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Dumb Analysis of the Day: Bank Profits May Drop on Regulations

September 10, 2009

This has to be the single dumbest thing I have read in months: Investment Bank Profits May Drop on Regulations, JPMorgan Says.
Here’s a news flash: With the least amount of regulatory oversight in generations in the 1990s and 2000s, bank profits were less than zero — indeed, their losses were so great that [...]

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Crystal balls are useless

August 24, 2009

No one can predict the future.  I don’t even try in
trading.   All I do is go on a reasonable expectation
of what I think will happen…
…fully prepared to respond in case it doesn’t.
But then you get these moroffs (too dumb to call mor-ons)
who think they can.  The latest example is the Conference
Board, and their economist Ken [...]

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