With Bonuses Capped Will Other Forms of Compensation Soar on Wall Street?

Posted on March 19, 2009
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I’m sure Wall Street is not too worried about taxes on bonuses. There are already more tax-efficient ways to shift the bailout money around.

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Higher Interest Rates for Savings Accounts: Brazil Has the Right Idea

Posted on March 19, 2009
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Brazilian authorities are looking to make changes in the savings system in Brazil so that larger investors can actually receive a higher interest rate on direct bank savings accounts.

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A Shell Game by the Fed?

Posted on March 19, 2009
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The government is issuing debt, and it’s repurchasing its own debt using paper that it is printing?

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Three Factors That May Cause a Reversal of the Bank Stock Rally

Posted on March 18, 2009
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By understanding the factors that will undermine the new bullish bank meme, I think it will possible to trade profitably around this new rally.

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AIG Bailout Fraud: Dire Consequences?

Posted on March 16, 2009
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At this point, it is very hard to see how there is a way out of what is clearly a continuing massive fraud at AIG without another major disruption in the financial markets.

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The New Bailout Meme: Banks Will Earn Their Way Out of this Mess

Posted on March 12, 2009
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In every boom and bust, there are competing memes, which catch investors attention and drive prices to extremes.

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The Ponzi Economy

Posted on March 11, 2009
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According to Roubini, Americans lived in a Made-off and Ponzi bubble economy for a decade or even longer. Madoff is the mirror of the American economy and of its overleveraged agents: a house of cards of leverage over leverage by households, financial firms and corporations that has now gone bust

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Zombie Banks: Wall Street’s New Money Machine

Posted on March 8, 2009
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This weekend the Wall Street Journal published an excellent article on the AIG bailout, which provided for the first time a small glimpse into the bailout money trail.

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