Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on April 29th, 2009 |

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
By John Schroy, on April 27th, 2009 |

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
By John Schroy, on April 23rd, 2009 |

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.
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