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| The threat of inflation By John Schroy, on March 31st, 2009 |  3 comments  The supremacy of the US dollar is not yet dead, but portents of a fatal cancer — inflation — are there for all to see. The extreme, profligate spending of the Obama administration, combined with populist, irresponsible bank lending policies promoted by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, portend rising interest rates, the collapse of the bond market, and the end of dollar supremacy. Furthermore, a large part of the American electorate doesn’t understand or is unaware of what lies ahead. March 31st, 2009 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Bernard Madoff, Bill Clinton, China, Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich, Euronext, executive stock options, Fannie Mae, fiscal deficit, Freddie Mac, General Motors, IMF, industrialization, Inflation, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Monica Lewinsky, Nancy Pelosi, NASDAQ, NYSE, oil, OMX Group, reserve currency, Ronald Reagan, Stock Buybacks, sub-prime mortgages, Timothy Geithner, unemployment, US dollar, Warren Buffett | Category: Inflation, featured | 3 comments |  Short urlAuction Market Preferred Shares By John Schroy, on March 30th, 2009 | Leave a comment  Failures of commercial rating services to do an adequate job have been widely recognized, in the wake of the Crash of 2008. Much of the criticism, however, has been directed to the conflicts of interests that are a characteristic of these services. This article discusses other weaknesses of commercial publishers of investment information, such as the industrial nature of their operations and their marketing focus on traders rather than long-term investors. The case of Auction Market Preferred Shares, which failed in 2008, is covered in detail. March 30th, 2009 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Auction Market Preferred Shares, Bloomberg, Capital Market Wiki, collaborative research, efficient market hypothesis, Fitch, Graham & Dodd, Moody's, Morningstar, Standard & Poor's, Thomson's, US SEC, Warren Buffett | Category: US SEC | Leave a comment | Short urlThe decline of the dollar By John Schroy, on March 30th, 2009 | Leave a comment  Foreigners hold $16.9 trillion in dollar financial assets, accumulated through years of selling goods and services to the US. Profligate deficit spending by the Pelosi-Reid Congress increases the probability of dollar inflation. If foreign governments were to convert their holdings of dollar financial assets into non-financial assets, like US REITs, they can guard against dollar inflation. They might also gain a position that, in the extreme, would be against US national security interests. March 30th, 2009 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Bank of China, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, China, Chris Dodd, Harry Reid, Inflation, Nancy Pelosi, REITs | Category: Foreign Investors | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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