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13 hours ago

in Ben Bernanke Back Into The Populist Spotlight on Zero Hedge
If people want to make a difference they should contribute a couple bucks to the campaign of every politcian that (i) voted against the bailout, (ii) supports bills to audit the Fed, or (iii) sponsors bills bracket banks don't like, such as Harkin's proposal to require all derivatives to be exchange traded or the house republicans plan to resolve troubled financial institutions in bankruptcy.

If you get 10 million each people chipping in a couple bucks (much less $50 or $100), we can swamp the corporate contributions to politicians and really affect things.
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MSMhater Agree. And, what would help a lot is joining up with your local Tea Party, folks, they are busy researching and vetting better candidates from the local level up. They could use the help. Throwing this crop of slobs out of Congress won't work if we don't have better candidates to put in their place.

Marco Rubio, a fresh face, a small gov't fiscal conservative from the FL legislature is running against RINO Gov Charlie Crist for the Republican Senate seat in the primary. Florida eyeballs here should check him out.

http://marcorubio.com/index.php

1 month ago

in Saturday Readings on Zero Hedge
Tyler,

You posted a video from the Milken Institute called "Credit Markets", where Michael Milken articulated the theory that we're in the middle of a reflationary upswing that'll lead to junk bonds delivering returns like in the 70's, and defaults turned out far lower than anticipated (he mentioned "1%" of an unspecified category of debt). Milken's position seems overly optimistic because companies are a lot more levered now, a higher percentage of levered companies are in industries with excess capacity that needs to be liquidated, creditors have weaker covenants to protect them, etc. You think Milken has gone soft like Buffett, and is playing cheerleader? Or you think Milken is on to something?

1 month ago

in THORNBERG: HOUSING TO REMAIN DEPRESSED on THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST
Given that that's a 15 month supply of condo inventory and (taking into account shadow inventory) a 20 month supply in houses, I can't see nominal prices bottoming until late 2010 or early 2011.

Unless Obama adopted some extreme tactics, like giving foreigners citizenship if they buy a house as a residence, and demolishing a large amount of houses, and giving grants to US military vets, coast guard vets, and peace corp vets covering 20% of purchase price for a house.

1 month ago

in Pequot Shutting Down, Insider Trading Implicated on Zero Hedge
Dearly departed Greg Newton at Naked Shorts ably covered an SEC investigation of activities by Pequot and Mack of MS, and an SEC lawyer fired after pushing to subpoena Mack. Pequot's troubles may relate to that investigation.

http://nakedshorts.typepad.com/nakedshorts/2007...

http://nakedshorts.typepad.com/nakedshorts/laff...
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RT Wait, Greg Newton died? Seriously??

1 year ago

in Russia Buys the Supercomputer BlueGene/P from IBM on NazJam Tech Blog
Should be some new munitions coming out of Moscow soon.
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