Could someone with a WSJ subscription please post the text of
the following article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-m ... 1436225737
Thanks
Financial topics
Re: Financial topics
By CAROL E. LEE and ADAM ENTOUSJohn wrote:Could someone with a WSJ subscription please post the text of
the following article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-m ... 1436225737
Thanks
July 6, 2015 7:36 p.m. ET
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WASHINGTON—The White House is crafting a Middle East strategy for the remaining 18 months of President Barack Obama’s term that would more forcefully address conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria amid tensions over the conclusion of talks with Iran.
U.S. and Iranian negotiators narrowed some key differences for completing a deal that would scale back Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting economic sanctions. The talks face a Tuesday diplomatic deadline, but the two sides remained at odds on Monday over several critical elements.
Any reorientation of Mr. Obama’s Middle East strategy would test the durability of his broader foreign-policy doctrine, and senior administration officials said the president is intent on cleaning up leftover messes in the region before leaving office in 2017, including relations with key allies that have been strained by the Iran talks.
President Obama spoke about the U.S. military strategy against Islamic State, while visiting the Pentagon Monday. These are his edited remarks.
White House officials see the conclusion of Iran talks as a gateway for Mr. Obama to press for a political resolution in Syria that would facilitate the exit of President Bashar al-Assad, a close Iranian ally.
“It’s something I’d expect to see more pickup on as the Iran talks conclude,” a senior administration official said. “There’s a growing sense that momentum has turned against Assad and that is feeding a belief that there could be more opening on the political track.”
The conclusion of talks would thrust the U.S. into unfamiliar territory in a volatile region where years of diplomacy with Tehran has left relations with America’s allies, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, deeply strained.
Those alliances could be further frayed if the U.S. takes steps toward a broader rapprochement with Iran, and U.S. officials face a significant task in smoothing regional strains.
Any effort to work with Iran in the fight against Islamic State extremists, for example, likely would generate further anxiety among Iran’s neighbors. Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have pushed hard to keep Iran out of the alliance patched together to fight the militant group in Syria and Iraq, accusing Tehran of propping up the Assad regime.
White House officials said the Middle East approach would include an expansive U.S. effort to keep ties with Persian Gulf states from fraying further.
Mr. Obama met with officials from members of the Gulf Cooperation Council in May and pledged new military and security measures. The U.S. has designated a team to see through the pledges.
The Obama administration is also determining how Washington might engage Tehran on issues beyond its nuclear program.
Until now, Iran has shown little willingness to seriously address other regional issues, U.S. officials said. But Iranian officials have begun to suggest, in public and private talks with their American counterparts, possible engagement on other issues after the conclusion of nuclear talks.
“We are ready to strike a balanced and good deal and open new horizons to address important common challenges,“ Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Friday in a message posted on YouTube, calling extremist violence ”our common threat today.”
Mr. Obama’s critics say he has been too willing to let other crises, specifically the Syria conflict, fester in an attempt to achieve his overarching goal of reining in Iran’s nuclear program. His 2013 decision to pull back on launching airstrikes in Syria after concluding Mr. Assad had used chemical weapons fueled criticism of his Middle East strategy.
The president’s aides say his approach has been necessary, given the significant threat a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to the region and the U.S.
U.S. officials are unsure how a nuclear deal would affect Tehran’s behavior. Iran could firm its support for Mr. Assad or cut a deal to push him aside, U.S. officials said.
“They’ll have more money to be bad actors if they choose to be bad actors,” another senior administration official said. “But they’ll also have more opportunities to be constructive if they choose that route.”
Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been leading U.S. negotiations with Iran, has been pressing the White House to renew its focus on Syria. It is unclear that Mr. Obama shares Mr. Kerry’s ambition.
Mr. Obama’s resistance to deeper U.S. involvement in Syria also could shift, senior administration officials said, because of assessments that Mr. Assad’s grip on power appears to be weakening. The combination of military and diplomatic pressure, officials believe, could increase pressure on Mr. Assad or those around him to look for an exit plan.
Russia would be a critical component of any U.S. effort on Syria. U.S.-Russia relations have soured over Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, but Russian President Vladimir Putin raised hopes in the White House when he initiated a June 25 phone call with Mr. Obama to discuss Syria.
Mr. Obama, in remarks Monday at the Pentagon, said the only way to end Syria’s civil war is for Mr. Assad to exit, a point he said that he stressed to Arab leaders and Mr. Putin during their phone call.
“And a glimmer of good news is, I think, an increasing recognition on the part of all the players in the region that, given the extraordinary threat that ISIL poses, it is important for us to work together as opposed to at cross-purposes to make sure that an inclusive Syrian government exists,” Mr. Obama said, using another acronym for Islamic State.
Even if a nuclear deal is clinched, defense officials said the Obama administration would have to think twice about pushing more aggressively for the removal of Mr. Assad if doing so would antagonize Tehran.
For instance, Iran has told its militia groups not to attack Americans in Iraq, but U.S. officials fear that could change.
In Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is fighting Iran-backed Houthi militants, White House officials are also considering ways to work with Tehran toward a diplomatic resolution. Iranian leaders view the conflict in Yemen as a low-cost opportunity to challenge Saudi Arabia, but less critical to Tehran’s future, one senior administration official said.
—Laurence Norman contributed to this article.
Write to Carol E. Lee at carol.lee@wsj.com... and Adam Entous at adam.entous@wsj.com...
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John, I am not a subscriber to the WSJ. However I went to Google using the headline and then copied a few paragraphs at a time, since I could not copy the entire article at once.
cheers
Re: Financial topics
Thanks for posting the article.
How does that paragraph at a time technique work?
How does that paragraph at a time technique work?
Re: Financial topics
I thought that Mauldin's newsletter was interesting today:
July 7, 2015
The Wall Street Raid on Your Piggy Bank
Question: How do you get a $1 million portfolio?
Answer: Give $2 million to a stockbroker.
Don’t you hate phone solicitors?
Well, if you lived in western Washington during the 1980s, I may have
very well interrupted your dinner with a “can’t miss” stock
solicitation. I worked as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker in the 1980s,
and we had mandatory work nights where everyone with less than five
years of service cold-called everyone that lived in the best zip
codes.
I made pretty good money as a stockbroker, but I didn’t like the
business. There was intense pressure to push certain products, but
that wasn’t all.
One of the greatest paradoxes of the investment industry was that the
safest investments paid the lowest commissions while the riskiest
investments paid the highest commissions.
Example #1: The commission on a CD was half of 1% while the commission
for an illiquid oil/gas limited partnership was 8%.
I would have had to sell 16 times as many CDs to make as much as one
of my dirt-bag co-workers who pushed little old ladies into oil & gas
limited partnerships that locked up their money for six, seven, or
eight years, or more.
Example #2: The commission on the sale of proprietary Merrill Lynch
mutual funds was approximately 15% higher than on non-Merrill Lynch
mutual funds.
Today’s commission payouts are different than they were in the 1980s,
but that high-risk/high-commission paradox and the higher profits on
proprietary products are still very much alive. And there’s no
shortage of Wall Street dirt bags who are more interested in their
paychecks than in your net worth.
I’m not talking about a couple of bad apples here. I’m talking about
institutionalized greed that is woven into the DNA of people working
on Wall Street.
Example: JPMorgan Chase & Company is currently in negotiations with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on whether it
inappropriately steered private-banking clients to its own proprietary
investment products—such as JPMorgan mutual funds—and away from those
offered by other firms.
Why would a JPMorgan adviser push customers into JPMorgan’s own
products? Because of higher fees to the firm and higher commissions to
the broker.
Instead of recommending investments that are in the best interest of
the client, advisers are still pushing investments that make
themselves and their firm the most money.
I don’t mean to pick specifically on JPMorgan. The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency is currently investigating Bank of America
and Wells Fargo for the same practices.
To be fair, the Wall Street crowd isn’t the only part of the
investment food chain that is enriching itself at your expense.
CEOs, with the cooperation of rubber-stamp boards of directors, pay
themselves massive amounts of money even if the shareholders lose
their money.
Check out these CEOs, who were paid tens of millions in 2014 even
through their investors lost money.
General Electric: Jeff Immelt was paid $37.3 million while his
shareholders lost 6.7%.
Boeing: James McNerney, Jr. pocketed $28.9 million while Boeing stock
fell 2.5%.
IBM: Virginia Rometty cashed in $19.3 million even though IBM stock
was down 12.4%.
Viacom: Philippe Dauman was paid $44.3 million even though Viacom
stock was down 6.6%.
Loews: James Tisch received $10.5 million while his shareholders lost
12.4%.
What’s an investor to do?
Turn yourself into an informed, independent investor instead of a
decision-dependent investor. That process starts with educating
yourself.
To that end, here is my list of (free) investment websites that I
religiously read.
Thoughts From the Frontline: John Mauldin’s weekly missive is the most
widely read investment newsletter in the world for good reasons.
The Fiscal Times: The Business & Economy section is packed with
big-picture interpretation of important global business news.
Evergreen Virtual Advisor: A once-a-week newsletter that concentrates
on avoiding investment land mines.
Seeking Alpha: A compilation of hundreds of investment advisers
analyzing the economic news of the day.
Forecasts & Trends: A heavy dose of (conservative) politics mixed with
economics.
Value Walk: Some of the brightest minds that you’ve never heard of
contribute insightful, news-driven articles.
The Hopewell Journal: I pay careful attention to Asian markets, and so
should you.
Big Bear Cafe: Even if you are a bull, you should always be looking
for signs of tough times.
I also subscribe to several paid services, but free is a very good
price, and the above sites are great places to start.
Thanks to all that research, I recently discovered a great stock for
my Yield Shark subscribers: a lithium producer that’s been doing
everything right. Share price appreciation and dividend hikes
combined, 15-year shareholders are sitting on a 503% return.
Tony Sagami
30-year market expert Tony Sagami leads the Yield Shark and Rational
Bear advisories at Mauldin Economics. To learn more about Yield Shark
and how it helps you maximize dividend income, click here. To learn
more about Rational Bear and how you can use it to benefit from
falling stocks and sectors, click here.
[End of article]
By the way, there was also a segment on Bloomberg TV this morning that
said that CEOs who pursue stock buybacks do so even if it harms the
company because it temporarily raises stock prices and increases their
bonuses.
July 7, 2015
The Wall Street Raid on Your Piggy Bank
Question: How do you get a $1 million portfolio?
Answer: Give $2 million to a stockbroker.
Don’t you hate phone solicitors?
Well, if you lived in western Washington during the 1980s, I may have
very well interrupted your dinner with a “can’t miss” stock
solicitation. I worked as a Merrill Lynch stockbroker in the 1980s,
and we had mandatory work nights where everyone with less than five
years of service cold-called everyone that lived in the best zip
codes.
I made pretty good money as a stockbroker, but I didn’t like the
business. There was intense pressure to push certain products, but
that wasn’t all.
One of the greatest paradoxes of the investment industry was that the
safest investments paid the lowest commissions while the riskiest
investments paid the highest commissions.
Example #1: The commission on a CD was half of 1% while the commission
for an illiquid oil/gas limited partnership was 8%.
I would have had to sell 16 times as many CDs to make as much as one
of my dirt-bag co-workers who pushed little old ladies into oil & gas
limited partnerships that locked up their money for six, seven, or
eight years, or more.
Example #2: The commission on the sale of proprietary Merrill Lynch
mutual funds was approximately 15% higher than on non-Merrill Lynch
mutual funds.
Today’s commission payouts are different than they were in the 1980s,
but that high-risk/high-commission paradox and the higher profits on
proprietary products are still very much alive. And there’s no
shortage of Wall Street dirt bags who are more interested in their
paychecks than in your net worth.
I’m not talking about a couple of bad apples here. I’m talking about
institutionalized greed that is woven into the DNA of people working
on Wall Street.
Example: JPMorgan Chase & Company is currently in negotiations with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on whether it
inappropriately steered private-banking clients to its own proprietary
investment products—such as JPMorgan mutual funds—and away from those
offered by other firms.
Why would a JPMorgan adviser push customers into JPMorgan’s own
products? Because of higher fees to the firm and higher commissions to
the broker.
Instead of recommending investments that are in the best interest of
the client, advisers are still pushing investments that make
themselves and their firm the most money.
I don’t mean to pick specifically on JPMorgan. The Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency is currently investigating Bank of America
and Wells Fargo for the same practices.
To be fair, the Wall Street crowd isn’t the only part of the
investment food chain that is enriching itself at your expense.
CEOs, with the cooperation of rubber-stamp boards of directors, pay
themselves massive amounts of money even if the shareholders lose
their money.
Check out these CEOs, who were paid tens of millions in 2014 even
through their investors lost money.
General Electric: Jeff Immelt was paid $37.3 million while his
shareholders lost 6.7%.
Boeing: James McNerney, Jr. pocketed $28.9 million while Boeing stock
fell 2.5%.
IBM: Virginia Rometty cashed in $19.3 million even though IBM stock
was down 12.4%.
Viacom: Philippe Dauman was paid $44.3 million even though Viacom
stock was down 6.6%.
Loews: James Tisch received $10.5 million while his shareholders lost
12.4%.
What’s an investor to do?
Turn yourself into an informed, independent investor instead of a
decision-dependent investor. That process starts with educating
yourself.
To that end, here is my list of (free) investment websites that I
religiously read.
Thoughts From the Frontline: John Mauldin’s weekly missive is the most
widely read investment newsletter in the world for good reasons.
The Fiscal Times: The Business & Economy section is packed with
big-picture interpretation of important global business news.
Evergreen Virtual Advisor: A once-a-week newsletter that concentrates
on avoiding investment land mines.
Seeking Alpha: A compilation of hundreds of investment advisers
analyzing the economic news of the day.
Forecasts & Trends: A heavy dose of (conservative) politics mixed with
economics.
Value Walk: Some of the brightest minds that you’ve never heard of
contribute insightful, news-driven articles.
The Hopewell Journal: I pay careful attention to Asian markets, and so
should you.
Big Bear Cafe: Even if you are a bull, you should always be looking
for signs of tough times.
I also subscribe to several paid services, but free is a very good
price, and the above sites are great places to start.
Thanks to all that research, I recently discovered a great stock for
my Yield Shark subscribers: a lithium producer that’s been doing
everything right. Share price appreciation and dividend hikes
combined, 15-year shareholders are sitting on a 503% return.
Tony Sagami
30-year market expert Tony Sagami leads the Yield Shark and Rational
Bear advisories at Mauldin Economics. To learn more about Yield Shark
and how it helps you maximize dividend income, click here. To learn
more about Rational Bear and how you can use it to benefit from
falling stocks and sectors, click here.
[End of article]
By the way, there was also a segment on Bloomberg TV this morning that
said that CEOs who pursue stock buybacks do so even if it harms the
company because it temporarily raises stock prices and increases their
bonuses.
Re: Financial topics
First, I tried to copy the entire article -no go- you can't scroll down to copy more then what is on the screen.John wrote:Thanks for posting the article.
How does that paragraph at a time technique work?
However, you can copy a paragraph or two on Google - so - just copy and post a paragraph or two at a time.
Also, I can't go to a posted link and read a WSJ article since I am not a subscriber. However, If I know the heading ( title ) of an article and put the heading into Google I can read the entire current article.
cheers
Re: Financial topics
How to stop a stock market collapse?
simple --
"54% of all Chinese stocks frozen" --" if it's not open, you can't sell it and the price cannot fall!"
China Futures Plunge 8% With Over Half The Stocks Suspended; Margin Debt Crashes Most On Record
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-0 ... ost-record
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Maybe not
simple --
"54% of all Chinese stocks frozen" --" if it's not open, you can't sell it and the price cannot fall!"
China Futures Plunge 8% With Over Half The Stocks Suspended; Margin Debt Crashes Most On Record
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-0 ... ost-record
--------------------
Maybe not
Re: Financial topics
feb15, 2015Higgenbotham wrote:The worldwide system looks finished to me.
I planned on 2018 to see who stands. Will carry forward options. As we discussed water, wheat and weather will decide for us
as the four ride from our original view. We are not in control, neither are they.
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enthralled
History, in due time, will arrange everything for the best. It does not need the advice of mortal men.
We are moving forward. Thus, a few more may simply realize the condition.
Let the dead bury the dead as we had been told. He will lift or place the seal as He wishes...
In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion--only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house--and he's bitten by a snake. Amos 5:19
Re: Financial topics
Your correct h, today it is zero and they have no hedge.
And the people said Selah.
And the people said Selah.
Re: Financial topics
https://nationalpriorities.org
To be a brown crayon in the box is to be enthralled.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_ ... ng_30.html
Question: How do you get a $1 million portfolio?
Answer: Give $2 million to a stockbroker.
Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:07 am ---- G, Bonhoeffer warned us already what he seen here, and the cost of cheap.
To be a brown crayon in the box is to be enthralled.
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_ ... ng_30.html
Question: How do you get a $1 million portfolio?
Answer: Give $2 million to a stockbroker.
Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:07 am ---- G, Bonhoeffer warned us already what he seen here, and the cost of cheap.
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Re: Financial topics
engineered collapse hHiggenbotham wrote:The worldwide system looks finished to me.
the nation states are a impediment as warned numerous times
http://redefininggod.com/understanding- ... -strategy/
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 550#p28054
accounts under 30 days free flow as noted
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=rs&v=93
senate energy meeting was yesterday - pass throughs compounds for exports as noted also before
http://energycommerce.house.gov/
As Mises conveyed the services middle men provide and the human action of ex ante and ex post criteria
simple example: http://www.baincapital.com/newsroom/net ... in-capital
taxpayers get tired of bus drivers and are aware of the intent
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