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Why the US Dollar is Surging? 2008-10-07 04:01:39 Is the US dollar surging because it is the best of the worst?
The US Dollar
s rise is occurring regardless of the bad news and data coming out of the States. It is happening because of a frantic search for dollars by foreign banks from Switzerland to South Africa. Banks are not lending to private people,companies nor to other banks. There is a shortage of US dollars in short-term money markets
Can Paulson Pull Off the Bailout? 2008-10-06 00:35:00 The worst is yet to come for Hank Paulson
, the US Treasury Secretary.
While Mr Paulson has been working around the clock, every weekend, for five weeks to guarantee more than $1 trillion worth of American mortgages, manage the collapse of two banks, the distressed sale of two others and to secure the $850 billion bailout package, his work has barely begun.
Mr Paulson has just over a month to c
$700 Hundred Billion for Arrows, Racetracks and Rum 2008-10-04 12:11:29 $700 Hundred
Billion for Arrows
, Racetracks and Rum
In political terms the word sweetener is what is added to bills. Unfortunately for one of the most important issues in 2008 and maybe our life, these sweeteners are absolutely sickening. How many other special interest items slipped through and wasted our money.
How are people going to pay for medicine?
How are people going to pay to keep the
Banks Are Failing –How Do You Protect Yourself ? 2008-09-29 01:30:44 Banks Are Failing –How Do You ProtectYourself
?
The thought of this only several short years ago was not in anyone’s mind. Today from the UK to the States and beyond this fear is forefront in so many people.We have seen so far this year 13 bank failures, scared savers rushed to
withdraw their deposits. Each bank failure seems bigger. First there was Indy Mac and then last weeks Washington
WAMU –Same Story But Just On A Larger Level 2008-09-26 03:35:42 WAMU –Same Story But Just On A Larger Level
Greed and leverage (Stupidity) over prudence!
Where does it all end?
How much money does the Fed have to keep up on these bailouts?
How more times can JP Morgan and Bank Of America come to the rescue?
Thursday's seizure and sale to JP Morgan is the latest historic step in the Feds attempt to clean up the financial industry awash with toxic mortgag
Paulson $700 billion Plan -Print & Tax 2008-09-25 08:14:13 Print and Tax
This is what we can expect from the $ 700 billion
dollar (and all the Other initiatives Fannie...AIG and all other black holes. Etc.) Call to save the economy. Accepting this initiative will cost every American $37,000. Putting this in its proper context this ...Approximately 73% of the median US salary just for one year.
It is beyond unbelievable.
We are dammed if we and dammed i Read more:Paulson
, Print
Flight to Quality –Flight to Warren Buffet His Berkshire Hathaway 2008-09-24 00:59:59 How many of you purchased shares of BRKA (BerkshireHathaway
) when it was all over the news last November that shares were approx $150 dollars each. If you had purchased you would have seen your shares fall to a point in August of this year to approx $110 dollars a share, rather unsettling. However last week like a shooting star BRKA jumped to $147 dollars a share. Anyone can see this by just look Read more:Flight
, Quality
, Warren
, Buffet
, Warren Buffet
2008 Economic Debacle 2008-09-24 00:18:07 Let’s start with the fact that the median US income last year was $50,233 dollars. Now lets add to the fact that the plan of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's $700 billion dollar to stabilize the banking system, that every man, woman and child in the U.S. would be owing more than $37,000 each.
This puts the situation in simple context.
Let’s put it another way, approximately 73% of the med Read more:Economic
The Most Expensive Foreclosure Yet! 2008-09-23 02:11:15 The Most Expensive Foreclosure
Yet!
The signs of the times.
No one is immune. Rich – Poor…
Last week the most expensive foreclosure occurred in London. It had a price tag of approximately $20 million dollars or £11 million pounds. The mansion was purchased by a Dotcom millionaire Robert Bonnier. The mansion was purchased last year, just as the market peaked. (The UK is experiencing t
Following In the Footsteps of An Economic Depression? 2008-09-23 01:50:28 Following In the Footsteps
of An Economic
Depression?
If history is ever a lesson we should learn from It., maybe just once. True there are always economic cycles but bubbles are formed mainly due to one reason “Cheap Money”. More so, bubbles only really become apparent in hindsight. What we are encountering is nothing more than panic & volatility from the drunken stupor from cheap mon Read more:Following
Crush the US Dollar and Increase the Debt? 2008-09-21 23:50:50 I asked in one of my earlier posts if the US Dollar
has bottomed or will the US Dollar crash? What I find fascinating… is that common logic …that the US Dollar should have gotten crushed over the weekend. Well it is 5 am and I am drinking my coffee and looking at the CME Globex…and yes the US Dollar is down…but not CLOBBERRED?
Aren’t we all in this together? Isn’t Western Europe havi
The Lender of Last Resort! 2008-09-21 03:36:10 There are always cycles in the economic landscape. There are periods of optimism and stock market rallies as well as periods as we are facing now. Anything can happen… In extreme times Banks fail, Stock Markets fall, Panic sets in and Fear becomes the norm..
The question always throughout history who will be the lender of last resort?
Today it is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Read more:Lender
, Resort
Nothing Ever Changes When Risks Are Ignored! 2008-09-21 02:56:10 10 years ago this month Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund lost billions in a very short period of time. Shock Waves roiled around the worlds markets. Asian was imploding and Russia was defaulting. Then as now there was a government-initiated Wall Street-funded bailout for LTCM.
Well fast forward 10 years and it seems the boys from LTCM have not learned their lesson regarding leverage. The Read more:Nothing
, Risks
Yet Another Bank Failure This Week 2008-09-21 02:07:13 You probably did not hear that there was yet another bank failure this week.
The Fed closed down Ameribank a 102-year-old West Virginia bank on Friday. Ameribank, founded in January 1906 and had $102 million in deposits and assets of $115 million as of June 30 of this year. What is interesting that in 1999 Ameribank assumed $135 million of one of the largest bank failures of the 1990s, First Nati
Are Short Sellers to Blame for the Financial Crisis? 2008-09-19 04:13:38 I have heard this question asked repeatedly... I find it an insult to ones intelligence to even state this.. There has to be a scape goat... Did the short sellers make the banks give loans to speculators that were not going to live in the houses.. Did the short sellers make the banks give loans to homeowners who neither had a job or credit? Did the short sellers make the banks give companies loan Read more:Short
, Sellers
, Blame
, Financial
, Crisis
The Dollar Has Broken? 2008-09-19 03:45:22 I do not mean the US Dollar
has crashed, Gd Forbid. But what I mean is that the Reserve Primary Fund a money market fund which had $62.6 billion in assets net asset value fell below $1.00. This is due to the toxic paper that Lehman defrauded the world with. I use the word had... because with all the volatility earlier this weak... several investors pulled out $40 billion dollars from the Rese Read more:Broken
Where Do We Put Our Money? 2008-09-19 03:17:54 Seems like all the rules of the game have changed.. All norms have changed..
The Reserve Primary Fund had $62.6 billion in assets as of last week and it one of the largest money-market funds. However they owned some Lehman toxic paper.. and the cardinal rule of parity to the US Dollar net asset value crashed... Now for every dollar... it is only worth .97 cents. All that loss to low interest Read more:Money
Distressed Debt Waterfall? 2008-09-18 02:50:49 Dana Perino from the Bush admistration tried to calm fears yesterday with her soothing statements.. but the facts are alot different..It should come as no surprise that there's more distressed debt trading right now than at any other time in history - approx $184 billion worth, and you know what..probably a heck of alot more that is lurking around...With all the cheap money tha Read more:Waterfall
Stock Market CRASH or Just A Pattern? 2008-09-18 02:27:34 From a technical standpoint a Head and Shoulders pattern break is becoming evident on the Dow Jones Chart...Depending on who you speak to ..this is confirmation for them...and they feel that the Dow Jones could fall to the 8000 point range.. That is a pretty big drop... That is a ton of money wiped out.. That will create even more fear....I think you know by now..I don't predict.. I prefer to reac Read more:Market
, Stock
, Pattern
, Stock Market
Should You Go Out and Buy Gold Today? 2008-09-18 02:12:56 Seems that many people yesterday beat you to it.. Gold was up approx 11%. That is a large move! That is alot of fear! Everyone seems to seeking people to tell them what to do..Sorry to say that most people know about as much as you do... The fact is.. One should have a well thought out plan..An explicit reason to buy...regardless if it is technical.. .fundamental.....More so they need to know wher Read more:Today
Who Will Bail Out The US Government? 2008-09-18 01:58:45 In my blog (CapitalInvestor1836.blogger.com ) I thought I was being fascitious when I asked the retorical question...
Who will bail out the US Govt?
The facts are I believe anything can happen...but
Digging deeper...I realized some very concerning issues...
Firstly the US govt has enormous money problems of it'sown.The government is much greater in debt than AIG, Fan Read more:Government
The Japanese Yen and the Carry Trade 2008-09-17 07:00:52 The last time the carry trade became undone was in the fall of 1998. The carry trade brought down the likes of Julian Robertson and his Tiger Fund. Are we witnessing again the unwinding of the carry trade.. For those of you who do not know about the carry trade...it is a neat idea that hedge fund managers caught on to... they could borrow Japanese
Yen and pay .5% interest...and take those proceeds Read more:Carry
, Trade
AIG and the Derivative Nightmare 2008-09-17 06:54:36 Many people are missing the bigger picture here with AIG. Both AIG and Lehman were heavily involved in the trading of unregulated Derivatives...These Derivatives have an outstanding balance of approx 62 Trillion dollars... This is an absolutely mind boggling amount of money...Basically AIG does not have enough money to back up it's bets. My question..does anyone? We are speaking about 62 Trillion Read more:Nightmare
The Derivative Nightmare 2008-09-16 07:35:05 Banks may accelerate efforts to move trading in the $62 trillion market through a central clearinghouse or to
credit-default swaps an exchange after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the credit downgrade of American International Group Inc.
Yes that is right... 62 Trillion..we are in a terrible mess..and this might just be the tip of the iceberg...
Lehman, the first major marke Read more:Nightmare
Strongest and Weakest Markets week 9.14.08 2008-09-16 07:30:38 Based on relative strength...looking on a smoothing of various time
frames over a weekly basis...
The Strongest Markets
Japanese Yen
US Dollar Index
US Interest rates
The Weakest Markets
Silver
Live Hogs
Crude
Cotton
Wheat
Gold
Andrew Abraham
capitalinvestor1836.blogger.com
GOP Trust 2008-10-28 07:42:26 I found an interesting site and wanted to share it...
GOP trust.com has been complimented from Dick Morris tonight on Hannity and Colmes. Dick Morris suggests going to www.goptrust.com to check on the truth about Barack Obama’s tax plans. There is also information about his plans for social security and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. The sight has videos as well as one about Obama
Is A Depression Avoidable? 2008-10-28 07:26:35 Is A Depression Avoidable?
Delete Post Manage Blog "The fact of the matter the problems on Wall Street are arriving to Main Street. Possibly job losses are only the tip of the iceberg.
As much as human nature never changes... Hopefully we have learned something from the days of the 1930s in order to avoid another Depression. What is ironic is that the Depression of the 1930s started out as a ty
Obama's redistribution of wealth ? 2008-10-27 12:47:10 What is your opinion of Obama
's redistribution of wealth program? There has been so much discussion... but really what do you think??
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Biggest U.S. Export - You Wish You Did Not Know 2008-10-27 11:59:13 The packaging of consumer loans,student loans and home mortgages into packages of securities -- a process known as securitization -- has been the biggest U.S. export business of our century. Would you believe more than $27 trillion of these securities have been sold since 2001. This is almost twice last year's U.S. gross domestic product of $13.8 trillion.
Now one can start to see the magnitude o
Jim Rogers Ideas to Make Money 2008-10-26 02:38:26 Firstly...everyone has an opinion...and more so...a plan is necessary in order to be a successful investor... Jim Rogers
who has been investing next to George Soros and then on his own...has a great deal of credability...and knowledge... He believes in shorting the Long US Bond... due to his belief that the FED has transfered the debt of the banks on the shoulders of the FED...and they will be pri Read more:Money
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