Calendar Archive

Recent Tweets

Follow capflowwatch on Twitter
Page 1 of 512345
Post Modern Security Analysis

Taxonomy for collaborative research

New Technology

Post Modern Securities Analysis deals with methods of collaborative research that are designed to deal with the tsunami of free, open source investment information now available, principally on the Internet.

The range of information relevant to capital markets is so vast that specialized technology is required to process data and organize collaboration with efficiency.

Capital Market Taxonomy and the use of semantic wikis are discussed in this article.

US Politics

President Obama and the Lincoln Bible

New Leaders

The Crash of 2008 put Barack Obama in the Oval Office and was the culmination of two secular financial trends: a growing US trade deficit that was the root of easy financing for credit cards and mortgages, and the stock buyback movement that manipulated the equity market and that, in recent years, had become dependent upon easy credit rather than corporate profits.

Americans now have an untested, inexperienced leader, with strange radical friends and a leftist deficit spending agenda. Obama must govern 300 million people in a serious economic crisis that he has the power to exacerbate.

In Obama’s first hundred days, the case of the Lincoln Bible, the Stimulus Bill, staffing problems, and the Maersk Alabama incident, hinted of difficult days to come for the United States.

Restoring investor confidence

Reforming the SEC

In olden times, brokers had unlimited personal liability ...

The Crash of 2008 revealed weaknesses in the US SEC’s ability to protect the public. SEC commissioners have more incentives to favor issuers and market institutions than ordinary investors.

Appointed for five years, after serving many commissioners go back to work for market institutions.

A commissioner that is too zealous in investor protection may be unemployed when his or her term expires.

This article discusses possible solutions.

Page 1 of 512345

Featured articles on inside pages

Stock buybacks

Stock buybacks, refusing to die, live on

In Q1 2009, stock buybacks came back, driving up equity prices and sparking a rally by dominating a thin market. These equity repurchases were financed from depreciation and bond issues. More ...

Securities Analysis

Managing complexity

Modern capital markets have become so complex that security analysis methods of the 1930s are no longer adequate. Complexity goes beyond financial data to collateral issues such as operations, foreign and domestic taxation, and structural risks. More ...

US Politics

Why Congress won't kill ACORN

Closely connected with President Obama, the ACORN group of "community organizers" has drawn censure from the Democrat-controlled Congress as a result of investigative reporting by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. More ...

US equities

Households save more and invest in equities

Government economic stimulus programs that have sent money directly to US households have resulted in more saving and less spending. Low interest rates have encouraged individuals to move from debt instruments into equities. More ...

US Bonds

Bond demand exceeds supply for a decade

Over the decade, 1995-2004, the demand for US bonds of all types has surpassed new bond issues in eight of the last ten years. This is the reason that bond prices have held firm, even in 2003, when net new issues reached almost $1.8 trillion. More ...

World Economy

What Is ‘International Liquidity’?

It used to be that the term 'international liquidity' meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation's monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation's currency held by foreigners. More ...

Custom Search

Subscribe / Follow

Subscribe via RSS Subscribe via Email

Site navigation

Capital Flow Watch has hundreds of articles on economics and investments.

Articles have excerpts on the front pages, and on tag, category, search and archive pages.


Review capital-flow-watch.net on alexa.com

» Blog Guide

Excerpts by Category

Article Calendar

April 2009
MTWTFSS
« Mar May »
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930 

Stock Quotes

DJIA11241.51  chart +0.44%
NASDAQ2522.89  chart +0.19%
S&P 5001203.55  chart +0.36%

Ftse 1005819.17  chart +0.38%
Dax6788.62  chart +0.80%
Cac 403869.14  chart +0.05%

Nikkei 2259827.51  chart +1.06%
Hang Seng Index24027.18  chart -0.81%
Straits Times Ind3236.80  chart -0.47%

Eur To Usd1.36  chartN/A
Usd To Jpy82.84  chartN/A
Gbp To Usd1.61  chartN/A

2010-11-15 10:31