I venture to guess this philosophical and rhetorical question will never reach the heights of the catamount in Shakespearian literature. But it may rank a close second soon enough. And it’s been my obligatory response, asking this question of friends, family and associates who hav… Read full post »

In the aftermath of what looks like Enron all over again, the pundits on CNBC are asking “How, in the face of the high risk of Euro Zone debt could he think of taking a $6 billion unhedged risk position in Europe.” Read carefully to understand that it isn’t a/… Read full post »

You have got to be kidding me!!!

“Regulators Clamping Down on High Speed Stock Trades”.

It’s the regulators and regulation that caused this problem in the first place. One need not go too far back in time to a place called Irrational Exuberance. A fantasy land of nev… Read full post »

 The Great D beats the Best O

In the world of American style football, it is often said that a great D always beats a fantastic O.

In this example the great D here is called a Great Depression which beats a Fantastic Opulence, which is what has… Read full post »

An open letter to the SEC, DTC, and FINRA

(in advance of the SECs October 17, 2011 Roundtable on Microcap Stocks)

September 24, 2011

From:   Dean Petkanas

To:       The SEC; DTC; and FINRA

The Chinese Have Our Interesting Times In… Read full post »

GONE IN SIXTY MILLI-SECONDS… OR LESS

Originally written for "Collateral Damage"

Friends of Moving Toyshop Books

Dean Petkanas, December 16, 2009

Every economist worth his or her salt will tell you right from the start, “There is no free lunch.” Well, perhaps… Read full post »

Grains or Buds, Weeds or Suds... there's a tax for everything under the sun.  If Solomon were alive today, I'm not sure what he would say about anything new, especially the balance of powers and what makes might, right.

A few years back I wrote an unedited paper, critiquing the… Read full post »

Joe Biden, the blind dog that bites everyone, has done it again.

Not that I really give a shit one way or another.

I just find it utterly amusing that the hits just keep on rolling.

"Fake it 'til you make it" is probably a one thesis full semester… Read full post »

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Do you smell that fresh brew???

Its the aroma of erasure and Widgets.

Some like to call it Java.  That devil may care twisted helix of nanobugs, a collective of commands that speak to eachother so that certain GUIs come to life on web, so-to-speak. … Read full post »

For Shame 

After lengthy consideration, I decided to post a personal letter written to President Obama on March 26, 2009. 

In  the past few weeks, I've been laboring over this issue and responding to radical rants on race and the perceived racial inequalities that e… Read full post »

It's good to know I think like Stiglitz.

According to Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winner and former Chief Economist for the World Bank, "it's going to be bad, very bad."

Much of what Nobel Prize winner and former Chief Economist at the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz spoke abo… Read full post »

Yes, The Economy Is Fragilistic 

Steven Colbert, the brilliant political & economic satirist of Comedy Central's, Colbert Report, used the term "Supercalifragilistic-expiali-zillion" to describe an alternate sum of money Hank Paulson could have requested for the bailout in… Read full post »

Sec. of State Clinton just got back from Mexico and she still has her head on her shoulders.  Thank God for little things.

Also, lets give high marks to President Obama for sending reinforcements (Federal Agents) to the borderline. I wonder if we're tra… Read full post »

I'll make it simple.

I grew up a young Republican (even thankful for the last great RepubliDem, Bill Clinton), turned Independent (by the last irrational Democrat Bush), & turned Libertarian (by demagogy).  Therefore I can complain (according to George Carlin). 

I think… Read full post »

The Oracle of Puke & Ponzimania

By now its no mystery to Americans what happened.

Wall Street ran amok. Politics and Regulation ran aground.  Treasury and the Federal Reserve ran on huge surplusses of foreign investment (bringing back huge sums of greenbacks to "Buy… Read full post »

I recently had the pleasure of making friends with George Stephanopoulos on FaceBook and reading the following piece on George's Bottom Line.  The piece brings into examination an Op/Ed piece, Some Myths About Banks, written by Kenneth D. Lewis, Chairman & CEO o/… Read full post »

Originally Published on Status Equity Research

July 1, 2008 - www.statusequity.com

Clearly the world is caught in the grip of it. It is the topic of coffee time chatter and dinner table rants across the country. So what is the big deal if oil goes to $200 a barrel and… Read full post »

Originally published on Status Equity Research on

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008 - www.statusequity.com

THE GLASS JAW IS FINALLY BROKEN - TIME FOR "THE NEW-NEW DEAL"

On Meet The Press this morning Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg both railed about reg… Read full post »

^{Fibonacci Retracements - Down Jones Industrial Average - Fibonacci Chart courtesy of: http://maoxian.com/archive/long-term-dow-industrials-with-key-fibonacci-levels/}

S&P 500 Index Projections

Price Earnings Mult.&… Read full post »

Fed Should Have Been More Aggressive in '04-'06

CBS Marketwatch - Greg Robb, February 27, 2009

I am stopped when I think that twenty-one days before the Robb article published today, I wrote an article titled "A Fair Value Analysis of Non-Transparent Regulation".&nbs… Read full post »

Keep A Knockin' But You Can't Come In

Intelligent Protectionism (IP).  Maybe it will become the new buzz phrase in the coming months.  Perhaps after all the failed means - the TARP, the Stimulus, the Foreclosure Plan and a few gaffes and gags along the way - IP may be … Read full post »

Leaping Tall Orders in a Single Bound

Super President Obama wants to save GM.  Enter the era of the Auto Czar.  Arrogant meddling is how Carlin described such things.

For the past eight years, this country has been under the yoke of a President who spent and governed with reckl… Read full post »

Originally published on Status Equity Research 

OCTOBER 12, 2008

GET BACK IN THERE AND SELL!

The U.S. long standing politics of free market capitalism, the democratization of emerging markets, and the military relief to repressed societies, would be nothing short of a failure unles/… Read full post »

Published in The Economist for February 7 - 13, the lead story, The Return of Economic Nationalism, is another battle cry, warning against the rising tide of nationalism and protectionist measures.  The sad reality of exponential altruism is/… Read full post »

In Bad Times Suspend Mark-To-Market Rules   

What an argument! That’s like asking a black hole if it’s ok to let light out for a quick stroll around the universe. There isn’t any choice. Granted, in times when severely depressed markets for asset classe… Read full post »