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Is It Possible To Invent An Investment Product Too Stupid To Find Buyers?: "Last Friday, he posted a satirical article called First 100x Leveraged ETFs. It made fun of the trend toward higher leverage among ETF products....he was deluged with emails. Many people got the joke. But a full 65% expresse ... Read more

This evening at 7pm ET: ***SPECIAL*** ONE-ON-ONE WITH LOU DOBBS The former CNN anchor will be our special guest this evening. Topics will include: - Today’s heated Geithner hearings - Paying Down TARP - Healthcare (plus a look at the mammography fiasco) - U.S. J ... Read the f ... Read more

Delayed Economic Reform Killed 14.5 Million Children | Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Had reforms started in 1970 rather than 1980, India would have grown faster. In this fast-growth scenario, i assume that per capita income growth in the 1970s would have been what wa ... Read more

In response to Freefall In Small Business Loans I received an email from "ABO" the CEO and owner of a bank. ABO, who has been in the banking business 30 years, writes: Mish, I was reading the article you wrote concerning the difficulty of securing small business loans and President Obama prom ... Read more

| Dick Langlois | Some of you may have seen Steven Pinker’s review of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book in the New York Times this weekend.. Pinker praises Gladwell’s writing and his instinct for interesting topics, but skewers him for his bad grasp of the underlying science ... Read more

G10 Advancers and Decliners vs USD JPY 0.41 EUR -0.55 GBP -0.62 CHF -0.68 The USD has remained bid throughout the day as poor equity market performances have moderated risk appetite. Commodities including gold and silver have retraced markedly from their highs, with gold dipping ... Re ... Read more

When you can't change public opinion any other way, you buy it. That is the message from Huffington Post today in Economists Opposing Fed Audit Have Undisclosed Fed Ties . As the debate over an audit of the Federal Reserve intensifies in the House, one camp is trotting out eight academics that ... Read more

Last Friday the 13 (Nov 13, 2009) a spoof was run by a blooger to see if investors would buy something called SOAR and SINK offering really stupid leverage and gearing ratio's. The blogger Jason Kelly actually received expressions of interest. Proving that there is too much greed out there. Go to ww ... Read more

Williams Sonoma (WSM) announced results and told investors they are pleased despite the current economic circumstances. Howard Lester, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer even played to the gallery by saying that they delivered another consecutive quarter of better than expected results. That start ... Read more