Fred Sheehan

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• In an Undercollateralized World

  Published 16 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The world is undercollateralized. This is the single most important feature of the 2011 economy. Sixty years ago, if assets were worth less than loans,…

• Barney Frank's Turn at Bat

  Published 08 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Congressman Barney Frank from Massachusetts is not worth a blog. That goes for his recent proposal, too. It is worth a moment to understand the…

• Sidelights to 1994

  Published 02 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Some odds & ends, tangential to "Is It 1994 Again?" LURING THE UNSOPHISTICATED into the stock market was considered a risk by Federal Reserve Chairman…

• Is It 1994 Again?

  Published 25 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  There are several similarities between current trends and those in 1994, a year when many institutions were left destitute. Historical analogies can help us imagine…

• Economics 101: Long Material, Short Certified Idiots

  Published 12 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Some relationships: The last time the U.S. dollar exceeded 120 on the dollar index (ticker symbol DXY: a measurement of the dollar against other currencies)…

• Greenspan Panders for More Money

  Published 05 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has once again received space on the editorial pages of the Financial Times. He does not deserve, so shall…

• Weimer Angst and the United States Today

  Published 24 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimer Hyperinflation, by Adam Fergusson, was published in 1975 and became a best-seller in 2010. Federal Reserve Chairman…

• Ignorance and Opportunity

  Published 21 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Following are some of my remarks prepared for Allen & Company's Fifteenth Annual Arizona Conference. The discussion, "Munis and the Euro: Crises or Opportunities?", took…

• The Exponentiality of Municipal Costs (and Some Advice for Endowments and Foundations)

  Published 14 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The word in social media is "exponentiality" of growth. Webster's, American Heritage, and Microsoft Word do not acknowledge it, I don't know how to spell…

• Alan Greenspan Auditions on Comedy Central

  Published 10 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Buy Now "There is no question at this stage that the momentum of this economy, leaving out the oil price issue, leaving out the Euro…

• Yellen and Khaddafy - Studies in Paranoia

  Published 02 March 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The continued existence of the Federal Reserve System is both the greatest threat to national solvency and an insult to the American people. Buy Now…

• A Municipal Score Card

  Published 23 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Meredith Whitney has kicked up a storm with her 600-page, municipal-bond report. She was one of the first analysts on Wall Street who warned the…

• The Weak and the Slow Get Crushed

  Published 15 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "We do not now have a problem.... Inflation made here in the U.S. is very, very low" - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, February…

• Uncle Ben Wants You! - To Buy Stocks

  Published 08 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke reviewed his Quantitative Easing, Second Inning (QE2) at the National Press Club on Thursday, February 3, 2011. His conclusion:…

• They Missed the Money

  Published 02 February 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The Federal Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) had as much chance of satisfying the public as the Warren Commission did of closing the debate on the…

• Stocks and Butter

  Published 27 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "We are poised for progress. Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate…

• Greenspan Confirms the Fed's Highly Leveraged Fix

  Published 19 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  On January 7, 2011, Kelly Evans of the Wall Street Journal interviewed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. He rooted for the stock market. Buy…

• Liquidate the Fed

  Published 14 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "I would also like to note that the same research paper [produced by the Federal Reserve staff] analyzed the macroeconomic effects of the FOMC's full…

• Illinois is No Peter Pan

  Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up, Not me!" - Peter Pan, Lyrics from play "I knew Peter Pan and you're no…

• Markets Vanish - 'In a Flash'

  Published 04 January 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Following is a short excerpt from "War of the Nerds," which I wrote for the December, 2006, edition of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report.…