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Tag: 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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In the 2005 Berkshire-Hathaway annual report, Warren Buffet points to the unethical aspects of the buyback-option schemes so common in the US stock market. He noted that "Too often ... the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO’s pay. ... every dime paid out in dividends reduces the value of all outstanding options"
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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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It used to be that the term 'international liquidity' meant the relative amount of resources available to a nation's monetary authorities that could be used to settle a balance of payments deficit. In the days of the gold standard, this would mean access to gold that could be used to redeem a nation's currency held by foreigners. More ...

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