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Subject: Capital Market Wiki

A semantic wiki, based on Capital Market Taxonomy, designed to assist collaborative research on capital market topics. See: http://www.capital-market-wiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Post Modern Security Analysis

Truth, fact, and opinion

University library + Internet = open source info

In security analysis, it is important to get the facts, before forming an opinion. Effective collaborative research calls for rigorous separation of the fact-gathering from the decision-making stages of the process. This article shows how fact-gathering of open-source information on the Internet could have saved investors from the Madoff calamity.

This is Part Eight in a series on Post Modern Security Analysis.

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.

Investor protection:

US SEC lets issuers play “Where’s Wally?”

The fine art of hiding in plain sight

The US SEC allows issuers to hide required disclosure by perceptual tricks that remind one of the children’s series, “Where’s Wally?”

These methods include burying warnings in a list of unlikely risks, incorporating facts ‘by reference’, loading documents with irrelevancies, and playing the ‘each fact in the proper document’ game.

Capital Market Taxonomy provides ready-to-use check-lists that help analysts cut through dense disclosure documents.

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Do stocks offer protection against inflation?

There is a common belief that a managed, diversified portfolio of US common stocks provides protection against inflation. However, there is reason to question whether this protection currently exists.
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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 ...

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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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