Author: john bougearel

The spike down to 1056 today in the SP500 was related to bank trading desks (who says their trading desks are benign, remember this day when they report Q2 earnings and so-called trading profits in July 2010 and when future...

“The whole intellectual edifice collapsed.” ~ Alan Greenspan “Blaming individuals [or a few institutions] is no substitute for acknowledging the failure of the whole system.” ~ ` BOE Mervyn King ~ Quotes...

by John Bougearel author of Riding the Storm Out: What Do Investors Do Now? I can’t believe that Dodd just said “this legislation won’t stop the next crisis from coming” What a total jackass Dodd has been...

From Bloomberg: Wall Street’s contribution to the debate on how to curb global warming: Buy coal, sell solar. While investors including T. Boone Pickens and Warren Buffett are pushing cash into green technologies, the tilt...

Chris Whalen reports that the PWG is preparing a white paper in cahoots with the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller to thwart and block FDIC reform efforts. The white papers prepared by the PWG are never released...

by John Bougearel, Author of Riding the Storm Out: What Do Investors Do Now? Chris Whalen addresses evils of Mark-to-Market Accounting vs. the virtues of cash flow analysis in his March 8 weekly missive. (If you don’t...

Monday, February 22, 2010 By John Bougearel, Author of Riding the Storm Out: What Do Investors Do Now? Risk is ubiquitous. Markets misbehave. Financial crises are hardy perennials. Wall Street crashed. The private sector blew...

S&P analyst Sam Stovall shows an 80 year model of how a 60% SP500 and 40% LT govt bonds “total returns” portfolio has performed. On balance, Sam gave this passive portfolio model a thumbs up, as the total return...

According to the afternoon updates, Ulrich Wilhelm indicated that no decision on Greece was close at hand, adding that “If Greece obtains help, then only under strict conditions and only if the Greek govt drastically...