econbrowser.com - 9/26/2008
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Here's how it was reported, for example, in the Wall Street Journal :
Reaction to the Wall Street bailout and frenzied last-minute trading in the oil market sent crude prices soaring by more than $16 a barrel, the biggest one-day jump ever.
The late-day spike, which shoved oil up 16% to ...
What happened today?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 10/9/2008 — Tough to write a column - I mean, nothing much going on in the financial world …
Seriously, I'm sure we'll be hearing all kinds of explanations of today's drop - it's Paulson saying that he'll inject equity, or Obama's rise in the polls (yes, ...
What Really Happened?
cato-unbound.org 12/2/2008 — In the first of this month's four accounts of the causes of the financial crisis, Lawrence H. White, the F.A. Hayek Professor of Economic History at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, makes his case. White argues that the housing boom and bust, ...
End of Wall Street: What Happened
online.wsj.com 1/9/2009 — End of Wall Street: What Happened Chapter One: In the first of this three-part series, Journal reporters explain how the housing bubble inflated and burst, and why easy money led to the collapse of Wall Street's biggest financial institutions. End of ...
So What Happened To Solar Stocks This Time?
blogs.barrons.com 10/8/2008 — OK, now what’s wrong?
Just yesterday, the ever-volatile solar stocks staged a nice rally , as investors celebrated as the Senate tacked an 8-year extension of the solar investment tax credit onto the incredibly bloated financial bailout bill, ...
Oil Bear Markets
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 11/14/2008 — For those interested, the current 53% decline in oil without a 20% rally is by far the biggest drop the commodity has seen since we have daily pricing for going back to 1986. And this decline was preceded by a 37% drop from July 3rd to September 16th ...
Trading Strategy: Oil Stocks vs Oil
marketsci.wordpress.com 12/30/2008 — This strategy was inspired by the recent Bespoke post Oil Stocks Outperforming Oil in which Bespoke showed the historical ratio between the price of oil stocks and the price of oil itself. I’ve reproduced their graph below.
Rising values indicate ...
Nice Little Bank You Got There; Shame If Anything Happened to It
cato-at-liberty.org 10/20/2008 — Some years ago I wrote an article titled “The Gun behind the Law.” (Not online, but it appears in The Politics of Freedom .) It began with a photograph of 50 or so helmeted policemen storming the doors of a large and institutional ...
Do You Know What You’re Doing With Oil ETFs?
etftrends.com 1/30/2009 — Goldman Sachs has stepped forward to warn of unprecedented flows into oil exchange traded funds (ETFs), and it has raised the question of whether investors know what they’re doing.
What’s Behind the Jump? The energy analysts attribute the ...
Ponzi Or Never Happened
pheedo.com 2/25/2009 —
Perp walk in Greenwich: CNBC reports that Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, principals of WG Trading are being held in FBI custody, for allegedly "'mismanaging" clients' money to the "sum of possible hundreds of millions of dollars." No word on (yet) on which special needs community was ...
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