thekirkreport.com - 9/17/2008
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Wall Street Woes | Archives | No Easy Answers Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Bailouts Are Band-Aids Though it is difficult to recognize, an economic crisis is a really good thing. It cleans up the system, destroys the excess, and it brings valuations low so that the risk/reward of being an ...
robertreich.blogspot.com - 9/19/2008
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Talk today about the Bailouts of All Bailouts
eased market fears and generated a giant rally on...
the Street, but how realistic is it? On Capitol Hill, Senator Charles Schumer suggested that government inject funds into financial companies in exchange ...
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The Bailout of All Bailouts is a Bad Idea
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The Clueless Q Trader —
6:10pm: WOW, is this a RANT, by Captain Kirk, http://www.thekirkreport.com/2008/09/bailouts-are-ba.html , hahahahahaha, I loooooove it, I'm just dissappointed that he left out the hang, draw and quarter part!!!! ...
Mid-Week Views of a Bearish Market
TraderFeed —
... if the government assumes the bad debt of banks, it stops looking so creditworthy itself. Meanwhile, long-dated muni bonds hit a record spread vs. Treasury bonds. * Continued Weakness - Across the NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE on Wednesday, we had 361 new 20-day highs against 3631 lows. 52-week lows among the three exchanges dropped to 1999 from 2225 on Tuesday. * What Went Wrong - Kirk reviews articles on Wall St.'s woes and makes the case against bailouts. * A New RTC? Lots of buzz about the ...
Features of the week
Finance Trends Matter —
... sale. 10. Assets linked to emerging markets will become "toxic waste". 11. Sue them, jail them, make them pay for meltdown: Ann Woolner. 12. Gold coins & bullion sales up as investors seek shelter from crisis. 13. Wall Street's ills seep into everyday lives. 14. Charles Kirk knows that bailouts are band-aids. Thanks for reading Finance Trends ...
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