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POPSAdvice From Warren.Buffet-NYTimes OpEd Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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POPSHedge Fund's Trade Secrets In Manipulating The Global Stock Markets 
- have been savaged far more than Wall Street's errant financiers even though they have yet to write off a single extra cent in bad debt since the credit crisis hit last year. At the moment, they are simply making prudent and relatively tiny provisions in case anything does go wrong. The ASX financial index has been slashed by 30.3 per cent since November 1. But on Wall Street, the cause of the problems, the Dow Jones banking index has fallen just 21 per cent. How could that possibly be? The answer is that the traders have found a chink in Australia's regulatory armour. The hedge funds have found a way to manipulate the market through a process known as short selling. This is where traders sell stocks if they think the share price will fall in the future. Then they buy them back at a lower price later on. It is perfectly legal and even encouraged as it can add liquidity to markets. In recent years, however, the practice has become more sophisticated and incredibly complex.
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POPSChinese Blogger Arrested Over Stock Tips The popularity of Wang's blog, Daitou Dage 777, is one of the offshoots of the current stockmarket exuberance in China. Wang's detention could mark the start of a broad regulatory clampdown on informal investment companies in China as authorities try to damp down the frenzy.
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