The Farce Must Go On: Senate Suddenly Furious With Eric Holder For Allowing...
Or what happens when Wall Street Muppet A is vewy, vewy angwy with Wall Street Muppet B and desperately needs a ratings boost.* * * Straight from the best Senate Wall Street taxpayer bailout money and...
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China Hits Key Demographic Ceiling As Working-Age Population Now Declining
The meme of the moment remains China's 'rotation' to urbanization as the new growth engine, but as SocGen's Wei Yao notes, while this shift from farmers to manufacturers has raised productivity, urban...
View ArticleGuest Post: You Know You're Not Living In A Free Country When...
Via Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,You know you’re no longer living in a free country when the government tells you what you can and cannot put in your body. Or when an unelected board of...
View ArticleIt's Time The US Gov't Finds Out How Loyal A Hungry Dog Really Is
Tabb Forum released a video today focusing on order-types in relation to HFT. Tabb's research director highlights that regulators are still unsure about what to do with HFT. Perhaps it's time we do...
View ArticleChina's “Blackest Day” Is Still In The Future
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterChina has tried over the years to come to grips with its pandemic pollution, yet in Beijing, through a combination of factors,...
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Silver Eagle Sales Surge To All-Time Record In January
A massive 7.4 million Silver Eagles were purchased from the U.S. Mint in January, considerably higher than the previous record from early 2011. After halting Silver coin production/sales for over a...
View ArticleFrankrupt Damage Control "France Is A Truly Solvent Country, France Is A...
In a move farcically reminiscent of Inspector Clouseau, the French Finance Minister made an impromptu appearance on the BBC to confirm what we all should have known all along: that "France is a truly...
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Stocks Catch-Down To Credit As Silver Surges
We noted yesterday the growing disconnect between stocks and credit - today saw stocks start to play catch-down. High-yield credit (specifically HYG - the bond ETF) has fallen four days in a row - its...
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A Quarter Of Jobs In America Pay Below The Federal Poverty Line
Over two years ago (and reiterated last year) Zero Hedge first wrote on what was and is an undisputed transition within the US labor force: a shift from full-time to temp, or part-time labor, with...
View ArticleBillions In Blood Money Enjoyed by War Criminals’ Families
While you might not see them on Forbes’ list of wealthy people, criminals and their beneficiaries are some of the richest people on the planet.For example, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’...
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Guest Post: The New Regime For Precious Metals
Via The World Complex blog,Today we look at long term charts of some key commodities and investigate means by which we might gain insight into the dynamics of their price movements. The methods are...
View ArticleKen "Ain't Different" Rogoff Crushes The Infinite Dream Of Crude Keynesian...
Following today's dismal GDP print, the massive ongoing borrowing being undertaken by our government, and the Bernankian policies which appear inescapable (and entirely ineffective for anything but the...
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Dow Transports And Oil Revert To Old Normal?
Since the peak in 2008, the Dow Transports and the price of crude oil has been extremely highly correlated. Whether this is due to the inextricable factor of central bank liquidity flushing 'money'...
View ArticleElliott's Paul Singer On How Money Is Created... And How It Dies
When we launched our series into the US Shadow Banking system in the summer of 2010 we had one simple objective: to demonstrate just how little the process of modern (and by modern we mean circa 2004...
View ArticlePeter Schiff & Doug Casey On Gold, Investor Cluelessness, And The "Escape...
In just under 30 minutes, Peter Schiff and Doug Casey muse on many facets of the crumbling edifice of the status quo that is our current world.From Gold's relatively imminent rise to $5,000 and beyond,...
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Things That Make You Go Hmm - Such As Currency Wars
Nobody ever really wins at Thumb Wars, which makes the whole thing rather pointless; and, as it turns out, the same can be said about the subject of Grant Williams discussion in this week's 'Things...
View ArticleThe Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe
Authored by chinditThe Rise Of America's Lunatic FringeAnyone who spends any amount of time on the internet has seen them. They are the moonbats, the wingnuts, the whackjobs, the Conspiratorialists....
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The Average January Nonfarm Payroll Seasonal Adjustment Is...
... 2.1 million additional jobs, or the number of "statistical" jobs that will be added to the actual number to smooth the jobs trendline, and is the largest of any month in the year. Keep that in mind...
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157,000 Jobs Added In January, Unemployment Rate At 7.9%
The goldilocks economy continues as January nonfarm payrolls number comes in right as expected, or 157,000, a tiny miss to expectations of 165,000, down from the upwardly revised 196,000 (was 155,000...
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A New $VIX Regime? Or Just the Same Old Thing?
An article appeared at ZeroHedge last week entitled, "Are We in A New VIX Regime?" The article was highlighting research by Goldman Sachs suggesting that the markets have entered into a new period or...
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