BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Monthly Archives for September 2010

"I see that the end-2012 implementation 'with appropriate transition and grandfathering arrangements' now translates to something that won’t be fully elaborated until 2020. All together: quelle surprise!"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 7:14 PM | Add Comment

"We get it," Roger Krone, who heads Boeing Co's space and networks division.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 7:03 PM | Add Comment

“It’s clear that if Republicans are handed back the keys, it’s going to be big Wall Street banks that are going to be driving the car,” said Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 6:52 PM | Add Comment

"Reforms aimed at making the IPO process in China more efficient and transparent may bolster foreign banks."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 6:47 PM | Add Comment

"Microsoft is acting like a utility, Goldman concludes..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 6:34 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

In Football Parlance: Time for the "End Around" Play! You Got to Love It.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 5:36 AM | Add Comment

An Advocate of Fiscal Irresponsibility: Mitch McConnell

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/14/2010 5:25 AM | Add Comment

"It's Massive!"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Number of Countries Under Financial Stress... As Shown by iMF Direct... Ah, the Tequila Crisis, Now that was a Crisis!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Clawback Time for B of A! "Bank of America declined to comment on the letter."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2010 8:18 PM | Add Comment

"The findings may weaken arguments by Republicans and some Democrats in Congress who say allowing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to lapse will prompt them to reduce their spending, harming the economy."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2010 8:11 PM | Add Comment

Is Mr. Buffett talking Up his Portfollio?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/13/2010 7:23 PM | Add Comment

Eight Years? Just In Time for the Next Financial Crisis

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 7:20 PM | Add Comment

"Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt said Sunday that it would sell shares worth 9.8 billion euros ($12.5 billion) beginning at the end of this month..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 1:38 PM | Add Comment

The KING of Pay to Play: “Does he have a lot of relationships in this city? Yes, absolutely,” said Mark Isakowitz, “But I think all the good lawmakers do.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

"But reform will come to the Council one day, one way or another."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 1:09 PM | Add Comment

"'There is a deal,' the source said, without elaborating." Just What the World Needs: Another "Deal."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 1:05 PM | Add Comment

"The American Bankers Association said on Friday it opposes requiring financial institutions to build up their reserves when the economy is going strong so that they can better handle eventual downturns."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 1:02 PM | Add Comment

The Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Time for the President to Step Up on His Promise of Change...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 7:51 AM | Add Comment

"While Obama’s out in the country trying to save Congressional Democrats, he should also think about how he’s going to save himself."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 7:16 AM | Add Comment

"As it turns out, however, Mr. Bove’s rankings have proved to be largely correct."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 6:25 AM | Add Comment

Trillions in Bailout Money for Banks... A Billion for the Homeless...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 6:18 AM | Add Comment

A top coalition general: “How do they know we’re losing? I can lay out rhyme and reason about where we’re making progress. We’re building, they’re destroying. I say to them, prove it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/12/2010 6:05 AM | Add Comment

"The Wall Street Journal reported Sept. 7 that European stress tests for banks understated some holdings of sovereign debt in the wake of Greece’s budget crisis."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/11/2010 4:41 PM | Add Comment

"...more than three-quarters of respondents thought that such "quantitative easing" would have no effect or a small one."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/11/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

"But not to worry: It would be quite a dip, but not the dreaded double dip."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/11/2010 11:05 AM | Add Comment

"The brokers should be satisfied they know who is really operating these systems. The sub-custodian chain can bury the identity of high-frequency traders in Eastern Europe and elsewhere who raise serious regulatory concerns."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/11/2010 10:57 AM | Add Comment

LOWER TAXES (W/OUT BEING COUPLED WITH REDUCTIONS IN GOV SPENDING) WILL ONLY INCREASE OUR NATION'S DEBT, INTEREST PAYMENTS ON SAME, AND CONTINUE TO ERRODE THE DOLLAR...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/11/2010 10:40 AM | Add Comment

Freedom Group!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/10/2010 7:34 PM | Add Comment

"International investors are also concerned that U.S. companies are hoarding cash rather than investing for growth, he said."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/10/2010 7:22 PM | Add Comment

Foxconn: "The suicides were a public-relations nightmare and a challenge to offshoring strategies essential to their bottom lines."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/10/2010 6:47 PM | Add Comment

The Loss of Mr. Summers Would be a Positive... But Will Mr. Geithner Follow?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/9/2010 8:56 PM | Add Comment

What Mr. Forsyth Omits is that the Top Tax Rate Under Reagan Was 50%, While Obama is Recommending that W's Tax Cuts Lapse and the Top Tax Rate Rise to 39%, Up from 35%... Yet, Somehow the Economy Roared to Life in the 80's Anyway!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/9/2010 8:50 PM | Add Comment

"It’s still fear versus hope..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/9/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Book Burning in Gainesville!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/9/2010 8:28 PM | Add Comment

“Kandahar City is getting worse day by day.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:43 PM | Add Comment

Afghanistan Democracy in Action! The Kabul Bank is Almost As Badly Managed as Wall Street Banks!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:42 PM | Add Comment

“Why isn’t the government getting tough with the banks?” Judge Sullivan asked.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:33 PM | Add Comment

"Return of capital at some point becomes more important than return on capital."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:23 PM | Add Comment

And Mr. Geithner's Contribution to the Economic Scar Tissue?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:16 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

When the "Fun" Ends in the Middle East, the MIC can always Resume Bombing Central and South America.... Endless War!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:11 PM | Add Comment

Castro: "The state has too big a role in the economic life of the country."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:07 PM | Add Comment

Everyone is Hoarding Cash Anyway, and Not Investing - Due to Moral Hazard in the Stock Market.... Might as Well Let Bush's Fiscal Irresponsibility Lapse & At Least Pay Down Some Debt!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 6:01 PM | Add Comment

Read the BP Report Titled: WE DIDN'T DO IT!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 5:59 PM | Add Comment

"BP investigators were unable to identify any single action or inaction that caused the Deepwater Horizon rig to blow up on April 20, killing 11 workers and rupturing the well a mile below the surface."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/8/2010 5:55 PM | Add Comment

"In any case, the administration acknowledges that its blueprint might not pass before Election Day, or even in the lame-duck Congress afterward."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/7/2010 9:03 PM | Add Comment

Top Secret America... 45 U.S. Spy Agencies & 1,931 Companies in Support...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/7/2010 5:00 PM | Add Comment

"Still, the Fed’s determination of Lehman’s ability to survive was ultimately subjective."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/7/2010 4:53 PM | Add Comment

"Arizona, where Democrats, Republicans and independents each represent about a third of the populace, is known for its political hardball."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/7/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

“It’s time,” Daley, 68, said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/7/2010 4:42 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Big Oil & the Short Play!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

“Greece is insolvent.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 3:11 PM | Add Comment

Your silence gives consent...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 11:14 AM | Add Comment

Recovery on Hold Pending Resolution of the Housing Market..... Time for Mark to Market Accounting?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 7:35 AM | Add Comment

"The Times review, however, found at least a dozen companies that appear to have violated the requirements."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 7:29 AM | Add Comment

Taiwan’s richest billionaire: Foxconn Technology Group Chairman Terry Gou

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/6/2010 7:13 AM | Add Comment

Government Cuts Are Coming...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 8:54 AM | Add Comment

"Even now, correlation is damaging many portfolios as different assets, including some stocks and bonds, increasingly trade like each others."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 8:17 AM | Add Comment

"Uneasy lie the heads of those who rule the hungry and the homeless."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 8:01 AM | Add Comment

However, a manager at the Central Bank and a senior American official confirmed that there would be what the American official called an “intervention.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 7:46 AM | Add Comment

“If they had done subprime this way in the first place, we wouldn’t have these problems.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 7:38 AM | Add Comment

“Su Casa Es Mi Casa”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/5/2010 7:10 AM | Add Comment

One Can Love Our Fighting Men and Women, and Appreciate the Techie Tech of the Defense Industry, but Also Glance at the MIC, and Recognize that It is FUBAR!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/4/2010 9:05 AM | Add Comment

"The aforementioned rise in U6 is reason enough to suspect that we're not about to see a sustained acceleration in wages."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/4/2010 8:22 AM | Add Comment

"Both the leading economists of the day and Joe Six-Pack understood that lowering taxes on capital would spur the investment required for economic growth."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/4/2010 7:51 AM | Add Comment

"The number of workers who are said to be victims is the largest ever in a human trafficking case."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/4/2010 7:35 AM | Add Comment

"In a Senate hearing earlier this year, Army officials said that when they awarded the contract to Paravant for training of the Afghan Army, they had no idea that the business was part of Blackwater."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/4/2010 7:25 AM | Add Comment

HAL: Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:17 PM | Add Comment

ISM for August

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:11 PM | Add Comment

“We can try to prevent double-dip recession, but the idea we are going to have rapid recovery of growth to potential in advanced economies -- U.S., Europe, Japan -- is mission impossible.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

"Those mergers and acquisitions then lead to layoffs, and so Grandma ends up boosting unemployment with her bond-fund purchases."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:02 PM | Add Comment

Watch this Blog Saturday for a new J.M. Hamilton Editorial on Eisenhower's Warning to the American People...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:51 AM | Add Comment

BP is Basically Saying If You Don't Allow Us to Create the Next Disaster, How Can the U.S. Expect Us to Pay Off the Current Disaster?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/3/2010 5:43 AM | Add Comment

“If people lose their trust in the banks, then we will have revolution in our financial system.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 8:58 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Bernanke said that when he made his remarks in 2007 he thought the subprime problems were “manageable.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 8:53 PM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: "This cheapens the sacrifice that American soldiers and their families are dealing with every single day."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 7:08 PM | Add Comment

"But we didn’t leave behind a functioning government." Which Means: Pending Chaos!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 7:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Lyle Gramley said: “But we’re in for a prolonged period of subpar growth of 2 percent or less.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 6:58 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Who Said Hayek was a Laissez Faire Zealot... Even Hayek Acknowledged the Importance of the State in Establishing the Rules of the Road for Business!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Stuffing Babies with Mind Altering Meds: What will Big Pharma, Doctors and Educational Professionals Stoop to Next?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/2/2010 3:34 AM | Add Comment

“The current environment of low interest rates, which has so far kept debt service payments under control in G-7 economies despite surging deficits and debt levels, provides a window of opportunity to set the adjustment process in motion.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/1/2010 9:09 PM | Add Comment

About Those Weapons of Mass Destruction?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/1/2010 6:18 AM | Add Comment

What's an Afghan Bank? A C-130 Transport Hauling Billions of U.S. Taxpayer Money, from Kabul to Dubai

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/1/2010 6:12 AM | Add Comment

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