As the title suggest there is a reason to be short investment banks and its not just because the bonus pool at Goldman Sachs is bigger than the market cap at Bear Stearns. No the reason is in regards to the blog that Blograters highlighted today.

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Great review of Greg Mankiw's blog on economics. A lot easier to understand and more pertinent to our everyday lives than most people think.

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Why did I know that the very first thing out of the Democrats mouths would be wailing that it won't benefit those who pay no income taxes. This is an across the board TAX REBATE. It is not a hand out.
Bush also drew sharp criticism from Democratic presidential candidates, who accused him of neglecting 50 million low-income workers who do n

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At the Republican debate on Thursday, John McCain was asked a question about the President's Working Group on Financial Markets--by Ron Paul. McCain looked as though he didn't have a clue. He sputtered on for a while about the kind of advisers he'd use for economic matters. A YouTube producer put together a video poking f

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Do you believe that acts of terrorism, external news, global cues and all those little tiny winy information or news are actually affecting our trading markets? Think again. This post manages to show how even the most serious acts of terrorism against the state failed to make the investment market heed to our predictions. This

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This really funny bit of Western Wisdom popped up in one of my social bookmarking collections. It’s all about this old wisdom that says when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, this article says that in business or in life generally we often try a myriad of other strategies with

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