Politics Archive
Playing For A Bounce
Some of the best trades come when everyone gets very panicky. The crowd can often act very stupidly in the markets. You can picture price fluctuations around an equilibrium level as a rubber band being ...
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Federal Government Buys AIG; Creeping Socialism
The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday, with the full support of the Treasury Department, authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend up to $85 billion to the American International Group (AIG) under section ...
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Americans Extremely Pessimistic On Country
Fascinating article in today's NY Times that is getting a lot of play: "81% in Poll Say Nation Is Heading on Wrong Track", NY Times, Friday April 4.
The 81% who say the nation has gotten ...
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Capitalism In Good Times, Socialism In Bad
March 26, 2008 · Category: Macro Economics, Politics
Remember Friday March 14 2008: it was the day the dream of global free- market capitalism died. For three decades we have moved towards market-driven financial systems. By its decision to rescue Bear Stearns, the ...
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Caroline Baum: John Galt Plan Might Save US Financial System
March 19, 2008 · Category: Macro Economics, Politics
Mr. Thompson, President of the United States: The country is in a terrible state. People are starving and giving up, the economy is falling to pieces, nobody is producing any longer. We don't know what ...
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The Identity Crisis In American Politics
January 3, 2008 · Category: Politics, Election - 2008
The Wall Street Journal had a fascinating front page article yesterday on the 2008 Presidential Election: "An Epochal Battle: Iowa kicks off the most wide open race since '80. Looking beyond the Reagan-Bush era" (subscription ...
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Stocks Go Up In Presidential Election Years - Or Do They?
December 28, 2007 · Category: Market Commentary, Politics
One of the arguments all of us will hear time and again as the new year begins is that 2008 will be a good year for stocks because it is a Presidential election year. Stocks ...
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Why The Democrats Will Win In ‘08
December 23, 2007 · Category: Politics
Greg Mankiw, Harvard Economist and former member of the Bush economic team, put a post up on his blog linking to a study with a chart showing the relationship between % of the vote received ...
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