Showing posts with label March 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March 2009. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Every major bank passes stress test from the US Federal Reserve

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507 banks failed in the United States 2008-2014 inclusive, costing the Deposit Insurance Fund nearly $90 billion. Many millions of homes we...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Clueless Ed Kilgore today post-mid-March thinks angry Democrats are in the minority based on a Gallup poll from late January

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But this simply ignores everything Trump has flooded the zone with since January 27. That's a backward-looking poll. Trump's has bee...
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Secular bear Rosie not throwing in the towel . . . again

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 Rosie was on the wrong side of the trade in April 2011 when the bear went bullish . Is he again now? He uses the same phrase, too, "no...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Besides their bad character, what do Trump and Obama have in common in 2009 and 2020?

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 Trump and Obama signed off on the two most fiscally irresponsible periods in post-war history, and Biden two years in looks set to join the...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

How low could the S&P 500 possibly fall from the Monday, Jan 3, 2022 closing high of 4,796.56?

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  Some are calling this a dot-com-like bubble "burst".  Jeremy Grantham thinks a 40% decline is in the offing. That burst happen...
Friday, October 12, 2018

The current secular bear market in stocks matched the length of the Reagan secular bull in September 2018

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Average investors since August 2000 have underperformed the great Reagan secular bull market by nearly 70% annually through September 2018,...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Barack Obama March 3, 2009: "Buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you've got a long-term perspective on it"

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Here , after the 10 minute mark. S&P 500, average nominal per annum return March 2009 - August 2018: 17.51%
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Edward Snowden documents help The Intercept identify eight AT&T buildings central to NSA spying on global internet, phone, email, chat

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From the story here : THE EIGHT LOCATIONS are featured on a top-secret NSA map, which depicts U.S. facilities that the agency relies u...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

May is the most wonderful time . . . of the year . . .

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. . . to sell stocks if you've capitalized on the spectacular 9-year run since March 2009. Getting in when stock valuations are ch...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Hillary can't claim she'll continue the good economy because it isn't a good economy

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From the macroeconomic point of view of GDP, jobs and homeownership, the economy under Obama has been a bad joke. Economic growth is l...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Bob Brinker's advice to stay fully invested in stocks in 2008 beats Jim Cramer's to sell

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Bob Brinker famously said on his radio show Moneytalk during the 2008-2009 market meltdown that "no one could have predicted this...
Wednesday, January 14, 2015

"Retail and Food Services Sales" falls 0.94% in December, which is cautionary for GDP

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The drop is not that odd for a December. In December 2007 we had a drop of 0.6%, in December 2008 a drop of 2.5% (part of the big wh...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

TARP ends, but conservatives still don't realize it was just a sideshow

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Existing crisis loans 1st of the month in billion$ That TARP was just a sideshow was not known at the time in 2008, but it should be k...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

At 10.01 VGPMX is tonight again below the March 2009 low of 10.04

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Vanguard Precious Metals and Mining is looking attractive once again, revisiting the territory of December 2013 when the fund briefly di...
Sunday, August 31, 2014

Total Market Capitalization To Nominal GDP Ratios, Selected Years

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I have used the Wilshire 5000 level at year end multiplied by 1.2 as a proxy for total stock market capitalization (except where noted by...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

Bob Brinker was right in March 2003, but not until May 2009 at the earliest

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Bob Brinker's gain since March 2003 when he called for his followers to fully invest in the stock market has been an impressive 7.14% pe...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Market cap to GDP ratios March 2009 vs. March 2014 flash valuation warning

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Probably the broadest measure for stock market valuation purposes is total stock market capitalization divided by GDP. Warren Buffett uses i...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Shiller p/e vs. S&P500 p/e: Was either a guide to investing since 2008?

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The merit of the Shiller p/e, which is backward looking, for timing investment decisions is cautioned against even by its supporters like Jo...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Will The Phenomenal Gains In The S&P500 Since March 2009 To Date Be Cut In Half By 2019?

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John Hussman, here : Though we don’t have a 10-year figure for actual returns since 2009, investors should also notice that the impr...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

The Stock Market Laugh Of The Day Comes From Josh Brown, The Reformed Broker

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TARP wasn't even a speed bump as the market crashed past 1099 Here : The House got another crack at the TARP vote on October 3rd and thi...