When correlation strikes

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Here is a great warning of the flaw in venture models that rely on historical correlations. Using accumulation from Credit Suisse on leveraged loans and distressed leveraged loans, we compute the reciprocity of the give markets to the S&P500 since 1997.





Correlation of this assets of the credit markets to the justness markets has generally been unstable, registering both constructive and perverse measures over the time decade. But in a actual business crisis we undergo that correlations rise, as evidenced by the give markets. The fruit in 2008 was significant, achievement reciprocity of 0.8 between markets that traditionally hit been loosely correlated or modify anti-correlated.

Now consider top and venture models (such as the Basle Accord) that are supported on the knowledge to "diversify" crossways exposures. Supported by academicians, regulators, rating agencies, and practicing venture managers alike, these models are intellectually foppish and hit proved profitable by conveniently reaction "expected" losses. This spawned what amounts to a cottage business of these participants, every with vested welfare of maintaining reciprocity supported top models.

For warning pools of residential mortgages spread geographically crossways the US were believed to be diversified. Property values would thence not be due to drop simultaneously crossways the country. The beauty of this approach is that it makes the pools "safer", modify if individual loans are risky, cloudy due loss of such pools and allowing a momentous grownup components of such portfolios to be rated AAA. As we today know, these misguided reciprocity assumptions hit created a country line to under-capitalization, which is where the business grouping institute itself in the midst of 2008.



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Money Supply and Demand, and the Monetization of Debt

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The growth of the broad brief constituent money cater relic brawny for a slack economy, although not quite as burly as when there was a flight to quality out of equities and Ben did his moonshot with the Fed's equilibrise sheet. Demand for money? What demand? This is something newborn in the place World War II era.Relative to the growth of bank credit, the growth of broad brief constituent money as measured in be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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SP 500 Volumes and Cash Flows Fading

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They got the Dollar General IPO discover the entranceway and a few more deals were done so its "Mission Accomplished" for Wall Street. The SP 500 looks to be completing a assistance soured to the retail gathering of overpriced paper in this cycle of the price pump. Time to dump the bids and permit it drop, with maybe one more push higher at most to draw in a little more money from the arable economy, or at small what is be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Sachs: Obama Has Lost His Way On Jobs

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Obama has not lost his way. His team led by Summers and Geithner are making the same mistakes that they did in the manufacture of the prototypal tech eruct in salutation to the Asican nowness crisis and the Slavonic debt default. The Obama Administration is bringing its employers and contributors on Wall Street.The banks staleness be restrained, the financial grouping reformed, and balance restored to the be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Asset managers get reprieve from FAS167

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As we discussed earlier, FAS 167 would embellish a nightmare for asset managers. Instead of providing more transparency, the FAS167 reporting would actually end up with less.

E&Y: As written, Statement 167 haw termination in asset managers consolidating many inclose funds, clannish equity assets and other investment assets that they manage. Some financial evidence preparers and users hit indicated that compounding of assets by asset managers module termination in less meaning financial statements

FASB fresh decided to defer hitting asset managers with 167 until these compounding issues are addressed.

E&Y: At the 11 Nov meeting, the FASB voted to expose for interpret an amendment that would defer the covering of Statement 167 for a restricted sort of entities (principally mutual funds, clannish equity assets and inclose funds) until the completion of the joint FASB/IASB project on compounding accounting.

It's good to undergo that when it comes to the post-crisis conception (including accounting/transparency regulation)at small some folks are existence rational about it.


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Today I'm talking to histrion Voelker , a licensed business individual and the "401k coach"...you crapper leave a comment on the website or center after if you miss the live broadcast... be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Implied Real Rate tells a story of loose monetary policy and asset bubbles

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There are numerous structure to manoeuvre how cushy the monetary contract is at any portion time. Quantitative decrease aside, one can countenance at the long rates as the simplest manoeuvre of input levels. The FRS Funds evaluate fluctuating between 12 and 25 basis points feels sort of accommodative.

Of course a meliorate manoeuvre is the actual rate, which is the nominal long evaluate inferior inflation. The modify the actual evaluate the more input is being provided. Unfortunately inflation in the modify of CPI releases is a backwards hunting indicator. Any monetary contract is meant to ordered the initiate for the next few years and should be more reliant on nervy hunting indicators of inflation. One much indicator is the inflation evaluate tacit from TIPS. There are understandably issues with both TIPS and the CPI manoeuvre itself, but the tacit inflation manoeuvre gives a decent nervy hunting indicator tacit by the markets.

Many economists view low actual rates that subsist today as constraining because of tighter assign in the underway environment. However the mart tacit inflation evaluate already takes into statement the underway and the due assign conditions. Therefore the Implied Real Rate is in fact a more holistic indicator of how loose the monetary contract rattling is as viewed by the markets.

Let's define the Implied Real Rate as follows:

Implied Real Rate = (Fed Funds Effective rate) - (inflation evaluate tacit by the 10-year TIPS).

The Implied Real Rate is today at most -2%, the minimal verify since TIPS have been prototypal issued. That sure feels quite accommodative, but let's compare the situation to the terminal cycle. In particular, let's countenance at how adaptative contract compact asset levels - here we use S&P500. The terminal big drop in the Implied Real Rate was back in the 2002 - 2004 period, which launched the famous liquidity unvoluntary asset bubble.





Here is what the manoeuvre looks same correct now.





Given the similarities, is the adaptative monetary contract that is currently in locate environment us up for another crisis? Is the FRS behind the curve? Many debate that there module be instance to verify the liquidity out. By then still it haw be too late:

From HSBC:
The important thing most much liquidity-driven asset bubbles is their long-cycles, underlining the eventual powerfulness of loose monetary policy. Also, successive monetary tightening over the course of the bubble has ostensibly little impact: once the business gun goes into full throttle, it takes aggressive tightening to pop the bubble and, more often than not, policy-makers are reluctant to step up for fear of bringing down the house.

To elaborate that effect, in 2004 the monetary contract did in fact begin to gradually intend tighter, as the Implied Real Rate began to rise. But as HSBC points discover above, this sloping tightening is (and in fact was) ineffective, and asset prices continued to uprise unabated.




Mr. Bernanke, maybe it's instance for action.


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Speaking of Garish Bling, the US Long Bond Is On Sale Today

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Some US institutions are existence compelled by new polity regulations to acquire daylong bonds to 'match duration' of their obligations per a ruling of a some eld ago.Other than that, anyone buying the 30 assemblage bond, other than for the FRS carry trade, in an time of quantitative decrease should be institutionalized. The FRS carry change is when the direct dealers acquire Timmy's stick with Ben's money, and be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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NAVs of Certain Precious Metal ETFs and Funds

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Secondary offering in the equity of the money is pending, although this tends to be a wash less dealings fees because the proceeds are utilised to modify the humble of metals held. The premiums modify and contract in the assets depending on view on the forthcoming course of metallic and silver bullion prices. The premiums on the ETFs are relatively stable, representing 1/10 cat of the metal with a be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Fraud on the Street in the Purchase of 3COM

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The humbug is decent more blatant on all fronts.Mary Shapiro and the SEC should directly subpoena the records of options purchases in 3COM and Hewlett-Packard for this week, and countenance for unco super purchases. But chances are that they module do nothing, because there is a fleecy partnership between the polity and Wall Street.Make no mistake. Front streaming is not a victimless crime, be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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SP Futures Daily Chart

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An manifest reflationary effort that, without serious business reform and scheme rebalancing, module dissolute into added form of the business crisis and the ongoing banking humbug in a debased partnership with government."There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations such is given. Of other generations such is expected.This generation of Americans has a appointment with be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Hewlett-Packard to Buy 3COM for $2.7 Billion - Substantial Premium

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Breaking news, a "Hail Mary" acquisition.Carol is frothing in ecstasy on Bloomberg. It module be interesting to see how much of that is change versus stock. Wait for it. be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Guest Post: Ralph Cioffi's Acquittal for Fraud - Janet Tavakoli

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By Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured FinanceRalph Cioffi and Gospels Tannin, former hedge money managers and co-heads of Bear Stearns Asset Management, were acquitted yesterday (November 10) of all sextet counts in their humbug trial U.S. v. Cioffi, 08-CR-00415, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn)."I worked at Bear Stearns in the New 1980s and remembered amiable be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Corporate lending ready to take off - just need the borrowers

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Banks are ready to process disposition to corporations and module endeavor to act their disposition significantly in 2010. Here are the reasons:

1. Since the first of the year, bank advertizement and industrialized give danger has dropped by 14%, patch real realty give danger has attenuated by exclusive 2%. To the extent they can, banks module rotate out of real realty loans and into joint loans.

2. At this stage, real realty linked loans constitute some 32% of the equilibrise sheet, patch joint loans are under 12%.

3. As the interpret beneath shows, advertizement and industrialized loans as proportionality of the amount assets hit dropped quickly. Bankers hit demonstrated to their credit departments that joint give danger crapper in fact be reduced when requirement be (large joint loans crapper change evenhandedly actively).





4. The following interpret from the Fed shows the modify to tightening of disposition standards to companies.





5. As top markets stabilize, the bid-ask spreads embellish tighter, reaction profitability of market making activities. 2010 budgets module requirement to agitate more into lending.

What is less destined is how much obligation module exist for joint loans. So farther the obligation for joint loans has been weak.





The stronger companies hit been healthy to tap the bond markets, avoiding some of the give covenants. Other firms either hit change or only hit no major expansion plans. Given the level of unemployment, corporations move to be cagy on expansion plans or top projects. To the extent doable (with 08 fresh on their minds) firms module refrain crescendo their leverage. The digit key area where banks module be healthy to help is in listing financing as corporations try to build depleted inventories (see interpret below).





It's not at every country still how soon the listing rebuilding module begin. Corporate disposition module be ready for business, but module there be takers?


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We Honor Our Vets...By Sending Them to Community College

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In honor of Veterans' Day, feature Wick Sloane's superior article in Inside Higher Ed. This interpret comes from the column.

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Highly Selective
Veterans Day Survey

Institution Current Undergraduate Veteran Enrollment
altruist 0 town 0 reverend 0 Harvard 4 Dartmouth 16 businessman 30 Bunker Hill
Community College 285

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Kind of embarrassing for my alma mater, which campus is dominated by a big, imposing, stone rotunda with the obloquy of what must be a few hundred fallen heroes from the Revolutionary War on down, not to mention a monument of Nathan Hale outside America uranologist ("I feel that I have but digit life to give...")

Two unappealing options. Do our warriors no individual equal the prizewinning of what this commonwealth has to offer? Or is it our elite universities that have slipped from the pedestal?
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SP Futures Daily Chart

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An manifest reflationary try that, without serious business reform and scheme rebalancing, will degenerate into another phase of the business crisis and the ongoing banking humbug in a corrupt partnership with government."There is a occult wheel in human events. To some generations such is given. Of another generations such is expected. This procreation of Americans has a appointment with be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Hedge fund liquidity may prove fleeting

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This chart from Hedgebay shows the flooded story of secondary hedge fund transactions (that Hedgebay has in their database). The discount, which seems to be permanent for now indicates the liquidity premium one would obligation to go into a fund that is presumably locked (via a lock-up, a gate, or a general redemption suspension).




Some of the discount haw be appraisal uncertainties, but with every the scrutiny on hedge assets these days, most appraisal uncertainties would hit been vetted with third parties. If they haven't been, no one would acquire much fund even at a 10-15% discount.

Such liquidity premium means that assets who wage the best liquidity cost (within their strategy category) module be able to improve more top than those who hit long lock-ups and sidepockets.

It's somewhat of a chanceful game because this haw create an asset-liability mismatch. That is assets module offer delusive liquidity cost meet to intend the top in the door. As assets embellish fully priced and rates move to stay low, hedge assets module be pressured to essay discover inferior liquefied strategies to squeeze discover incremental returns. They haw deploy leverage, making inferior liquefied investments even more illiquid. The liquidity of the portfolio module embellish "mismatched" with the liquidity cost for redemptions (the badness side).

And when redemptions increase, assets module place up gates and we are backwards where we started. As much as institutions, particularly assets of assets essay the liquidity holy grail, these investments are not mutual funds, and the most "investor-friendly" liquidity cost haw not wage the investor protection these institutions expect.



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IASB proposal for amortized cost and impairment

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Currently if you are a bank, a give you originated module be held at par on the books and fall interest. The give makes you digit day's worth of welfare inferior the resource outlay - every day. No volatility. That is until digit morning you achievement in and encounter discover that the voucher you've been accruing never came. Now you not exclusive impact to reverse discover the amount accrued on that terminal coupon, but also impact to verify a supplying against capital loss. This supplying reverses the life-to-date welfare income on the give and then some. This "oops" move to give business is titled the "incurred expiration decay method", and is accepted low current business rules. As a slope you could be retentive a clump of choice arms, and as long as they attain the minimum payments you would keep them at par (in fact you would keep them above par to account for the "negative amortization"). That's how many small banks that were fine a couple of eld ago, every of a sudden became undercapitalized/insolvent.

To address this issue, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has planned an alternative (see attached document). It's a portfolio move that requires the pledgee to continuously send amount due losses. The due losses are then amortized over the chronicle of the portfolio and netted against welfare income. For warning if you send a 20% amount capital expiration on the portfolio over the incoming 5 years, you would be deducting 4% of the initial portfolio face value from the welfare income going forward. It's a unceasing dollar amount taken discover of welfare income every year. That means if loans choice at whatever unceasing rate, welfare income module modify off, patch the supplying module meet constant, creating a existence of gain welfare loss.

Here is a comparability of the current method with the "expected expiration model":



IASB: Interest income that is constituted module reflect the allocation of due assign losses over the chronicle of the instrument. This is a meliorate reflection of the economic welfare that the pledgee expects to acquire from an asset over its chronicle than todays approach. Hence, it avoids inappropriate front-loading of welfare revenue.

This move becomes more problematic when the expectations for assign losses suddenly change. That haw stingy that the reserve has been "under-accrued", and IASB would feature that you impact to verify that disagreement into P&L immediately. And this concept makes it the trickiest assets of the proposal.

IASB: Using the planned decay method, assign expiration expectations are updated apiece period. Any changes to initial expectations of assign losses module be constituted directly in P&L. This modify could be an increase in due losses, or a change (reversal) of time due losses (including the initial due expiration estimate).

If digit uses CDS spreads for warning to imply assign expiration expectations, this method amounts to a form of evaluation to market. It effectively means that rather than retentive "banking book" loans at par (current methodology), banks would be required to verify a evaluation to mart impact amortized over the due chronicle of the portfolio. And that could be intense programme for banks that are thinly capitalized - these reserve requirements haw attain them insolvent.

Expect a large industry (and political) backlash against this business epistemology going into effect. In addition, if IASB adopts this proposal, it haw impact the connection of the US aggregation and the IAS standards, which has been the ultimate industry goal in recent years.





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Willem Buiter Does Not LIke Gold, and Why

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Dr. Willem Buiter of the author School of Economics, and authority to the Bank of England, has cursive a somewhat staggering broadsheet attacking of all things, gold.I have enjoyed his composition in the past. And although he does tend to prepare and flavour the quality of anomaly maverick, it is generally appealing, and his composition has been pertinent and reasoned, if unconventional. That is what be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Dr.Mishkin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble

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Former FRS controller Fred Mishkin distinguishes between bad bubbles, that hurt banks, and good bubbles same the school bubble, that just hurt investors and distort the economy.Is the FRS creating a eruct in equities now? Probably. Do they care, are they concerned? No, not according to ex FRS controller Fred Mishkin.We find that there is an odd framing of the question, which seems kinda binary. be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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How I Learned to Stop Worring and Love the Bubble

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Former Fed controller Fred Mishkin distinguishes between bad bubbles, that perceive banks, and good bubbles like the tech bubble, that just perceive investors.Is the Fed trying to create a eruct in equities now? Probably. Do they care, are they concerned? No, not according to Fred.Here is why.Financial Times Not every bubbles present a risk to the economyBy Frederic MishkinNovember 9 2009 20:08There is be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Peak Oil: WhistleBlower at IEA Claims Oil Production Statistics Are Manipulated

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Here's digit for the peak lubricator crowd, and those who suspect that the US and others have been manipulating certain market aggregation for their own purposes.Skeptical as ever for now, but let's see what happens with this story.Guardian UKKey lubricator figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblowerTerry Macalister9 Nov 2009 21.30 GMTExclusive: Watchdog's estimates of reserves increased says be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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SP Futures Daily Chart and the Triumph of the Swill

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It looks like the bulls poverty to take this tweet up to the 1105 trendline, with sextet Samson days low their belt since the attach on the modify trend distinction terminal week.This rally is existence accomplished on thin volumes, thick liquidity, and weak regulations dominated by trading programs, with obviously fictitious and highly overstated fundamental underpinnings.As Lloyd Blankfein would remember it, the be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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SP Futures Daily Chart

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It looks same the bulls want to verify this tweet up to the 1105 trendline, with six bull life low their track since the tag on the modify way line last week.This rally is being accomplished on anorectic volumes, thick liquidity, and weak regulations dominated by trading programs, with obviously fictitious fundamental underpinnings.As Lloyd Blankfein strength characterize it, the Wall Street banks are be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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Lend more, but don't increase your leverage

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How some times hit you heard that banks hit condemned on artefact likewise such leverage. And that ended up feat the underway crisis. Right? But no more. The US Congress is disagreeable to place this into action. Under the "too bounteous to fail" proposals, the largest banks should be embattled for higher top requirements (thus modify leverage). The small banks are already significantly undercapitalized because of their actual estate danger and are disagreeable to meliorate their top stagnant before the FDIC shuts them down. They requirement to de-lever more by rebuilding their top base.

So that's what banks hit effectively finished - they've deleveraged. The interpret below shows the ratio of amount loans and leases (commercial, industrial, actual estate, consumer) to aggregation justness for every the US leased banks.



source: FRB


Banks hit low that ratio since 08, ownership it evenhandedly unceasing in the terminal 6 months. The overall slope investment is today down, though maybe not as such as the regulators would aforementioned to see. Much of it was finished finished justness raises, preserved earnings, loan sales, and reductions in lending. Looks aforementioned we are agitated in the correct direction, right?

But wait! Mr. Geithner today says banks hit to add more! Bloomberg: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is ringing billionaire investor Warren Buffett in informing banks to take a chance again on the dweller economy.


So far, his appeal is dropping flat.

Banks are not listening because... maybe... they were told for the terminal 2 years to reduce leverage.

And Mr. Stiglitz, river University economist adds that if the banks were condemned over by the government, we could simply force them to process their investment by informing them to add more. Bloomberg: If we had finished the correct thing, we would be healthy to hit more influence over the banks, Stiglitz told reporters at an scheme word in Shanghai Oct 31. They would be disposition and the frugalness would be stronger.

Lend more, but be embattled for higher top requirements. Take more risk, but don't process your leverage. Extend more credit, but no "excessive lending". Which is it?

As the assign chronic US frugalness goes finished it's withdrawal symptoms, is the answer really more credit? Certainly the US polity thinks so and has shown large commitment to assign expansion. But today it wants banks to do the same.



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US Dollar Very Long Term Chart

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Here is an update of the US Dollar (DX) Very Long Term interpret last shown on 3 April 2009 when the Eurodollar Squeeze was still abating. We do not see some think to modify the individual constituent targets supported on what appears to be a confirmation of the continuing decline.The reasons for this fall are obvious, but so many woman this that we hit to wonder what people are thinking. Despite the credit be Sure you bookmark this page. Thanks...
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A sociopath at the gate - Westgate that is

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When one thinks of the articulate sociopath, a dolphin of some variety mostly comes to mind. Its someone who is completely devoid of emotion or empathy for others. Someone completely focused on his/her possess needs with dead no affectionateness for those around them. The definition in Wikipedia states that psychoneurotic is often utilised as an alternative articulate for a psychoneurotic to refrain fault with the articulate psychosis (which is unrelated). The description is divided into two factors: aggressive narcissism and socially reprobate lifestyle:

Factor1: Personality "Aggressive narcissism"

Glibness/superficial charm
Grandiose significance of self-worth
Pathological lying
Conning/manipulative
Lack of remorse or guilt
Shallow affect
Callous/lack of empathy
Failure to accept responsibility for possess actions

Factor2: Case news "Socially reprobate lifestyle"

Need for stimulation/proneness to boredom
Parasitic lifestyle
Poor behavioral control
Promiscuous sexed behavior
Lack of realistic, long-term goals
Impulsivity
Irresponsibility
Juvenile delinquency
Early activity problems
Revocation of conditional release

Why are we discussing this in a financial blog you may ask? Well, it is estimated that about 1% of the population has this disorder. And the Atlantic of direction is particularly attractive for grouping with these primary talents. Bernie Madoff is one of them, Marc Dreier is another. There are numerous others, and not every have much a broad profile. One of them lived in a peaceful suburban accord in Saddle River, NJ. His name was Jim Nicholson. Jim, in his early 40s, a ascendant of 3 teen boys, was mated to Donna - his broad edifice sweetheart. Jim coached the local lowercase league team and was the pillar of his community. He also managed money in a inclose money he created called Westgate Capital. He didnt same to take in institutional money instead he managed assets for his friends, his neighbors, and his family. His returns were sway solid and new assets meet kept reaching in (particularly from grouping closest to him).





These returns would be the envy of most money managers - stabilize and consistent. But it was every a fraud. Its not clear when it became fraud, maybe 2003, maybe earlier. Investors figured this man is not going anywhere, he's got 3 kids and is blithely married. But after the Madoff news hit, many proven to redeem their money and Jim's ponzi scheme began to unravel. The check he sent to redeeming clients bounced. And the thing with the "perfect family" turned discover to be, well, not so perfect after all. From LoHud.com:

James M. Nicholson, accused of streaming a fraudulent inclose fund, cheated on his spouse with added blackamoor for more than a year as he continued to bilk investors discover of tens of jillions of dollars, according to his wife's split papers. Donna A. Nicholson's split papers, a double of which was obtained yesterday, provided details into her husband's extramarital affair and the effects of the malefactor case on her and their three children.
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He's accused of stealing an estimated $163 meg from his clients since 2004 finished his inclose money business, Westgate Capital Management LLC in Pearl River and Manhattan.Donna Hostomsky and James Nicholson grew up in Haverstraw and were broad edifice sweethearts. They mated on Sept. 26, 1992, and lived in Stony Point before agitated to Saddle River, N.J.
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Donna Nicholson's split writing accuse her economise of fornication with Toronto assets dealer Linda Boville, play on Feb. 1, 2008. Donna Nicholson's writing land that her economise admitted having sexed relations with Boville in New royalty City, New Jersey, Florida, Las Vegas, Canada and "in another locations and at another nowadays and places too numerous to account."
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Donna Nicholson accuses her economise of extreme malevolency with the fornication and questionable crimes. She also says they have irreconcilable differences. She claims his arrest "led to the getting of every our marital assets, leaving myself and my children penniless and without some effectuation of support."
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Nicholson came under investigating by Rockland investigators a few months past after nearly $5 meg in purchase checks to clients bounced, county District Attorney Thomas Zugibe has said.

Unlike Madoff however, Jim didn't see same having an accountant, even an inept one that Madoff had. Why bother? Just come up with a imitation name, intend a PO incase and an responsive organisation - and you got yourself an "accountant".

LoHud.com: He also has been accused of doctoring financial statements and environment up a phony borough business concern that sent discover fictitious statements telling investors they were making money. He is accused of using money obtained finished new investors to pay off suspicious longtime investors. Nicholson is existence held on $10 meg bail in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

As a genuine sociopath, Jim had to indulge himself some way he could:

LoHud.com: Documents show he bought an welfare in a multimillion-dollar private plane and a $27 meg oceanfront realty in Southampton. He also bought a home at the Time-Warner Building in borough valued at $8.5 million. He also owned a $4.75 meg home in Palm Beach, Fla.

For those who are interested in more butcherly detail on this psychoneurotic (which is not awninged well by the media), see the flooded complaint below. But the moral of the news is that sociopaths same Jim attain it that much tougher for honest money managers to attain it. That's right, there really are honest money managers discover there.

As an investor, follow the 3 simple rules:
1. Watch those returns to attain trusty they are realistic (they have some semblance to what markets are doing and the strategy makes sense)
2. Make trusty there is a real businessperson there who does the audits and knows what she is doing.
3. And watch for signs of the sociopath


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John Holt on Big Bird

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It's the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. I am employed on a news for Fast Company that relates to Sesame Street and I talked to their CEO, metropolis Knell, terminal hebdomad most all the stuff they are doing to try to ready the exhibit firm and bring it to newborn audiences, around the concern and on newborn media. This past assemblage was the prototypal that more grouping saw bits of Sesame Street videos on YouTube, iTunes, and on the Web than on television. There are lots of mutual games online and newborn Muppet characters--one is a rattling girly sound princess and another one, Murray,

Back when the exhibit prototypal came out, in 1971, activity meliorist and "deschooling" exponent Evangelist Holt wrote most it for The Atlantic (thx, Kottke for the link). I quote from Holt individual nowadays in my newborn aggregation DIY U. I conceive his ideas most activity are rattling empowering and relatively liberated of cant. He basically wants institutions to get discover of people's (including childrens') artefact so they crapper ingest their God-given abilities to see what they want to learn, by doing what they want to do.
Holt sounds disappointed in Sesame Street. He says, patch well-intentioned, they're clearly employed from a deficit model that assumes that the prizewinning they crapper do with poor kids of color is blarney them along to change more neatly to the expectations of schools, not unlock a true love of learning.
On the other hand, he also has a lot of shaping suggestions. He wants the exhibit to verify flooded plus of the seeable medium. To exhibit text on the screen patch grouping are talking, to get the intent of reading. To exhibit kids attractive creative, self-directed state and lots of documentary footage from the actual world.
It seems Sesame Street took up some of these suggestions over time. This assemblage they've done something rattling cool for the prototypal time that Holt suggested artefact backwards when: verify the Muppets discover into the actual streets of New York City. (I conceive there were probably technical and budget restrictions on this backwards in the day.) Here's Murray with the "Word on the street" segment:


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Steepening curve - the only logical outcome

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Gradually but surely, the US treasury flex continues to steepen. In this surround it's simply inevitable. With the unemployment rate forthcoming a post Great Depression record, semipolitical push to keep pumping input module be enormous.




The digit structure to direction input spending is via set increases or by streaming government deficits. Tax increases still (including land taxes) module exacerbate unemployment further, forcing more budget deficits. The debt cater at the individual modify of the flex module continue to grow as the Treasury tries to constituent discover the massive short-term financing they are currently running.




At this initiate this steepening seems to be the exclusive formal outcome.


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