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Washington's Blog (589 Links)
Created by MyPropsMonkey 196 days ago in News. Views: 120. Link Views: 2,140
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“The Chief Executive [of Giant Dark Pool Said] the Amount of Money Devoted to High-frequency Trading Could ‘QUINTUPLE Between this Year and Next’"
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 20 hours 22 minutes ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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In a must-read essay, Senator Ted Kaufman reveals that - despite all of the talk coming out of Washington - high-frequency trading is set to explode: We've gone from an era dominated by a duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to a highly [More...]
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Senator Sanders Introduces Bill to Break Up the Too Big to Fails
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 21 hours 30 minutes ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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As Reuters notes: An independent U.S. senator on Friday introduced a bill that would give the government the power to identify and break up financial firms that are "too big to fail," an idea that is catching on. "If an institution is [More...]
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Investor Psychology: Fear Turns People Into Sheep
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 23 hours 21 minutes ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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Investors are basically rational, right? In short, as many studies have demonstrated, no. But let's look at psychological research into people's basic thinking abilities. Since many Americans are investors, let's just look at the American people as [More...]
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The Government is Patching the Barn Door Instead of Catching the Escaped Horses
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 1 day ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 1
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If all of the horses are already out of the barn, fussing about how to patch the door to fill in cracks isn't very helpful. You have to go out and round up the escaped horses. Then - once you catch them - you can think about how to improve the [More...]
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“By All Relevant Debt Indicators, the US Fiscal Scenario Will Soon Approximate [that of] Countries on the Verge of a Sovereign Debt Default”
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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Josh Lipton points out: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) published a paper indicating that “by all relevant debt indicators, the US fiscal scenario will soon approximate the economic scenario for countries on the verge [More...]
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Shameless Request for Web Design Help
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 1
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Quick question: How do I make it so that when people click on my banner, they are directed to www.WashingtonsBlog.com, and not http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com ? I'd be grateful for any help! Print this post
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Wall Street Journal Admits Economists Were Wrong, But Fails to Discuss their INCENTIVE for Being Wrong
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 3 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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The Wall Street Journal admits this week that economists blew it: The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat... The crisis exposed the inadequacy of economists' [More...]
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Voters Repudiate Democrats Because Dems Sold Out on Financial Reform
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 3 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 1
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Yesterday, Elliot Spitzer said that the White House's defense of the financial status quo will give Republicans powerful ammunition in the 2010 elections. Today, Democratic cheerleader Markos Moulitsas (the "Kos" behind Daily Kos) [More...]
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Take the Power to Create Credit Away from the Giant Banks and Give It Back to the People
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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Many people - including former analyst for the U.S. Treasury Richard Cook - argue that credit is too important a function to be left to the private banks. Indeed, even after taxpayers have given trillions in bailouts, backstops, guarantees, and other [More...]
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Inverse Relationship Between Dollar and Gold
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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I think gold will do well long-term. And see this. But as I have previously argued, I think gold is surging right now largely due to weakness in the dollar. See this and this. Jon Nadler agrees, writing: Gold is not in a bull market. The dollar [More...]
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India, China, Russia and Some EU Central Banks Buying Gold
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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India's central bank is buying 200 metric tons of gold from the IMF. China, Russia and some EU central banks have also expressed interest in buying gold from the IMF or elsewhere. Therefore, Bloomberg's article of today saying that "Central [More...]
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When Everyone is On the Same Side of a Trade, the Market is About to Crash
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 7
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Economist Blake LeBaron has discovered an important cause of stock market crashes: During the run-up to a crash, population diversity falls. Agents begin using very similar trading strategies as their common good performance is reinforced. This makes [More...]
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Roubini: "Deleveraging Requires The Writing Down Of Debt As Reflationary Policies Are Not A Free Lunch And Won't Solve The Debt Overhang Problem"
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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Nouriel Roubini writes: Ultimately, deleveraging requires the writing down of debt as reflationary policies are not a free lunch and won't solve the debt overhang problem (Dr. Roubini). Important case study: Japan back into deflationary territory [More...]
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Update on China and Japan
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 5 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 1
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As I have repeatedly noted, China has been blowing a bubble with easy credit. MarketWatch's Craig Stephen warns investors to be wary of a potential correction, at least in some sectors: Policy tightening could soon become the dominant market theme, [More...]
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Aggressive Fiscal Stimulus Spending Only Shortens Recessions by Two Quarters
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 5 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 1
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Keynesians argue that we must increase fiscal stimulus to prevent a full-scale depression. They argue that "deficit hawks" are wrong when they say that we can't afford any more stimulus, and that worrying about debt in a crisis of this size [More...]
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The Government Has Broken the Social Contract with the American People
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 5 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 13
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Kevin de Bruxelles succinctly summarizes the fact that the government has broken the social contract with the American people, and the ultimate meaning of that breach of contract: One only needs to consult Hobbes to see where the answer lies. In [More...]
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Galbraith: Administration's Sole Goal is to Restore System of 5 or 10 Years Ago, But Confidence Won't be Restored Unless Fraud Which Led to Crash is
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 6 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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As I have repeatedly written, the largest U.S. banks have repeatedly gone bankrupt due to wild speculation which was blessed by the Fed, and then the government covered up their bankruptcy. As the New York Times writes today about one of the too big to [More...]
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Politicans Are NOT Prostitutes ... They Are Pimps
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 7 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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Many people have called politicians prostitutes. True, Obama has received more donations from Goldman Sachs and the rest of the financial industry than almost anyone else. And Summers, Geithner and the rest of Obama's economic team have made many [More...]
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Congressman Watt Guts Bill to Audit the Fed
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 7 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 8
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Ron Paul tells Bloomberg that Congressman Watt has just more or less killed the bill to audit the fed: Representative Ron Paul, the Texas Republican who has called for an end to the Federal Reserve, said legislation he introduced to audit monetary [More...]
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Too Big to Fail and the 1,000 Pound Man
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 8 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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In September 2008, I wrote: In the 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles, Cleavon Little plays the new sheriff in an old Western town. The sheriff is African-American, and when he rides into town for the first time, the [racist] townspeople pull out their guns [More...]
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