No, your average Wall Street pro hasn't beat a dart tossed by a drunk in a bus depot bar since 1994.
The moment power beckoned, he tilted instinctively toward the establishment, and, in the Democratic Party that Obama had grown up in, the establishment was pro-Wall Street.
Elliott Gue of Trading Floor Pro and Wall Street Winners just bought small South African miner Durban Roodeport Deep (nasdaq: DROOY - news - people ) on Friday, as the stock closed up 14% for the week, breaking out of a six-month trading range with huge volume.
Recently, Eli Lehrer of the pro-market R Street Institute made another suggestion: Instead of simply attacking federal loan guarantees for clean-tech firms such as Solyndra, the federal government should get out of the business of subsidizing the energy sector entirely.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the lobbying group J Street, which is pro-Israel but less hawkish than others, said Mr. Obama's comments show there was no need to rush to military action.
Federal authorities in New York City weren't naming names, but they said the poker players included pro athletes, Hollywood celebrities and Wall Street executives.
That's why the Wall Street mess figures to tarnish pro sport's gilded age, one driven by new stadiums, luxury suites and high ticket prices.
Gutow and Ruskay were supported in their demand to disinvite Palin by the National Jewish Democratic Council and by the new Jewish pro-Palestinian lobbying group J-Street.
But while Mr Hagel has many detractors among the neo-conservatives, he does not lack supporters in other political circles, including more centrist pro-Israeli groups such as J Street and the Israel Policy Forum.
He'd played 12 seasons as an offensive lineman in Baltimore, 11 of them Pro Bowl ones, won a Super Bowl too, and a few minutes before down the street, he'd been handed the most indelible honor in the game: induction to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Pro forma profits of 63 cents a share topped the Street consensus at 61 cents.
Pro forma EPS was 45 cents a share, ahead of the Street at 41 cents.
In their campaign to discredit GAAP, the pro forma companies have almost completely won over the analysts on Wall Street.
Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg News and a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, looks at the Depression through pro-market eyes.
He's thrown back out on the street, with (in many cases) no diploma or pro prospects.
Pro forma profits of 94 cents a share were well ahead of the Street at 68 cents.
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Pro forma profits of 43 cents a share likewise came in well ahead of the Street at 33 cents.
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