Stocks likely to recover no matter who's president

Wall Street prefers Republicans, McCain supporters argue. But stocks have done better under Democratic presidents, Obama supporters fire back.

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Swaggers turn to shudders a year after market high

Just a year ago, investors were swaggering as the stock market surged to an all-time high. Now, almost everyone on Wall Street and Main Street seems to be shuddering amid a frightening reversal of fortune that has erased $8.3 trillion in shareholder wealth in the past 366 days.

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Here are several unlikely resolutions for the financial world. Doesn't hurt to dream though.

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Many investors realize that stocks have been among the worst investments of the past decade. But they may not realize quite how bad the decade was, because most people forget about the effects of inflation.

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The Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) Program

During the past sixty years, most economic, market, and interest rate cycles have lasted from two to five years, peak-to-peak. Rarely have any of the cycle-tracking market indices moved in tandem, and none of the cycles are considered to be particularly predictable.

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The ex-wife of Wall Street magnate Steven Cohen, founder of the $13 billion hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, has filed a civil racketeering suit against Cohen in which she accuses him of committing insider trading violations.

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The U.S. House is considering reinstituting the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, which barred bank holding companies from owning other financial companies, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said today. More Articles

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the broader message from the White House, which has taken political heat for its support of the $700 billion financial bailout, will be that the taxpayer-funded rescue gives the banks an obligation to do more to help the economy. More Articles

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The issue is shorting stocks which is a despicable, dishonest strategy. People do not understand how it ruins businesses, economies and peoples lives. Here are some other links

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The independent panel that oversees the government's financial bailout program concluded in a year-end review that, despite flaws and lingering problems, the program "can be credited with stopping an economic panic." More Articles

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Economic Stimulous Fails Small Business

Think the Democrats are going to step up and help the working class, unlike the Republicans who favored the rich? Think again. Here's a true story: I've owned a small business for the last three years and a half years.

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LONDON -- World stock markets tumbled Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at Dubai World, a government investment company, and the continuing slide in the dollar, which earlier fell to a 14-year low against the yen.

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A week after concerns about debt problems at one of Dubai's biggest firms sent ripples around the financial world, Malcolm Borthwick, editor of the BBC's Middle East Business Report asks British ex-pats and Emiratis about the lasting impact of this turbulent period.

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π Movie Review

π or Pi (1998) is a crazy mind-bending thrill ride! It was filmed entirely in black and white with a grainy high contrast look giving it a timeless (and slightly manic) feel. Maximilian (Max) Cohen is a genius mathematician searching for a pattern in the stock market.

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The study by John Coates and Lionel Page of the University of Cambridge offers a rare glimpse into how biology, experience and compensation schemes work together to make a profitable and - crucially - a prudent risk taker.

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Arthur Caparell would love to be riding the stock market's recent resurgence, but he's still trying to recover from the recession's blows.

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Matthew Tannin and his former boss Ralph Cioffi walked out of the courthouse free men after a trial that lasted just under a month.

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The Dow Jones industrial average stormed to its highest level in more than a year Monday as a falling dollar boosted prices for gold, oil and other commodities.

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NEW YORK (AFP) – Law enforcement officials in New York announced charges against 14 people in a widening probe into the largest ever alleged hedge-fund insider trading scheme on Wall Street.

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I Guess It Depends On How You Define Recovery

Recovery: *Return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid" *convalescence: gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury *the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) wordnetweb.princ …

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Concerns are mounting that efforts by governments and central banks to stoke a recovery will create a nasty side effect: asset bubbles in real-estate, stock and currency markets, especially in Asia.

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American Express was one of these Corporate discriminators as well against several Wiccans. None of those tech workers in Phoenix sued, although they did engage the EEOC. We were given the the authenticated documentation to prove this so it's fact and not fiction!

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Weak consumer spending and confidence raise worries the recovery will die quickly. Oil falls to $77. Posted by Charley Blaine on Friday, October 30, 2009 2:52 PM Updated: 4:37 p.m. ET

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Matt Taibbi takes on Goldman Sachs (again) for a lobbying document the company is circulating in the Senate that says a lack of transparency in the part of the market involving large institutional traders, aka "dark pools of liquidity" is a good thing... Instead, the bank argues …

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The deal contributed to the more than $14 billion that over 18 months was handed to Goldman Sachs, whose former chairman, Stephen Friedman, was chairman of the board of directors of the New York Fed when the decision was made.

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On Tuesday, March 11th, 2008, somebody — nobody knows who — made one of the craziest bets Wall Street has ever seen.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Wall Street/Stock Market (Myth of Economic Recoery, part II): The Stupidest People On Earth Confuse Limbaugh and Hannity, But Not Me

This is part II of my article on the myth of a strong economic recovery, as both the mainstream media and financial media (for the most part, now really part of the mainstream media) misreport the economic news--after misreporting the economic news exactly the opposite way when a …

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