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by aedens
Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:49 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

EBIT will prevail. Nothing else matter's. Net working capital as a percent of total assets is the seed money to projects underway. CFO's are under intense pressure to get the sheet in order in peer review to even get a contract to customer's order's. ================================================ ...
by aedens
Thu Apr 09, 2009 2:14 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

P/E Valuations Skyrocket; Market Shrugs Excellent article that I would recommend the typical investor read in order to become more circumspect in dealing with financial reporting that is often incompetent and even fraudulent. I know it seems like nobody is listening when you make this point (that t...
by aedens
Thu Apr 09, 2009 12:17 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

http://www.mellon.org/about_foundation/history/andrew-w-mellon History will bear that they worked for this man and that includes the Presidents whom they quote "the presidents worked for" in the context of the monetary issues of the day. The key focus IMO is the attributes of the period and its expa...
by aedens
Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:25 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

Mainstream paradox Globalization and the integration and rise of the world's developing economies have been taking place at a breakneck pace. Who would have believed 20 years ago that China would become the world's third-largest economy in 2008? Or that so many jobs and, in some cases, whole industr...
by aedens
Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:08 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

http://www.prudentbear.com/index.php/commentary/creditbubblebulletin The central bank said the funding will promote bilateral trade and direct investment by allowing one country to pay for imports in another nation’s currency… The central bank has entered swap agreements with Indonesia, Malaysia, So...
by aedens
Wed Apr 08, 2009 2:51 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

Larry Kantor, global head of research at Barclays Capital, also said in the bank's global outlook report that the "green shoots" of recovery have arrived. He said there were signs of a turnaround in parts of Asia and a bottoming out in the US economy. Brian Lenihan, the finance minister, outlined a ...
by aedens
Sat Apr 04, 2009 4:34 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Way too many 'Experts'!

I can't be the only one to notice the massive explosion of financial blogs. I'd say that most of the authors have no industry experience (I have none myself, so I claim no righteousness in this matter). This is hopefully a good thing because there seems to be a lot of rigorous and objective researc...
by aedens
Thu Apr 02, 2009 10:55 pm
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

The world is likely to become more localized in all of this. Successful companies will emphasize long-term relationships with local customers not as choice, but any survival of scale. History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. http://www.ratical.org/r...
by aedens
Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:40 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Federal Regulator accused of suborning fraud

You have argued for a very long time that this system, the world monetary system, was fatally flawed. Gunnar Tómasson Yes, absolutely. But in this business there is something else that one discovers early on; namely, that if you are in a position of responsibility in the world monetary system and ma...
by aedens
Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:35 am
Forum: Finance and Investments
Topic: Financial topics
Replies: 29822
Views: 16777215

Re: Financial topics

Perception is not Reality Looking at things from the other end of the European Union I see a somewhat more nuanced and less alarming picture. Granted, the economic problems that the countries in central Europe face are real. But so are those faced by Ireland, Spain or for that matter the UK. Estonia...