Reggie Middleton

Contributor since: 26 Feb 2010

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• More Doom and Gloom Fire: Homebuilders Making Better Money as Hedge Funds than Home Builders

  Published 24 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Could you imagine if a hedge fund or private equity firm started building houses for a living, and more than a quarter of their income…

• Yes, Housing Prices Have Much Farther to Fall. We're Talking Years...

  Published 24 September 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Bloomberg reports US Home Prices Fall Again: Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. home prices dropped 3.3 percent in July from a year earlier, the eighth…

• Many More Black Eyes for the Blackberry?

  Published 19 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  A Complete Forensic Analysis of Research in Motion A couple of weeks ago, I penned the piece "After Getting a Glimpse of the New Windows…

• Does Pessimism Now Sell As Well As Sex

  Published 10 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Or Are Investors Just So Starved for the Unconflicted Truth? Crain's New York "His work is so detailed, so accurate, it's among the best in…

• Lodging Management Spins Crafty Tales

  Published 06 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Consumer Macro Data Continues to Verify What I Suspected All Along - We Never Left the Recession! A few days ago I warned my subscribers…

• RIM Smart Phone Market Share, RIP?

  Published 04 August 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Last week I stated "After Getting a Glimpse of the New Windows Phone 7 Functionality, RIMM is Looking More Like a Short Play". I meant…

• Spain Reports 20%+ Unemployment, a Structural Problem That May Persist For Some Time

  Published 30 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As I have warned ad nauseum, the problems in Europe are being signicantly underestimated. From CNBC: Spain Jobless Rate up to 20.09 Percent Spain's unemployment…

• Here's More Proof of the Sheer Lunacy of the European Bank Stress Tests

  Published 29 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Banks are Already Trying to Collect on Defaulted Claims of European Nations Much of the mainstream media has carried articles that were at least somewhat…

• European Bank Stress Test Joke: This Insolvent Euro-Bank and Group of Central Bankers Met at a Bar and...

  Published 28 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  This post will outline the second bank stress test joke of the day with the first one detailed in "European Bank Investors, Don't Look Now…

• Major Paradigm Shift in Technology

  Published 09 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  This is an excerpt from part two of a multi-part series on the companies vying for dominance during the 3rd major paradigm shift in personal…

• As Credible As Platinum Laced Frog Farts

  Published 07 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Greece Starts to Restructure in Real Time, Exactly As We Predicted - Rendering EU Stress Tests As Credible As Platinum Laced Frog Farts On Wednesday,…

• Will the Emerging Markets Lead the World to New Growth?

  Published 07 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Just after the HSBC Emerging Markets Index was released showing a marked slowdown in growth, HSBC Chief Economist Stephen King told CNBC news that Emerging…

• The Conundrum of Commercial Real Estate Stocks

  Published 01 July 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In a CRE "Near Depression", Why Are REIT Shares Still So High and Which Ones to Short? Many people have asked me how SRS and…

• On Shorting Stocks, Double Dips and the UAL/CAL Merger

  Published 25 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In continuing with our search for bankrupt potential short candidates, we came across a couple of airline companies (reference Non-Financial Companies to Short in 2010,…

• BoomBustBlog Bankruptcy Search: Focus on British Petroleum and Collateral Damage

  Published 17 June 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In continuing our search for potential bankruptcy candidates (see part 1, The BoomBustBlog Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis Bankruptcy Search - US Banks), we would be…

• A Comparison of Our Greek Bond Restructuring Analysis to That of Argentina

  Published 26 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  In order to assess the impact of sovereign debt restructuring on the market prices of the sovereign bonds that undergo restructuring (haircut in the principal…

• On Morgan Stanley's Latest Quarterly Earnings - More Than Meets the Eye???

  Published 25 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  It has taken a while to get this out, but the core message hasn't changed... 1Q10 Results review For 1Q10, MS reported significant increase in…

• As We Have Warned, the Fissures Are Widening in the Spanish Banking System

  Published 24 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  As of 6:40 am, US futures are down 15 points, with the MSM blaming the nationalization of the Spanish bank CajaSur. The Bank of Spain…

• With the Euro Disintegrating, You Can Calculate Your Haircuts Here

  Published 17 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  Note: For those who have been reading my work for a while and will not benefit from a backgrounder in my investment style, successes and…

• How the US Has Perfected the Use of Economic Imperialism Through the European Union!

  Published 12 May 2010 | viewed 0 times

  How many of those Greek, Portuguese, Irish and Spanish bondholders have factored the near guaranteed "additional" haircut (/scalping) they will receive having to stand behind…