BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Monthly Archives for January 2012

Red State Socialism?

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Operating income fell 45% to $260 million.

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Facebook is also expected to pick Morgan Stanley as the lead bank for the offering, putting it in the coveted “lead-left” position of the underwriters listing, these people said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 7:04 PM | Add Comment

Don't Like the Volcker Rule? Become Investment Bank, and drop the Fed Back Stop!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 7:02 PM | Add Comment

Since a peak in mid-2006, home prices tracked by the index have plunged by almost 33 percent.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 7:01 PM | Add Comment

The world’s largest publicly traded oil company reported net income of $9.4 billion for the quarter, up from $9.25 billion the year before.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Russia’s long ties to Syria generate billions of dollars in weapons sales, plus the relationship gives Moscow the entree it needs to the table for Middle East peace talks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

“The bottom line is this: the more voters learn about Romney, the more unfavorably they view him.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:57 PM | Add Comment

In a statement, the committee said Mr. Goodwin’s decisions while chief executive of the bank “meant that the retention of a knighthood for services to banking could not be sustained.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:54 PM | Add Comment

In the past three years, prosecutors have filed tax charges against at least 40 U.S. clients of UBS and Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN), Switzerland’s two biggest banks

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:52 PM | Add Comment

The S&P/Case-Shiller index of property values in 20 cities declined 3.7 percent from November 2010 after falling 3.4 percent in the year ended in October, according to data released today.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:48 PM | Add Comment

The flap over the payout for the chief of RBS comes at the start of what may be a contentious bonus season.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:45 PM | Add Comment

"The ongoing crisis in the euro zone is beginning to have a more marked impact on domestic credit," said Paul Ashworth

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:41 PM | Add Comment

“For the past eight years, I’ve been the caretaker of the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch of the banking industry,” said Dennis Santiago

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:39 PM | Add Comment

“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress,” Mr. Obama said. “I will sign it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:51 AM | Add Comment

"The long series of debates are an open window onto the failed policies and dubious values of the Republican Party. No wonder some people want to close it."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:49 AM | Add Comment

Merkel told reporters. “You have to find a way through more action by the Greek government, more contributions by private creditors, for example, in order to close this gap.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:47 AM | Add Comment

"Returns from private equity depend on the timing, the price and the manager, according to the firm. But the time to earn outsized returns from large-capitalization PE funds may have passed..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:44 AM | Add Comment

For Soldier Disfigured in War, a Way to Return to the World

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:41 AM | Add Comment

He said it made sense for Hamas to lower its profile at a time when its Islamist allies want to be seen in a better light in the West.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:38 AM | Add Comment

In a statement, Asset Acceptance said that the settlement ended an F.T.C. investigation that began nearly six years ago, and that the company did not admit to any of the allegations

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:36 AM | Add Comment

On Tuesday, a coalition of big American labor unions, Democratic politicians and trade advocacy groups plans to start campaigning for the Obama administration to file a series of trade cases against China in the auto industry.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:33 AM | Add Comment

The Democrats also suggested that Arizona-based A.T.F. officials developed the tactic out of frustration because prosecutors refused to charge gun cases, even when they had a level of evidence that would have satisfied prosecutors in other jurisdictions.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:31 AM | Add Comment

Businesses are looking for another option besides the BlackBerry.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/31/2012 6:28 AM | Add Comment

But hundreds of millions of customer dollars are potentially snarled in litigation with other parts of MF Global, including its U.K. arm

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 7:16 PM | Add Comment

The Justice Department has not seen fit to file any charges arising from the S.E.C. cases filed to date, and closed its criminal investigation of Countrywide

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 7:08 PM | Add Comment

"It's not that I'm a good debater," he said, "it's that I articulate the deepest-felt values of the American people."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 7:06 PM | Add Comment

The commissioners have also called for new procedures and policies to clarify who the new watchdog would report to and what kind oversight the commission would have.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Gretchen Morgenson...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:57 PM | Add Comment

CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler (Goldman Sachs alum) said this month that his agency won’t complete guidelines on the reach of Dodd-Frank until after April

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Freddie Mac, the taxpayer-owned mortgage giant, has placed multibillion-dollar bets that pay off if homeowners stay trapped in expensive mortgages with interest rates well above current rates.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:51 PM | Add Comment

“English criminal law limits what we can say about this incident.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:42 PM | Add Comment

Owen Blicksilver, a representative of TPG, declined to comment.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:37 PM | Add Comment

GOLDMAN SACHS: Yet because revenue fell even more, compensation as a percentage of revenue rose to 42.4 percent from 39.3 percent the previous year.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:31 PM | Add Comment

Like Mr. Montag, Mr. Meissner is a veteran of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. He also worked for Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Analysts have said that a tie-up between Olympus and Fujifilm, which holds about 15 percent of the global diagnostic endoscope market, could be hindered by Japan's antimonopoly rules.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:22 PM | Add Comment

"Recently I’ve seen a phenomenon that I don’t remember seeing before, and that’s angry jurors."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:18 PM | Add Comment

“Many people now say that it will never work to push all the Southern European countries into austerity, hoping that, one day, they will pay back what they owe.”’

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:12 PM | Add Comment

Ms. Lagarde said: “No one is immune. It’s not just a euro zone crisis. It’s a crisis that could have collateral effects, spillover effects around the world.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Violin Concerto in F Minor, RV 297: I. Allegro non molto

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:51 AM | Add Comment

And we’re quite fortunate that Mr. Obama did not, in fact, do a Cameron.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:48 AM | Add Comment

The anticipated agreement on private sector involvement, or PSI, will open the way to a 130 billion- euro second bailout from Greece’s European partners and the International Monetary Fund for the country

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:45 AM | Add Comment

Bubble 2.0?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:42 AM | Add Comment

“The likelihood of actually getting paid out from owning a credit-default swap would be troubling to me if this were my hedge against a systemic shock — especially in a political environment unfriendly to more Wall Street bailouts.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:40 AM | Add Comment

Anticipating this, the State Department began developing its own drone operations.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Occupy protests focused on Oakland after a former Marine and Iraq war veteran, Scott Olsen, was critically injured during a demonstration in October.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:35 AM | Add Comment

We know that it is politically easier to continue programs that outlive their usefulness or outrun their cost estimates — especially when Republican politicians are so eager to promise the Pentagon a blank check.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:32 AM | Add Comment

“One had those ethics violations,” he said of Mr. Gingrich, referring to his time as House speaker. “As for the other one,” he said of Mr. Romney, “he is just a liar.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:30 AM | Add Comment

“I am in fact the legitimate heir to the Reagan movement, not some liberal from Massachusetts,” Mr. Gingrich declared heatedly.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:27 AM | Add Comment

“But in all honesty, this was probably the right time for me, in terms of my age and just the opportunity that existed, but there are personal and family reasons that made that impossible.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:25 AM | Add Comment

The chamber is all but powerless, and many anticipate that it will be eliminated when a new constitution is written.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/30/2012 6:20 AM | Add Comment

A Love Supreme: Part IV - Psalm

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:25 AM | Add Comment

"Putting children on drugs does nothing to change the conditions that derail their development in the first place."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:21 AM | Add Comment

"Romney was tutored in Florida by Brett O’Donnell, a new debate coach. Too bad he can’t find a conviction coach."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:19 AM | Add Comment

we find this to be the case – global factors, including US interest rates, and global risk aversion (as captured by the volatility of the S&P500 index) – are key determinants of whether capital surges towards emerging markets

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Tightening debt-to-income and loan-to-value ratios (conditional on the debts’ currency denomination) would also contribute to contain domestic credit directly, and might be more effective than traditional monetary tightening – ie increasing domestic inter

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:11 AM | Add Comment

Romney has moved ahead of Gingrich in several Florida polls

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Tuesday 31: Florida Republicans select their nominee for the presidency; Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney running virtually neck-and-neck.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:05 AM | Add Comment

65%: fear tax increases

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 9:03 AM | Add Comment

Critics say a territorial tax would create an even bigger incentive to locate factories overseas.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 8:58 AM | Add Comment

Private investors hold about 60 percent of Greece’s 350 billion euros of debt.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 8:55 AM | Add Comment

The NBC News legal department wrote a letter to Romney’s campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their political ads.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 8:53 AM | Add Comment

“Have courage!” he told the crowd here of about 150 people who were at the golf course.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 8:51 AM | Add Comment

NET VERSUS BRICK & MORTAR

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As Mr. Adelson was experiencing his awakening on Israel, Mr. Gingrich was ascending the Republican ranks.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/29/2012 8:47 AM | Add Comment

"He reckons inflation-adjusted home prices will have to drop another 10% to 15% before they stabilize."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:11 AM | Add Comment

By extending its zero-rate target for fed funds through 2014, the Fed aims to alter expectations to induce more buying of longer-term securities.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:09 AM | Add Comment

“Gingrich is Goldwater.” He continued, “In the general election, Gingrich not only takes down his ship, he takes down the whole flotilla.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:07 AM | Add Comment

“We’re going to push hard for the Buffett rule,” Obama told Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:06 AM | Add Comment

Simpson also said the Republican presidential candidates are “almost like robots” in their aversion to any taxes as a way to help shrink the government’s $1.3 trillion deficit.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:04 AM | Add Comment

Think of it as the digital equivalent of a newspaper responding to old-fashioned government censorship with a blank front page.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:02 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Romney’s personal finances are particularly entwined with Goldman.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 7:00 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Gingrich’s outspokenness was on full display here, linking Mr. Romney to a Washington-Wall Street axis of money and power — he dropped the name “Goldman Sachs” several times

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 6:58 AM | Add Comment

“If a man’s dishonest to get a job, he’ll be dishonest on the job,” Mr. Huckabee says.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Each day, thousands of passengers are stuck on planes at the airports — Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Liberty International

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 6:53 AM | Add Comment

The ace up the sleeve of Officer Garland, an avid Apple consumer

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/28/2012 6:50 AM | Add Comment

Eminence Front.... Circa 1982.... The WHO

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 7:18 PM | Add Comment

Default swaps insuring $10 million of Greek debt for five years cost $6.3 million in advance and $100,000 annually, according to CMA. That implies an 82 percent chance the government will default

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 7:00 PM | Add Comment

Wikipedia co-founder talks victory in SOPA Showdown

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:59 PM | Add Comment

"And then, GOP, watch out! Sure, it appears Paul is unlikely to mount a third-party campaign — he’s said so himself."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:57 PM | Add Comment

The move comes at a time when the American company, which already counts more users abroad than in the United States, is growing internationally at a rapid clip.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:54 PM | Add Comment

Russia’s deputy foreign minister: “We cannot support any U.N. resolution calling for the support of Assad’s resignation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:51 PM | Add Comment

“We have decided in a common agreement with President Karzai to ask NATO to consider a total handing of NATO combat missions to the Afghan Army over the course of 2013,” Mr. Sarkozy said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:49 PM | Add Comment

Wolfgang Schäuble. “I don’t agree with George Soros—not surprisingly.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:47 PM | Add Comment

“We have to see banks trust each other,” Mr. Draghi said. “That’s when we will say, ‘O.K., the market is functioning.’”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:45 PM | Add Comment

"It’s also quite conclusive in finding that private equity creates value in companies and delivers superior returns to its investors."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:44 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Volcker so far has declined to comment at length on the criticism of the rule. He plans to issue a comment letter to regulators in the near future, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:39 PM | Add Comment

French Retreat: "They shoveled $41.3 billion into Treasuries, increasing their U.S. government claims by 39 percent."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:33 PM | Add Comment

Jeffrey Winters, an American political scientist, has devised another way to appreciate the difference between the merely rich and the super-rich.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:31 PM | Add Comment

The fact that people were less likely to lie via video than in person was surprising, Xu said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:28 PM | Add Comment

In total, the U.S. tort system cost $264.6 billion, which translates to $857 per person, versus $820 per person in 2009.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:27 PM | Add Comment

Both sides claimed victory over the ruling, which Transocean spokesman Lou Colasuonno said “discredits BP’s ongoing attempts to evade both its contractual and financial obligations”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:26 PM | Add Comment

Geithner said at the annual meeting. “That’s going to require a bigger commitment of resources.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Rock and Roll & Pat Travers - As heard in the movie - Sideways

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:37 AM | Add Comment

"No Going to the Darkside..." - From the Movie Sideways

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:32 AM | Add Comment

The price swings of 2011, led by worries about Europe's debt troubles and fears China would slam the brakes on its economy, have cast doubts about whether the decadelong commodities rally can continue.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:28 AM | Add Comment

"And this vision helps explain why Republicans were so furiously opposed to the single most successful policy initiative of recent years: the auto industry bailout."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:25 AM | Add Comment

“We were always supportive of regulatory changes, but cautioned against too far and too fast,” Ackermann said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Two forged diplomatic pouches containing a total of 35 pounds (16 kilos) of cocaine were delivered last week to the UN headquarters

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:20 AM | Add Comment

To flourish, Japan needs to ease regulations, tap its female workforce and liberalize immigration. Lawmakers are doing none of the above.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 1/27/2012 5:17 AM | Add Comment

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