Thursday, 12 August 2010

Prudent Bear



Quotable

“Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria


Commentary

Credit Bubble Bulletin

by Doug Noland | Aug 6

2010 vs. 2007

The market backdrop reminds me more of 2007 each passing week.

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The Bear's Lair

by Martin Hutchinson | Aug 9

The Peril of False Bottoms

Government intervention in the markets almost always causes more pain.

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Featured Commentary

by Satyajit Das | Jul 8

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide!

The best course of action for Greece would be to "temporarily" (that is, for the next several hundred years) opt out of the euro and unilaterally re-denominate its debt into the "new" drachma.

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Guest Commentary

by Michael Pento | Jul 30

Don't Lose Sleep over Deflation

In reality, we have much more to fear from inflation.

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