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• Stock Investment Tutorial from Sub-Prime Gainers (Part 2) - Editor, 8 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Stock Investment Tutorial from Sub-Prime Gainers (Part 1)

Which is the Next Stock Market Bubble?

There are indications that individuals who have benefited from the sub-prime woes of 2007 are now focused on automobile loans and credit card debts for 2008. Some stock investors look forward to construction projects in territories liberated from their former rulers by US military forces, while others hope that the 30-year hiatus in new projects for US nuclear power plant manufacturers will soon be broken by India.

• Alternative Financial Planning to Revive a Flagging National Economy (Part 1) - Editor, 6 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Stock market volatility makes writing these articles hell! You have hardly finished research on why the stock market has crashed, when it stages an exaggerated recovery in response to yet another regulatory interest rate cut! It does not help matters when so many stock exchange operators all over the globe count so heavily on the Chair Person of the US Federal Reserve. We are so dizzy following crazy stock price trends that we have thought of a new series on how to stave off recession threats. Why do we need so many financial planning wizards if higher margins for sub-prime Gurus are all it takes to save a national economy?

• Alternative Financial Planning to Revive a Flagging National Economy (Part 2) - Editor, 6 February 2008 - No Comments yet

Alternative Financial Planning to Revive a Flagging National Economy (Part 1)

6. Limit spending on Presidential campaigns, and achieve transparency on Political Action Committees and assorted routes of soft money. Funnel the cash to create new jobs and to cut budgetary deficits. Let no one confabulate in secret on the powers that votes confer!

• The Basel II Solution to Sub-Prime and Related Financial Planning (Part 1) - Editor, 1 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The cataclysmic effects of the sub-prime crisis of 2007 need not have happened at all. Since the retirement financial planning of large numbers of families is at stake, and since so many stocks of the financial sector have been disastrously affected, the Basel norms that US banks have declined to implement for years, needs a detailed and public review. Ask groups of people whose financial planning and stock portfolios have been buffeted by the sub-prime crisis, if they are aware of the safeguards provided by the Basel norms. Ask your banker if his or her employer is Basel II compliant. You will quickly discover that banks and regulators have taken unconscionable risks with your money.

• The Basel II Solution to Sub-Prime and Related Financial Planning (Part 2) - Editor, 1 February 2008 - No Comments yet

The Basel II Solution to Sub-Prime and Related Financial Planning (Part 1)

It does not end there. Banks have sold sub-prime debts to each other. Each of these transactions gave a second set of professional banker personnel, new opportunities to apply Basel norms to what their peers had done. Gross violations of risk management guidelines were overlooked every time bankers traded sub-prime loans. The losers of this round were investors with stocks in the financial sector. There is a strong moral case for investors whose funds have been used to discount sub-prime loans, to be compensated for negligence in observing Basel norms. The US Federal Reserve is party to this mess because it waited all the way until November 2007 before even getting banks to agree to adhere to the Basel II norms.

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