Archive for August, 2009

Shanghai Index Smashed

Monday, August 31st, 2009

It’s in “official” Bear Market territory.The Shanghai Composite Index dropped 6.7 percent, the most since June 2008.It has declined 23 percent to 2,667.75 since Aug. 4, more than the 20 percent drop that is the common definition of a bear market.China’s index is the worst performer this month among 89 benchmark indexes tracked by Bloomberg globally.

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Budget deficits and financial bubbles

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Doug Noland of Prudent Bear comments on the history of U.S. government budget deficit projections as they relate to the many financial bubbles experienced in recent decades. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) saw deficits as far as the eye could see back in the early nineties. Actual deficits turned to nice surpluses by the end of the decade. And looking back at year 2000 projections, the CBO penciled in a $400bn surplus for 2009 and better than $3.0 TN of cumulative surplus for this de

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Posts about Steve Jobs as of August 31, 2009

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Steve Jobs / Disney – $4 Billion + Marvel = Captain America iPhone?! – theiphoneblog.com 08/31/2009 Attention true believers! Daring Disney dispenses 4 billion big ones to buyout mighty Marvel, its merry mutants, and stupendous superheroes! Okay, rewind. To make that most tangential of relationships possible (just so we can blog about comics, of course): following Disney’s Pixar acquisition, Steve Jobs — then CEO of Pixar and still CEO of iPhone maker, Apple Inc. — became Disney’s larg

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Bob Brinker What to Believe

Monday, August 31st, 2009

by Rio Morales on August 31, 2009 Bob Brinker update.Here is an update.Now this isn’t a bad thing unless you lost money behind it and if you did you must not have been paying attention to the real estate market or doing your home work on what stocks were doing.I said in the first review of Bob Brinker, “Do not just arbitrarily throw your money into the market just because some guy has you thinking that they know what they are talking about.” This is what Mike from Oregon has to say about Bob

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Bob Brinker Busted!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Bob can we trust you, you keep blowing it.Here is an update.Now this isn’t a bad thing unless you lost money behind it and if you did you must not have been paying attention to the real estate market or doing your home work on what stocks were doing.I said in the first review of Bob Brinker, “Do not just arbitrarily throw your money into the market just because some guy has you thinking that they know what they are talking about.” This is what Mike from Oregon has to say about Bob Brinker, M

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Gender Discrimination

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Establishment of the society of equal rights for everyone depends a lot on individual choice of most people in such issues as education and selection of future profession, assignment of domestic chores, and organization of child care. On the other hand a lot depends on the political decisions made regarding all the mentioned issues. This leads to distribution of responsibilities and obligations among men and women. There jobs that are believed to be only women’s as well as particularly

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Yen lifted by conflicting winds

Monday, August 31st, 2009

The Japanese yen strengthened on new found optimism rooted in decisive victory for the Democratic Party of Japan who rose to power on a platform of social and economic change. The news was accompanied by a reversion to pessimism in China where continued concerns over excesses in both lending and production capacity have fuelled a reversal in the stock market leading to a monthly close in official bear territory. Either way the clear direction at the start of a new trading week was for a

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Back to School

Monday, August 31st, 2009

On my lap, I’ve got a set of school books that date from the 1850s to the 1890s.  They belonged to various of my father’s family – my great-uncle, George Hume, who died long before I was born and studied Eaton’s Common School Arithmetic in Amesbury, MA in the late 19th century, not 20 miles from where I would go to school 100 years later.  The majority belonged to my great-grandfather, Edgar White, who studied latin and algebra in Jonesboro, Maine, and later went on to teach school in Cheshire,

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China Stocks ‘In Deep Bubble,’ May Dr…

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) — China’s economy isn’t“sustainable” and the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index mayfall another 25 percent, former Morgan Stanley Asian economistAndy Xie said in an interview. “The market is in deep bubble territory,” Xie, whocorrectly predicted in April 2007 that China’s equities wouldtumble, told Bloomberg Television . The Shanghai index plunged 6.7 percent to 2,667.75 today,the most since June 2008 and entering a bear market, on concerna slowdown in lending growth ma

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Monday FX View: Yen Lifted by Conflicting Winds

Monday, August 31st, 2009

The Japanese yen strengthened on new found optimism rooted in decisive victory for the Democratic Party of Japan who rose to power on a platform of social and economic change. The news was accompanied by a reversion to pessimism in China where continued concerns over excesses in both lending and production capacity have fuelled a reversal in the stock market leading to a monthly close in official bear territory. Either way the clear direction at the start of a new trading week was for a stronger

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