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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

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How rating agencies contributed to the Crash

Church selling indulgences

The Crash of 2008 revealed serious flaws in the rating agency system. The market had lost confidence in the major agencies because of the practice of selling ratings. Also, ratings had become a condition of default and agencies, to look good, rapidly downgraded issues just prior to default.

Reform of this system is not simple, requiring an entirely new approach consistent with the complexity of today’s market. Collaborative research with new Internet technology is a possible solution.

The coming devaluation

Inflation and the lure of REITS

San Francisco real estate

Real Estate Investment Trusts were beaten down by the Crash of 2008. However, in anticipation of an inflationary environment, we note that REITs are selling at significant discounts. This situation may present opportunities in an inflationary environment.

However, REITs are tricky and risky. Investors should consider doing their own research when venturing in this market.

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An encyclopedia of world capital markets

Capital Market Wiki

Today, Capital Market Wiki has “gone public”, after thirty months of development effort. This is a free encyclopedia of world financial markets that anyone can edit, based on semantic wiki technology and Capital Market Taxonomy.

This non-profit project is sponsored by the Center for Capital Flow Analysis and addresses informational shortcomings in increasingly complex capital markets.

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Featured articles on inside pages

Stock buybacks

Stock buybacks and dividend equivalency

Corporations have argued that stock buybacks are equivalent to dividends. This article explains why this is not true and why suggesting buyback-dividend equivalency may constitute fraud.
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Securities Analysis

Mark-to-market nonsense

Banks, by their nature, are insolvent, requiring government guarantees of their liabilities to protect against bank runs. Over the last fifty years, the percentage of bank liabilities guaranteed by the government has fallen considerably, while banks, free from the shackles of the Glass-Steagall Act, have become increasingly complex.
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US Politics

What is the future of private pension plans?

Between 1999 and 2002, US private pension funds lost US$ 1.2 trillion in value. It would almost seem that pension fund managers had been speculating with retirement money, attempting to beat each others' short-term performance statistics, with little interest in safeguarding the assets of plan beneficiaries. More ...

US equities

Sarbanes-Oxley and the shortage of equities

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by discouraging companies to go public, will exacerbate the shortage of equities, with a negative effect on the US stock market, although this was not the intent of its authors. Poorly drafted, ill-conceived, and unfair this law does little to protect investors.
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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

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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