The Traderszone Network

Former college football player Ryan Gilliam is part of the NCAA’s After the Game task force.
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The Subprime 2.0 story is now gaining traction in the financial media.

By way of brief review, here is the template for Subprime 1.0 (the mortgage meltdown).

1)   Banks, hungry for profits, began issuing mortgages to sub-prime borrowers (people who couldn’t possibly pay the loans back).

2)   Housing prices and sales began to fall.

3)   Subprime borrowers began defaulting on their mortgage.

4)   Subprime mortgage lenders began to collapse.

5)   A crisis unfolds as the issue spreads throughout the banks.

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Four days ago we reported that bitcoin has surged above $1,400, hitting a new lifetime high, while rising above $1,500 on certain Chinese exchanges.

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KFC thinks what moms really want on their special day is fried chicken and romance novels.

Alzheimer’s has lagged other health issues when it comes to advocacy. That’s changing.

Everybody loves a company with a good secret weapon or competitive advantage, but many investors overlook Ford Motor Company‘s (NYSE: F) own secret weapon: its finance division. Ford Credit added $466 million to Ford’s total pre-tax profit during the first quarter, about 21% of the total, and was more profitable than all of the automaker’s regions outside North America combined.

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From Sean Brodrick: Gold is trading at its lowest level in a month. The bearish mood on the Street is palpable. Good! That, in turn, is dragging down the shares of otherwise great miners.

I knew an old Wall Street trader, Charles Belida, now deceased. When he started his first job on Wall Street, he still had an outhouse. He had a great saying for times like this:

“When the paddy wagon comes along, it takes the good girls downtown along with the bad.”

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