Archive for March, 2010
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Remember back in the summer of ‘08 when Hank Paulson got the ok from Congress to set up a $200 billion emergency fund to take Freddie and Fannie into receivership? Back then Hank assured Congress that this $200 billion “was like a big bazooka. As long as the market knows you have it you won’t [...]
Bridging Lender Excel Securities Goes Into Administration
Last week Excel Securities the Manchester based Bridging Finance Lender filed a notice of an intention to appoint administrators at the citys High Court. The directors now have 10 days to appoint an insolvency practitioner, which is expected to be Begbies Traynor.
If You Build it, Will They Come?
File this under the “horse’s ass” column (technical term). First off, remember when I posted a few days ago that Shia LaBeouf (”The Beef”) was not only an actor, but a wannabe hedge fund manager? Well the day after he gave his stock choice in the NY Post, “his” stock went down 13%. Don’t quit [...]
You Need to Know How to Read Between the Lines
Dunno if some stock jockeys (technical term) decided to calla lot of media outletstoday and show how “cheap” stocks arerelative to junk bonds butI’ve seen about 4 different stories telling roughly the same thing. You see they have this thing called the earnings yield on the S+P, with the higher number being better. It is [...]
Big Dick Back to the Baskets
Editor’s Note–Well we all got a little bit of a thrill when CLASSY JET was leading for some of the race yesterday and made the final turn in a close third place only to get tired and fade. She was off for 2.5 monthsmaybe she needed a race to get her “race legs” back. We’ll [...]
Big D Will Rest On The Hoops. But The Horses……
Editor’s Note–Big Dick is incredulous that another game was snatched from victory to a tie! That makes 2 of those PAINFUL pushes in less than 24 hours. Oy Vay! Today, he’s got a horsie play that’s near and dear to my heart though. Take it away Big D……–R.B.
"We Tracked Big D Down"
Still grumpy from his 0-1-1 performance lastevening, Big Dick merely says UNDER DUKE 127 and tune in tomorrow A.M. for more action!
Calling All Speculators!
Warning: this is not for the faint of heart or those who aren’t prepared to take BIG risk.
Small Business Finance – Comment On Budget 2010
The Chancellor Alistair Darling in the last budget before the general election, has set Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds a target of 94bn of new lending for the coming year.
Media Alert!
Well its Thursday, so it must be radio time! Join Eric and I once again on the thought provoking, always entertaining, and not just because we are on,Pete Dominick show on Sirius/XM today on the POTUS network! It’ll be 5pm eastern on your Sirius Channel 110 or XM Channel 130. We’ll betalking abouta few things, [...]
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