A trip home to the Sunny Coast revealed several things. One of them was the SKI principle. This sophisticated philosophy allows people to retire in comfort…
April 10th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 2 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "lehman brothers"
Federal Reserve Literally Killing Our Money
As much as I scream in Loud Mogambo Outrage (LMO) about the sheer amount of money that is being created that will create horrendous inflation in prices, using whatever data that I can easily get my hands on…
March 31st, 2010 | Mogambo Guru | 2 comments | Continued
Defiance at the Fed
Any real recovery would be accompanied by interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve. Instead, the Fed stuck to its guns and butter interest rate. Dan Denning is another step closer to his free beer bet coming off.
March 20th, 2010 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
The Biggest Financial Deception of the Decade
Enron? Bear Stearns? Bernie Madoff? They’re all big stories about big losses and have hurt a lot of employees and investors. But none come close to getting my vote for the decade’s most dastardly deception…
January 13th, 2010 | Jeff Clark | 4 comments | Continued
Dubai Debt Story More Like Bear Stearns Less Like Lehman Brothers
But first things first. Dubai World is not nearly large, leveraged, or systemically important as either Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers when both those firms failed. For those reasons, it’s unlikely that the failure of Dubai World (and we’re not saying it will fail) would, by itself, cause a global deleveraging.
November 30th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
BRIC Nations: The Fundamentals
A few years ago, someone coined the term: BRICs. This was an acronym for the countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
October 15th, 2009 | Chuck Butler | 5 comments | Continued
Bullish On Silver
Well, maybe not all buying is drying up, as silver market analyst, Ted Butler, reports that in the last 10 months, “some 150 million ounces of silver can easily be documented to have been bought by investors.
October 6th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 2 comments | Continued
The American Empire Depended on Trade…and the Dollar
We would name the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of Lehman Bros – a period of only 19 years – as the peak of US power and wealth. Of course, Americans were dreaming during those years.
September 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
Important Financial Anniversary: Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Tomorrow is one of the most important financial anniversaries of the last 100 years. But how will investors celebrate? Or will they mourn? Or will even more of them start to buy gold, which traded at around US$1,006 in the futures markets?
September 14th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
Financial World Has Every Reason to Encourage Government Stimulus
Besides, the limits on executive compensation are window-dressing for public (voter) consumption. With bonuses limited by statute, we reckon more compensation for the financial industry will move back to stock option grants. That means for the financial industry to preserve its privileged status, stock prices have to move higher.
September 8th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Sometimes Technical Analysis Sounds Like a Foreign Language
Your editor does not pick up foreign languages easily. But just for grins, we asked Gabriel to try his technical speak on the CRB commodities index. It’s been up, then way down, then back up. We wondered-all the fundamentals of supply, demand, growth, and recession aside-what the index looks like to trader with an eye for patterns and mind full of oscillators.
August 5th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 22 comments | Continued
Meredith Whitney and the Buy Recommendation on Goldman Sachs
Hold that thought. Her recommendation preceded Goldman’s actual announcement on Tuesday that second quarter net earnings were up 65% to $3.44 billion. The company, like Wall Street’s very own chosen-one-boy-wizard, has once again waved its magic wand and produced something remarkable. So let’s remark on it…
July 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Selective Socialism
Unless you have been sleeping under a tree over the past month or so, I am sure you have heard about the demise of the five largest investment banks: Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman and Morgan Stanley.
November 7th, 2008 | Puru Saxena | 2 comments | Continued
Lehman CDS Auction Hammers Australian Resource Stocks
Finally, Australia gets its own $700 billion plan. Kevin Rudd’s government moved yesterday to slap a Federal guarantee on all deposits with banks, credit unions, and building societies. The $700 billion guarantee includes Australian subsidiaries of foreign owned banks. The government wants people to understand their money is safe in the banks. That’s why that last bit is in there. It’s designed to keep foreign holders of Aussie dollars from engaging in a run on the dollar and bringing their money home.
October 13th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Lehman Brothers on the Verge of Liquidation
By the time you read this, Lehman Brother’s may have already been dismembered and sold into various parts and pieces. Merrill Lynch may have merged with Bank of America. What a spectacle. There stands Henry Paulson like a paper wall. It appears that the best efforts of the U.S. Treasury Secretary to jawbone a deal to save Lehman brothers have failed…
September 15th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
