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| Subject: Barney Frank Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940) is the United States House Representative for Massachusetts’s 4th congressional district since 1981. He is a member of the Democratic Party. In 1982, he won his first full term, and he has been re-elected ever since by wide margins. In 1987, he became the second openly gay member of the House of Representatives, and he has become one of the most prominent LGBT politicians in the United States. The 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 urlThe Efficient Market Hypothesis By John Schroy, on March 23rd, 2009 | Leave a comment  The Crash of 2008 was exacerbated by a FASB mark-to-market rule that required financial institutions to write down assets below commonsense valuation. As John Maynard Keynes remarked, the problem was an academic scribbler’s unproven theory, some forty years ago. That ’scribbler’ was Eugene Fama and his unproven idea was called “The Efficient Market Hypothesis”. The Crash of 2008 did much to discredit this harmful musing that supported Modern Portfolio Theory, mark-to-mark accounting, and unmanaged index funds. March 23rd, 2009 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: AIG, Barney Frank, Bernard Baruch, Chris Dodd, dividends, efficient market hypothesis, FASB, Franklin Raines, George W Bush, John Maynard Keynes, mark-to-market, Morningstar, Standard & Poor's, Total Returns, US SEC, US Treasury, Warren Buffett | Category: Economic Theory | Leave a comment | Short urlStock buyback fraud By John Schroy, on May 16th, 2007 | Leave a comment  The Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts have signaled that there is a massive disequilibrium in the US equity market for over a year. Most investors will pass through these days of madness, hardly appreciating the spectacle that surrounds them. However, I will step into the breach and make an unsolicited public service announcement: “The Great Buyback Bubble is now official! Look around you and behold!” May 16th, 2007 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Barney Frank, Benjamin Graham, Bill Clinton, Corporate Governance, Federal Reserve Bank, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, New York Times, Paul Krugman, rating agencies, Rosy O'Donnell, Stock Buybacks, US SEC, US taxation | Category: Stock Buybacks | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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