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Stock Buybacks A Piece Of “Financial Engineering Game”

April 26, 2021

Stock Buybacks A Piece Of “Financial Engineering Game” In today’s market far too much has become based on financial engineering rather than making money. Prior to the Great Depression share buybacks and margin lending was a huge factor in lifting stocks to an unsustainable level. We must remember this today because for years we have […]

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Our Wile E. Coyote Economy: Nothing But Financial Engineering

June 12, 2020

Our Wile E. Coyote Economy: Nothing But Financial Engineering Ours is a Wile E. Coyote economy, and now we’re hanging in mid-air, realizing there is nothing solid beneath our feet. The story we’re told about how our “capitalist” economy works is outdated. The story goes like this: companies produce goods and services for a competitive marketplace […]

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Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks

February 21, 2017

Opinion: Inside the global elite’s bag of financial tricks Easy money masks global economy’s precarious health Shutterstock Too much of economic growth and the accompanying bull market in stocks is the result of financial engineering. Increasingly, companies seek to improve earnings or increase their share price by means that are not necessarily directly linked to their […]

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A Wall Street Witches Brew——Hockey Sticks And Financial Engineering Games

April 19, 2016

A Wall Street Witches Brew——Hockey Sticks And Financial Engineering Games In a nearby post Jeff Snider makes a clean kill of the sell side hockey stick. Just 22 months ago (June 2014), Wall Street projected GAAP earnings of $144.60 per share for the S&P 500 in 2015. Needless to say, that was off by a country mile. In fact, […]

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Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England

March 24, 2016

Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England But it’s supposed to be “independent” from national politics. Project Fear — the massive PR campaign aimed at sowing and watering the seeds of dread about the potential consequences of a YES vote in the upcoming referendum on a British exit from the EU — is in full bloom. […]

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Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South

July 12, 2015

Peak Financial Engineering? Trends Spiral South Our corporate heroes hit a snag. We have long grinned painfully at the ways in which Corporate America and analysts collude to present the quarterly earnings charade in the rosiest light possible. But now, it seems they have reached the end of their magic tricks, and reality is showing […]

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Record Financial Engineering Will Goose Stocks: Goldman

April 29, 2015

Record Financial Engineering Will Goose Stocks: Goldman GE, in order to paper over a net loss of $13.6 billion and declining revenues in the first quarter, said on April 10 that it would buy back $50 billion of its own shares. That’s on top of the $10.8 billion in actual buybacks last year. The announcement was […]

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Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up

April 18, 2015

Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering—–How The Biggest LBO In History Blew-Up Financial engineering is one of the worst ills perpetuated by the Fed’s regime of cheap debt and money market subsidies for speculation. And these deformations are turbo-charged by the tax code which creates a powerful bias toward loading capital structures with […]

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