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Subject: Capital Market Taxonomy

Capital Market Taxonomy is an information classification system developed by John Oswin Schroy for Capital Market Wiki to categorize some types of general knowledge about financial and capital markets so that this information can be stored with minimum redundancy and easily recovered when needed. See: http://www.capital-market-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Help:Taxonomy.

This is a 'game-changer'

Economic recovery may wait until 2016

Economic systems and institutions tend to gradually corrode and become increasingly inefficient and unstable

The current economic crisis, which started with the market crash of 2008, is a ‘game-changer’ that requires effective leadership with a firm grasp of economic reality and a willingness to introduce sensible bipartisan reforms in many areas of financial markets.

Unfortunately, these conditions are unlikely to be met before 2016. In the meantime, history suggests that there are likely to be many false rallies and dashed hopes before true recovery begins.

Post Modern Security Analysis

Operational versus financial information

Operations: the How and Why of markets ...

The Crash of 2008 suggests that understanding the operational details of capital markets can be as important as traditional Graham & Dodd security analysis.

This article, Part Nine in the series on Post Modern Security Analysis, discusses Capital Market Taxonomy as applied to market operations and the use of a semantic wiki in collaborative research.

Post Modern Security Analysis:

Creating a research community

Finding a collaborative research group ...

Post Modern Security Analysis calls for collaborative research of open source investment information.

But how can such collaboration be organized?

This article describes how the wiki concept, Capital Market Taxonomy, and pre-defined topical outlines facilitate the process.

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Stock buybacks

Buybacks + options + hedge funds

Stock buyback programs are a legalized form of market manipulation, sanctioned under SEC Rule 10b-18 and that serve to drive up the price of a company's stock and to give false value to executive stock options.
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Securities Analysis

Are investors being misled?

Mutual funds are sold primarily on the basis of 'performance' measured by historical 'total return'.The famous Morningstar 'star' rating system is based on 'total return', in this case 'risk-adjusted total return' relative to funds of the same asset category.
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US Politics

Why are the Super-Rich often liberals?

If we are to believe the old adage that, 'people vote their pocketbooks', why are so many of the Super-Rich ardent supporters of the Democratic Party? Why do the liberal Super-Rich seem to act in a way that is so contrary to their selfish interests and economic well-being? Here I show how capital flow analysis of the Federal Reserve flow of funds accounts provides an answer to this apparent conundrum. 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

Working off the US trade deficit

Foreigners hold $16.8 trillion in US financial assets as a result of selling more goods to Americans than they buy from them. Since the 'deficit' is in dollars, the US has no problem in 'paying it off'. More ...

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