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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.

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Stock buybacks

Stock buybacks dry up

Since 1982, US equities have been driven upwards by stock buybacks. Federal Reserve statistics show corresponding sales of stocks as executives exercised options to take advantage of manipulated prices. More ...

Securities Analysis

Innovative institutional research methods

The Crash of 2008 led to questions concerning the scope and quality of institutional investment research. The flood of open source investment data on the Internet presents opportunities to researchers.There are new ways to manage institutional research, including separation of fact-gathering from data analysis, out-sourcing, student-sourcing, and home-sourcing, financial taxonomy, and semantic wikis.
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US Politics

President Obama's Lincoln moment

In mid 2009, Barack Obama found that Lincoln's saying, "You can't fool all of the people all of the time," applied to his presidency. Profligate spending and unpopular health reform ended Obama's honeymoon. More ...

US equities

Stocks surge on spurious earnings

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 reserves and bond issues. More ...

US Bonds

The collapse of the dollar and US bonds?

The extreme spending of the Obama government, combined with 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. More ...

World Economy

Signs of US losing its groove?

Thirty years ago, US income from abroad was more than double the amount of income that the US paid to the rest of the world. This year, or the next, this foreign income surplus may disappear forever. Is the US 'losing its groove'? More ...

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