Category: No Quarter BlogBy Larry Doyle on Jul 30, 2010 in Economy, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 5 Comments
The equity markets are flat so the 2nd quarter GDP report must have been properly priced into current valuations. Perhaps, but I would neither go that far nor would I be so brazen as to say that the markets are wrong in how they trade. Markets are never wrong. The market is the market. All this said, let’s [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jul 22, 2010 in Bernie Madoff, Economy, SEC, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 8 Comments
“If my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle!!” I love that line. I first heard it on the trading desk at Bear Stearns in the early ’90s. For the last twenty years, I have used the line often to counter those who would bemoan an outcome with the standard, “If only . . .” [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jul 3, 2010 in Economy, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog), Unemployment/Jobs | 9 Comments
The release of the Unemployment Report on Friday is very much consistent with an economy that is undergoing real structural changes and adjusting to the realities of lessened credit and limited growth. As much as some may like to spin it one way or another, those realities are the simple and straightforward ‘sense on cents’ [...]
By Old Grumpy Guy on Jul 2, 2010 in Humor, OldGrumpyGuy | 33 Comments
First, let me wish NQ readers a happy Fourth of July, or whatever it is you wish Americans at this time. Personally, I think Americans may have missed out on a lot of things by breaking away from British rule (like being able to sing “Rule Britannia” at the Last Night of The Proms, but [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jul 1, 2010 in American Consumers, Current Affairs, Economy, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 31 Comments
How would you like to have the answers to a quarterly report before other participants have even thought that the activity is occurring, data is being compiled, analysis is being rendered, and the results are released? That would truly be awesome, wouldn’t it? Can you imagine college students knowing the answers to their final exam [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 30, 2010 in Economy, SEC, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 14 Comments
Thanks very much to a regular reader of Sense on Cents for sharing a fascinating story. The Government Accountability Project just released the following story regarding a significant settlement paid by the SEC to a former SEC attorney Gary Aguirre. This story highlights the Wall Street-Washington incest to the ‘nth’ degree. Will the media pick [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 29, 2010 in Economy, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 57 Comments
What type of legacy are we leaving our kids? Will we leave them so burdened with overwhelming debts and deficits so as to strangle and choke off real opportunities? While Uncle Sam is able to play charades in an ever increasing and dramatic fashion, Sam’s smaller brethren at the state and local levels do not [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 16, 2010 in Current Affairs, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 12 Comments
The distance from the canyons of lower Manhattan to the now soiled beaches of the Gulf Coast runs about 1300 miles. A long way and decidedly different lifestyles, you may think? I do not think so. In very real terms, the economic disasters centered in each of these locales are virtually contiguous. As I watched [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 16, 2010 in Current Affairs, SEC, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 15 Comments
Any employee in any organization knows that an internal disciplinary double standard is the quickest way to kill morale. Happens all the time, right? Likely even worse in organizations with lots of bureaucracy? Uncle Sam would not know how to operate otherwise, you say? The answers to all those questions may be the affirmative, but [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 14, 2010 in Economy, Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines, Freddie Mac, Housing & Housing Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 44 Comments
When the day of reckoning comes, the record will show that those misguided, incompetent and reckless legislators who supported and were supported by the house of cards known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have cost our nation untold hundreds of billions of dollars. In fact, the losses attributed to these organizations may ultimately [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 10, 2010 in Current Affairs, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 215 Comments
Any investigation ultimately comes back to two questions: 1. What did they know? 2. When did they know it? In order to determine the answers to these critical questions, investigators need to have real transparency and integrity in their pursuit of information. To this end, I welcome adding a link to my Watchdog category (right [...]
By Larry Doyle on Jun 3, 2010 in Current Affairs, Economy, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 28 Comments
Do you hear a grinding sound? Listen a little harder. That sound is the brakes being applied to the U.S. economy. The current price action in commodities markets (as highlighted in my commentary yesterday, “Commodities Growling Like a Bear”) is very much reflective of this braking process. How do we measure the slowing? Where can [...]
By Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy on May 29, 2010 in California, Current Affairs, Dept. of Justice (Obama), Illegal Aliens, Illinois, Immigration Reform, Linda Anselmi, President Barack Obama, U.S. Constitution | 218 Comments
That would be President Obama in his recent press conference. Now I understand why this “eloquent” “brilliant” “orator” does not do more of these things. Wow. We thought Bush was bad. But eve Bush never pitted one American citizen against another like this: Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com Obama said claimed that the [...]
By Larry Doyle on May 27, 2010 in Current Affairs, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 22 Comments
The disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is enormous and will have an untold impact on our economy and environment. This tragedy could have been avoided. What a shame. There should be hell to pay by those charged with overseeing the oil industry. Where were the regulators? A statement released just yesterday by the [...]
By Larry Doyle on May 12, 2010 in Current Affairs, Economy, Global Finance, International Monetary Fund, Sense on Cents (Larry Doyle blog) | 21 Comments
Is the American taxpayer ultimately bailing out the European Union? Far fetched? Don’t be so sure. While the focus of the European bailout has been on the European Central Bank, the European Union, and the IMF, little attention is being given to swap lines which were reopened between the Federal Reserve and the European Central [...]
Larry Johnson (Bio)
The Amateur
Pre-order J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults: The Casual Vacancy
The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set
PAPERBACK Version: No Apology: Believe in America
by Ronald Scott
"Romney is quick to credit those around him for the games' success. He's thorough as he details how he revamped the budget, kept costs down and marketed the games to sponsors. His self-deprecating honesty is refreshing and appealing."
Best Sellers in Tablet PCs
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
* More novels by Stieg Larsson: The Girl Who Played with Fire
* The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Don't miss Larry Johnson's review in "Understanding the Economic Collapse."
The Interrogator: An Education by Glenn A. Carle
On Sale!
Extra login help . HTML code
DIRTY WORDS ON CLEAN SKIN:
(Kindle edition
)
Kindle Fire, Full Color 7" Multi-touch Display, Wi-Fi
