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Happy St. Paddy’s Day!!

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 17th, 2013 9:56 AM |

It is a great day for the Irish.

Saint Patrick spread the faith throughout Ireland. Today I hope that you may be a channel of the peace that runs through your faith — whatever it may be — and that you might spread your faith and peace to others as well.

In that spirit, I welcome sharing a brief yet classic Irish ballad.

Enjoy. . . and navigate accordingly.

Larry Doyle

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I have no business interest with any entity referenced in this commentary. The opinions expressed are my own. I am a proponent of real transparency within our markets so that investor confidence and investor protection can be achieved.


Josh Rosner Torches JP Morgan

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 15th, 2013 6:17 AM |

It is not often that an industry insider unleashes a report on a major financial institution that makes me sit up and immediately think, “I need to share this . . . . NOW.”

Well, I just sat up.

If you have any doubts that our “too big to fail” banks are out of control and hence “too big to regulate” and “too big to prosecute,” you will want to read a report written by Graham Fisher’s Josh Rosner.

I can assure you this report will generate a lot of focus from even the generally compliant financial media. I thank the friend of Sense on Cents who brought it to my attention. I recommend you put your coffee down as Rosner writes, >>>>> Read the rest »


Obama’s Two American Governments

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 15th, 2013 5:17 AM |

Do you ever think that politicians speak out of both sides of their mouth? Well, we know they do.

What do you make of the fact that our wizards in Washington during the current administration have passed pieces of legislation that would appear to be diametrically opposed to actual actions taken?

Standard double-speak, double-act? Let’s give credit where it is due to the folks at the Project on Government Oversight for highlighting the “bipolar” nature of our “governments” in Washington via the following pictorial:  Read the rest »


Raising Minimum Wage: A Trojan Horse Disaster

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 14th, 2013 10:00 AM |

A few weeks back, I described raising the minimum wage as a jobs killer.

Readers chimed in and addressed the fact that the real beneficiaries of raising the minimum wage are the unions that often have wage contracts benchmarked to the minimum wage, and that the raising of this rate is really a Trojan horse.

So the question begs, if raising the minimum wage is, in fact, a Trojan horse, just how many people might be negatively impacted in terms of losing their job if it were to be raised? Let’s navigate and review a release by the Employment Policies Institute that highlights the following:  Read the rest »


Income Distribution in America

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 13th, 2013 6:19 AM |

I would like to believe I am the ultimate free market capitalist. I embrace and respect those who take risk and embody the entrepreneurial spirit that is the engine of our nation.

I detest and abhor those who utilize their positions to further a spirit of crony capitalism in America. I would count many of our politicians from both sides of the aisle in this camp.

How do we advance the former group while exposing the latter? Well, that is a topic for another day.

Today let’s review a brief video (thank you to the readers who brought this to my attention) that some may like to use to advance a liberal agenda of income redistribution. I strongly believe that approach would be an enormous mistake, and merely serve to perpetuate and exacerbate our current problem with cronyism and government handouts/bailouts. Watch the video, and then I’ll make a few comments:  Read the rest »


Holder Refutes Obama with “Indictment” of TBTF

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 12th, 2013 8:25 AM |

In December 2011, President Obama was interviewed on 60 Minutes and had the following exchange with CBS’ Steve Kroft in regard to behaviors on Wall Street:

KROFT: One of the things that surprised me the most about this poll is that 42%, when asked who your policies favor the most, 42% said Wall Street. Only 35% said average Americans.

My suspicion is some of that may have to do with the fact that there’s not been any prosecutions, criminal prosecutions, of people on Wall Street.

And that the civil charges that have been brought have often resulted in what many people think have been slap on the wrists, fines. “Cost of doing business,” I think you called it in the Kansas speech. Are you disappointed by that? Read the rest »


What Is “THE Key” to Asset Management Success?

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 11th, 2013 8:44 AM |

There are many factors that go into developing and maintaining a successful business enterprise. If you were asked, though, what is the single greatest key to business success, what would you say?

Gven that this blog is all about helping people navigate the economic landscape, let’s delve into what asset management firms believe is the key to their success. It should come as no surprise. The FT highlights this key point this morning in writing:

It is often said that trust is the hardest thing to gain, but the easiest to lose. The experiences of many fund management companies over the past few years are testament to that. Read the rest »


Morgenson:Corralling Mobsters, if Not Many Big Banks

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 10th, 2013 9:12 AM |

Mary Jo White’s confirmation hearing to be the next head of the Securities and Exchange Commission is scheduled for this coming Tuesday.

Will any of our officials supposedly representing the public interest have the courage and character to question Ms. White about the skeleton in her closet, that being her intervention on behalf of Morgan Stanley, that derailed an insider trading case then being pursued by SEC lawyer Gary Aguirre?

Or might that be too much to ask and too upsetting to the cronyism disguised as public service these days?  Read the rest »


Sense on Cents Poll: How Are You Doing?

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 8th, 2013 10:51 AM |

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at a 5 year high and unemployment is at a post-crisis low. This is good but are these indicators truly representative of what is going on within our land?

Rather than listening to those who get paid to pontificate and commenting on their posturing, I would much prefer to open the floor to you the readers and ask you the very simple question, “How are you doing?”

Please share your own thoughts and feelings in regard to what you are experiencing as you navigate the economic landscape. Read the rest »


Comparing 35 Year Rates of Inflation

Posted by Larry Doyle on March 7th, 2013 5:27 AM |

A picture tells a thousand words, right?

Thank you to Jeff Gundlach and his band of truth tellers at Doubleline Funds for recently highlighting a Bureau of Labor Statistics/Consumer Price Index graph which shows the racket defined as higher education displays that the “thousand” applies not to words but to the rate of inflation within that segment over the past 35 years. The actual number is a mere 1,155%.

Every day we read of how students are increasingly delinquent and defaulting on their student loans. Those realities are no surprise as the Ponzi-style financing promoted to fund higher education feels the effect of students wondering “Where’s the value here?” and “Where’s my bailout?”

There are plenty of the same characteristics within medical care, which has only experienced a 600% rate of inflation during that same time frame.

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Thank you Mr. Gundlach and Doubleline.

Navigate accordingly.

Larry Doyle

Isn’t  it time or overtime to subscribe to all my work via e-mail, an RSS feed, on Twitter or Facebook.

I have no business interest with any entity referenced in this commentary. The opinions expressed are my own. I am a proponent of real transparency within our markets so that investor confidence and investor protection can be achieved.


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