January 2002 - April 2002  (Many Links Will Be Dated)

Apr 30 Credit Card Delinquency Soars CardWeb
Apr 30 Why Economic Recovery Looks Good, But Feels Bad NY Post
Apr 29 Analyst: Recovery may be limited USA Today
“The analytical case for a double-dip (recession) is actually more compelling today than it was at the first of the year.”
Apr 29 No Pricing Leverage   MS (Roach)
Apr 29 Government Fails Fiscal-Fitness Test Insight
“...the U.S. government doesn't cook its books — the government is honest enough to admit that it just doesn't know where the money went.”
Apr 29 Dollar drop a danger sign for stocks CBS MarketWatch
“Foreigners buy the big caps, the well-known names, the S&P 500. If a declining 'market' and a declining dollar causes some foreign exit, it will be the S&P 500 that they're exiting”
Apr 29 Ignore tech fantasies and analysts' fairy tales CNNfn (Fleck)
Apr 29 Belaboring The Point Contary Investor
Apr 29 Has the Recession Started Yet? AEI
Apr 29 After the Bust, It's Time for Payback LA Times
Apr 29 Inflation Breakdown Nears GoldenBar
Apr 29 2004: The Next Great US Depression Gold-Eagle
Apr 29 Argentina Crisis Could Yet Affect US AP
Apr 28 Rising Oil Prices Bad News for Wall St Reuters
Apr 27 Lessons From A Nasdaq Bust Zeal
Apr 27 Pension Folly: How Losses Become Profits NT Yimes
“In the land of executive compensation, there is nothing like being paid for profits that you can be sure will be counted, even if they do not exist. Why take chances with real earnings?”
Apr 27 Rogue Waves & Standard Deviations - Part 1 Financial Sense
Apr 27 Cruising for a Fall in Tech Stocks? Reuters
“The recovery of technology stocks is still a great illusion and investors may soon find out -- again -- that owning a piece of the once-hot New Economy is not as thrilling as it used to be.”
Apr 27 Editorial comment: The dollar's precarious perch Financial Times
Apr 26 Budget Deficit for '02 May Top $100 Billion Washington Post
Apr 26 Still Waiting for the Profit Rebound Business Week
“...in the 30 years BusinessWeek has tracked quarterly revenues, this is the biggest falloff ever.”
Apr 26 Gold: It's not just for dreamers anymore CBS MarketWatch
Apr 26 University of Michigan Confidence Index Falls to 3-Month Low Bloomberg
Apr 26 Massive Distribution Top Comstock
Apr 26 American seniors rack up debt like never before   USA Today
Apr 26 Dynegy Disaster NY Post
Apr 26 SEC Opens Probe of Analysts' Practices Washington Post
Apr 26 Bill would make securities fraud a federal felony Bloomberg
Apr 26 Some Mutual Fund Ads Don't Add Up TheStreet
Apr 26 More bubble and squeak Economist
“A modern central bank needs to watch asset prices as well as traditional inflation.”
Apr 26 Argentine Banks to Reopen on Limited Basis   Dow Jones
Apr 26 Return to the dark ages Economist
Apr 25 Licked Lipper Is Liquidiating His Funds NY Post
Apr 25 Dollar's Woes Deepen Reuters  INO Chart
“A technical break in the dollar index below its 200-day moving average has encouraged further selling and the dollar now seems under attack from all sides.”
Apr 25 Tyco Scraps Breakup Plan, To cut 7,100 Jobs Bloomberg
Apr 25 Boom Is Over; Inquiries Aren't NY Times
Apr 25 SEC goes after Danville man for allegedly bilking clients SF Gate
Apr 24 A New Record: AOL Posts $54.2 Bln 1st-Qtr Loss Bloomberg
Apr 24 GE's Long-Term Debt Skyrocketing Bloomberg
“GE's long-term debt wouldn't be this high if the company hadn't played the earnings-per-share game so enthusiastically.”
Apr 24 Start Shredding NY Post
Apr 24 STOP. LOOKING. AT. TECH! CNNfn
Apr 24 Data suggest recession delivered blow to incomes AP
“...they are going to have to revise away a lot of last year's growth, and it will turn out that the recession was indeed a recession and was more severe than previously thought”
Apr 24 Commentary: Still Spooked by the Market Business Week
Apr 24 ABC/Money-U.S. consumer confidence drops sharply on week Reuters
Apr 24 Argentina Says Return to Fixed Exchange Rate Possible Reuters
Apr 24 Argentine economy chief quits BBC
Apr 23 Turn off the 'Hype Machine' CBS MarketWatch
Apr 23 Anemic recovery doesn't justify tech price CBS MarketWatch
Apr 23 Massive telecom shortfalls, cuts loom Boston Globe
Apr 23 Accounting Acrobatics Forbes
Apr 22 The Bear's Lair: Boomers' bursting bubble UPI  Bears Lair*
Apr 22 For Investors, Inertia May Be a Costly Force LA Times
Apr 22 Converging Crossroads GoldenBar
Apr 22 Greenspan Questions Fannie, Freddie Reuters
Apr 22 Argentina 'risks financial collapse' BBS
Apr 22 In Argentina, fear feeds gun sales CSM
Apr 22 Ericsson Lucent Worldcom BBC  Bloomberg CBS
Apr 22 Goodwill adjustments pack a punch Seattle Times
Apr 22 Drugmakers Struggle with An Addiction Business Week
Apr 21 Argentina's Daylight Robbery Bloomberg
“If this is what Duhalde is willing to do to his own countrymen, think what he might do to foreign investors.”
Apr 21 New Junk Bonds On Record Setting Run NY Post
Apr 20 Bear Market on Target 321Gold (Zeal)
Apr 20 Argentina closes all banks BBC
Apr 20 G7, EU press Argentina on fiscal restraint, reforms Reuters
Apr 20 Buffett's Berkshire Sees Lower Returns Bloomberg
Apr 19 Dollar hits three-month-low as confidence erodes FT
Apr 19 FBI warns U.S. banks of attacks CBS
Apr 19 How Banking Fees Corrupt Wall Street Bloomberg
Apr 19 Return of the shareholder CBS MarketWatch
Apr 19 SBC to cut 4,000 more positions SF Gate
Apr 19 3,000 more jobs go in Nortel battle for survival Financial Post
Apr 19 Qwest cuts 2,000 jobs Reuters
Apr 19 More pink slips fly at Boeing Seattle Times
Apr 19 'A straight line back to September 11' Financial Post
Apr 18 Microsoft profits disappoint BBC
Apr 18 O'Neill: Why can't we stop this madness? DJ
Apr 18 After the binge Financial Times
Apr 18 Trade-Gap Warnings MS (Roach)
Apr 18 J.P. Morgan structured finance head quits Reuters
Apr 18 Fed's hold on rate hikes a 'mistake' Financial Post
Apr 18 Jobless claims above 400K for Third Straight Week DOL
Apr 18 Fund managers aren't cheering   IHT (Merrill)
“Nearly two-thirds of managers said American stocks were the most overvalued.”
Apr 18 Markets Ignore Good News, Feed the Bears TheStreet
“Greenspan really, really -- like Sally Fields -- wants the equity market to like him”
Apr 18 Ex-Global Crossing CEO Hindery made undisclosed stock trades WSJ
Apr 17 Testimony - Chairman Alan Greenspan FED
Apr 17 Wall Street's Den of Thieves Fast Company
“If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why.”
Apr 17 That '70s Market USNews
Apr 17 A Confusing Update on Inflation Bloomberg
Apr 17 Currency Outlook Golden Bar
Apr 16 On the trail of the con-artists Money Observer
Apr 16 Option “Reform” Would Gouge Taxpayers, Investors, Study Warns NTU
Apr 16 Will bad loans trip up housing? CBS MarketWatch
Apr 16 Housing Starts Tumble 8% in March DOC (PDF)
Apr 16 Consumer Prices Up 0.3% In March (0.1% Core) BLS 
Apr 16 Office Vacancy Rate Continues to Rise in L.A. LA Times
Apr 16 Congress presses J.P. Morgan for data on Enron transactions WSJ
Apr 16 Bank of Canada raises rates on "robust" recovery Reuters
Apr 15 Accounting, revenue worries assail GE CBS
Apr 15 GE to cut 7,000 jobs in 2002 Reuters
Apr 15 Goldman Turns Down Request by General Electric for More Credit Bloomberg
Apr 15 J.P. Morgan asked to detail Enron loans Reuters
Apr15 Warren Buffett: Stock options, the megabucks battle
Apr 15 SEC Queries Hewlett-Packard on Compaq Reuters
Apr 15 Corning make cut “up to 4,000 people” Reuters
Apr 15 Japan's Long-Term Sovereign Credit Ratings Cut to `AA-' by S&P Bloomberg
Apr 15 Confessions of a Dipper   MS (Roach)
Apr 15 The Last Wave Financial Sense
Apr 15 Brandies Pimco (Gross)
Apr 15 2003 Budget Completes Big Jump in Spending Washington Post
Apr 15 Citigroup misses estimates Reuters  Earnings Scorecard CNNfn
Apr 15 AOL Slips as It Tries to Get Grip on Market NY Times
Apr 15 Oil prices rise on Chavez return BBC
Apr 15 Iran Calls for One-Month Anti-Israeli Oil Embargo   Reuters
Apr 15 Goldman Turns Down Request by General Electric for More Credit Bloomberg
Apr 15 (Canadian) Central bank likely to hike rates tomorrow Financial Post
Apr 14 What Comeback? NY Post
Apr 14 Pushing the Pay Envelope Too Far NY Times
Apr 13 If history's an indication, we're in for a long slump AP
“...the Dow reached a high in 1966, but then lost 75 percent of its value between that point and the low it made in 1982.”
Apr 13 Corporate borrowing costs rising CBS MarketWatch  (Kellner)
Apr 13 Nasdaq Proposes New Governance Standards NASDAQ
“shareholder approval of stock option plans”
Apr 13 EU wades into analyst integrity row BBC
“Systematically skewed" recommendations by analysts may "significantly" have fuelled the dot.com bubble of the late 1990s”
Apr 12 Listening to Business   MS (Roach)
Apr 12 S&P says debt default rate higher than in last recession Financial Times
Apr 12 The Outlook: Profits -- and Pessimism Business Week
Apr 12 US rumour hits techs and telecoms The Guardian
“Sharp falls on Wall Street were blamed on Janus liquidating its positions in order to shore up other parts of its portfolio amid talk that the funds have seen massive redemptions...”
Apr 12 Fed Poole: Must Act Preemptively on Inflation Reuters
Apr 12 Sweeps Week Part II Depression.tv
Apr 12 S&P Cuts Tech Outlook S&P
Apr 12 University of Michigan expectations index falls in April CBS MarketWatch
Apr 12 Producer Prices Surge by 1% in March BLS (+0.1% Core)
Apr 12 Retail Sales Edge Up 0.2% In March Census
Apr 12 Go Greenspan's Way on Stock Options Business Week
“If it's true, as they and the President say, that investors already understand how stock-option grants affect their shares, then why would they care about spelling it out in the income statement?”
Apr 12 SEC: Faster filings, faster disclosure CBS MarketWatch
Apr 12 Justice probes Computer Associates WSJ
Apr 12 SEC Says IBM Probe Ended in February Washington Post
Apr 12 Tokyo bank report calms few nerves BBC
Apr 12 Oil Slides as Venezuela's Chavez Ousted Reuters
Apr 11 US corporate credit worth declined again in 1Q2002 Moodys
Apr 11 Now KPMG’s In Hot Water Over Xerox NY Post
Apr 11 UBS Warburg says U.S. recovery may fade in H2 2002 Reuters
Apr 11 Companies May Hide Risks, Pimco's Gross Says Bloomberg
Apr 11 Sharpening The Ax NY Post
Aor 10 N.Y. probe of Wall St. banks expands CBS MarketWatch
Apr 10 Spending of tax refunds drying up? MSNBC
Apr 10 Exposing the Shell Game On Wall Street   NY Post
Apr 10 Loophole inflates earnings USA Today
“Earnings would have been 10% lower last fiscal year at the 50 largest companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that have filed year-end results had they counted options as an expense...”
Apr 09 The Marvel That Is Capitalism Ludwig Von Mises
Apr 09 Gold's Challenge GoldenBar
Apr 09 Nortel warns on Q1 Globe & Mail
Apr 08 Iraq Halts Oil Exports for 30 Days Bloomberg
Apr 08 Opec warns of oil crisis BBC
Apr 08 J.P. Morgan, Among 9 Banks Named in Enron Suit Bloomberg
“J.P. Morgan helped Enron hide almost $4 billion in debt in the partnerships...”
Apr 08 Tech stocks: Keep your shirt on IHT
Apr 08 IBM Warns TheStreet
Apr 08 Andersen cuts 7,000 - Levi Strauss cuts 3,600 AP
Apr 08 The Next Big Thing Financial Sense
Apr 08 Gold Still Boiling in Oil 321Gold (Zeal)
Apr 08 Bush wary of upturn in economy WP
Apr 06 Pondering Imponderables Prudent Bear
Apr 05 Moody's, S&P say US credit quality bad, may turn Reuters
Apr 05 Payrolls Up 58K in March - Unemployment Rate 5.7% BLS
“Feb payrolls revised to a loss of 2,000 jobs after initial gain of 66,000”
Apr 05 The Dips Don't See a "Double-Dip” Gold-Eagle
Apr 05 Corporate cheapskates forget first rule CBS (Kellner)
“For the first time since the early 1930s, dividend payments are falling for three years in a row...”
Apr 05 The Dips Don't See a "Double-Dip” Gold-Eagle
Apr 05 SEC Chair: Corporate World Tainted AP
“...option plans for officers and directors should be approved by shareholders.”
Apr 05 Chase to Reduce Poconos Mortgages AP
“Real estate professionals inflated home prices and approved people for mortgages they could not afford...”
Apr 05 Iran wields oil embargo threat BBC
Apr 05 Nortel's debt turns to junk Financial Post
Apr 05 Japan's Debt Squad Battles Govt Inertia, Gangsters Bloomberg
Apr 04 The Bear's Lair: Hogarth’s apprentices   UPI
Apr 04 A Fiscal Boost Ends the Recession for Now AEI
Apr 04 On Current-Account Adjustments MS (Roach)
Apr 04 Tech recovery could slip further CBS MarketWatch
Apr 04 One bubble, like new — priced to sell Globe & Mail
Apr 04 Risky Business Fortune
“JPM’s telecom loan portfolio stands at $8.1 billion. Of that, $4 billion is to players whose debt is deemed non-investment grade...”
Apr 04 SEC Backs Probe of Enron's Deals Washington Post
Apr 04 Breaking HP Merger Story - ISS Owned by Warburg Pincus - SEC Asked to Intervene Parish
Apr 04 When Accountants Switch Sides CFO
Apr 04 Rumblings of an Arab oil embargo CSMonitor
Apr 04 U.S. official rejects IMF crisis plan IHT (WP)
Apr 04 J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Other Banks Will Be Named in Enron Case Bloomberg
Apr 03 Yesterday Came Suddenly Contrary Investor
Apr 03 Wall Street's Employment Cuts Are Biggest in a Quarter Century BL
Apr 03 Options-Expense Bill Meets Opposition Bloomberg
 “In 2001 the 30 members of the Dow had $11.8 billion in expenses related to options...only Boeing Co. put any value on its options when calculating earnings.”
Bloomberg
Apr 03 Documents show company's partner lost Enron work after criticizing energy firm AP
Apr 03 SEC accounting probe broadens WSJ
Apr 03 WorldCom to Cut 3,700 U.S. Jobs Reuters
Apr 02 Businesses sing bottom-line blues WSJ
“The mildness of the recession masked a ferocious corporate-profits crunch that has chief executives still slashing jobs and other costs.”
Apr 02 Unfinished Business MS (Roach)
Apr 02 Currency Politics & Gold GoldenBar
Apr 02 Mismanaged, misaligned or misunderstood? Economist
“The strong dollar is proving a constant irritation,,,”
Apr 02 Greenspan, Fed Bailed Out Marts In September NY Post
Apr 02 SEC: Corrupt or Merely Incompetent? Bloomberg
“The SEC is paid to create the illusion that it fights financial crime”
Apr 02 Sales of IPOs, Shares Drop 16% in First Quarter Bloomberg
Apr 02 Qwest Bracing for SEC Action AP
Apr 02 Xerox to Pay SEC $10 Million Fine To Settle Probe WP
Apr 01 Bear Warns: Don’t Believe the Hype Newsday
Apr 01 The Revenue Games People (Like Enron) Play Fortune
Apr 01 Investors turn dubious over earnings reports AP
Apr 01 Japan's savers have to share banks' pain Guardian
Apr 01 Defensive funds rule, despite recovery CBS MarketWatch
Apr 01 Pro forma earnings falling out of favor SF Gate
Apr 01 Enron is Fifth On Fortune 500 NY Post
Mar 29 Limit on Bank Guarantee Makes Japanese Anxious WP
Mar 29 Brace for realities of the new fiscal year Japan Times
Mar 29 Reawakening the Smoot-Hawley ghost Kellner
Mar 29 Goldman May Be Charged Over Bond Trading, People Say Bloomberg
Mar 29 Banking fees fell 12% in first quarter CBS MW
Mar 29 Unemployment Rises... Vickers
Mar 28 IRS Rejected Policy Shift On Options Washington Post
Mar 28 Why you should still listen to the bears Money
Mar 28 Stock Options: Bill Parish Beat The Journal By 4 Years Northern Trust
Mar 28 SEC asked IBM to ammend filings WSJ
Mar 28 Where are the costs of acquisitions? Financial Post
Mar 27 Profits Worldwide Fall for Fifth Straight Quarter, Led by U.S.  Bloomberg
Mar 27 Credit Card Delinquencies Rise Bloomberg
Mar 27 Anderson Forecasters See Possibility of Another Tumble Anderson
“...the Internet is actually killing profits while new communications technology is exacerbating the problem — two areas believed by many to be inherently positive factors for the economy.”
Mar 27 Bull (crap) Market   Forbes
Mar 27 Moody's warns it may downgrade Japanese banks Financial Times
Mar 27 Corporate governance Greenspan Speech
Mar 27 Credit Card Delinquencies Rise Bloomberg
Mar 27 Anderson Forecasters See Possibility of Another Tumble Anderson
“...the Internet is actually killing profits while new communications technology is exacerbating the problem — two areas believed by many to be inherently positive factors for the economy.”
Mar 27 Bull (crap) Market   Forbes
Mar 27 Moody's warns it may downgrade Japanese banks Financial Times
Mar 27 SEC investigating Network Associates   SF Gate
Mar 27 Corporate governance Greenspan Speech
“Regrettably, the current accounting for options has created some perverse effects on the quality of corporate disclosures...”
Mar 26 Recovery faces plenty of risks CBS MW (Kellner)
Mar 26 Real profits? Searching for the whole truth Financial Post
Mar 26 Beware the $500 Bln Market Value Bloomberg
Mar 26 Waste Management Ex-Executives Hiked Profit, SEC Says Bloomberg
Mar 26 Option Reform Gains Backing Washington Post
Mar 26 Enron plantiffs seen set to sue big investment banks Reuters
Mar 26 Japanese Big banks to slash rates April 1 Japan Online
“Interest on ordinary deposits may drop to lowly 0.01%”
Mar 26 Peso Down Steeply, Argentines Strengthen Currency Curbs NYT
Mar 25 It's Time for Companies to Come Clean BW
“properly accounting for options is not easy. But ignoring their costs is hardly the right solution.”
Mar 25 Fed considered emergency measures to save economy Financial Times
Mar 25 The Fed and Moral Hazard: have the nuts taken over the asylum? 321Gold
Mar 25 Earnings let-down may hurt Dow, say analysts Business Times
Mar 25 No Credit? No Problem! NY Post
Mar 25 Playboy Seeks Full Disclosure From 'Women of Enron'   Reuters
Mar 25 Capitalism's Paradox, the Fed GoldenBar
Mar 25 Sources: Lawmaker Looking Into SEC Shakeup CFO
Mar 25 Illusion Or Hoax? Daily Rckoning
Mar 25 CSFB cuts global equity weighting to neutral Reuters
Mar 25 Japan Land Prices Fall For 11th Straight Year In '01 Dow Jones
Mar 24 Telecom, Tangled in Its Own Web NY Times
Mar 24 Techs Still Crazy After All These Years Reuters
Mar 23 Let The 2002 Goodwill Games Begin! FS
Mar 23 EU readies hit list of U.S. products Reuter
Mar 22 Banks scramble to hold onto nervous depositors Japan Times
Mar 22 Few reasons to be cheerful on Wall Street Financial Times
“Goldman Sachs has started paying senior staff in options instead of stock...some costs of options are not required to be put through banks' profit and loss accounts until they vest, so they can help flatter profits.”
Mar 22 Midday Musings: Housing's Foundation May Be Shaky TheStreet
Mar 22 Treasury will employ creative accounting to avoid default CBS
Mar 22 ‘Wall $treet Week’ host bounced AP
Mar 22 Marconi forced to cut cash lifeline BBC
Mar 22 New York Stock Exchange Monthly Short Interest Report   NYSE
Mar 22 Bullish Sentiment Dips In Latest AAII Poll Dow Jones
Mar 21 Bankruptcies may lie at end of black hole clean-up Smithers
Mar 21 Pitt Clarifies Testimony On Fannie and Freddie Washington Post
Mar 20 Buffetting Corporate America Pimco (Gross)
“The corporation's (GE) honesty remains in doubt.”
Mar 20 A Record for Corporate Bankruptcies? Business Week
Mar 20 Greenspan wins the wrong war UPI
“Like a 1940 French general, hiding behind the Maginot line in the face of a newly mobile enemy, he is proving adept at fighting the previous war.”
Mar 20 U.S. Feb. budget gap $76 bln; debt limit looms Reuters
Mar 20 US Senate Poised To Vote On Energy Derivatives Amendment Reuters
“$75 Trillion Derivatives Market Deemed At Stake”
Mar 20 Investors' Intelligence Poll: Bullish Sentiment Stays Flat   Dow Jones
Mar 20 Steel war looms as US imposes tariffs BBC
Mar 20 Japan's gold imports surge 7-fold CBS MarketWatch
Mar 19 FOMC Statement FED
Mar 19 Father of all bear markets CBS MarketWatch
Mar 19 Analyst sees another March selloff CBS MarketWatch
Mar 19 Recasting Global Growth   MS (Roach)
Mar 19 O'Neill Set to Prevent Federal Default AP
Mar 19 To price or not to price in options CBS MarketWatch
Mar 19 Sweeps Week Depression2.tv
Mar 19 Cramer Book To Be Reissued Forbes
~  Trading with the Enemy  ~
Mar 18 Wall Street's Fake Rally? Fortune
Mar 18 Bullish Investors Need Reality Check Reuters
“Our advice is to run for your life” James Dines
Mar 18 IR’Rational’ Accounting NY Post
Mar 18 US first-quarter defaults head for record Financial Times
Mar 18 For annual reports, bigger is not better IHT (NYT)
Mar 18 Bush Abandons Strong Dollar GoldenBar
Mar 18 CSFB Plans More Layoffs Reuters
Mar 18 Global Crossing execs to testify AP
Mar 18 Triennial Central Bank Survey BIS
Mar 17 Part 1: Hubbert's Peak & The Economics of Oil Financial Sense
Mar 16 Hewlett Packard/Compaq Merger Analysis Parish
Mar 16 A telecom hangover ... that won’t go away MSNBC
Mar 15 Still Grossly Overvalued.... HD Brous
Mar 15 Musical Chairs in Asia   MS (Roach)
Mar 15 Salomon Under NYSE Investigation Over WorldCom Forbes
Mar 15 Senate Republican Calls for Fannie Mae Hearings Bloomberg
Mar 15 Another sucker rally goes up in smoke CBS (Erdman)
Mar 15 Bull run may wane if stock-propping fails Japan Times
Mar 14 Arthur Andersen Indicted   CBS MarketWatch
Mar 14 Global Financial Stability Report IMF
Mar 14 Business Inventories Up 0.2% in Jan, 1st rise in year Census
Mar 14 Weekly Jobless Claims at 377K DOL
Mar 14 The Fed's test Financial Times
Mar 14 Some Japanese Are Hoarding Gold NY Times
“...clerks have sometimes helped patrons load as much as 85 pounds of gold bullion — more than $300,000 worth — into shopping bags and lug the bags down the street to their cars.”
Mar 14 Andersen May File for Bankruptcy, Rejects Guilty Plea   Bloomberg
Mar 14 White-Collar Criminals   Fortune
Mar 14 Lehman offers fraud refund BBC
Mar 14 Boeing arm could add $1.2 bln in debt CBS
Mar 14 IMF says current US equities vulnerable to correction on poor earnings AFX
-----  Global Financial Stability Report IMF
Mar 14 Business Inventories Up 0.2% in Jan, 1st rise in year Census
Mar 14 Weekly Jobless Claims at 377K DOL
Mar 14 The Fed's test Financial Times
Mar 14 Some Japanese Are Hoarding Gold NY Times
“...clerks have sometimes helped patrons load as much as 85 pounds of gold bullion — more than $300,000 worth — into shopping bags and lug the bags down the street to their cars.”
Mar 14 Andersen May File for Bankruptcy, Rejects Guilty Plea   Bloomberg
Mar 14 White-Collar Criminals   Fortune
Mar 14 Lehman offers fraud refund BBC
Mar 14 Boeing arm could add $1.2 bln in debt CBS
Mar 13 Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan Fed
Mar 13 February Retail Sales Up 0.3%, or ‘Less Than Expected’
Mar 13 Congress Again Tries to Tighten Derivatives Rules a Bit NY Times
“This is the sacred cash cow for banks.  Derivatives contribute more to the profits
of commercial and investment banks than any other business line.”
Mar 13 Where This Bear Is Putting His Honey Business Week
Mar 13 Citigroup Sees Higher Net Credit Loss In Most Businesses Dow Jones
Mar 13 Argentina peso hits new low BBC
Mar 13 Study Suggests Plenty More Bankruptcies Await TheStreet (PWC)
Mar 13 Enron Plaintiffs May Name Citigroup, J.P. Morgan Bloomberg
Mar 13 External events often bring recession CBS MarketWatch (Kellner)
Mar 13 Andersen Drops TheStreet.com Over Cramer Remarks Washington Post
Mar 13 SEC says stock trade by GE vice president was illegal AP
Mar 12 Dot.com doomsters see more share falls BBC
Mar 12 Warning! Wall Street Is Ready to Pick Your Pocket NYPost
Mar 12 A Word Still Too Painful To Utter Forbes
Mar 12 The Economy That Didn't Crash Won't Boom, Either
Mar 12 Buffett lashes out at options IHT (NYT)
Mar 12 Argentina Prepares to Start Closing Nation's Banks Bloomberg
Mar 12 Congress looks to plug tax loophole Boston Globe
Mar 12 When Wall Street Advice Turns Costly NY Times
Mar 12 LU   NOK   CSFB   WCOM - Q
Mar 12 O'Neill Seen Maneuvering on Debt Limit AP
Mar 12 Congress looks to plug tax loophole Boston Globe
Mar 12 When Wall Street Advice Turns Costly NY Times
Mar 11 How Could I Be So Stupid?   MS (Roach)
Mar 11 Reducing Equity Weighting from 55% to 50% BofA (McManus) PDF File
Mar 11 Why the Bears Aren't Backing Down Business Week
Mar 11 Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Barclays Global Assume Key Role in Microsoft Financial Pyramid Scheme... Bill Parish
Mar 11 Bubble-era stock splits hurt per-share earnings   NYT
Mar 11 Japan braced for downgrade as economy dips Financial Times
Mar 11 US warns steel trade tensions may spread Financial Times
Mar 11 SEC Taking Harder Look at Qwest Swaps TheStreet
Mar 11 Berkshire Hathaway 2001 letter to shareholders BRK
Mar 11 Enron hit worse than Argentina Financial Post
Mar 11 Quarterly Review: International Banking and Financial Market Developments BIS
Mar 10 More Bear Market Rallies! 321Gold  ZEAL
Mar 10 Our ‘Non-Recession’ May Be Bad News NY Post
“Was this recession too shallow to purge the excesses of the bubble economy?”
Mar 10 The Brick Stood Up Before. But Now? NY Times
Mar 10 Buffett: No Feasting on This Market TheStreet
Mar 10 Wall Street's stock brokers are as depressed BBC
Mar 10 Buffett: No Feasting on This Market TheStreet
Mar 10 U.S. economists are rushing to ratchet their economic forecasts higher... Blue Chip
Mar 10 Wall Street's stock brokers are as depressed BBC
Mar 08 Unmanageable Bloat   MS (Roach)
Mar 08 JPM Chase To Swing Ax NY Post
Mar 08 Kmart to Close 284 Stores, Ax 22,000 Jobs Reuters
Mar 07 The Profitless Recovery Fortune
Mar 07 Overvalued In Every Way Comstock
Mar 07 Buy! No, sell! No, buy! No, sell! Globe & Mail
Mar 07 Why Greenspan allowed irrational exuberance Financial Times
Mar 07 Forbes Newsletter Watch: Best Still Bullish, But... Forbes
Mar 07 Merrill doubles convertible bond sale to $2 bln Reuters
Mar 07 Bush Plan Puts CEOs On Notice Washington Post
Mar 07 Kmart Delays Earnings Release - Kmart gets access to $2B DIP TheDeal
Mar 06 Policy 'lies' are the long and short of asset gloom   Smither
Mar 06 Investors better read the footnotes Grant (IHT)
Mar 06 Wall Street asked to detail Enron ties CBS MarkerWatch
Mar 06 Merrill Cuts Exposure to U.S., UK Stocks Reuters
“the U.S. market moves down to number three primarily due to concerns about valuations...”
Mar 06 Merrill U.S. strategist Bernstein wary of stocks Reuters
Mar 06 Analyst lost job over Enron recommendation Globe & Mail
Mar 06 Traders Ignore J.P. Morgan's Enron Setback TheStreet
Mat 06 It's Still Too Early to Celebrate   Business Week
Mar 06 Postal Service to cut another 10,000 jobs Bloomberg
Mar 06 Trade war looms over steel dispute BBC
Mar 05:  “It seems quite clear now that our economy never suffered a recession.” Paul O’Neill
Mar 05 Been Down So Long, It Only Looks Like Up NY Post
Mar 05 Can't trust Wall Street, says Main St.   CBS
Mar 05 J.P. Morgan Loses Bid to Force Payments Over Mahonia Bloomberg
Mar 05 March madness CBS MarketWatch (Kellner)
Mar 05 Providian Moving to Lower the Risk Bloomberg
Mar 05 Vivendi may reveal write-down of up to $13 billion for goodwill WSJ
Mar 05 Waste Management to Cut 2,000 Jobs AP
Mar 05 Dow Theory Divide Forbes
“Russell is still stomping his hooves and snorting derisively. He's even speculating about market manipulation... "Blow baby, blow. Looks like the pros want to bring back the bubble. Can you blame them? ... Hey, Wall Street isn't a charity affair, it's a business--and the business is distributing securities to the public. That's right, Wall Street's business isn't collecting stocks and bonds, it's getting rid of them.”   DTL
Mar 05 Accounting standards should change CBS MarketWatch
Mar 05 SEC plans oversight group within six months Bloomberg
Mar 05 Another Day, Another Porteno Globe & Mail
Mar 04 At The Margin Contrary Investor
Mar 04 The Inside Truth HD Brous
Mar 04 The Heavy Lifting of Global Decoupling MS (Roach)
Mar 04 Swiss seer ends his silence, but with no welcome tidings IHT
“...we are in a structural bear market that will last for five to 10 years.”
Mar 01 Bonds Tell the Story at J.P. Morgan TheStreet
“The bond market is acting like J.P. Morgan's debt has already been dropped two notches. “
Mar 01 Wall Street's urge to purge   USNews
Mar 01 O’Neill Has the White House Running Scared Business Week
Mar 01 Bear Tracks On The S&P Forbes
Mar 01 The World's Billionaires   Forbes
Mar 01 MarchFirst accused of deceit Chicago Tribune
Mar 01 Flow of New Funds Slows to a Drip TheStreet
“...the pace of new mutual fund launches last year fell to its lowest level in more than 20 years.”
Mar 01 IRS to Increase Number of Audits LA Times
Feb 28 America's Bad News/Good News Syndrome AEI
Feb 28 Smoking Gun   MS (Roach)
“To this very day, the Federal Reserve denies its role in nurturing the US equity bubble.”
Feb 28 Don't Ignore Greenspan's Caveats Comstock
Feb 28 Caution remains the word on hiring, wages, new investments WSJ
“Does big business know something about the economy that economists have missed?”
Feb 28 Americans ignore retirement planning CBS MarketWatch
Feb 28 Accounting for Skeletons in the Closet Business 2.0
Feb 28 Following The Post Bubble Script Daily Reckoning
Feb 28 Ex-Exec Files Suit Against Global Crossing Chiefs LA Times
Feb 28 Scotland's Royal Bank, Credit Lyonnais Boost Reserves Bloomberg
Feb 28 Short-changing Tokyo's markets IHT
Feb 27 Testimony - Chairman Alan Greenspan FED
Feb 27 Judge Orders Cheney Records Release Washington Post
Feb 27 The 'Maestro' reconsidered Boston Globe
Feb 27 Forget Reform -- CEOs Just Can't Handle the Truth Bloomberg
Feb 27 Analysts Face Scrutiny Over Enron Ratings   Washington Post
Feb 27 Amazon CEO Sells 2.95 Million Shares Bloomberg
Feb 27 At GM, a Look Under the Balance Sheet Hood TheStreet
Feb 27 Focal added to telecom death watch TheDeal
Feb 27 German recession confirmed BBC
Feb 27 Japan Unveils Anti-Deflation Package Reuters
”The plan calls for tightening restrictions on short-selling...”
Feb 26 A scandal waiting to happen? BBC
Feb 26 Breaking Global Habits   MS (Roach)
Feb 26 Morgan Stanley to Scrap 'Buy,' 'Sell' Ratings Washington Post
Feb 26 War Cycles, Peace Cycles 321Gold (Droke)
Feb 26 S&P Recants Move on Calpine Credit Rating LA Times
“...statement was based on inaccurate information.”
Feb 26 Another bankruptcy, another hit to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s balance sheet NY Post
Feb 26 Williams looking for support TheDeal
Feb 26 High-tech execs' pay up despite slowdown Boston Globe
Feb 26 Despite recent robust sales, business investment contracting WSJ
Feb 25 Deflationary Tremors MS (Roach)
Feb 25 Main St. loses trust in Wall St. CSMonitor
Feb 25 Merrill Lynch strategist is still bearish on earnings, economy WSJ
Feb 25 Pitt wants to disgorge compensation TheDeal.com
Feb 25 Bush mulls tougher rules for CEOs WSJ
Feb 25 Williams Communications Says It May File Bankruptcy Bloomberg
Feb 25 Telecom - Cloudy horizon Boston Globe
Feb 25 Argentina: Skirting Anarchy Sennholz
Feb 25 Bailouts threaten Japan reforms BBC
Feb 23 Trading the NASDAQ Bust Zeal
Feb 23 J.P. Morgan Had Many Ties With Enron   WP
Feb 23 Trading the NASDAQ Bust Zeal
Feb 23 J.P. Morgan Had Many Ties With Enron   WP
Feb 22 Greenspan concerned about bubble in 1996
Former Fed Lawrence Lindsey: ”We have won this long, let us keep the money on the table...”
Federal Open Market Committee Transcripts for 1996
Feb 22 Powershift - Oil, Money, & War Financial Sense
Feb 22 Who's Minding Derivatives? Washington Post
Feb 22 New York Stock Exchange Monthly Short Interest Report NYSE
Feb 22 U.S. Probing Treasury Bids Washington Post
Feb 22 WSJ: Fed Examines J.P.Morgan Enron Deals Reuters
Feb 22 SEC challenged over alleged conflict WSJ
Feb 22 US to Reveal Details of New Chained CPI Reuters  BLS
“Some experts think the conventional CPI overstates inflation...”
Feb 22 Two Insurers Seek to Void Enron Policies   NY Times
Feb 22 Sideswiped by Convertibles Business Week
Feb 22 Accounting Delays PG&E Earnings LA Times
Feb 22 Homestore Error Tops $113 Million Bloomberg
Feb 22 SEC charges ex-Lehman worker AP
Feb 21 Productivity Noise MS (Roach)
Feb 21 Economic rebound slower than expected RMN
Feb 21 Fitch Downgrades JPM’s Outlook To Negative, Affirms Rating Fitch
Feb 21 Bad debts threaten credit card issuers Financial Times
Feb 21 Worse yet to come for telecom industry National Post
Feb 21 Japan's alarm bells toll on deaf ears Financial Post
Feb 21 Argentina forbids bankers' exit TheStar
Feb 21 Enron Built Fake Nerve Center Reuters
“Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and ex-President Jeffrey Skilling led a rehearsal the day before the show opened...”
Feb 20 Lay Offered Seat to Rubin Washington Post
“Enron's current chief executive officer said someone could end up in jail..”
Feb 20 Greenspan retirement talk AFP
Feb 20 Credit crunch means Fed won't raise rates CBS MarketWatch (Kellner)
Feb 20 Natural gas trades may have hidden Enron loans IHT (NYT)
“In all, Enron took advantage of accounting rules to avoid reporting as much as $3.9 billion in loans on its balance sheet.”
Feb 20 Congress Widens Enron Probe to Wall St.   Washington Post
Feb 20 Treasury's creative accountancy unravels The Guardian
Feb 20 U.S. probes Computer Associates Chicago Tribune
Feb 20 BOJ asked Koizumi to look at help for banks Reuters
Feb 20 Global Crossing’s capacity swaps were of little value, study says WSJ
Feb 19 A Somber View To a Longer Recession Scottnurns
Feb 19 Treasury Tight-Lipped on Bid Violation Reuters
“...a single bidder submitted noncompetitive tenders for Treasury bills and notes worth $905 million... but did not pay for them, even though the bids were accepted.”
Feb 19 The Betrayed Investor   Business Week
Feb 19 When the Dollar Bubble Bursts Faz.net
Feb 19 US recession: old names and old fallacies New Australian (Jackson)
Feb 19 Bundesbank comment shakes gold Reuters
“The comment by Welteke was particularly surprising because Germany, along with France and the United States had previously come out against selling...”
Feb 19 Dividends regaining long-lost luster MSNBC
Feb 19 Top Japan brokerages hit by Moody's downgrades Reuters
Feb 19 IMF urged to help Argentina BBC
Feb 18 Kaufman Says Stocks Pricey Reuters
Feb 18 The Housing Market: The Last Great Bull Market   Newsweek
Feb 18 Bush gaffe shakes Japan markets MSNBC
Feb 18 The danger of a triple sell-off Japan Times
Feb 18 Suit filed against J.P. Morgan Chase WSJ
Feb 16 Stock Option Proposal Could Cripple Earnings
“...earnings for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index would have fallen 12 percent in 2000 instead of rising 1 percent... Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Steven Milunovich estimates that losing the benefit would cut technology companies' cash flow an average of 50 percent.”  Bloomberg
Feb 15 Get Ready For A JPM Chase Debt Downgrade NY Post
Feb 15 A profitless recovery? Economist
Feb 15 Con man: A lesson for our times MSNBC
Feb 15 Senators' stock options move could cost MS billions Register
Feb 15 Paper: WorldCom Suspends Three in Probe Reuters
Feb 15 IBM's Accounting Questioned Washington Post
Feb 15 Yen Slides - Japanese Minister's Remark Damps Bank Aid Talk Bloomberg
Feb 14 Buffett Dumps Citigroup Bloomberg
Feb 14 Paul Introduces Legislation Requiring Congressional Approval of Treasury Gold Dealings House
Feb 14 Irrational confidence Financial Post
Don't count on the 'Greenspan put'
Feb 14 Volcker: Enron Is Only a Symptom AP
Feb 14 Analysts Should Toss Out `Pro Forma'   Bloomberg
“As it is, they (analysts) remain as credible as Olympic figure-skating judges.”
Feb 14 Time to play the earnings game MSNBC
Feb 14 Revenue boosting deals prevalent in telecom industry WSJ
Feb 14 WSJ: JP Morgan Most Exposed to Tyco Loans Reuters
Feb 14 Nvidia Says SEC Is Investigating Accounting Practices Bloomberg
Feb 14 Will Great Banks Close their Doors Once Again? Colin’s Financial Pages
Feb 14 What's Crimping the Tech Rebound Business Week
Feb 14 Italian bank surprises analysts with Argentine exposure Financial Times
Feb 13 The Risk of a US Liquidity Trap Smithers & Co (Sentaku)
Feb 13 Retail Sales Jump by 1.7% in Jan (excluding autos) Census
Feb 13 Profitless prosperity CBS MarketWatch (Kellner)
Feb 13 J.P. Morgan hit by ratings worries CBS MW
Feb 13 SEC continues probe into Microsoft WSJ
Feb 13 Recession Arbiter Says Downturn Not Over Reuters
Feb 13 Japan's Rating May Be Cut Says Moody's Bloomberg
Feb 12 Calandra has vowed to dye his hair gold if the precious metal closes above $300 an ounce for five straight days CBS
Feb 12 Ominous Signs from Japan Depression2.tv
Feb 11 Global Decoupling: Chaotic or Orderly? MS
“Those who think that a given economy can suck capital from the rest of the world forever should make a simple conjecture, as physicists often do in their discussions: Where does this trend go?” (Cheney)
Feb 11 Economy may find recovery in debt Seattle Times
“In every past recession, the levels of private debt have fallen.”
Feb 08 Fed Watches Bank Balance Sheets AP
Feb 08 Consumer Credit off by largest amount in 11 years in Dec FED
Feb 08 Is the housing market set for a fall? WSJ
Feb 08 Banana Skins Survey 2002 (40 Page PDF)  CFSI
“The threat of a sea of red ink engulfing the banking industry is the markets worst fear...Virtually all our respondents had anxieties about the quality of loan portfolios and even entire institutions. (p.11)”
Feb 08 The ‘must see TV’ Enron hearings MSNBC
Feb 08 The broker who went out to the cold WSJ
Feb 08 Cost of Goldman’s Misjudgement Bloomberg
Feb 07 The Telecom Monster: Not Dead Yet? Business Week
Feb 07 Administration Concerned About Excessive GSE Debt Comstock
Feb 07 U.S. regulators close Arizona's NextBank Reuters  OCC
Feb 07 Japanese go for gold BBC
Feb 07 Gold's swift rally may spark scramble CBS MarketWatch
Feb 07 Past the glory days Economist
“It’s not an issue of what we knew, but what was appropriate to disclose.”
Feb 07 Banks $29 Trillion Deriviatives Bet if Very Risky NY Post
Feb 07 Gold, the dollar, and the economic outlook 321Gold (Droke)
Feb 07 Big Three Ask Bush to Intervene With Japan Reuters
Feb 07 Crisis meeting over $750m bank fraud BBC
Feb 07 Lehman closets casual dress policy Boston Globe
Feb 07 Rules Would Rein In Analysts Washington Post
Feb 07 The dangers of hedge funds Financial Times
Feb 07 Moody's, S&P Seek Greater Disclosure of Trading Deals Bloomberg
Feb 07 Duisenberg to quit ECB BBC
Feb 06 Card-House of Morgan 321Gold (Ackerman)
”It is hardly a coincidence that bullion prices zoomed to $300 on the day that J.P.
Morgan Chase shares came crashing through their September lows...”
Feb 06 JP Morgan says suffered no gold trade loss Reuters
Feb 06 The Panic Spreads Forbes
“You can no longer safely shrug off Japan's economic crisis. It just might drag the world into a depression.”
Feb 05 U.S. layoff plans rose 32 pct in Jan Reuters  CGC
Feb 05 The Struggle For The Legal Tender   Contary Investor
Feb 05 A Yen for Gold 321Gold
Feb 05 Press masks world's fiscal distress CBS MarketWatch
Feb 05 Tyco Continues to Drop - Fitch Downgrade Yahoo
Feb 05 Hey kids — do you believe in Alan Greenspan? Globe & Mail
Feb 05 Sinking Stocks Could Be Omen Of A Bear Market NY Post
Feb 05 Beware firms that bankroll politicians TheStar
Feb 05 Japan shares hit 18-year low BBC
Feb 05 Turmoil Grows as Argentine Fiscal Crisis Deepens NY Times
Feb 05 Former Enron Chairman Lay's Whereabouts Unknown   Bloomberg
Feb 05 Enterasys Networks shares dive 61% Boston Globe
“Fall comes amid SEC probe disclosure; firm delays earnings report.”
Feb 05 High Tech Still a Low Priority LA Times
Feb 04 Dollar Weakens; Accounting Concern Likely to Hurt U.S. Stocks Bloomberg
Feb 04 Gates Sees No Economic Recovery in 2002 Reuters
Feb 04 Bank Lending Practices Survey FED
“...further tightening of standards and terms for loans to both businesses and households, as well as generally weaker loan demand.”
Feb 04 Tyco's Problems Worsen, Credit Rating Cut Reuters
Feb 04 To Clean Up Markets, Abolish Cliches Bloomberg
“Cliches numb the ears of both the speaker and the audience. Like lullabies, they are designed more for putting you to sleep than conveying any specific information.”
Feb 04 Ex-Chairman of Enron Cancels Hill Testimony Washington Post
Feb 04 Global Crossing Tossed More Cash Around Town Than Enron  B-Week
Feb 04 $8 billion in Tyco deals not disclosed WSJ
Feb 04 Beyond a shred of evidence, a sales boom CS Monitor
“The year before Watergate, I sold 70 shredders. The year after Watergate, I sold 400." Enron is "another Watergate" for shredding...”
Feb 04 Japan bank shares plunge on FSA's bad-debt report Reuters
Feb02 White House Must Save Enron Paper WP
Feb 02 Enron: a nest of dirtballs MH
Feb 02 SEC Probes Global Crossing Allegations LAT
Feb 02 Argentina 'on brink of anarchy' BBC
Feb 01 'January barometer' doesn't bode well CBS
Gold funds shoot up 12% as most stock funds tumble
Feb 01 Citigroup’s Enron sales draw lawsuit WSJ
“Firm pushed bonds despite knowing Enron woes”
Feb 01 Not Since 1929: Market Down One Year After Monetary Easing Comstock
Feb 01 Employment Situation BLS
Feb 01 House of Cards - The Second to Last Bubble Depression.tv
Feb 01 Great expectations Economist
Feb 01 The Enron Scandal Is a Turning Point for America IHT (Krugman)
Feb 01 Funny Money 101: There's no accounting for stock options... CNNfn
Jan 31 Stock Fund Inflows Plunge 90% in 2001 LA Times
Jan 31 Record Corp. Bond Defaults in Jan - S&P Reuters
Jan  31 Accounts crackdown imperils upturn WSJ
Jan 31 Setup MS (Roach)
Jan 31 Corporate Liquidity Remains Bearish Trimtabe
Jan 30 GAO to sue Cheney MSNBC  GAO Release (PDF)
“...all of our attempts to reach a reasoned and reasonable accommodation, including reducing the scope of our request, have been rebuffed.”
Jan 30 Chronology of Attempts To Receive NEPDG Documents (PDF)
Jan 30 Trouble ahead for McLeod TheDeal
“...plans to file a pre-negotiated bankruptcy plan by Jan. 31”
Jan 30 FOMC Statement
Jan 30 4Q01 GDP up 0.2% BEA
Jan 30 Elan plunges after accounting methods questioned Reuters
Jan 30 GX denies accusations that it inflated its numbers LA Times
Jan 30 A Bull's Bull Stays the Course TheStreet
Jan 30 SEC Accuses 2 Firms, Individuals of Fraud Bloomberg
Jan 30 UK consumers fall deeper into debt BBC
Jan 30 Enron investors knew of accounting practices Financial Times
Jan 29 Stocks Drop Further on Accounting Worries Reuters
Jan 29 Enron's debts are likely to expand dramatically
“...regulation has been chipped away to the point where it is no better than it was in the 1920s”
Jan 29 Study Greenspan To Figure Odds of Rate Cut NY Post
Jan 29 The Euro - a viable alternative? No way! 321Gold (Saville)
Jan 29 FleetBoston hit by Argentina fallout Reuters
“After two-week delay, bank reports loss on $1.9 billion charge”
Jan 29 Survey suggests sharp decline in office building Financial Post
Jan 29 Critics see insiders ruling SEC SF Gate
Jan 29 Merrill Gave Managers Chance to Invest in Enron Partnership Bloomberg
Jan 29 Hot on the E-Trail of Evidence at Enron Business Week
Jan 29 Risking big, winning bigger Boston Globe
Jan 29 Consolidated international banking statistics - third quarter 2001 BIS
Jan 28 Global Crossing Files Bankruptcy Reuters
Jan 28 Pricey Stocks Risk a Fall Into the GAAP
“Never underestimate Wall Street's ability to find a way to get you to invest” TheStreet
Jan 28 The US economy and two dangerous myths New Australian
Jan 28 GE's Immelt sees little sign of U.S. recovery soon Reuters
Jan 25 Hit for J.P. Morgan could be huge WSJ
Jan 25 Big KMart Debt List Will Take Profit Hit   NY Post
Jan 25 Datek Abused SOES for Five Years in 1990s, SEC Charges TheStreet
Jan 25 Greenspan: Yes, I'm optimistic — sort of Globe & Mail
Jan 25 Enron-type accounting problems widespread, ex-SEC chief says MSNBC
Jan 25 Cohen plays catch-up with bears Financial Post
“Ms. Cohen revised her earnings numbers but not her price target.”
Jan 25 This Is an Efficient Market? TheStreet
Jan 24 Senate Testimony - State of the Economy Greenspan
Jan 24 Forecasting Crashes and Recessions Gold-Eagle
Jan 24 Enron CEO Lay Resigns Bloomberg
“I want to see Enron survive,”:
Jan 24 Spotlight on Wall Street Analysts, bankers and accountants SF Gate
Jab 24 Optimism Needs a Warning Label When It Comes to Productivity NY Times
Jan 23 A World Turned Inside Out   MS (Roach)
Jan 23 Some worry stock prices overvalued AJC
Jan 23 'Pro forma' results are bound to confuse Boston Globe
Jan 23 Broker may have cheated investors WSJ
Jan 23 CSFB settles IPO kickback probe SF Gate
Jan 23 Accounting Board Pledges to Shut Down Bloomberg  POB
Jan 22 Ex-Exec Says Enron Shredded Documents This Month Reuters
Jan 22 Investors: Be Careful What You Ask For NY Post
Jan 22 S&P, Moody's weigh changes NY Times
Jan 22 Retailer Misses Payment; Bankruptcy May Be Near Washington Post
Jan 22 An Historical View of The American Gold Market Part 2 Gold-Eagle
Jan 21 The Enron Effect Newsweek
“The best chance you have of making a big success in this world is to decide from square one that you’re going to do it ethically”.
Alan Greenspan after receiving the ‘Enron Award for Distinguished Public Service’.
Jan 21 The US recession: how long and how deep? New Australian
Jan 19 The hardest word Financial Post
Jan 18 Cracking Denial   MS (Roach)
“I simply cannot accept the premise that those excesses can be purged by the mildest and shortest recession on record.”
Jan 18 More distress seen at major U.S. firms CBS MarketWatch
“IBM will crack, and so will Microsoft.  The gun-shy accountants will make sure...”
Jan 18 Investors Are Still Expecting Big Things From Tech TheStreet
Jan 18 A Story That Will Be Told And Retold HD Brous
Jan 18 Enron Fires Andersen Firm, Citing Audit Failures Washington Post
Jan 18 How the SEC Plans to Police Accountants BusinessWeek
Jan 18 Investors Skeptical About Accounting Bloomberg
Jan 18 Holes In GAAP Financial Times
May 16, 2000 - Message To SEC: Attack Pro Forma Accounting FallStreet
The First Punch: Trump Feels Brunt of First SEC Pro Forma Case
Jan 18 Newmont wins Normandy as Anglo bows out Reuters
Jan 18 Japanese industrial output slumps BBC
Jan 17 The Last Great Bubble - Counterfeiting the Dollar Depression.tv
Jan 17 Demise Of The Dollar 321Gold
Jan 17 Greenspan says dollar retains world's trust Bloomberg
Jan 17 Economists say US is still mired in recession Financial Times
Jan 17 Microsoft 'concerned' over global economy BBC
Jan 17 Bond News Leak Worse Than Thought Reuters
Jan 17 Beyond the Pale Kiplingers
Jan 17 A US recovery - the real thing or a dead cat bounce? 321Gold
Jan 17 Stocks look technically vulnerable Financial Post
Jan 17 Andersen in 'crisis'; could fail, some say   Washington Post
Jan 17 Argentine Banks in Tailspin LA Times
Jan 17 Germany on brink of recession BBC
Jan 16 Dow still flirts with disaster, some say CBS MarketWatch
Jan 16 Pro-Forma Accounting Disease Rapidly Spreading Among All Companies
“...in the third quarter the net operating profits of the 500 companies comprising Standard & Poor's leading index were some 70 percent higher than the results reported under U.S. GAAP rules “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Jan 16 Experts: Accounting Profession in Crisis Electronic Accountant
Jan 16 Dow still flirts with disaster, some say CBS MarketWatch
Jan 16 Pro-Forma Accounting Disease Rapidly Spreading Among All Companies
“...in the third quarter the net operating profits of the 500 companies comprising Standard & Poor's leading index were some 70 percent higher than the results reported under U.S. GAAP rules “ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Jan 16 SEC: Trump Earnings Report Misleading Reuters
Jan 16 Experts: Accounting Profession in Crisis Electronic Accountant
Jan 16 Bank of Canada slashes rates Globe & Mail
Jan 16 SEC Charges 3 With Internet Stock Fraud Bloomberg
Jan 16 It's January, and creditors are calling Philly.com
Jan 16 Japan's major banks are "technically insolvent" Knight Ridder (S&P)
Jan 16 China Pushes to Move Mountain of Bad Deb IHT (WP)
Jan 16 J.P. Morgan posts net loss of $332 million on bad loans, Argentina (PDF)
“For the full year, private equity losses totaled $1.18 billion”
Jan 16 Argentina Sells Dollars To Bolster Falling Peso Bloomberg
Jan 16 Argentine Crash Hits Telecoms NY Times Service
Jan 15 Which U.S. Companies Look Like `Deadpool' Picks? Bloomberg
Jan 15 Investors misled over earnings Financial Post
“The issue is why was this not done two or three years ago, when all the high flyers were playing games?”
Jan 15 Who's Keeping the Accountants Accountable? NY Times
Jan 15 “To what professional standards, pray tell, was Andersen adhering when it started detonating its files?” The Star
Jan 15 Is the Price of Gold Really Being Manipulated? 321Gold
Jan 15 The Risks Ahead Comstock
Jan 15 The Smell of Fear Has the Bears in a Frenzy TheStreet
Jan 15 Export tax break in trouble; WTO ruling may cost U.S. trade billions AP
Jan 15 Fed Meyer To Resign Reuters
Jan 15 Bankruptcy filing a growing possibility for troubled retailer WSJ
Jan 15 UK banks lambasted over role in Argentine collapse Independent
Jan 14 Whom Do You Trust? HD Brous & Co.
Jan 14 Everyman, farewell Economist
“In 1980 fewer than 6% of American households had money in a mutual fund; when they had, the great bulk was in bond or money-market funds, not in equities. Last year, more than half of all households had invested in mutual funds, with investments in equities making up more than 70% of mutual-fund assets.”
Jan 14 U.S. stocks overpriced, says global manager Financial Post
Jan 14 Merrill goes bearish on U.S. stocks CBS MarketWatch
We have commented that there is a thin line between a liquidity-driven market that anticipates improving fundamentals and a bubble. The equity market may mave stepped over that line”
Jan 14 Wall Street seen down after Greenspan cold shower Reuters
Jan 14 In Search of a New Global Growth Engine MS (Roach)
Jan 14 S&P: Record Corporate Defaults in 2001 Reuters  S&P
Jan 14 Caught Off Balance Fortune
Jan Jan 14 Who's Accountable? Times
Jan 14 Show Me the Earnings! 321Gold (Zeal)
“In this surreal bubble-era in which we curiously find ourselves still languishing in the United States, the average stock investor seems to have totally forgotten that the only ultimate reason to own a given company is earnings.”
Jan 14 Government Gold Holdings Depress Price Gold-Eagle
Jan 14 Japanese builder goes bust BBC
Jan 14 Precious metal funds gained 19% last year Morningstar
Jan 14 FleetBoston Delays Results Over Argentina Reuters
Jan 13 Argentine savings to remain frozen AP
Jan 11 Alan Greenspan on the Economy
“... I would emphasize that we continue to face significant risks in the near term”
Jan 11 Argentine Peso Devalues 41 Percent Reuters
Jan 11 Shiny Euro, Tired Dollar MS (Roach)
“I have long felt the strong dollar is an accident waiting to happen. If anything, my conviction is deepening.”
Jan 11 Goodwill hunting: After AOL, who will take accounting hit? WSJ
Jan 11 Is the price of gold being manipulated? Fobres
Jan 11 Return of the retail investor? Financial Times
Jan 11 Federal Reserve an easy scapegoat Philly.com
Jan 11 Layoffs to Continue, Report Says LA Times
Jan 11 Enron probe and intrigue widen MSNBC
Jan 11 Auditor Says It Destroyed Enron Records LA Times
Jan 11 Argentines Take to Streets to Protest New Government Bloomberg
Jan 10 Short sellers and panto villains Financial Times
Jan 10 U.S. Launches a Criminal Probe of Enron LA Times
Jan 10 Do investors know something Cisco doesn't? Globe & Mail
Jan 10 Bullion bull IAMGOLD turns cash into gold Financial Post
Jan 10 Late call to decide AngloGold bids Reuters
Jan 10 Gold index at 27-month high Sunday Times
Jan 10 Standards Board to Set Intangible-Assets Rules Bloomberg
Jan 10 Youth Sought Investors While Dodging SEC LA Times
Jan 10 Argentina Halts Currency Trading for Fourth Day Bloomberg
Jan 10 U.S. Launches a Criminal Probe of Enron LA Times
Jan 10 Do investors know something Cisco doesn't? Globe & Mail
Jan 10 Bullion bull IAMGOLD turns cash into gold Financial Post
Jan 10 Late call to decide AngloGold bids Reuters
Jan 10 Gold index at 27-month high Sunday Times
Jan 10 Standards Board to Set Intangible-Assets Rules Bloomberg
Jan 10 Youth Sought Investors While Dodging SEC LA Times
Jan 10 Argentina Halts Currency Trading for Fourth Day Bloomberg
Jan 10 Argentina Told of Conditions for Aid Washington Post
Jan 10 Japan says yen's fall 'too rapid' BBC
Jan 09 Goodwill Writedowns May Top $1 Trillion This Year Bloomberg
Jan 09 Record Increase in Consumer Borrowing AP FED
Jan 09 Paying debts a priority for consumers SF Gate
Jan 09 Fed outlook may signal more cuts WSJ
Jan 09 About That Bonus Business Week
Jan 09 Merrill to Cut 9,000 Jobs, Take Charge Reuters
Jan 09 GM to eliminate 5,000 corporate jobs Boston Globe
Jan 09 Gateway's ratings cut to junk status Reuters
Jan 09 Silver snakes up as lease rates hold firm Reuters
Jan 09 Japan seen on the road to default Japan Times
Jan 09 Japan Real Estate Co Fails; Leaves Y140 Billion In Debt   Dow Jones
Jan 09 Argentina postpones currency trading BBC
Jan 09 Time to Cry for Argentina? Smart Money
Jan 08 ...But don’t let the stock market fool you again NY Post
Jan 08 Irrational exuberance again? Boston Globe
Jan 08 A Bear Among Bulls TheStreet
Jan 08 Is a ‘double-dip’ recession coming? MSNBC
Jan 08 Worst year for credit quality since 1991 Chicago Tribune (Moodys)
Jan 07 The Inflation Mask 321Gold
Jan 07 Sluggish consumers, global woes will add drag CSMonitor
Jan 07 Argentina devalues the peso BBC
Jan 07 China Official Urges Buying More Euros for Reserves Reuters
Jan 05 Huge Decline Seen in Budget Over Next Decade NYT
Jan 05 Argentina devalues, defaults, digs in MSNBC
Jan 05 The Mother of all Bull Markets... In the Process of Spawning the Mother of All Bear Markets DV
Jan 04 JPM Derivatives Monster Grows 321Gold (Zeal)
Jan 04 Ah, shareholders — the true parasites The Star
Jan 04 Thoughts for 2002 321Gold (Harris)
Jab 04 Consider This Deflation Scenario   Business Week
Jan 04 Accounting rule change to inflate earnings USA Today  FASB
Jan 04 Unemployment Rate hits 5.8% - 124,000 jobs lost in December BLS
Jan 04 Retiring boomers feel the squeeze CBS MarketWatch
Jan 04 UK consumers 'over-spending' BBC
Jan 04 ECB Sees Stagnation as Rates Left on Hold IHT
Jan 04 AngloGold draws line TheAge
Jan 04 Nextel Unit May Seek Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Bloomberg
Jan 04 Don't Whine To Me, Argentina! 321Gold
Jan 04 Argentina braced for crisis measures BBC
Jan 03 The Credit Delusion Ludwig Von Mises
Jan 03 The Lessons of 2001 MS (Roach)
Jan 03 Initial claims pass critical 400,000 level again CNN DOL
Jan 03 First euro forgery found BBC
Jan 03 S&P Dividend Rate Fell in 2001 for 2nd Year LA Times
Jan 03 New Deficits to Force Boost of Debt Ceiling LA Times
Jan 03 The auto industry’s bruising price war is about to enter a new phase WSJ
Jan 03 Homestore.com Says it Overstated Revenues by $95 Million CFO
Jan 03 Kmart Shares Fall to a 30-Year Low LA Times
Jan 03 Newmont Announces Superior Offer Reuters
Jan 02 The Economic Recovery: Debt Or Alive?   Contrary Investor
Jan 02 Increase in corporate debt could hurt U.S. recovery WSJ
Jan 02 Wall Street's Prescriptions in a Convalescing Economy NT Yimes
Jan 02 Americans just keep on charging WSJ
Jan 03 U.S. banks have $21 Billion at risk in Argentina Bloomberg
Jan 03 Argentina Defaults on Debt Reuters
Jan 02 Argentina Gets a New President -- Again   Washington Post
Jan 02 Argentina to Devalue Peso 40%, Include Real in Peg, Clarin Says Bloomberg

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