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Full Faith and Credit, Too…

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 8:50 AM | Add Comment

"The real spur has been the Fed-created liquidity that has vastly exceeded any productive use and has instead fueled asset inflation and speculation. And memories are too short to recall that liquidity-driven speculative frenzies tend to end badly."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 7:42 AM | Add Comment

"Achieving the required economies of scale will be harder for midsize banks than for the global giants. In fact, the report predicts the emergence of a group of 'super-global banks.'"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 7:41 AM

"He noted wryly at a political fund-raiser last weekend that his poll numbers tend to go up and down with pump prices..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 7:25 AM

“Our goal is to end the violence and create an opening for the Syrian people’s legitimate aspirations.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 7:09 AM | Add Comment

"According to Reconstructionism, a Christian theocracy under Old Testament law is the best form of government, and a radically libertarian one."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 7:08 AM

"...Massachusetts is the first state where a Democratic-led chamber has voted to limit bargaining rights."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/30/2011 6:56 AM | Add Comment

"The second-largest U.S. oil company, reported a larger-than-expected 36 percent rise in earnings on Friday..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 7:29 PM | Add Comment

“I can’t imagine that there’ll be a large punishment for banks because the probe seems to be about delivering information and not about demanding too high prices from clients or price fixing.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:50 PM

"The sinking dollar is driving people to the gold market."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:46 PM | Add Comment

“We can’t afford to lose reputation -- even a shred of reputation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:45 PM | Add Comment

“And the Pakistan government fuels the anti-American public opinion to increase pressure on us.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:42 AM | Add Comment

"He (Rep. Allen West) was chosen to give the keynote speech in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and is frequently featured on the Fox News Channel..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:38 AM | Add Comment

"Revenue from Microsoft’s entertainment and devices, which includes the Xbox 360 video game console and the innovative Kinect game controller that interprets gestures and voice commands, gained 60 percent, to $1.94 billion."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:27 AM | Add Comment

"India has tripled its defense budget over the past decade to $32 billion this year, the world’s 10th-largest, as it tries to counter a quadrupling of spending in the same period by neighboring China."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:24 AM | Add Comment

“You have to live underneath a rock not to know that the iPad has taken share from the netbook.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/29/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

"Microsoft stock is now trading at 9.6 times expected earnings for the next 12 months."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 6:33 PM | Add Comment

“Buffett was on an unrealistically high pedestal to begin with,” Alice Schroeder, the author of an authorized biography of Mr. Buffett, said. “A lot of Berkshire’s business advantage came from that mystique.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 6:07 PM | Add Comment

"Each case involves two collateralized debt obligations — bundles of mortgage bonds — called Triaxx that were worth $7.7 billion."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:41 PM | Add Comment

"Exxon Mobil, the largest American oil company, said net income rose 69 percent to $10.7 billion, or $2.14 a share, in the first three months of this year..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:32 PM | Add Comment

"Wells Fargo is unloved, unwanted, save by a few brave souls of which Morgan Stanley figures prominently."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:29 PM | Add Comment

"Printing money can't create prosperity."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:28 PM | Add Comment

"The economy grew at a 1.8 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year, down from a 3.1 percent pace in the fourth quarter..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:26 PM

"The 50 states and the Justice Department seek to set requirements for how banks service loans and conduct home foreclosures."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:20 PM | Add Comment

“The question is, will that same story be told by our children and grandchildren?” the president asked.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:19 AM | Add Comment

"The result is that American military and intelligence operatives are at times virtually indistinguishable from each other as they carry out classified operations in the Middle East and Central Asia."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:17 AM | Add Comment

“Customers from all over the world are waiting.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/28/2011 5:14 AM | Add Comment

"The pace of improvement is still quite slow and we are digging ourselves out of a very, very deep hole," Bernanke said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 8:12 PM

"I think Mr. Sokol has a real problem here," said Duke University Law Professor James Cox. "This is not a close call at all."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 8:12 PM | Add Comment

Baltic Dry Index (Blue) and Crude Oil (Red)....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:53 PM | Add Comment

Consumer Confidence...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:52 PM | Add Comment

"Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has credited QE2's effect on asset prices, but has denied the connection with the bull run in commodities, which is most visible in $4 a gallon gasoline. The boon to investors and speculators has been the bane of consumers."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:47 PM | Add Comment

$20 Million in Tier 1 Capital, Per Firm, Versus A $600 Trillion Swaps Market...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:38 PM | Add Comment

“If it’s from contaminated water leaking from inside the reactor, Tepco’s so-called water tomb may be jeopardized because flooding the containment vessel will result in more radiation in the building.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:34 PM | Add Comment

“Panetta has credibility with the harder-edge military guys, but they have also committed to themselves to the $400 billion in cuts.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:30 PM | Add Comment

"Voting 5-4 along ideological lines..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:28 PM | Add Comment

“They are keeping location data and the statement is a little misleading on that point.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:25 PM | Add Comment

“The fact that two separate networks are involved in this security breach suggests Sony discovered a major underlying problem that already existed.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:22 PM | Add Comment

"...Representative Paul D. Ryan, the architect of the Republican budget proposal, faced a packed town meeting, occasional boos and a skeptical audience..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 6:17 PM | Add Comment

"Forming an exploratory committee allows Paul to raise campaign cash while he tests the political waters."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 5:29 AM | Add Comment

Could you imagine Wall Street Banks Taking Similar Responsibility?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

"Investigators may take months or years to decide to what extent safety problems or weak regulation contributed to the disaster at Daiichi, the worst of its kind since Chernobyl."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/27/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

"The electronics conglomerate is the latest Japanese company to come under fire for not disclosing bad news quickly."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 9:00 PM | Add Comment

Boehner said in an ABC News interview: "We're in a time when the federal government's short on revenues. They ought to be paying their fair share."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 8:53 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Alum to Run ECB...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:39 PM | Add Comment

"Some of the most high-profile Tea Party candidates in 2010 did not fare so well in the general election."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:36 PM | Add Comment

Geithner said: “What’s happening in oil is obviously potentially very significant. At current levels, on its own, it won’t put the recovery at risk.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:29 PM | Add Comment

“People with a higher income can go buy another house,”Cogburn said in a telephone interview. “You’ve got to cut your losses at some point, just like with a stock.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:25 PM | Add Comment

"Pretax pre-provision profits, which exclude taxes, loan-loss provisions and one-time items and are considered a better gauge of profitability than earnings, slid 40.2 percent."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:21 PM | Add Comment

Recent Insider Activity...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:52 AM | Add Comment

"Some security specialists said they believed Apple was not tracking people, but rather collecting data to update its location databases, since Wi-Fi networks can quickly come and go."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:45 AM | Add Comment

“Asia is home to two-thirds of the world’s poor."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/26/2011 6:41 AM | Add Comment

WSJ: Global Inflation...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 5:03 PM | Add Comment

"Without cooling, nuclear reactors are like giant kettles left to boil. Water covering the fuel rods inside begins to turn to steam, exposing the rods that melt and emit radiation upon contact with air."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 4:53 PM | Add Comment

"A senior Libyan government official said Monday that the strike knocked state television off the air for about half an hour."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 4:50 PM

"GE spokesman Rick Kennedy said the engine team was 'deeply disappointed' by the notice and 'will work closely with our congressional supporters during the fiscal 2012 budget process' to restore funding."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 4:50 PM | Add Comment

“The government has decided to choose the path of violence and repression, without willing to compromise.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 4:43 PM | Add Comment

"This is a sharp change from a few years ago, when foreign banks piled into the country and expectations for quick growth in retail banking were high."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 4:39 PM | Add Comment

“Mr. Gupta’s 40-year record of ethical conduct, integrity and commitment to guarding his clients’ confidences is beyond reproach.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 5:33 AM | Add Comment

“Bashar knows what the regime is built on: fear and patronage. And the fear is gone now.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/25/2011 5:26 AM | Add Comment

“They (the Boy Scouts) hid the problem,” Paul Mones, a lawyer for Mr. Lewis, said in closing arguments on Thursday, “and by hiding the problem, more abuse happened.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 6:17 AM | Add Comment

"Term structure is sloping higher, which is normal, but it is particularly steep these days, and that reflects growing fear of the stock market."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 6:10 AM | Add Comment

"The EU should be working on rescheduling debt now and doing what it can to encourage private investors to participate, he adds."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 6:05 AM | Add Comment

"This is war and sides must be taken: Barbie stands for good. All others stand for evil." --- "Well, 'evil' won yesterday, big-time. A jury awarded MGA $88.5 million in damages..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 5:58 AM | Add Comment

"A vocal group of critics, meanwhile, argues that the Fed has already done far too much, amassing a portfolio of more than $2 trillion that may impede the central bank’s ability to raise interest rates to curb inflation."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 5:51 AM | Add Comment

"Ali Abdullah Saleh, said Saturday that he accepted a proposal by Arab mediators that would shift power to his deputy 30 days from the signing of a formal agreement and grant him and his family... immunity from prosecution."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 5:44 AM | Add Comment

"The case took a turn in late 2009, as the Vermont family court, citing Ms. Miller’s noncompliance, shifted primary custody to Ms. Jenkins."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 5:37 AM | Add Comment

“Get the Frack Out of Here”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/24/2011 5:32 AM | Add Comment

"'Oversupplied' with oil is the way he put it..." - the Saudi oil minister, Ali al Naimi.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 10:28 AM | Add Comment

"'President Ronald Reagan acceded very quickly,' says Shapiro. The Republican president signed tax increases into law in 1982, 1983, 1984 and 1985."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 8:58 AM | Add Comment

“No risk,” Geithner said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:31 AM | Add Comment

"Four out of 10 sales of existing homes are foreclosures or otherwise distressed properties."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:28 AM | Add Comment

"In 2007, Mr. Salem sold off separate stakes in the company to a Thai firm and to a partnership headed by Sam Zell, the American real estate tycoon."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:25 AM | Add Comment

“Samsung is responding actively to the legal action taken against us in order to protect our intellectual property and to ensure our continued innovation and growth in the mobile communications business.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:22 AM | Add Comment

"Corporate cloud computing is expected to grow rapidly, by more than 25 percent a year, to $55.5 billion by 2014, IDC estimates."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:17 AM | Add Comment

"Our industrial-control systems are very, very vulnerable to attack and the security we have installed today is insufficient to protect us," Baker said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/23/2011 6:12 AM | Add Comment

APRIL IS CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION MONTH...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/22/2011 5:17 AM | Add Comment

"But with 70 percent of poll respondents saying that the country was heading in the wrong direction..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 6:45 PM | Add Comment

“Thank God for cross-examination.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 6:06 PM | Add Comment

"Mr. Gorman has been weighed down by a number of issues, many of which he inherited."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 6:05 PM

"The chief executive of G.E., Jeffrey R. Immelt, said in a statement that the company had emerged from the recession a stronger company."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 5:57 PM | Add Comment

A REPUTATION IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 5:52 PM | Add Comment

“The dollar is getting hammered again and all the commodities are flying.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 6:04 AM | Add Comment

"It is highly unusual for the federal government to seek to reverse a corporate decision as important as the location of plant."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/21/2011 6:01 AM | Add Comment

"While the obstacles are not yet sufficiently serious to derail the ongoing recovery, only a fool would gloss over them."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:55 PM | Add Comment

CIGARS!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:48 PM | Add Comment

“Our position has been that principal reductions are one tool in the toolbox, and should only be used in appropriate circumstances.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:41 PM

"In a research note published Friday, Goldman Sachs forecast a gold futures price of $1,690 an ounce in 12 months’ time, driven primarily by the assumption that the Federal Reserve’s continued stimulus policy..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:29 PM | Add Comment

"He mocked the defense’s argument that Mr. Rajaratnam only traded on news articles, analyst reports and news releases." “Absurd,” he said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:24 PM | Add Comment

Your Apple Product is STALKING You!!! "A hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G has been found to store location information."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:20 PM | Add Comment

“People don’t trust the regime anymore.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:17 PM | Add Comment

Europe Unleashed... ?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 7:06 PM | Add Comment

A Year Ago Today...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 6:26 AM | Add Comment

BP SPILL: “It’s really disheartening to see this vulnerable population being taken advantage of time and time again.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 6:22 AM | Add Comment

Derivatives Reg: "By singling out AIG, the commission has all but cemented its case for carte blanche in reforming margin requirements for swaps."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/20/2011 6:11 AM | Add Comment

"Gold has climbed 32 percent in the past year, and silver prices have more than doubled."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2011 8:41 PM

"'We recently determined that private-equity investments were not strategically critical to our business going forward,' said Jerry Dubrowski, a Bank of America spokesman..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2011 8:37 PM

"For the quarter, Goldman set aside $5.23 billion in compensation, down 5 percent from the period a year earlier. This represents almost 44 percent of the bank’s net revenue..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2011 8:31 PM

"Mr. Kirby’s lawsuit also names as defendants other members of the Berkshire board, including Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, and Stephen Burke, the chief executive of NBC Universal."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2011 8:17 PM

"NYSE Euronext said in a statement that it is reviewing the Nasdaq-ICE offer."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 4/19/2011 8:17 PM | Add Comment

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