{"id":5322,"date":"2009-10-31T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:00:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T00:00:02","slug":"links-for-october-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/links-for-october-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Reading for October 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for October 31st :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/businessNews\/~3\/ZA6Tp_MYAX4\/idUSTRE59T50N20091031\">Time Warner to take $100 million charge on Time cuts<\/a> &#8211; Ouch<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=acg798JjGndc&amp;pos=6\">U.S. Bancorp Acquires Nine Banks Seized by Regulators, Accelerating Growth<\/a> &#8211; The small shall die and give birth to a monster<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125699917324320771.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">Union Rejects Ford Deal<\/a> &#8211; Here we go again&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/33548535\/ns\/business-stocks_and_economy\/\">White House: 650,000 jobs created or saved<\/a> &#8211; Really? Come on, what happened to 4,000,000<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/28\/uhoh-for-momo\/\">UhOh for MoMo : The Disciplined Investor<\/a> &#8211; What a change over the past few days. Aside from sentiment, stocks have stage a remarkable turn that is showing up in their harsh move below key averages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/China-to-pursue-trade-case-apf-2319840854.html?x=0\">China to pursue trade case against US automakers<\/a> &#8211; In 1928, Hoover ran on a platform of higher tariffs designed to protect farmers from European competition. Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930; Hoover signed the bill although economists protested. It is unlikely that tariffs alone caused the Great Depression, but they fostered global protectionism; world trade declined by 66% from 1929 to 1934.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/deals\/2009\/10\/28\/mean-street-gmac-insanity\/?mod=yahoo_hs\">Mean Street: GMAC = Insanity<\/a> &#8211; And this time around, it&rsquo;s going to cost us another $5.6 billion in new preferred equity plus another $7.4 billion in government guaranteed debt. That makes a grand total of $25.5 billion of our money committed to GMAC. So far, that is.\n<p>Now you may be thinking, &ldquo;Big deal. What&rsquo;s a few billion more amidst the hundreds of billions in TARP bailouts.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more interesting and important items for October 31st : Time Warner to take $100 million charge on Time cuts &#8211; Ouch U.S. Bancorp Acquires Nine Banks Seized by Regulators, Accelerating Growth &#8211; The small shall die and give birth to a monster Union Rejects Ford Deal &#8211; Here we go again&#8230; White [&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":[262],"tags":[218,483],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recentreads","tag-linkfest","tag-markets","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\/5322","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=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}