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BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Daily Archive - 2/2/2012

"We can’t put $100 trillion of credit in a system-wide mattress, but we can move in that direction by delevering and refusing to extend maturities and duration."

Ummm..... Wasn't Bernanke originally appointed by President Bush?

‘Yes Man’

Bernanke said. “We’re always trying to bring inflation back to the target.”

“We have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back,” Mr. Obama said

“Do not charge your brother interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.” “Foreigners” can be charged interest, however.

Allowing the merger would have eliminated this global competition and would have created a “quasi-monopoly in a number of asset classes, leading to significant harm to derivative users and the European economy as a whole”.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is expected to sell an undisclosed number of shares during the IPO to satisfy taxes

Some limited partners and prospective investors in Siris Capital Group LLC have expressed concern that the New York-based spinout’s ties with Cohen left it vulnerable to “headline risk,” or negative news

Both Dimon and Lee saw Facebook as one of the next "Blue Chips," and JPMorgan stepped in early to build a commercial relationship

“A credit crunch would tip the euro zone back into a severe recession,” Marie Diron

NYSE Chief Executive Duncan Niederauer, in an interview last week in Davos, said the company had another strategy it had been pursuing even as it tried to close on the Deutsche Boerse deal.

William Koch, whose brothers Charles and David are among the country’s most prominent backers of conservative causes, gave $1 million personally or through Oxbow Carbon, the energy company he founded.

Here, Mitt Romney demonstrates his capacity for empathy.

"The downside of doing this is that the value of Facebook may be slightly lower than it would be if he were not retaining control."

"While the housing market was collapsing, the defendants profited, not by correctly predicting the trend, but by cooking the books."

The contributions have already helped the Republican Party’s elite donor class, who increasingly favor Mr. Romney, regain some control over the party’s nominating process

ISM: "Indications are that 2012 business environment will improve over 2011."

“A nuclear-armed Iran is not imminent and it is not inevitable. These dire warnings are irresponsible and they don’t align with the best information of the U.S intelligence community.”

Pete Townshend sold his interest in a song catalogue to Spirit Music, which includes hits "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley"

“But look, the possibility of a tail event continues to hang over us.” Until that changes, “high volatility is the new norm, and one we’ll all need to just live with.”

"It is contagion from one neuron to another."

“The nominee marginalizes the Ron Paul people at his own peril,” said Mr. Smack

“I mean, you’ve got to see those things. They’re like oven mitts.”

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