Lee Klaskow described his "holy trinity" of rail freight. Which company was closest to his model?

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"Housing Issues Scarier Than High Oil Prices"

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In "Housing Issues Scarier Than High Oil Prices" Wilbur Ross said how many U.S. public firms are run badly? Answer: 1%

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Heard on The Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews

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clipped from www.investmentbankingjobinterviews.com I used to wonder why interviewers at top firms supplied me with their interview questions to put in a book to sell to their job candidates. Now I understand that they do not mind if the questions are public knowledge because job candidates who make a serious investment of time in revising the questions deserve to be hired! The latest edition also includes about 125 non-quant actual interview questions plus a section on interview technique As of January 2008, roughly 30,000 copies have been sold with about 10,000 going to people at investment banks, trading firms, and money management firms.

Ex-Press Aide Writes That Bush Misled U.S. on Iraq

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clipped from www.washingtonpost.com Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war."

In the last paragraph of "Stocks Don’t Like Obama" Larry Kudlow concludes that:

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$135: The Biggest Loser

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clipped from www.cnbc.com As oil surpasses $135 for the first time you know who benefits – but who's the biggest loser? As far as Jon Najarian is concerned, the U.S. casino business is in the biggest trouble. The economic downturn is already hurting casinos and high oil as it relates to the airlines is going to be crippling for the industry as people rethink their summer vacations to Vegas, he said. Quote  |  Chart  |  News  |  Profile PetroChina Co Ltd PTR 134.68  -3.70  -2.67%  NYSE

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Market Insider How did Birinyi's Jeff Rubin rate Boone Pickens' forecasting?

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“Rail moves everything,” said Neuberger Berman’s Gary Kaminsky. Which railroad stock moves him?

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Lost and found: Errant parrot tells stranger his name and address

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clipped from blogs.usatoday.com Two weeks ago, an African grey parrot flew his Tokyo-area coop and was rescued by police, The Associated Press reports. But he was no stool pigeon. "I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," policeman Shinjiro Uemura said. After a silent night in the pokey, he was taken to a local veterinary hospital. A few days later, he struck up a conversation. "I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird said, including his complete home address. He also sang for the staff. Police investigated his alias. "We checked the address, and what do you know — a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said. The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching Yosuke his name and address for about two years.

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According to Boone Pickens, how much is the U.S. sending overseas for oil?
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On Tuesday, Jim Cramer said it was “time to ring the register” and sell. But what railroad stock was he BULLISH on? Answer: CSX

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Short seller Doug Kass mentioned Warren Buffett and a famous tyrant in a CNBC interview. Which tyrant?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte

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“States with the Highest Foreclosure Rates” slideshow: How many Nevada households got notices as of April?

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In "Short Stories," what did Fast Money trader Pete Najarian call "the most confident plays"?

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In the story "Hogan's Heroes," Jeffries' Art Hogan recommended which biotech stock?
Answer: Charles River

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In "Future Trade: Web 5.0" what Un-"sexy" stock did Jeff Macke recommend?Answer: Intel

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On May 16, CNBC.com's "Two Way Street" blog got its name from a presumably loyal reader. Who?Answer: John Ware

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In the CNBC Stock Blog, "A Big Buy On Brazil," what was Tom Del Zoppo's advice?
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In "Thunder To Battle iPhone?!" Jim Goldman quotes which tech news & review site?
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On May 16, Jim Cramer said he’d only recommend ONE Indian stock. Name it.
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Lowest NYSE Volume of the Year

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clipped from bigpicture.typepad.com Peter Boockvar notes: Today's consolidated volume for NYSE names was a low for the year to date. Helene Meisler notes: It's a bear market -- and these low volume rallies are typical of short covering. (unless you believe all those dark pools are swallowing all the volume!). As long as there are shorts in the market we will get rallies;  Once the shorts cover we get a decline like last week. Doug Kass goes even further: I am starting to scale into shorts now.  My favorite? PowerShares QQQ (QQQQ).  My catalysts? The VIX and volume. That's our surprising data point of the day.

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In his Trader Talk blog, Bob Pisani had one April entry entitled Hot Fertilizer. Name one of the stocks he discussed.

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On Monday, April 28, James Altucher of Formula Capital recommended which food-inflation trade to CNBC viewers?

Answer: Sadia

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On April 25, Tech Check’s Jim Goldman blogged on Microsoft’s Yahoo bid. How did he describe Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s rule?

Answer: Iron-fisted

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Mark Travis said he likes “redneck stocks.” On April 24, The CIO of Intrepid Capital Funds recommended

Answer: Comcast

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Question: Jim Cramer has a cameo in Iron Man, judging the mythical Stark Industries. What is Stark’s make-believe ticker symbol?

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Soros: Bear Market Rally

Stocks are currently in a “a bear market rally,” and will probably retest their lows of earlier this year, George Soros says.

clipped from blogs.wsj.com “I think we’ll retest the lows, depending on what measures the authorities take,” Mr. Soros said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Wednesday. He made similar comments later that day in a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. “We may go beyond” those lows, he said.

But he also said the worst has now passed for the credit markets and spreads between yields and risky bonds and Treasurys will not return to their highs of a month ago. “The acute phase of the credit crisis, or financial crisis, is abating,” said Mr. Soros. Mr. Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management which advises the Quantum funds, is one of the world’s most famous and successful hedge fund investors. “The markets are breathing a sigh of relief but the fallout in the real economy is only now beginning.”

In his latest book, “The New Paradigm for Financial Markets,” Mr. Soros argues that the current credit crisis conforms to his longstanding view that markets drive fundamentals, instead of the other way around, producing bubbles and crashes– a dynamic he has dubbed “reflexivity.”

The book argues the subprime crisis has triggered the bursting of a “super-bubble” that has been building for 25 years. Prior crises, from the 1987 stock market crash to the emerging markets crisis of 1997 were merely “testing events,” he writes. Because the authorities successfully averted catastrophe in those events, they encouraged consumers and investors to believe markets were fundamentally self-stabilizing and built up even more leverage, he wrote.

Mr. Soros’ latest book is his third to predict disaster; prior books did so in 1987 and 1998. In the interview Mr. Soros acknowledged he sounds like the “boy who cried wolf,” but noted, “The third time, the wolf really came.”

Mr. Soros said how the U.S. comes out of the current period is highly uncertain because it depends a great deal on how investors and policy makers respond to the depth of the threat. He called it “inconceivable” that the U.S. would avoid a recession that lasts at least into next year. He noted house price declines are accelerating, and said nothing policy makers can do can slow that down much.

It’s quite possible the U.S. could “muddle through” after next year, he said, with 1% to 2% growth for the decade and rising unemployment. But “there are many ways for it to work out.”

Mr. Soros withdrew from active investing in 2001 with the departure of his partner, Stanley Druckenmiller and his hedge funds were converted to an endowment fund run by outside managers, mostly tasked with managing the assets of his philanthropic foundations. But he returned in August, 2007 by establishing a macro account of his own.

He said that while he has been mostly bearish on U.S. stocks and Treasuries, he moved to a neutral position earlier this year when he sensed a bear market rally might be in the offing. He returned to a short position on both, but too soon, he said. He has also been long stocks in China and India, but has been hurt by the dramatic selloffs in both this year. “We are not making money this year. We are slightly in negative territory.”

On the dollar, “we are moving towards neutral. We have greatly reduced our short position. It’s not clear which way it’s going.” He said its depreciation to date is in effect exporting the U.S. slowdown to other countries.

In his remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Soros said, “I personally think we have the acute phase of the financial crisis largely behind us. The authorities have as their mission to stop the system from falling apart and providing liquidity at all costs. They’ve done it and have passed several thresholds. That is a source of reassurance that the system is not going to fall apart. But the damage that has been done to the financial system has to affect the real economy, and that is only starting to be felt.”

A repeat of Japan’s 1990s experience is “the pessimistic extreme” he told the audience. Japan had “a real estate bubble and a financial system loaded down with bad debt. The big difference between Japan and us is here, the losses are being recognized, written off. Some of the writeoffs may turn out to be excessive.” –Greg Ip

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Report to The Secretary of the Treasury from The Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee

clipped from www.treas.gov The Federal government's budget balance is deteriorating in fiscal year 2008.  Weaker economic activity has dampened the pace of revenue collection and lifted growth in economically sensitive spending.  A recent survey of primary dealers estimates that the deficit for the 2008 fiscal year ending in September will exceed $400 billion with some economists expecting a deficit of more than $500 billion--a significant deterioration from fiscal 2007's deficit of $163 billion.  Economic stimulus measures will complement the forces widening the budget deficit.  This year's shortfall may surpass fiscal year 2004 as the largest on record in nominal dollars.  Furthermore, additional members again reiterated their concern that this latest "cyclical" deterioration in the fiscal outlook is particularly troublesome as the longer-term "secular" forces of entitlement spending and the aging of the baby boom generation and their effect on the budget deficit are no longer that distant in the future.