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Tokyo MadHatter's Posts
- Market Talk #4 – Blackmail on an Institutional Scale
- February 17th, 2009
- Well, we’ve had an interesting couple of weeks. In my mind, the biggest event these past two weeks was definitely the admission that Bank of America got cold feet over the Merrill Lynch takeover and the chief executive had to effectively be blackmailed by Paulson and Bernanke to continue with the » Continue Reading
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- Market Talk #3 – Does Davos Matter?
- February 13th, 2009
- Stock markets continue to go down, the uber wealthy gather in Davos and populist sentiment turns against the media nominated heroes of the past decade. Nothing can equal the collective outrage poured on John Thain from Merrill Lynch for first asking for a huge bonus and then denying he had made » Continue Reading
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- Market Talk #2 – Why Gold and Silver are not going up
- January 9th, 2009
- It is the Tokyo MadHatter back from last time, I hope we didn’t put you off following financial matters too much. A lot of financial commentators are told to make things sound good, especially the paid ones, well I prefer to tell it as it is. So, to cap off the last blog, I will admit » Continue Reading
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- Market Talk #1 – Stocks and Bonds
- January 5th, 2009
- It has been a few years since the Tokyo MadHatter last wrote publicly about markets, but we’ve been watching things from the quiet backwaters of a cash flow strong industry sector here in Japan that has very little exposure to global financial markets. » Continue Reading
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