stock market

Call me crazy, not an entirely inaccurate claim, but I'm getting a kind of twitchy feeling about our current stock market. A very similar feeling to what I had back in 2006 about property values. I just don't really see anything substantial happening with the companies who have stocks soaring...

Ran across this on Brad DeLong's blog: Why Does Wall Street Dislike Obama so Much? Non-Financial and Financial Equity Values Since 2007 Edition It appears that they are using impact on their own personal income, rather than performance of the overall market, when making a choice in their...

Does the stock market really matter? Giving the stock market some thought lately, and it occurred to me that unless a company was selling shares of itself for the purposes of expansion, the stock market really doesn’t seem to matter to the rest of the economy. Once a share of stock is in...

The baby boomers have already started to retire. By 2031, most of them will be retired. Many boomers have investments in equities, whether in their 401k, mutual funds, or whatever. Conventional wisdom suggests that people should invest heavily in equities when they are younger and move a...

A recent post on Nate Silver's blog reminded me of some Op-Eds and editorials from early this year after Obama took office but before the stock market turned around. At that time, the weakness in equity markets was taken as evidence by many right-wing pundits that Obama's economic policies would...

General motors stock falls 30% ... in 1 day! If that isn't bad enough, the price is below $5.00 --- it was in the 1950's when it was last this low. So, does this spell the end for GM? Can it survive? Confidence in this huge employer just doesn't seem to think so. (Note ... can someone please...

A sad little story from today's NYT. Psychics: solving people's economic problems for 10,000 years! What an idiot. She should consult the I Ching instead.

OK, I am pretty dumb when it comes to economics, in fact completely clueless. I have never studied th subject at all, and know nothing, but I'm sort of interested, and I have recently read hundreds of newspaper articles when my ignorance is beginning to niggle, so I thought I'd ask here! 1...

I've gotten involved on another message board in a discussion on "technical analysis" of stock prices. (Here if you're interested). If you're not familiar with technical analysis or chart analysis, it's a school of thought among stock market traders who think that they can predict the movement...

Could some of the more business minded members here explain to me how exactly this happened? I understand that the trader was making bad trades and covering his tracks with paperwork and computer hacking, but it still boggles my mind that one man with a salary of $125,000 could accumulate $50...

I know there are a few different "Practice Stock Market" websites out there that let you invest virtual money in real stocks to give you practice at the stock market before investing your actual money. I was wondering if anyone had a suggestions for any one in particular. Perhaps someone knows...

Is the Stock Market just a crapshoot, or a form of legalized gambling?

Delta Society Intl./Financial Matrix Ltd./Calendar Research Inc. are three Wall Street advisory firms which teach the ability to predict stock and futures prices using Lunar architecture and Fibonacci Square root mathematics. Above three companies are Internet based and here is a thread for...

Hi! Could someone help me out. Im being told that Andreas Von Bülow (among others) claims that "the government" has classified what financial actors traded in shares that might drop after the attack. Eg that "They keep it secret so you wont know that NWO, The israelis, Cheney, whoever, made a...

This is what I am being told over at screw loose change right now. http://screwloosechange.xbehome.com/index.php?showtopic=1089 I have asked for various sorts of evidence but it is not working. He keeps applying probability (Poorly might I add) to the put options placed on 9/11. I don't know...