Wall Street shenanigans

Argentina Default: Is Paul Singer Playing Both Sides?

by Bianca Fernet • Jul 30, 2014 • Comments Off on Argentina Default: Is Paul Singer Playing Both Sides?

Life is rarely win-win. Unless….

Investment Bank Discovers the “Redistributive Effects” of QE

by Wolf Richter • Jul 28, 2014 • 2 Comments

How the Fed and other central banks channel wealth and income to rich households and companies at the expense of wage earners and the young.

Here’s What Wall Street Bulls Were Saying In December 2007: Read And Take Cover!

by David Stockman • Jul 28, 2014 • 3 Comments

Barron’s, 2007: “Against this troubling backdrop, it’s no wonder investors are worried the bull market might end in 2008. But Wall Street’s top equity strategists are quick to dismiss such fears.”

How Bad Can The Junk-Bond Sell-Off Get? So Bad It’ll Take Down Stocks

by Wolf Richter • Jul 27, 2014 • 1 Comment

When Goldman Sachs downgraded all global stocks, it gave a peculiar reason.

But Wait, There Are A Few Differences Between Amazon and the US Postal Service

by Wolf Richter • Jul 25, 2014 • 14 Comments

Money-losing Amazon is Exhibit A of how the Fed’s free money for Wall Street and corporate mastodons is destructive to the rest of the economy.

How the Surge of Hot Money Pushes San Francisco to the Brink

by Wolf Richter • Jul 22, 2014 • 13 Comments

Home prices hit a slick $1,000,000, while soaring office rents blow up enterprises with real business models. It’s crazy. It’s powered by hot money from around the world. Then comes the moment when the hot money evaporates.

Microsoft Layoffs: Insane M&A Frenzy Leads To Next Jobs Crisis

by Wolf Richter • Jul 16, 2014 • 3 Comments

35,000 M&A deals will likely be made this year, promising “efficiencies” and “synergies,” hence job cuts. So Microsoft, which bought Nokia’s handset unit, is planning the largest in its history…. The M&A frenzy of 2007/8 was followed by the Great Jobs Crisis!

GoPro Tanks: Who Knew What?

by Wolf Richter • Jul 14, 2014 • 4 Comments

Wearable camera-gadget maker GoPro doubled in the days after its IPO. The media went gaga. But last week, it began to tank, just before Barron’s calamitous article.

IPO Hype-Miracle Gets Crushed by Reality

by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2014 • Comments Off on IPO Hype-Miracle Gets Crushed by Reality

The wealth transfer machine: Wall Street hype meets “retail funk”

Senior Bankers Warn: ‘It’s Crazy, It’s a Boom, It’s a Gold Rush’

by Wolf Richter • Jul 9, 2014 • 4 Comments

Senior bankers are “privately warning” that the record bank lending binge “should not be seen as evidence of an economic recovery.” Instead, they’re fretting about the greatest credit bubble in history.

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