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Facts and Fictions in the Securities Industry

By: Sam Vaknin

...aning of the word "yield" - income realized by an investor - was undermined by this Newspeak. Why was this oxymoron - the "earnings yield" - perpet... ... - or of the market as a whole - changes as a result of externalities. Substantive news, change in management, an oil shock, a terrorist attack, an... ...erged from Australia. In a paper titled "Short Sales Are Almost Instantaneously Bad News: Evidence from the Australian Stock Exchange", the authors... ...eir capital, retained earnings and funds illegally borrowed through shady offshore subsidiaries to try to keep their impossible and unhealthy promi... ...There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-evaders - channeled p... ...the stability of the entire banking system. The Federal Savings and Loans Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) - which insured the deposits in the savings ... ... was subtracted from the Federal Reserve. The role of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was greatly expanded. Prior to 1989, savings...

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