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Dell Supposedly In LBO Talks, Stock Soars
Moments ago Bloomberg broke news that $19 billion market cap Dell may be in talks to go public. The result was a 10% surge in the stock that halted the stock as a circuit was triggered. Of course,...
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It Took Algos 4 Seconds To Fully Process The Flashing Red DELL Headline
At precisely 14:04:08 a flashing red Bloomberg headline hit that "DELL IS SAID TO BE IN TALKS TO GO PRIVATE." Moments later the stock slammed higher by 10% triggering a circuit breaker. Whether or not...
View ArticleWatch As Ben Bernanke Answers Your Twitter Questions Live
Today at 4pm Eastern, Ben Bernanke, at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy, will take live questions from Twitter for the first time as part of the Fed's new policy of openness....
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Must. Defend. $500
Just like Friday, there was virtually nothing notable to speak of in today's trading. The one catalyst that pushed stocks higher: all stocks, not just the one that may or may not be in play, was the...
View ArticleGeithner Unleashed: Sends Letter To Boehner, Warns Even Brief Default Would...
Following up on today's relentless debt ceiling propaganda, which started with the Politico report that more than half of republicans are willing to push the US into a "temporary" default, going...
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All The Gold In The World - The Definitive Infographic
In the aftermath of the Chairman's painful waste of time "interactive" session, which addressed precisely zero of the relevant questions, we would like to ground readers with a real, hard, monetary...
View ArticleGuest Post: Despite Sanctions, Iran's Economy Limps Along
Submitted by John C.K. Daly of OilPrice.comDespite Sanctions, Iran's Economy Limps AlongIn the 20th century, upright moral nations developed a new method of showing international opprobrium to rogue...
View ArticleJim Grant: Heads Bankers Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
Interest Rate Observer, Jim Grant, played an important role as explainer-in-chief in the forthcoming movie "The Bubble" - a documentary that interviews the experts that predicted the 2008 crash and...
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Presenting The Working Poor Of America
Much has been made of the slow but steady 'improvement' in the unemployment data we are treated to on a weekly and monthly basis from the hallowed eves of the BLS. Just as much has been written on the...
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Deutsche's Bullish For 2013 Despite These 6 Huge Downside Risks
In their view, 2013 will likely mark the dawn of the post-crisis era, but it seems the premise for Deutsche's somewhat ebullient 2013 outlook (below) is that central-bankers remain on standby to...
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Platinum Overtakes Gold As South African Mining Problems Return
In some ways it is lucky that the platinum coin nonsense is dead and buried because there may have been certain procurement issues. The reason, as was the case late in 2012, is that the South African...
View ArticleExposing Europe's "Syphilitic Structural Core" With MEP Daniel Hannan
In an impassioned 80 seconds, MEP Daniel Hannan exposes the structurally rotten "syphilitic core" of a European Union whose existential crisis has now seemingly been pronounced 'over' by those wondrous...
View ArticleOne Year Of Tax Hikes On The Rich Is Promptly Spent As $60 Billion Sandy...
After more than two months of political grandstanding, finally the $60 billion pork-laden Sandy relief aid bill has passed through the House in a 241-180 vote (with 1 democrat and 179 republicans...
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An Analytic Framework For 2013
Submitted by Martin Sibileau of A View From The Trenches blog,In the same fashion that I proposed an analytic framework for 2012, I want to lay out today what I think will be the big themes of 2013....
View ArticleWe Are Still Going Sideways
Here are slides of my updated/revised presentation on sideways markets. Over the last three months I’ve given talks on sideways markets three times, to CFA Societies in South Florida, New Zealand,...
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America's 'Invisible' Poor - An Infographic
Are more and more people in the western world dropping off the radar and becoming the invisible poor or is the opposite happening? We are always interested in looking at the financial health of real...
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Guest Post: Inflation Rocks The UK As Beer Gets Watered Down
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty BlitzkriegInflation Rocks The UK As Beer Gets Watered DownThese types of stories are popping up with increased frequency throughout the western world. Products...
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What Was The Fed Thinking The Last Time Stocks Were Here?
Sometimes it is useful to reflect back more than a nanosecond to check one's anchoring bias. With US equities back at 2007 levels, we thought it may be instructive to look at what the Fed was thinking...
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Guest Post: Fiscal Farce, Failure, Fantasy, & Fornication
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,I’ve put off writing an article about what is likely to happen in 2013 so I could peruse the thousands of other articles by reputable bloggers, paid...
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Winning The Global Export Race
It is no secret to anyone that as we said some 3 years ago, the world is now engaged in all out currency warfare whose sole goal is destroying one's own currency faster and more brutally than "the...
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