ritholtz.com - 7/4/2009
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We have a bull market excess stupidity.
Now that I think about it, this could very well be the longest bull market in history, running as it has for several 100,000 years.
The latest manifestation of this intellectual failure is the new government proposals to ban or radically restrict ...
ritholtz.com - 7/5/2009
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ritholtz.com —
Its been a while since we’ve had a
full blown weekend linkfest, and given the long holiday
weekend, why not? Its time for some random linkage. These are the articles, columns and links that caught my eye recently. (Some sites require ...
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July 4th Weekend Linkfest!
securitiesdocket.com - 7/1/2009
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securitiesdocket.com —
Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski, the Chairman of the
House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and
Government Sponsored Enterprises, released a letter today from the SEC’s Inspector General, H. David Kotz, in which the inspector general responds to Chairman ...
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SEC IG Kotz Responds to Rep. Kanjorski With Legislative ...
bearmountainbull.com - 6/29/2009
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bearmountainbull.com —
An interesting discussion yesterday over at Zero Hedge,
following up an opening comment from a supposed SEC
employee: The problem with attempting to push a market manipulation case is that it is very difficult to make such a case in a court of law ...
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Happy Independence Day
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... . Peggy Noonan on our founders and our greatest living historian. Did the EPA gag a climate skeptic? Time for Israel to blast Iran? The meaning of Ricci . This is no wonder when Pelosi spends a day in Afghanistan and six in Italy,maybe there’s a crisis in Lake Como. Payrolls and unemployment suck. El- Erian says job data is worse than we think. Is there more to the Palin resignation ? Mish on general idiocy. Banning short selling. Touch screen craze is starting. View the discussion thread. blog ...
Sunday Morning Brunch: Lying Eyes
Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory —
... We should NEVER disregard the other side of the trade. But we should try to avoid silliness, the kind that Barry Ritholtz reviews yesterday at the Big Picture. ...
Sunday links: short ban redux
Abnormal Returns —
... Just look what happened the last time the Feds banned short selling. (Big Picture) ...
Daily Market Madness - Round 07.06
MadeMan.com —
... With bigger balls! [BusinessInsider]
6.) Budweiser/InBev busting out the big bucks for a Beatles song in new commercial. [copyranter]
7.) Ron Paul finally strikes some economic gold. [TheBigMoney]
8.) Don't come into Citi... unless you want swine flu. [Dealbreaker]
9.) Let's analyze the ban on short selling yet again. [Ritholtz]
10.) Go ahead ...
Further reading
FT Alphaville —
... Professor Ultimi Barbarorum Zero Hedge Site navigation Technical Help Rules and Disclaimer About FT Alphaville Contact the team Markets Live - a guide for new readers Principal content Further reading Posted by Tracy Alloway on Jul 06 08:06. Elsewhere on Monday, - “Did someone try to steal Goldman Sachs’ secret sauce ?” - Sweden, negative interest rates and QE.- CDS is not insurance. - “ Short-sellers are the messengers.” - The scariest jobs chart ever is all squiggly. - If ...
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