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On the other hand ... or is it Hoof?

dakinikat wrote 1 month ago: In what is undoubtedly good news, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis (Dept. of Commerce) has announc … more →

Tags: Equity Markets, global financial crisis, The Bonus Class, U.S. economy, Great Recession, real economic growth, real GDP, stimulus

Death by Bubble2 comments

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: Economist Andy Xie says Lehman Brothers died in vain and that it’s just a matter of time befor … more →

Tags: Equity Markets, global financial crisis, The Bonus Class, The Great Recession, U.S. economy, bubble economies, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Shadow Banking system

Who Holds Wall Street Accountable?

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: If your answer included any of number regulators or congress with its oversight duties or the tradit … more →

Tags: Equity Markets, global financial crisis, surreality, team obama, The Bonus Class, The Great Recession, the media sucks, U.S. economy, andrew ross sorkin

Revenge of the Beta Males

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: There’s only a few places in the real world where Beta Males get to whoop it up and extract th … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, president teleprompter jesus, the media sucks, global financial crisis, The Bonus Class, K Street Beta Males, Journalism Beta Males, Media Misinformants

The Bear Whisperer

dakinikat wrote 2 months ago: Bless his little heart. He called for “common sense” rules for Wall Street. He had sharp … more →

Tags: Equity Markets, global financial crisis, The Bonus Class, The Great Recession, Lehman banruptcy annivesary, moral hazard, President Obama, wall street reform

Speechification Alert

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: Who stole the Cookies from the Cookie jar?Great illustration in today's New York Times: Banker … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, president teleprompter jesus, the media sucks, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, The Bonus Class, zombie banks, Barney Frank

and the Band Played On

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: So the so-called conservatives are having their so-called freedom event with so-called commentators … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, main stream media, voter ignorance, surreality, The Bonus Class, FDIC, Banking regulation, bank failure

Zombie Regulation

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: Public Policy chaos is hard to miss these days. One moment it’s which health plan will make it … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, Goldman Sachs, Banker pay, Bank Regulation

The Blame Game

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: It’s amazing to me that so many people can get so worked up about one mid level bureaucrat in … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, the media sucks, The DNC, voter ignorance, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, The Bonus Class, Fannie Mae

And Next Up, A Good Game of RISK

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: If you still need motivation to get on my bandwagon for new bank regulation, go read “Back to … more →

Tags: Equity Markets, global financial crisis, surreality, The Bonus Class, Securitization, death derivatives, life insurance policies

It's just a Ball of Infusion

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: I’m having a difficult time reconciling the new found bank profitability driving more executiv … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, Subprime Mortgages, bank profitability, mortgage deliquencies, prime mortgages, credit card lending, Discount Window

And now, a Game of Concentration

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: When I saw this NYT Headline, “As Big Banks Repay Bailout Money, U.S. Sees a Profit”, it … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, tarp, banking cartel, banking oligopoly

How About a Big ol' Game of Monopoly?

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: If we’re a ‘free market’ economy, why do we keep protecting so many businesses and … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, surreality, The Bonus Class, banking industry, K Street lobbyists, Externalities, Rent Seeking

Feel the Bern!

dakinikat wrote 3 months ago: While I stuck the announcement into the morning links, you had to know that I’d front page thi … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Bank, Larry Summers

It's just a little bit of Policy Fail Repeating

dakinikat wrote 4 months ago: When you let lobbyists make public policy, failure is an acceptable outcome. That’s because th … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, president teleprompter jesus, the media sucks, The DNC, team obama, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, The Bonus Class

What's That Lassie? Little Timmy's in the Well AGAIN?

dakinikat wrote 4 months ago: Wow, it looks like Turbo Tax Timmy has gone rogue! We better send the press up to Alaska to chase do … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, president teleprompter jesus, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, The Bonus Class, FDIC, FED, SEC

All Eyes on Ben

dakinikat wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been Fed watching again. That’s something of both an occupational hazard and a weir … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Bank, nouriel roubini, zirp, PBS News Hour, Ron Paul

When Will They Ever Learn?

dakinikat wrote 4 months ago: The Blogging Econ heads are still news makers today as we have more and more reports of record profi … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, the media sucks, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, Paul Krugman, AiG, CBO, CNBC

Next Strategy: Declare Victory, Go Home1 comment

dakinikat wrote 5 months ago: (kinda graphic video, you’ve been warned) The economy just won’t drink the koolaid and b … more →

Tags: U.S. economy, Equity Markets, global financial crisis, The Great Recession, unemployment statistics, Christine Romer, hilda solis, job markets, recovery propaganda


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