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Vadim Pokhlebkin
11/27/2009 12:00:00 PM
Friday morning (November 27) brought troubling news from Dubai. This begs the question: Could this be this year's "Lehman Brothers" event? As we all know, mainstream financial pundits have almost universally blamed the 2008 Wall Street meltdown on Lehman's bankruptcy. Is Dubai this year's "Lehman"?
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dubai, lehman brothers, Wall Street, meltdown
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Stocks
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Nico Isaac
9/15/2009 11:30:00 AM
This day -- September 15, 2009 -- marks the one-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers' collapse, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. More than "one for the history books," this event goes down as the "weekend Wall Street died" and re-emerged as Zombieland -- the bleak home to once booming financial firms gone bust, feeding off the lifeblood of federal bailout money.
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credit crisis, financials, banking sector, Citigroup, Wall Street, bank industry
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Economy
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Bill Fox, Senior Bonds Analyst
10/13/2008 11:45:00 AM
What ails Wall Street is the poison flowing from the over-leveraged Main Street – and not the other way around, as many would suggest. Cheap money, like a phoenix wrought from the ashes of the dot.com bubble, is at the heart of this crisis. There would be no "toxic Wall Street assets" if Main Street were making their payments.
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Mortgage backed securities, main street, Wall Street, presidential debate
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Economy
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Vadim Pokhlebkin
10/9/2008 7:30:00 PM
On a day when the DJIA fell another 678 points to close below 8,600, it seems appropriate to talk about the herding impulse in humans. We at EWI observed decades ago that the financial markets are anything by rational. Now the mainstream media is also picking up on this fact. So why has the stock market "become a case study in the psychology of crowds"? Here's an eye-opening answer.
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herding, Investing, Wall Street, crowd psychology, market psychology
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Stocks
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Editorial Staff
9/19/2008 4:00:00 PM
Government officials and newspaper editorials, even those from skeptical writers, have been unanimous in claiming that a bailout, no matter how unpleasant, was “necessary.” But this is nonsense. Find out why.
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bailout, bailouts, Wall Street, short selling, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FDIC
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Classic Prechter
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Nico Isaac
4/21/2008 4:15:00 PM
Regarding the question raised by today’s headline, “Do Stocks Reflect The Economy?” -- the one-word answer is NO. The cornerstone of conventional economic wisdom is pure baloney.
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Stocks, Economy, Wall Street, crude oi, housing, Citigroup, DJIA, conquer the crash, roaring twenties, new economy
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Stocks
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Nico Isaac
4/4/2008 4:30:00 PM
From the “Today Show” to the “Tonight Show,” the Situation Room to the locker room, and the cocktail party to the carpool lane, one issue has taken center stage: U.S. recession -- Are we OR Aren’t we there yet?
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recession, Wall Street, ben bernanke, Federal Reserve, interest rates, U.S. economy
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Economy
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Robert Folsom
3/13/2008 2:30:00 PM
Once upon a time, the U.S. government created the secondary mortgage market. (During FDR's New Deal, if you're dying to know). With help from the agency known as Fannie Mae, this government creation grew tall and strong. What's more, the government held a virtual monopoly over its creation for several decades -- and after all, the market was its creation....
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credit crunch, Freddie Mac, government bonds, great depression, Real Estate, real-estate, recession, subprime, subprime mortgage, subprime mortgages, Wall Street
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Economy
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Robert Folsom
3/7/2008 5:15:00 PM
Yesterday I said that the Economist magazine had just published a favorable review of a book about the housing market crisis. The author is a respected financial journalist, and a thumbs up from a publication like the Economist suggests a book that deserves to be taken seriously. But consider these other quotes, specifically the "who" & "when" behind them...
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Bear market, conquer the crash, deflation, Fed rate cut, Federal Reserve, Real Estate, recession, subprime, subprime mortgages, Wall Street
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Real Estate
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Robert Folsom
3/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
The Economist magazine published a favorable review today of a book about the housing market crisis, and one comment from the review kind of jumped off the page: "The story has no single villain, but Alan Greenspan comes close. Under him, the Federal Reserve fuelled the housing boom by sharply cutting the cost of short-term money." So, from "Maestro" to "Villain" -- how's that for a reversal of fortune?
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banking, Fed, Federal Reserve, Greenspan, personal finance, recession, Wall Street
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Economy
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Robert Folsom
3/3/2008 6:00:00 PM
That was back when the weekly news magazines ran cover stories with headlines with titles like "Home $weet Home." (Time magazine, June 2005.) Once again, the just-published March 2008 The Elliott Wave Financial Forecast offers subscribers analysis and forecasts that could soon prove to be "tomorrow's news today" -- such as the bond auction on February 21, when 395 out of 641 publicly offered bonds "failed" due to insufficient bidding. That's nearly "10 times the number of failures recorded in the entire 23-year life of auction rate bonds."
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Economy, GDP, housing, Wall Street
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Economy
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Nico Isaac
2/29/2008 4:45:00 PM
More times than we can count, financial investors act completely against reason. The harder stocks fall, and the worse the economic data, the stronger becomes the public's faith in the future of the overall market. "Rational"? We think not. Regular -- however -- it is very much so. Seeing is believing via our graphic illustration...
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rational, dow jones industrial average, NYSE, Wall Street, bottom, buy-and-hold
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Stocks
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