Financial Transaction Taxes Would Cause Stock Market Crash
Fundamental
Nedeľa, 08 November 2009 00:30

Congress is discussing a horrible idea, putting a "transaction tax" on every stock or option purchase or sale. Please consider AFL-CIO, Dems push new Wall Street tax.

08/30/09
The nation’s largest labor union and some allied Democrats are pushing a new tax that would hit big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs reaping billions of dollars in profits while the rest of the economy sputters.
The AFL-CIO, one of the Democratic Party’s most powerful allies, would like to assess a small tax — about a tenth of a percent — on every stock transaction.

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TARP Loses $299 million Investment in United Commercial Bank
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 20:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/07/2009 01:09:00 PM

From the LA Times: United Commercial Bank is shut down, sold to East West Bancorp

Toppled by loan losses and misstated financial reports, San Francisco's United Commercial Bank was shut down by regulators Friday night ...

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Overcoming Slumps in Life and Trading
Technical
Sobota, 07 November 2009 20:30

<>You know, there are those periods in life where nothing is clicking. Even the fortune cookies at the local takeout mock you. One trade after another goes south. Why bother?
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U.K.: Bank of England Warns of "Doom Loop"
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 16:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/07/2009 09:08:00 AM

From The Telegraph: Bank of England says financiers are fuelling an economic 'doom loop'

On the eve of the G20 meeting of finance ministers in Scotland, Andy Haldane, the Bank's executive director for financial stability warned that the relationship between the state and banks represents a "doom loop" which will keep inflicting crises on the public unless arrested.

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Saturday Perspectives and Insights
Technical
Sobota, 07 November 2009 16:30
<>* <> in insider trading scandal;
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NY Times: Unemployment Measure U-6 Highest Since Great Depression
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 08:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/06/2009 11:59:00 PM

From David Leonhardt at the NY Times: Broader Measure of Unemployment Stands at 17.5% Excerpts:

Officially, the Labor Department’s broad measure of unemployment goes back only to 1994. But early this year, with the help of economists at the department, The New York Times created a version that estimates it going back to 1970.

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Bank Failure #120: United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, California
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 04:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/06/2009 09:40:00 PM

Sunrise in the East
United Commercial Bank
Sunsets in the West

by Soylent Green is People

From the FDIC: East West Bank, Pasadena, California Assumes All the Deposits of United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, California
United Commercial Bank, San Francisco, California, was closed today by the California Department of Financial Institutions, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as receiver.

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Unofficial Problem Bank List Grows to 505
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 04:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/06/2009 09:27:00 PM

Note: This was before the FDIC seized four banks today.

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Bank Failures #118 & 119: Banks in Minnesota & Missouri
Fundamental
Sobota, 07 November 2009 04:30

by CalculatedRisk on 11/06/2009 07:13:00 PM

Whats a "Prosperan"?
A breakfast food, car or band?
Answer: money pit

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Eliminating Bias in Trading
Technical
Sobota, 07 November 2009 04:30
<>A reader asks a good question: "Do you have any good post on eliminating a strong bias? <>I am so clouded by a bias, I can't trade objectively."
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