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head. What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind each day. QE2 may also be the epitome of...
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