UBS makes some comparison with 2008.

Chartsource:http://finviz.com/

Chartsource:http://finviz.com/

SAI dwells deeper on Mary Meekers paper

First, "Revenue" is tiny relative to "Expenses."

Second, most of the expense is entitlement programs, not defense, education, or any of the other line items that most budget crusaders normally howl about.

Third, as horrifying as these charts are, they don't even show the trends of these two pies: The "expense" pie is growing like gangbusters, driven by the explosive growth of the entitlement programs that no one in government even has the balls to talk about. "Revenue" is barely growing at all.

 Sohu.com Says Wireless Revenues Fell While Search Revenues Grew In ChinaChinese online media company Sohu.com Inc. reported its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, and said that while wireless revenues fell, online game and search engine revenues increased. The company's total revenues were USD173.2 million, up 27% year-over-year and 6% quarter-over-quarter. Brand...rom ChinaTechNews.com  Chinese Companies Favour Shanghai IPOs, Survey Finds...companies in China are likely to prefer a share sale in the domestic market in coming years, a recent survey has found. This will increase the proportion of Chinese initial public offerings in the domestic market.   from PEdaily Latest News The 5 Black Swans That Keep Dylan Grice Up At Night... And How To Hedge Against Them All...China?s economic model is biased towards misallocating resourcesevery country which has industrialized has experienced nasty bumps on the wayChina and the US are in the early stages of an arms racedemographic trends suggest more conflict in the oil rich regions of the worldbottlenecks are developing in key commodity marketsthe only thing central...from zero hedge   The China domino...similarity with China: Food inflation of a breadth and severity that few in the market appreciate. China’s food inflation is different from its other inflations, notably real estate and wages. It is more dangerous. For as much as there have been spasmodic protests around the price and availability of homes and pay, and as much as there has been ...from macrobusiness.com.au -  To read more articles please click here 

The US financial system of the future:3 institutions with 80% market share??

 

In the latest available data (Q3 of 2010), the big 6 had assets worth 64 percent of GDP. This is up from before the crisis – assets in the big six at the end of 2006 were only about 55 percent of GDP. And this is up massively from 1995, when these same banks (some of which had different names back then) were only 17 percent of GDP. http://baselinescenario.com/2011/01/09/the-bill-daley-problem/

Took this article off. After only 2 years many links are not working anymore  with annoying subscription popups.There is so much else to read and look at.Good bye FP.