Stock Capitalist

Without these, the financial -services company’s earnings would have declined. So what are Level 3 gains? Pretty much whatever companies want them to be. Now the little creatures eating up our economic base would dearly love to think that … Stock markets around the world are rallying in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut its lending rate to banks to help avert a credit crisis. “Clearly the Fed stepped up,” said Jeffrey Kleintop, who helps oversee more …

But over the past decade, a pattern has emerged in US financial markets. Every time there has been a crisis , the Fed has opened the spigots and poured liquidity into the stock market to mute the impact on the real economy. … How would Fed rate cuts impact the stock market in the months ahead? What’s the outlook for Asian, European, and Emerging stock markets , foreign currencies and gold ? These questions will be addressed for paid subscribers in the August 24th edition …

But the strength of the dollar’s upward move against the yen–which can be gauged by a comparison with the widely heralded strength of the U.S. stock market –was not due entirely to central bank intervention. …. Despite some tut-tutting from inflation hawks, the Fed had no choice but to throw a lifeline to the financial system on Friday, softening the terms on which it stands ready to lend to banks and signaling that it will cut interest rates if need be. …

How much has the fed pumped into the stock market in the space of a week again? Thing is you can have both asset deflation coupled with monetary inflation. An example of this is in Wiemar Germany a city block in Berlin would have set you back … Rate cut next year, followed by Staginflation. Oil is a factor again, just like in the 70s. Now we have a larger turmoil in the Middle East, Chavez, stronger hurricanes, overpopulation in the US consuming more energy and social …

The market swings will get deeper and more violent as the Fed’s massive credit bubble continues to unwind. Trillions of dollars of market value will vanish overnight. The stock market will go into a long-term swoon. …. We’ve seen over and over again that nothing in this new deregulated market is “as it seems”. It’s all stardust mixed with snake oil . What the Wall Street hucksters call the “new financial architecture of investment” is really nothing more than one …

Not That This Was Unexpected, But… …yer an idiot, Paulson:TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S.

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. oil fell more than $1 to around $71 a barrel on Thursday as further trouble in the U.S. subprime mortgage sector sent world stock markets tumbling and spilled over into oil and other commodities. …… The underlying credit concerns now have the fed funds futures pricing in a 100% chance of rate cut at the next FOMC meeting (Sep. 18) while the ECB has reportedly injected nearly 95 bln euros into money markets to help ease the worst of credit …

The ” Fed ” succeeded; it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world, in the process. The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market -triggering a fantastic …. Purchasing oil with printing press cash and attempting to “sterilize” the result by selling the sheiks ” financial assets” is about 80% of the problem. The sheiks have been losing money on the deal for some time now and want more cash to buy …