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“An explosive critique about the investment industry: provocative and well worth reading.”
 Financial Post

Juggling Dynamite, #1 pick for best new books about money and markets.”
 MoneySense

“Park manages to not only explain finances well for the average person, she also manages to entertain and educate, while cutting through the clutter of information she knows every investor faces.”
 Toronto Sun

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View Article  US Economy sputters into slow gear
A jump in consumer spending was one of the only things to keep the growth from turning into a negative quarter.   more »
View Article  Fed sees housing correction a likely to continue to weigh heavily on economy
"somewhat longer than previously expected"   more »
View Article  Private Equity: A bubble that will end badly (again!)
"Almost everything can go wrong now."   more »
View Article  Housing--going gets tougher
Spring housing market not warming up so far this year   more »
View Article  Why the housing recession can't be overlooked
Without housing appreciation and equity withdrawals we would be virtually no where in growth for the past 6 years   more »
View Article  Bankruptcy by those over 55 outpacing the general population
People have been trying to spend their way to prosperity rather than pay off their debts   more »
View Article  Quote of the Day: “At a time like this, who can lose money?”… A 60-year old cleaning woman
Famous last words should ring in our ears   more »
View Article  How the rich get rich and other fables
Only a minority of wealthy people today inherited their wealth or made it in the stock market.   more »
View Article  Credit Bubble May Be at Bursting Point
"We are growing extremely negative on credit markets, which we see as in a bubble"   more »
View Article  Going Full Cycle- An Interview with Money Manager John Hussman
"I think its a very large mistake to rule out the possibility that stocks could lose a third of their value."   more »
View Article  Real life Inflation
The gap between core and headline inflation is now greater than in the early 80's   more »
View Article  A New Wave of Insider Trading
A spike in takeover bids is driving the trend.   more »
View Article  LBO's take the tusks and leave the carcass
Greedy packs have been descending on companies all around the world   more »
View Article  Quote of the Day: “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”… Tony Blair
 
View Article  Lessons from the whaling industry
Sustainability is about strategy, management, and profits.   more »
View Article  More investors take risk of buying stocks with loans - USATODAY

There has been a lot of banter of late about whether or not the retail investor has been much involved with recent rallies in the stock market.  The bulls argue that the retail investor has not yet joined in and thus when they do they will provide even more buying pressure to push this wave.  Perhaps they will buy in more as this mania goes along.  But critical thought must ask:  if retail investors aren't yet in, then why are margin loans with brokerage houses at peak levels once again.  See More investors take risk of buying stocks with loans-USA today.

The attached chart from contraryinvestor.com says it best.    It is the hallmark of every major market bubble that borrowing to invest becomes widely practiced. 

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View Article  "There will be blood in the street" and other pleas for "sanity"

Today Bloomberg reports that Bank of America CEO Lewis says the so called credit bubble of the past 6 years ...   more »

View Article  U.S. foreclosure rate doubles in a year
U.S. homeowners entered the foreclosure process last month at more than double the rate of a year ago as tightening credit made it more difficult to refinance and a swelling supply of unsold homes made it tough to sell.   more »
View Article  Pressure at Mortgage firms led to Mass Approval of Bad Loans

Human beings are nothing if not predictable.  Especially when the greed of large commissions are motivating.  A story today in the ...   more »

View Article  Who is to make wise those who are required to have wisdom?

The Federal Reserve Board, under fire from Congress for lax enforcement during the biggest mortgage boom in American history, will ...   more »

View Article  The Credit Card Shuffle?

The resiliance of cosumers to spend their brains out over the past couple of years has been remarkable to say ...   more »

View Article  Play fair or we will take our ball and go home

For years now we have all been feverishly buying cheaper goods from China so that we could fill our triple ...   more »

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Danielle speaks with Jonathan Chevreau on the Financial Post's blog Wealthy Boomer.

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“Dear Ms. Park, I watched your appearance on BNN today, and I just have to leave you a message saying 'Thank you' for giving viewers your very frank opinions about how things are going and certain industry practices. I appreciated you trying to give as much information as you could during that (too) short segment. Thank you for what you are doing for all investors!”
 —blog reader, April 30, 2008

“Each time I see Danielle Park on BNN, I am impressed with her comments and insights. Other than Rick Santelli on CNBC, she is the only commentator that I feel is completely honest and trustworthy.”
 —M. Scher, Toronto
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