Brady Willett

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• DELL: Mending Models

  Published 30 November 2007 | viewed 2,466 times

  DELL reported positive results after the bell yesterday, with quarterly earnings and revenues rising by 27.5% and 8.5% respectively compared to last year. However, with…

• Rubin's Cube

  Published 05 November 2007 | viewed 4,307 times

  On November 8, 2001 Robert Rubin called senior Treasury Department official Peter Fisher and asked him if he could tell the bond rating agencies to…

• You Call That A Bailout?

  Published 16 October 2007 | viewed 4,339 times

  Imagine walking into a hospital with chest pains and the doctor telling you that he will do his best to treat you in a few…

• Mr. Bubble Writes A Book

  Published 14 September 2007 | viewed 2,977 times

  Greenspan on questionable subprime lending tactics: "While I was aware a lot of these [questionable lending] practices were going on, I had no notion of…

• The School of Hard Work Or Habituated Hand-Outs?

  Published 04 September 2007 | viewed 3,252 times

  After signing the 'American Dream Downpayment Act of 2003' Bush added, "We want people to be fully aware of what it means to buy a…

• Forget Peak Oil, Peak Net Worth is the Real Danger

  Published 21 August 2007 | viewed 5,503 times

  Is the proverbial 'peak' in consumer borrowing upon us? With the 1990s stock market mania about to go bust, it was easy to conclude that…

• Relief is Spelt B-E-N

  Published 17 August 2007 | viewed 4,022 times

  Yen carry is blowing up, global stock prices are in mini-crash mode, and the financial meltdown is threatening to spark an economic meltdown. Having gingerly…

• Short Selling The Road To Redemptions

  Published 14 August 2007 | viewed 4,803 times

  With the financial markets doing their best impression of a tinderbox waiting for a spark, it is not easy to use the word 'oversold' without…

• Bailout Backfires

  Published 09 August 2007 | viewed 6,206 times

  The central bank support that Cramer was crying for last week arrived, and it didn't work. A funny thing happened during today's central bank bailout…

• Cramer's Sage Rage?

  Published 06 August 2007 | viewed 8,055 times

  In what is quickly becoming one of his most popular television tirades to date (which is saying a lot), Jim Cramer completely lost it last…

• What To Do As Stocks Go Bust

  Published 26 July 2007 | viewed 5,395 times

  With stock prices plunging around the world today, some value investor tips come to mind. 1) Do not short the market. If you are thinking…

• Where Are All The Homebuilder Bargains?

  Published 12 July 2007 | viewed 5,335 times

  With U.S. homebuilder confidence slipping to a 16-year low in June and subprime contagion fears omnipresent, no one seemed to notice when Toll Brothers reported…

• Remain Calm! Its Only a Bunch of Bear Markets

  Published 13 June 2007 | viewed 4,895 times

  "A measure of utility companies lost 1.5 percent for the second steepest decline among 10 industries in the S&P 500. Collectively the stocks have a…

• Conundrum Unwind or Glut Rewind

  Published 08 June 2007 | viewed 4,628 times

  The U.S. economy slowed to a crawl in 1Q07 and the U.S. housing market is, by many accounts, years away from a meaningful rebound. With…

• Utility Futility

  Published 24 May 2007 | viewed 4,101 times

  With S&P 500 bank/financial stocks the worst performing sectors so far in 2007, it is becoming clear that the inverted yield curve has damaged investor…

• Whistling Dixie To The Chicken Littles

  Published 02 May 2007 | viewed 5,033 times

  Having stayed out of the limelight for far to long, the 'bubbles forever!' doctrine is roaring back: "Speculative money needs to go somewhere. There is…

• Learning Curves

  Published 28 March 2007 | viewed 4,041 times

  Yesterday CBS's Mark Hulbert attacked bearish 'advisors' that neglected to announce that the U.S. yield curve was no longer inverted. Apparently Mr. Hulbert believes that…

• A Bailout Before The Bust?

  Published 14 March 2007 | viewed 6,316 times

  Mortgage Bankers Association Chief Economist, Douglas Duncan, believes that mortgage activity is set to dip and that "there's no question that the decline in [mortgage]…

• Nero Fiddle Me This...

  Published 01 March 2007 | viewed 4,875 times

  Is The Dow Jones Index Playing Second String games as Wall Street Burns? Late Tuesday afternoon, Dow Jones Indexes made a seemingly minor confession about…

• Bernanke May Have To Break From The Greenspan Script

  Published 27 February 2007 | viewed 4,028 times

  Although subprime blowup fears continue to make for enthralling reading, the financial markets have yet to be seriously impacted. Rather, while some repositioning away from…