Comments on: Hidden Traps Make Bank Stocks a Bad Deal

By: Continued Corruption on Wall Street is Sapping Investor Confidence on Main Street

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:28 +0000

[...] Yet these events are not happening in a vacuum. The revelations come as government policymakers consider new financial regulatory schemes. If bad vibes encourage more stringent capital requirements, stricter securities law, and dampen financial innovation, then the road back to sustained profitability for banks will be even longer and more treacherous than ori…. [...]

By: David Ivory

David Ivory — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:02:03 +0000

Truly solid analysis Martin, presented in balanced and measured prose: good to see the European touch in there too. Not everything of persuasive insight has "made in America" stamped on it. However, I fear for Joe the Plumber both in the US and in the UK, where his obvious deight at multiplying capital on RBS, Citi etc has bred a new found complacency, seen only this week in the confidence numbers. We all know how this ends, and it is not with perpetual party time.

By: Why You Need to Look at these Three "Zombie-Free Zones"

Why You Need to Look at these Three "Zombie-Free Zones" — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:58:32 +0000

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By: Lehman's Fall was 'the problem'

Lehman's Fall was 'the problem' — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:44:37 +0000

No doubt in anyone's mind that the fallout of Lehman wiped out a good bit of the world's wealth, and that's something not easy to forget.