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BaNZai7 GoES To THe OSCoNS (2013)...
. . . . . . . It's time that we called in the SealsTo take-out a moron who stealsZero Tarp ThirtyA bailout so dirtyThe Master of all shady dealsThe Limerick King Today I am pleased to...
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Why A 5% Correction Is The Least We Should Expect
While cherry-picking individual macro data points to confirm self-referential biases appears to work for the majority of Wall Street's strategists and asset-gatherers, the sad truth is that...
View ArticleCan Endless Quantitative Easing Ever End?
Authored by (and originally posted at) Detlev Schlichter.com,Bubble trouble: Is there an end to endless quantitative easing?The publication, earlier this week, of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open...
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"No Rotation" - Fund Flows Lag Returns, Not Lead
There is a simple reason why the real money (as opposed to fast money tweakers) has been far less excited about the domestic equity fund inflows than the financial media and their sponsoring...
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The Thinking, Drinking, And Tweeting Man's Guide To The Oscars
From the youngest to the oldest nominee for best actress (Quvenzhane Wallis - 9 and Emmanuelle Riva - 85) to the relative money gambled on the outcomes, we thought it only appropriate to provide some...
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Yet Another Unintended Central Planning Consequence: Running To Stand Still
Via Louis-Vincent Gave of GK Research (A Gavekal Company),Lemmings And The Quandary of Negative Real RatesFor most portfolio managers, investable assets can be thought of as sitting somewhere on the...
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China HSBC PMI Misses, Prints At Four Month Low
While the rest of the world was blissfully enjoying its latest reflation experiment, one country that has hardly been quite as ecstatic about all the blistering free money entering its real estate...
View ArticleThe Men Who Built America: Remembering The Gilded Age Part 2
Continuing to look back at what once was. Following Part 1's emergence from the civil war and the age of enlightenment, In Part 2 of the 4 part History Channel series, America continues to recover from...
View ArticleGuest Post: 20 Signs The U.S. Economy Is Heading For Big Trouble In The...
Authored by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse blog,Is the U.S. economy about to experience a major downturn? Unfortunately, there are a whole bunch of signs that economic activity in the United...
View ArticleGoldman: "A Day Characterized By Broad-Based Liquidation"
From Goldman's sales and trading deskEquities suffer their biggest single day loss on the year with financials performing the worst. The uncertainty surrounding the Italian election was the clearest...
View ArticleCiti: "This Is The First European Election In Which Voters Didn't Do The...
When a note by a Citi FX strategist begins with the following proclamation endorsing outright fascist despotism, you know it's going to be good: "This is the first European election in which voters...
View ArticleNext Domino: Spain, As Main Suspect In Rajoy Graft Scandal Has Passport...
While today's attention was focused on the austerity-crushing defeat of Monti in Italy and the pre-supposition that the ECB being able to use its OMT promise against an ill-disciplined nation fades;...
View ArticleThe Sequestration Debate Misses the REAL Issue
With sequestration set to go into effect in a few days, everyone is talking about it (via Google trends):Sequestration means across-the-board cuts in government spending, split 50%-50% between the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Waking Dreams End Unpleasantly
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,Whenever I endeavor to explain America’s current economic situation to a person who likely receives most of his information from skewed mainstream news...
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Is This The Chart That Everyone Is Concerned About?
We have seen this all before... ...it's never different this time. Of course, you should buy the dip; you invest for the long-term, right? VIX, schmix; Credit, schmedit; Gas prices, schmices; Macro,...
View ArticleThe Men Who Built America: Remembering The Gilded Age Part 3
Following Part 1's emergence from the civil war and the age of enlightenment; and Part 2's undertaking of the largest building phase in the country's history. Part 3 of the 4-part History Channel...
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Guest Post: The Coming Water Wars
Submitted by Doug Hornig and Alex Daley of Casey Research,Water is not scarce. It is made up of the first and third most common elements in the universe, and the two readily react to form a highly...
View ArticleSpecial Order Type Exposure Hurting HFT Advantage
The TABB Forum interviewed Haim Bodek today on the state of the current HFT advantage. Surprisingly he believes that because of the exposure of order types that have been available to only a connected...
View ArticleOvernight Tensions Eased As Italy Sells 5, 10 Year Bonds
With little on the event calendar in the overnight session, the main news many were looking forward to was Italy's auction of €2.5 billion in 5 and €4 billion in 10 year paper, to see just how big the...
View ArticleFrontrunning: February 27
Wal-Mart's Sales Problem—And America's (WSJ)Investors fret that Italy may undermine ECB backstop (Reuters)Monti Government Mulls Delaying Monte Paschi Bailout (BBG)Norway Faces Liquidity Shock in...
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