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• Speculators Take Global Economy Hostage, Central Bankers' Liquidity Concession, With Nothing in Return, Interest Cuts Next? -- Part 1

  Published 14 August 2007 | viewed 6,213 times

  (Econotech FHPN) - This is the first of a two-part article, which I have broken up due to length. I will post the second part…

• Speculators' Liquidity-Leverage Russian Roulette with Economy; Real Cap Gains Tax Scandal

  Published 26 July 2007 | viewed 4,155 times

  (Econotech FHPN) -- "The point is that these innovations have externalities for the entire financial system that are hard to measure but dominate their apparent…

• Global Financial Bipolar Disorder Even Greater than Usual

  Published 29 June 2007 | viewed 5,101 times

  (FHPN)--Is it just me, or do global financial markets currently seem to have even greater bipolar disorder than usual? Increasingly the past few months I…

• Emerging Markets Volatility, Regional Banks Negative Alpha Just Two More Warning Signs

  Published 26 June 2007 | viewed 5,292 times

  (Econotech FHPN)--Due to my ongoing concerns about the global financial markets at the current time, I've been posting more frequently the past month than I…

• "Goldilocks" 65 Basis Pts Higher

  Published 21 June 2007 | viewed 4,386 times

  "Goldilocks" 65 Basis Pts Higher; Public Equity Mkts Lopsided Info Disadvantage; Emerging Mkts 2 Std Dev Above Trend; Laggard Large Cap/Tech Rise June 21 --…

• Equity Markets Flying Without Instruments Into a Non-Linear Storm?

  Published 07 June 2007 | viewed 5,582 times

  (Econotech FHPN)--At the risk of writing too frequently, I think the current investment environment merits more rapid updates than I usually do. Two Potentially Critical…

• A Tale of Two Cognitions, Bull and Bear

  Published 04 June 2007 | viewed 4,933 times

  (Econotech FHPN)--I added the last phrase to the quote below from my May 31 article link to help make the point in the first section.…

• Brief Update on U.S. Materials, Retail, Large Cap/Tech ETF Trends

  Published 31 May 2007 | viewed 3,833 times

  (Econotech FHPN)--Like last week's article (May 24, "When Greenspan Talks, Do People Still Listen?" link) , this short update simply consists of three e-mails I…

• When Greenspan Talks, Do People Still Listen?

  Published 24 May 2007 | viewed 4,947 times

  Rather than a longer article on "big picture" issues with extended supporting quotes from the mainstream media, for timeliness this shorter piece simply consists of…

• When Leading Fund Mgr Talks, Do People Listen: "Biggest housing price decline since the Great Depression"

  Published 13 April 2007 | viewed 8,153 times

  Apr 13 (Econotech FHPN)--"The one thing they [investors] shouldn't go anywhere near is a CDO or residential mortgage-backed securities rated triple-A by Moody's and S&P…

• When Citibank Chief Exec Talks, Do People Listen: "A market correction is coming, this time for real"

  Published 04 April 2007 | viewed 7,746 times

  (Econotech FHPN)--"much of the good news has come as a result of extraordinary levels of liquidity pouring into opportunities around the globe. To a large…

• Potential Larger Implications of Volatile Financial Markets, "Financing Glut" and Real "Investment Restraint"

  Published 05 March 2007 | viewed 4,747 times

  Mar 5 (Econotech FHPN)--To keep this reasonably short, I am not going to recap the highlights of what happened in global financial markets last week,…

• Recent Comments on China Stock Market and Global Speculation

  Published 28 February 2007 | viewed 4,458 times

  Feb 27 (Econotech FHPN)-- In its first year, my "blog" website has evolved into a format of infrequent long pieces on "big picture" themes. Because…

• World Needs Better "Face of American Capitalism" than Private Equity, Goldman Sachs, Media "Freak Show"

  Published 19 December 2006 | viewed 5,571 times

  Dec 19 (Econotech FHPN) - Thanks very much and happy holidays to my readers this past year; the web sites that have been extremely kind…

• Positive Reality Therapy for Americas Critical "States of Denial"

  Published 28 October 2006 | viewed 6,680 times

  October 27 - (Econotech FHPN) (The following article draws on an extensive set of news summaries for the past month from the mainstream media that,…

• Positive Reality Therapy for Americas Critical "States of Denial" - Part II

  Published 28 October 2006 | viewed 3,873 times

  No Domestic Opposition to Global Hyper-Speculators But this is not about the hyper-speculators' personal morality. It's not about somehow replacing the current hyper-speculators with more…

• Global Markets Hope "Mid-Cycle" "Soft Landing" Bet Can Hold thru Year-End Bonuses

  Published 27 September 2006 | viewed 4,450 times

  September 26 (Econotech FHPN) -- As the third quarter draws to a close, global financial markets seemed more contradictory than usual, which is normal during…

• Semiconductor Stocks Recently Lead, Cyclical Info or Light-Trading Noise?

  Published 30 August 2006 | viewed 4,622 times

  August 30 (Econotech) - This article gives a brief update on equity markets, which have light pre-holiday trading, followed by a round-up of recent news…

• Bernankes More Difficult Dilemma Is Not the One He Stated Today

  Published 19 July 2006 | viewed 7,570 times

  The more difficult dilemma facing Fed Chairman Bernanke is not the one he just posed in his July 19 Humphrey-Hawkins appearance today, the same one…

• Bernanke Talks Down Risky Assets: Another "Hot Money" Temper Tantrum, or a Major Economic Trend Change?

  Published 15 June 2006 | viewed 7,273 times

  In my last article on June 2 link, I noted the usual "belief by the global hyper-speculators that the central banks and governments don't have…