Financial topics

[OLD1953]

SEC cracking down on the private stock market.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/14/technol ... /index.htm

The party's over. After a yearlong investigation into the trading of private-company stock, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges on Wednesday against four firms involved in the shadowy secondary market.

The charges vary against trading platform SharesPost and investment funds Felix Investments, Facie Libre Management and EB Financial, but they all signal the same thing: no more free-wheeling trading in the stock of companies that aren't yet public

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Laws being enforced, fines being levied - maybe there is a trend.

[aedens]

What trend? This all started when the majority checked there brain's at the door in the morning. The taxpayer is so battered and bruised he still has no clue how bad he truly being adulterated and for that matter how they even are doing it. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PReden.htm

[OLD1953]

Perhaps so, but even the tiny bits of action I've posted would have been impossible prior to 2007. The mental outlook, on the hill and elsewhere is changing. Millions are realizing the old battles have returned and have to be fought all over again. While irrelevant in most other aspects, the recent contraception debate is a clear indicator of a battle thought past and done with that has come back from the grave to be reexamined as roles of women and men are reexamined. The evolution towards the next Turning is slow but ongoing. We simply await the final reckoning.

[aedens]

We simply await the final reckoning.
People think they have the right to take others money until they run out of it is all it is about for so called control. The confusion is fiat is backed with gun powder and Gresham's law is void to them.

[aedens]

SEC cracking down on the private stock market.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/14/technol ... /index.htm

The party's over. After a yearlong investigation into the trading of private-company stock, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges on Wednesday against four firms involved in the shadowy secondary market.

The charges vary against trading platform SharesPost and investment funds Felix Investments, Facie Libre Management and EB Financial, but they all signal the same thing: no more free-wheeling trading in the stock of companies that aren't yet public

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Laws being enforced, fines being levied - maybe there is a trend.

They were charged with hiding mark-ups on their Facebook investments. Bucket shops, wow the sec sure made vanilla believe the market is all about the investor. /sarc Truly they deserve all they get and then some....
I think fear is motive. Vanilla is pissed and the latency of effect is kicking in. Also, I understand these are complex cases so we must temper our response also. Hard to do at times but we can only hope we are making the transition in this market cycle. Blind trust is just that, we sorta know better how this works out! Countless members asked them to stop the nonsence. You must truly, as I do enjoy the meme we are here to serve the taxpayer! Ok, go away and take half with you!
So we can collaspe and sort out the dead wood quicker. Look around and see who and what is going on around you. I have, nothing is moving in around us. I will truly look harder as you spend us into oblivion Sam, thanks for asking!

[aedens]

Perhaps so, but even the tiny bits of action I've posted would have been impossible prior to 2007. The mental outlook, on the hill and elsewhere is changing. Millions are realizing the old battles have returned and have to be fought all over again. While irrelevant in most other aspects, the recent contraception debate is a clear indicator of a battle thought past and done with that has come back from the grave to be reexamined as roles of women and men are reexamined. The evolution towards the next Turning is slow but ongoing. We simply await the final reckoning.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/terminate ... impartial-
I will grant we are just starting to resolve these maniacs who are destroying the taxpayers. Hope is the winds of change.
I will admitt what we see and I agree with your conclusions. On a serious note some are saying after this election we will know if we can even survive them. We have touched on that thought also. They are not even pretending to care.

[aedens]

Millions are realizing the old battles have returned and have to be fought all over again.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... %20Article

On a serious note some are saying after this election we will know if we can even survive them. We have touched on that thought also. They are not even pretending to care.

If the democrats keep poking this topic they will be out of power a hundred years.
We apply the Generational Dynamics methodology ruthlessly, without any biases: We take no sides in any political battles (such as Republicans vs Democrats)

[Higgenbotham]

On the day the stock market made its high in 2008 before the ball started rolling downhill, what was it that triggered the move down from the highs that day? Was it an economic data release? Guess not. From one of the news reports linked below from that day:

Economic bellwethers, such as industrial conglomerate Caterpillar rose. Data in recent days has suggested the economy is likely to avoid a debilitating recession. On Monday, the Conference Board, a private business research group, said its Leading Economic Indicators index rose 0.1 percent in April, the same as in March.

A comment by a government official? Not that either:

The equity markets were buoyed early by comments from officials in the euro zone's two largest economies -- Germany and France -- that were optimistic.

France is on track to meet a target of between 1.7 percent and 2 percent economic expansion in 2008, said Economy Minister Christine Lagarde. Germany surprised analysts and grew 1.5 percent from January to March, its strongest quarterly expansion since 1996.

Find out here by reading these old news archives.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/ ... 9320080519
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/ ... 0220080519
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/05/ ... 5220080519

Technology shares, however, fell after the chief executive of semiconductor maker SanDisk Corp. (SNDK.O) warned on consumer spending levels. CEO Eli Harari told Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in Boston that "with the oil prices hitting $127 a barrel, discretionary spending is going to be affected."

The S&P 500 index and Dow Jones industrials eked out gains on Monday as record oil prices boosted energy shares, but the Nasdaq slipped after a chipmaker's warning about consumer spending hurt technology shares.

[vincecate]

If oil prices go up and stay up then eventually the cost of everything else will move up. Food and transportation depend directly on oil (fertilizer for food). Everybody and everything depend on food and transportation. So if oil prices are up and staying up then inflation is coming. If inflation is coming there will be more pressure on the Fed to not print so much money. Also, higher inflation tends to push up nominal interest rates, which lowers bond and stock prices. So it makes sense that high oil prices can pop the stock or bond bubble.

[Higgenbotham]

"But fears are now mounting that gas prices could begin to weaken consumer confidence. The average pump price nationwide is $3.83 a gallon."

"In January, retail gasoline prices averaged $3.37 a gallon, according to the Oil Price Information Service, a private fuel information service."

https://www.wellsfargo.com/downloads/pd ... 052012.pdf

From the report,

"Gasoline Consumption and Disposable Income
Motor Vehicle & Other Fuels as a % of Disposable Personal
Percent of Disposable Income: Jan @ 3.27%"

3.27% (3.83/3.37) = roughly 3.7% of disposable income is going toward fuels now.

I'm looking at the graph in the Wells Fargo report and at 3.7% the economy would probably be in recession right now, all things equal, as the economy was well into recession by the time disposable income going toward fuels reached this level in 2008.