• Collateral Transformation, or Doing the Laundry

    By J.D. Neeson, President, Marine Parts Express In will-they-never learn and where-the-heck-are-the-regulators department, J.P. Morgan, Bank of America, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and State Bank are all setting up collateral-transformation trading desks. Due to the new financial rules that will begin in 2013, banks, hedge funds, and other traders have to increase the percentage of collateral […]

    December 7, 2012 / JD Neeson / No Comments

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  • China Trade: Myths vs. Reality

    Reprinted with permission, By Walter E. Williams Republicans and Democrats, liberals as well as conservatives, have bought into anti-Chinese trade demagoguery. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that tariffs against China are a “key part of our ‘Make It in America’ agenda.” During his 2010 campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., called his tea party-backed […]

    December 22, 2011 / JD Neeson / No Comments

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  • Country Debt

    By J.D. Neeson, President, Marine Parts Express It struck me the other day that everyone talks about government debt and how much personal debt people have, but I had never seen what the total debt is. So here is a nifty table showing some of these. All the numbers are a percentage of a country’s GDP […]

    December 2, 2011 / JD Neeson / No Comments

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  • Wheel Turns

    By J.D. Neeson, President, Marine Parts Express When I was working for a large manufacturing company in the 1980s, the dreaded juggernaut on the horizon was the Japanese. Everyone thought it would be only a matter of time before all manufacturing would end up on the Japanese shores, due to the Japanese’s relatively low labor […]

    November 18, 2011 / JD Neeson / 2 Comments

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