The market continued to move sideways today as economic data was less
relevant than Bernie Madoff's thoughts on the CAPM and fund managers
don't want to rock the boat (though they'll happily tickle the little
man inside of it) this close to year end bonuses. This lack of
volatility in the market is less surprising than John Boehner crying over a paper cut (or a tax cut) or finding out that old men still want sex (and you really needed to do a study to for that?).
The big news of the day was that the Senate passed the tax cut plan
ensuring the "spend and don't tax" policies of George W. Bush will
continue to bankrupt this country for generations to come. It is the
Government's ultimate fuck you to anyone who still believes in the
Ricardian equivalence proposition or the mathematical concept of
compounding.
The bill extends all of the tax cuts that were enacted in
2001 and 2003 for another two years (until they will be extended again
so Wall Street traders who make billions of dollars by hitting a button
won't ever have to downgrade from their daily diet of five unicorn
fetuses to only four) and it extends expanded unemployment insurance
benefits through 2011 (so the unemployed can eat for another few months
while employers tell them their skills have become more obsolete than
rotary phones, penny-farthings, and full bush). The compromise will
also cut payroll taxes by 2% (which might stimulate hiring if margins
weren't going down like Gayle King at Oprah Winfrey's house) and will
allow businesses to write off 100% of capital investments until 2011
which means executive suites will all soon be redone with neorests, rockstars, and Ashley Dupre.
At this rate, Wesley Snipes will be let out of jail early, and not for
good behavior, but rather for paying too much in taxes over the past 10
years. But party on, politicians, party on.
In macro news, both the core and actual CPI rose by .1%, slightly below analyst guesses of .2% and completely irrelevant to anything. Industrial output rose by .4%
which was its biggest gain since July as a spike in utilities partly
offset a 6% decline in the production of motor vehicles and a 15%
reduction in hope. Finally, applications for home loans fell last week
as mortgage rates rose to 7 week highs and people still don't have any
fucking money to waste on expensive declining assets (which is terrible
news for Elizabeth Taylor's vagina).
The only other bit of interesting US market news was that the inconceivable Lloyd Blankfein and his fellow warlords are slated to get $111MM in bonuses
from this year and 2007 as a reward for destroying the economy but
having enough political pull to stay afloat. Wow. And who said only
massages have happy endings? Blankfein will net $24.3MM by himself
which he promises to put towards world peace, making sure all of Camille Crimson's classes (probably NSFW) at the Learning Annex are free, and developing a vaccine for iocaine powder. Just kidding, he's probably going to put it all in a pile in the middle of his bedroom and dance naked around it as he wildly cackles at the robbery he got away with in front of everyone's eyes. Damn it feels good to be a Banksta.
Internationally, fears of European defaults are once again rising
(though it's unclear why they ever sank) as Moody's said they are
putting their credit rating of Spain on review for a possible downgrade.
While this would have more credibility if Moody's hadn't both missed
the biggest global financial meltdown in 80 years and also been
complicit in it, it was enough to spook the markets (and Money McBags
means spook in the literal sense, so don't go all Coleman Silk on him).
This news, coupled with violent worker strikes in Greece
(and Money McBags would have coupled that news with a nice Chianti, and
not worker strikes, but whatever), sent the Euro down and once again
made people realize that like RuPaul, Europe's banking system may be
hiding something underneath.
In the market, Goldman and Nomura cut EPS guesses for Morgan Stanley
from "made-up" to "made-up and shitty." Joy global was up~7% after a better than expected Q
which saw profits rise 18% as the CEO said they "simply dug the fuck
out of some more shit." Elsewhere, Honeywell fell a bit after they gave
below guesses 2011 earnings guidance
even though profits are supposed to rise 17% to 24% thanks to the
production of huge cockpits. And finally, Best Buy continued to get
pounded as this is one dip investors refuse to buy (and this is another dip investors refuse to buy).
For more, Money McBags puts the "fun" and the "mental" in fundamental analysis today by looking at RICK's Q on the award winning When Genius Prevailed.
Editors Note: As the next 2.5 weeks promise to be
duller than amish porn or a Henry James novel (and Money McBags still
hasn’t forgiven Mr. James for the 4ish hours of his life he wasted
reading The Bostonians which had all of the action, intrigue,
and humor of a shriveled taint hair), Money McBags may struggle a bit
to make this shit interesting. He could just post pictures of Rosie Jones, fabricate stories like other great media outlets,
or simply try to write in only rhyming iambic pentameter (Today
nothing went on in the market, news was lighter than a tiny ant’s shit)
but those are all gimmicks and you all know Money McBags is
cockposterously against gimmicks and all for originality. So bear with
Money McBags for the next few weeks as he navigates the dulldrums
(misspelling intended) of the end of the year, and tries to continue to
take the market from boring and stuffy, to boring and slightly less
stuffy.
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Hint: he's not just a student doing a project -nt-
by CincoSolas_del_Bronx
Make a better argument!
by jhh1023
Unfortunatly, he wont.
by gekster
Who are you?
by writeblock
Slow down and think.
by gekster
P.S.
by writeblock
Bash the "religious guys" again and you're gone.
by Bill S
Who Cares About Democrats
by tommyt
5
by aesthete
I thought they grew a backbone.
by tommyt
gekster...
by writeblock
kowalski: told ya he wouldn't stop.
by gekster
two day wonder doesn't know how to put up a spam diary, so a spam comment.
by gekster
Laugh away, but I still make more sense...
by writeblock
That'd be a good match nt
by aesthete
Strength Training Protect Football Players from Injuries
by seallow
NO MORE RINOs
by tommyt
Writeblock, some friendly advice...
by aesthete
Agree strongly with drewk and Kyle-MI
by califgal
Hillbuzz is wrong on this...
by rightwingnut2
good points again
by gekster
Prior to his drop-out
by writeblock
As to Giuliani's popularity...
by writeblock
And again
by powertothepeople
This is critical to our future.
by Brian Hibbert
What about Obama's weird way of talking, where he takes dramatic pauses, and always emphasizes the last word of a sentence? Normal people don't talk that way.
by nvrepub
Agreed, Just like Reagan Carter had to happen....
by audax
Report from Brevard Cnty, FL
by cwilson
1) Bolton
by TNJim
agreed - nt
by Mike gamecock DeVine
I'll bring the beer -nt
by izoneguy
Make that Huckabee and Paul...
by writeblock
Homosexuals still the primary AIDS Plague Vector
by 8654_0231
Since you are ignorant of the facts...
by writeblock
No, you cut the crap and take off the blinders...
by writeblock
Armey
by jeffreywturner
But Harriet Miers was not filibustered.
by cwilson
I have to agree with drewk
by Kyle-MI
A DVD set of 25 classic BBC productions, encoded in PAL, region 2 format, and maybe an iPod with speeches by Queen Elizabeth. nt
by Greg Garrison
Very good explanation.
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