{"id":1985,"date":"2009-01-27T10:30:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T15:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2016-09-20T04:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:10:05","slug":"cage-match-the-president-vs-the-ceos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/cage-match-the-president-vs-the-ceos\/","title":{"rendered":"Cage Match: The President vs. The CEOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1-27-2009-12-08-07-am-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1986 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"1-27-2009-12-08-07-am\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/1-27-2009-12-08-07-am-1.jpg\" alt=\"1-27-2009-12-08-07-am\" width=\"162\" height=\"383\" \/><\/a>From my latest <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/DisciplinedInvestorJournal20090127.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MSN Strategy Lab<\/strong><\/a> Journal:<\/p>\n<p>Market manipulators \u00a0won&#8217;t go down without a fight against President Obama&#8217;s reform plans for Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that we could be heading for a showdown. In one corner: the Masters of Disasters, the Thrashers of Crashers, a.k.a. the Lending Loonies (theatrical pause) . . . Bank CEOs and Financial Company CEOs and Upper Management! In the other corner, the Cool of Rule, the Pope of Hope, the Arranger and Changer  President Barak Obama. (crowd roars).<\/p>\n<p>It is no joke. The likes of <span class=\"qlink\"><strong>Goldman Sachs<\/strong> (GS) <\/span><span class=\"qlink\"><strong>Morgan Stanley<\/strong> (MS)<\/span> and <span class=\"qlink\"><strong>JP Morgan<\/strong> (JPM)<\/span> have a lot to worry about. No one argues that there is a new sheriff in town and he is aiming to clean up the street. So far, he has not given the &#8220;you are out of this town by high noon tomorrow&#8221; speech, but who knows how far you can push a man on a mission.<\/p>\n<p>For too long, the markets have been run and even at times manipulated by those that will do anything to make a buck. Just this summer, we were astonished to learn that a little known legal loophole was left open after the Enron debacle. Now known as the <a onclick=\"return Msn.Navigation.OpenNew(this)\" href=\"..\/2008\/06\/29\/greenberger-on-the-hill-enron-loophole-video\/\">Enron Loophole<\/a>, it was one of the main reasons that the price of oil was headed to $200 per barrel. Only until the Commodity Futures Trading Commission intervened and ultimately changed the definition of who was considered a speculator did the price of oil begin to fall.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, all the time, Goldman Sachs analyst &#8220;Arjun &#8220;where is he now?&#8221; Murti was projecting that we should see oil at $150-$200 within a year. Here is something to think about: What firms made a killing trading oil during 2007-2008?<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire journal entry <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/DisciplinedInvestorJournal20090127.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my latest MSN Strategy Lab Journal: Market manipulators \u00a0won&#8217;t go down without a fight against President Obama&#8217;s reform plans for Wall Street. It appears that we could be heading for a showdown. In one corner: the Masters of Disasters, the Thrashers of Crashers, a.k.a. the Lending Loonies (theatrical pause) . . . Bank CEOs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,12,251],"tags":[483,244],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-gameplan","category-markets","category-msn-strategy-lab","tag-markets","tag-strategy-lab","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}