The most persuasive experiments on this point come from betting on racehorses, not the market.
If there is demand for SME loans, including no-collateral financing, should not the market provide it?
In each of these cases, a strong state, not the market, dictates the terms of economic modernization.
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It is like bad money driving out good, but in this case, within civil society not the market.
For insurance purposes, the replacement cost of a home is NOT the market value of the home, its purchase price or the outstanding amount of any mortgage loan.
Investors are keeping an eye on the correlation between Russian politics and business and the perception is that the government, not the market, decides who runs the most lucrative businesses and profits on opportunities.
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So now you know two more reasons why I have been saying that the February low was probably not the market low for the year, and short-term rallies notwithstanding, the low is still probably several months away.
It is not the market's "irrational exuberance" (it is still up some two-thirds since Alan Greenspan uttered those words nearly three years ago) that we need fear, but the Federal Reserve's irrational exuberance in mistakenly strangling the economy in the name of fighting a long-dead inflation.
It is not the market's "irrational exuberance" (it is still up some two thirds since Alan Greenspan uttered those words nearly three years ago) that we need fear, but the Federal Reserve's irrational exuberance in mistakenly strangling the economy in the name of fighting a long-dead inflation.
Stocks by themselves might be showing some signs of optimism about growth (or at least monetary easing), but the equity market is not the whole market.
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Just two years ago, Nokia dominated the smartphone market, yes, the smartphone market not just the mobile phone market, with 39% market share. (Numbers from IDC worldwide shipments.) The number two vendor was Research in Motion with almost 20% market share.
The Nintendo 3DS is not on the market yet, and Nintendo did not give details about its release date or price during a press conference in Los Angeles, California.
The Moody's comments added to fears "that contagion could extend to the Spanish bond market" said Rabobank analyst Jane Foley, though she added the report did "not enlighten the market much further with respect to the underlying issues with respect to Spain".
Clearly, this only represents the very top echelons of the art auction market and not the broader art market.
For important pieces, go direct to the source, not to the market middlemen.
So, in other words, over the last 22 years, there have been one-year periods, two-year periods and an occasional three-year period where the formula has not beaten the market.
There are, however, legitimate times when not investing in the 401(k) may be the best financial strategy not because the market is down, but because there is another urgent competing priority that, unless handled, would damage the ability to retire.
All the while, the generic product is not on the market.
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The real value of the company and the differentiating factor was not in the market it was going after--which became plagued with issues--but the underlying technology for making the component products.
But perhaps the most worrying thing for financial institutions holding mortgage-backed paper is not the subprime market itself, but the unnerving parallels with an even bigger one to which they are also exposed: leveraged loans to companies.
"Innovative structural reforms other than those already known are unlikely to come out before the upper house election in July so the headlines alone will not drive the market, " said Naoki Kamiyama, equity strategist in Tokyo at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
What will soon be the new Big East does not contain the market star power that the old Big East captured.
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These actions, which are against the laws of a free market system, were carried out in the name of the people, or "the consumer" who could not afford the market prices.
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However, there is no getting away from the fact that Windows 8, which launched at the end of October, has not impressed the market.
We conclude that even though our Billionaires Index did not beat the market in 2012, we are not yet ready to throw in the towel.
Even with the investor concerns that have mounted as of late we believe most agree that the company has brighter secular prospects than typical value tech. (But) the most recent product cycle has not driven the market share and new user growth we had anticipated, and we believe Apple may find it difficult to hit consensus expectations in the March and June quarters.
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