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2010.03.17 13:23:32 The VIX index is going slowly but steadily downwards, and it is now back at pre-Lehman Brothers bankruptcy levels. Quite an interesting sign, since the last time the VIX went down steadily, was in 2003, followed by the boom years fueled by the credit boom. What the VIX is telling us is that the market...... Read more...
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2008.12.14 00:00:00 The Medieval Times had loads of stories about dragons and monsters, how knights fought them and won pride and glamor when returning with the monster's head. Here's an absolutely marvelous piece on how the Investment Bank monster swallowed so much money before exploding, with the Government stepping...... Read more...
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2008.10.10 18:44:25 Markets continue to tumble, and now not only banks are in trouble (well, factually they are not any more with all that money that will be spent on bailing them out), but we see that besides main street being in trouble with the 401(k) accounts losing much of their value, GM and others seem to be very...... Read more...
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2008.09.16 10:45:51 AIG going for a lifeline of 40 billion USD - What the heck is going on? It looks like insurers and bankers made loads of money by selling things they did not understand. They generated huge amounts of cash - paid out extraordinary bonuses - pumping up the value of the participating investment banks....... Read more...
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