I was responding to some comments to a post I made to www.seekingalpha.com a few minutes ago, when I said something that I think needs to be explained further. I mentioned “leverage” and since that’s been in the news (especially regarding financial stocks) quite a lot over the past few months, I decided to expound [...]
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From the 400 point rally today in the stock market, you’d think that the bulls are running rampant in Pamplona. And you may be right, however…. Stocks are still down over 10% for the year. The highly leveraged banks and Wall Street firms are still highly leveraged. Massive amounts of mortgage backed securities – and their [...]
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I said most of this last week, but Paul Farrell probably says it better in this articleposted on MarketWatch tonight. I also talked about Warren Buffett a bit last week when he posted his annual letter to shareholders, but Mr. Farrell quotes both Buffett and PIMCO bond guru Bill Gross when he says “Buffett and [...]
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I’ve seen this a couple of times over the past few days, but here’s CNN’s version of a story about “homeowners” simply walking away from their homes. I say “homeowners” because most of these people put little or no money down, they took out teaser rate ARM’s, interest only – or even negative amortization loans [...]
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