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- Roque: Buy Health Care and Consumer Staples
- What happens to your Facebook page when you accuse Liz Warren of lying
- On Mark Haines
- Which countries are most in favor of the free market?
- Haines Calls BS on False Taxes and Job Correlation
- Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index 1749-2011
- Fitch gives reason for Germany to dig in on Greece
- Mark Haines Whacks Martin Feldstein on Health Care
- Mid-Week Reads
| Posted: 26 May 2011 12:00 AM PDT Death by PowerPoint View more presentations from www.kapterev.com |
| Roque: Buy Health Care and Consumer Staples Posted: 25 May 2011 10:30 PM PDT ~~ Source: |
| What happens to your Facebook page when you accuse Liz Warren of lying Posted: 25 May 2011 06:34 PM PDT Scribd: Screen capture, last hour of Facebook wall Video: Chairman McHenry Calls Elizabeth Warren a Liar at Subcommittee Hearing Facebook: Congressman McHenry’s Facebook Wall |
| Posted: 25 May 2011 11:44 AM PDT Mark Haines > Over the years, it has been my personal privilege to be with Mark Haines many times. In earlier times, we talked about stocks and bonds when Mark anchored Squawk Box. More recently there were conversations on Squawk on the Street. ETFs were added to the lexicon. We interviewed with Mark and Melissa Lee and numerous times with Mark and Erin Burnett. Often I would see Mark before the show while waiting on the security folks at the New York Stock Exchange. Mark would say something like "You know I can't take you in. I do not make the rules." The greeting was genuine. The irascible demeanor gave way to a more practical and humane one. Mark Haines could cut right to the key point in an interview. He would interrupt directly if he thought there was too much "bull" flowing. On the other hand, he would let you go if he thought you were making a key point. I recall a long stretch when I was citing some data on the high costs of the ethanol subsidy. Mark gave me the extra minute to complete the point. Off camera he was asked why and said something like "He [meaning me] was saying something that needed to be said." When he growled, I never thought it would turn into a bite. When he was short on time, I understood. I always looked forward to those three minutes at the NYSE and that interview with Mark Haines. You are a unique personality, Mark Haines, and you will be sorely missed. May you now rest peacefully. ~~~ David R. Kotok, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer |
| Which countries are most in favor of the free market? Posted: 25 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT Via the The Economist, consider the chart below covering faith in the free markets. It is at present at a low in the US, the world’s biggest free-market economy:
I wonder if the unbridled embracing of Free Market ideals, taken to excess the past few decades — self-regulation, Efficient Market Hypothesis, radical deregulation, which were eventually followed by the massive financial collapse and subsequent government bailouts of girlie men bankers – might have anything to do with this? Fascinating stuff . . . |
| Haines Calls BS on False Taxes and Job Correlation Posted: 25 May 2011 11:27 AM PDT Sell the rally in July 2010? Another example of why you should not let politics/ ideology influence your investing.
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| Reuters/Jefferies CRB Index 1749-2011 Posted: 25 May 2011 09:00 AM PDT |
| Fitch gives reason for Germany to dig in on Greece Posted: 25 May 2011 08:53 AM PDT Highlighting a key reason why the Germans have dug in with their position on Greece that they don’t want to continue to bail them out further, they seem comfortable with their own banks exposure to Greece. Credit rating agency Fitch in a note today just published is saying “that it does not currently envisage any rating action on German banks as a direct result of their exposure to Greece…In addition, most German banks have limited exposure to any risk relating to Portugal and Ireland.” They do though have this caveat, “The agency sees high potential contagion risks if there were any restructuring of Greek sovereign debt.” Now granted we have to take commentary from a rating agency with a clear grain of salt but it does recognize that if this debt crisis is ring fenced around Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the region can get by BUT if it spreads to Spain and/or Italy, as has been discussed ad infinitum and is a very distinct possibility, we’ll have a major problem. |
| Mark Haines Whacks Martin Feldstein on Health Care Posted: 25 May 2011 07:55 AM PDT CNBC’s Mark Haines debates Martin Feldstein
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