Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect

Forecast 2009: Deflation and Recession January 10, 2009 By John Mauldin Where are we headed in 2009? We will explore that in detail over the next few issues of Thoughts from the Frontline, but today we will start with some of the larger forces which will have a major impact on the economies of the world, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 12:32:28

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'Nobody else is paying, so why should I?'

From the Sacramento Bee:Across the Sacramento region, businesses and governments fretted over a credit crunch that showed no signs of improvement, ... because it didn't deal with the root causes of the problem."...Steven Krohn, a real estate broker [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 21:07:00

The layman's finance crisis glossary

BBC News, 8 January 2009 The current financial crisis has thrown terminology from the business pages onto the front page of newspapers, with jargon now abounding everywhere from the watercooler to the back of a taxi. Here is a guide to many of the business terms currently cropping up regularly, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:14:00

Currency Market Forecast

Further Aussie Dollar (AUD) Unwinding Ahead due to softer InflationThis week's softer than expected consumer inflation figures from Australia have ... result of falling energy and commodity prices, which triggered a 12.4% drop in gasoline costs and a 5.2% [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 01:06:00

Weekend Conspiracy Theory - Can You Stomach It?

A: Are we all just pawns in a bigger chess game? I'm not one to buy into conspiracies, but this read is just too crazy, ... , corporate bonds, treasury/commodity holdings, insider trading, friendly bailouts, deregulation, etc [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 22:54:48

Dollar Declines as Israel-Hamas Conflict Pushes Up Oil Prices

BLOOMBERG Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar fell the most in almost two weeks against the euro as the conflict in the Gaza Strip drove up oil prices, adding to concerns the economic slump will deepen in the world’s largest energy-consuming nation. The currency also dropped versus the yen before U.S [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 01:01:13

Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word

Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word November 21, 2008 By John Mauldin Leverage is an eight-letter word, which the markets now regard as twice as bad as the two four-letter words debt and pain (or fill in your own four-letter words). This week I try to give some insight into what is happening in the credit markets, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 15:27:04

John Mauldin's Forecast for 2009

Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly NewsletterForecast 2009: Deflation and Recession by John Mauldin January 10, 2009 In this issue: Forecast 2009: Deflation, Deleveraging, and the Stimulus Effect Muddle Through on Hold Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Unemployment Numbers Central Bankers of the World, Unite! [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 18:53:08

Traditional Forex Brokers Vs Online Broker

These days, day traders opt for online trading because of its trending nature. There a number of benefits of trading Forex online ... timely financial news, information, real-time quotes, charts etc. Coupled with the elimination ... Exchange, Commodities, etc. Source [more...]

Date: 2008-12-17 01:00:48

Choosing a Forex Broker

Before trading Forex you need to set up an account with a Forex Broker. So what exactly is a broker? ... . Find out if the broker is regulatedWhen selecting a prospective Forex broker, find out with which ... traders. If you are trading in United States, make sure your Forex brokerage firm is registered [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 14:33:00

Chinese Electrical Output Fell 9.6% in November (Plus Possible False Positive on Shipping Front)

Although talk of deep OPEC production cuts and hopes for an auto industry rescue have given oil prices a boost, ... a forecast for its commodity exports for the year to June 30, 2009, by 10 percent. “Commodity-producing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 07:52:48

The Wall Street Meltdown Part 3

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gains 936 points on a spectacular Monday. And then, like the proverbial monkey on the oily pole, drops 733 points on Wednesday, making it the second worst single day drop in Wall Street history [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 19:06:48

Is FX Trading Just Another Investment Scam?

If you’re a keen investor or just starting out in the investment game, you might find yourself asking this very question: Is FX trading just another investment scam? With so much literature online and off urging you to consider FX trading as an investment option, you are caught asking yourself if this a scam [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 22:24:50

AEI Subprime IV.3: Roubini Presentation

Here is Housing Doom’s third installment of our unauthorized annotated transcript of the American Enterprise Institute’s September 30, 2008 seminar "The Deflating Mortgage and Housing Bubble, Part IV: Where Is the Bottom?" This is the presentation by Nouriel Roubini [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 07:01:46

OFFICE BUILDING MARKET COLLAPSING ACROSS THE COUNTRY…from 4,410 deals last year to only 1,410 this year

from the NEW YORK TIMES: Ventures Office Demand Is Down, and So Are the Deals Top right and left photograph, Eric Staudenmaier; bottom right, ... towers were a hot commodity for large investors with seemingly insatiable appetites for commercial [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 07:21:45

Global Financial Meltdown: Sweeping Deregulation of the US Banking System (1999)

Dandelion Salad by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, October 17, 2008 The following text reviews, in a historical context, the 1987, 1997 and 1998 stock market meltdowns. The article was written nine years ago  in November 1999,  following the adoption of the 1999 Financial Services Modernization Act [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 13:45:19

Global Systemic Financial Meltdown

The US and advanced economies’ financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in ... of these economies; a collapse of the shadow banking system, i.e. those non-banks (broker dealers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 15:02:18

The New Way to Make Serious Money

by Mary Bush Much of the commodities market has been converted to the virtual world, which means that now, ... market and the commodity that you are trading in. Trading in money means that you are trading ... , which is the Forex market - trading in currencies from all over the world. Market reports have outlined [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 21:44:49

The New Way to Make Serious Money

by Mary Bush Much of the commodities market has been converted to the virtual world, which means that now, ... market and the commodity that you are trading in. Trading in money means that you are trading ... , which is the Forex market - trading in currencies from all over the world. Market reports have outlined [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 09:28:35

The New Way to Make Serious Money

by Mary Bush Much of the commodities market has been converted to the virtual world, which means that now, ... market and the commodity that you are trading in. Trading in money means that you are trading ... , which is the Forex market - trading in currencies from all over the world. Market reports have outlined [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 13:15:41

washingtonpost.com’s Political Browser Uses the News Judgment of Journalists to Filter the Political Web

washingtonpost.com has launched a new politics page called Political Browser, which features, ... that’s increasingly a commodity.) What Political Browser has set out to do, according to Eric, is put ... s important in the sphere of political news on the web. Also looking beyond commodity aggregation [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 03:03:07

10 American Financial Meltdowns in the Past Century

Banks failed, stock prices collapsed, and panic descended on Wall Street. Americans were holding their collective breath as a rescue plan was hastily drafted. The 2008 financial crisis? Nope - it was the Panic of 1907, and again in 1929, 1987, and so on [more...]

Date: 2008-10-08 09:45:59

The New Way to Make Serious Money

The New Way to Make Serious Money by Mary Bush Much of the commodities market has been converted to the virtual world, which means that now, ... market and the commodity that you are trading in. Trading in money means that you are trading ... , which is the Forex market - trading in currencies from all over the world. Market reports have outlined [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:43:10

The New Way to Make Serious Money

The New Way to Make Serious Money by Mary Bush Much of the commodities market has been converted to the virtual world, which means that now, ... market and the commodity that you are trading in. Trading in money means that you are trading ... , which is the Forex market - trading in currencies from all over the world. Market reports have outlined [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 08:45:01

How Can Foreign Currencies Be Traded?

Currency exchanges can be handled on three different levels ... :• The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC ... on a retail level or corporate level. Off-exchange trading is subject to very limited regulatory [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 00:56:00

How safe is your money?

I am not a certified financial planner and therefore, do not give financial advice or investment advice. Anyone looking for financial advice is advised to see a independent certified financial planner to help them with their investments. The Certified Financial Planner (CFP) [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 08:36:20

Roubini Discusses the Double D's, Deflation and Depression

YahooFinance has an interesting article on Roubini called Rate Cuts Reduce Crash Risk, But Dow 7,000 Likely 'Sometime Next Year' ... ... and excesses of the previous cycle must be purged and the pool of real savings replenished before [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 11:05:54

Selecting the Right Forex Broker

Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1) Is the broker I want to use regulated? ... . For instance, if a broker is based in the United States, they're regulated by the National Futures Association (NFA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Swiss brokers, however [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 03:12:00

The Economy Gets a Margin Call

The Economy Gets a Margin Call November 15, 2008 By John Mauldin The Economy Gets a Margin Call Where Have All the Consumers Gone? Why Is the Dollar Rising? Can We Actually Muddle Through? The Potential for a Large Stock Market Rally Is GM too Big to Let Fail? [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 21:00:25

The Fed Has Become a Prime Broker, Will Lend to Hedge Funds Under Consumer Loan Program

So where is my bailout? Now even hedge funds can borrow super cheap if they invest in securitized consumer loans ... that play in currencies or commodities). The exact amount is determined by a score that looks [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 06:06:15

DrumBeat: October 10, 2008

The Official Demise of the Oil Bubble On Sept. 11, 2007, the price of crude oil closed at $78.23 a barrel — the last time oil closed below $79 a barrel, until Friday. What seemed like a bewildering ascent in the price of crude at the time is now a relief to traders, who watched oil fall $8.98 a barrel to close at $77 [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 13:15:00

Discover A Simple Method To Accurately Predict Future Home Sales

Today is the big day. Today, in this real estate blog, I reveal my “prediction” for the real estate market in the coming years ... sales and population size In every commodities market (in this case real estate) buyers fall [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 09:49:02

Financial Review of 2008; Resolutions For 2009

The Wall Street investor who survived mustard gas and pepper spray this year is now a seasoned veteran ... to try and find more merger business next year, some IPOs, or even some trading. February 11: The NY [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:58:37

Buying your way into eco heaven can be fraught with problems

Buying your way into eco heaven can be fraught with problems January 6th, 2009 Looking at Carbon Offsetting… We all want our green wings, ... , there are concerns that much offsetting is little more than greenwash.The companies that broker offsets [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 15:12:02

Online forex trading, investment & exchange

Foreign exchange market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Exchange-traded forex futures contracts were introduced in 1972 at the Chicago Mercantile ... ) and Commodities Frauds Forex fraud - foreign currency fraud and commodity fraud Prevent currency and Forex ... and Options Traders Futures charts, stock charts, futures options, stock options FREE [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:16:10

Futures Trading levels and Economic reports for Jan 9th

*To be removed, please reply with remove daytrading in subject line Dear Trader, ... market view provided by Cannon Trading Inc. Any statement of facts herein contained are derived [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 21:05:00

banning all short sales. The details of the SEC action have been released (see below) ... were pressing their bets recently. The bear raids on the banks and brokers were NOT a case [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 23:50:07

Wall Street Says Thanks

Wall Street Says Thanks I wish I had written this myself. Instead, Barry Ritholtz wrote this in the new Barron’s. ( ... off the futures exchanges, with minimal oversight by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 23:54:25

What are Cfds (contracts for Difference)

What Are CFDs Contracts for Difference (CFDs) are contracts between a trader and a CFD provider, who will at the close of the contract, exchange the difference between the opening price and the closing price of the underlying index, share, commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 02:00:55

Live-Blogging the Goldman Sachs Earnings Call

Deal Journal] Barclays to the Rescue Lehman’s Workers win a reprieve: Barclays will buy the U.S ... and where Merrill’s shares are actually trading. WSJ Another unsolicited offer by a foreign firm [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 15:31:59

Foreign Exchange Market is Different from the Stock Market

What's the Difference between Foreign Exchange Market and the Stock Market The buying and selling of currencies is known best all over the world ... institutions, and similar institutions from country to country. The commodity traded in Forex – which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 20:08:22

Synergy Intel

From the NC Dept. of Secretary of State on Synergy Recycling, LLC’s 2007 Annual Statement: ... the commodities that come out of the back-end of the electronics recycling system. OK, I agree [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 17:38:53

England Foreign Exchange, Forex | currency trading | forex trading

Forex Trading Forex Analysis Foreign Exchange Trading News Forex Online Forex Trading foreign exchange trading currency forex broker forex education ... online forex exchange trading with low 2 pip spreads, Trade multiple products with one single account Free Education, Analysis, Charts, Rockefeller Treasury Services - Futures FX Trading [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 13:16:10

The Velocity Factor

“A severe global recession will lead to deflationary pressures ... slack in commodity markets as prices fall will lead to sharply lower inflation. Thus inflation [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 11:37:53

Managed Futures Trading Accounts from CTAs

Managed futures trading accounts help peoples with lesser trading/investing knowledge to profit from futures. Managed futures trading accounts are futures contracts trading accounts which are managed by professional money managers known as Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs). CTAs trade futures contracts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:35:03

Smart Weekly Currency Note - 10th January 2009

Smart Currency Exchange - Weekly Currency Rates for Overseas Property Buyers  Weekly Currency Interbank Exchange Rates 10th January 2009 Currency Rate Last Week Rate This Week EURO 1.044 1.124 US$ 1.445 1.517 CAN$ 1.755 1.802 AUS$ 2.042 2 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:43:00

Smart Weekly Currency Note - 10th January 2009

Smart Currency Exchange - Weekly Currency Rates for Overseas Property Buyers  Weekly Currency Interbank Exchange Rates 10th January 2009 Currency Rate Last Week Rate This Week EURO 1.044 1.124 US$ 1.445 1.517 CAN$ 1.755 1.802 AUS$ 2.042 2 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 17:42:00

SPX (S & P 500) Probably Didn't Peak Yet, But, GDX/HUI/NEM/XAU Did/Put In A Bearish Double Top

SPX (S & P 500) probably didn't peak yet, but, GDX/HUI/NEM/XAU did/put in a bearish double top on 12-17-08/1-2-09, see SPX at http://stockcharts ... (or a stock, commodity, etc) can keep rising for a few sessions or more, even when the reliable Walmart (WMT [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 22:10:00

CFD Providers- Australia

CFD Providers- Australia Posted By Singapore Trader Report on @ 10:35 am by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 10:35:39

CFD Providers- Australia

CFD Providers- Australia Posted By Singapore Trader Report on @ 10:28 am by Singapore Trader Report Contracts for Difference (CFDs) ... , commodity, per the number of specified CFD contracts. A CFD differs from the traditional trading [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 10:28:02

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