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Most Hedge Funds Underperforming The S&P 500 For Fifth Year In A Row - Full...
There is one problem with relentlessly ramping markets (whether due to four years of liquidity injections by the Fed, or due to four years of liquidity injections by the Fed) - they make all those who...
View ArticleGuest Post: "What In The World Is A Bitcoin?"
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,Earlier in the week, we wrote about an Argentine car rental agency that had started accepting Bitcoins as a means to bypass local capital controls.We...
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9/11 Commission Deceived: An Unintentional Work of Fiction Based on Cheney’s...
Preface: This is not a partisan post. We have repeatedly documented that Obama is as bad or worse than the Bush administration.In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the...
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Which Is More American - War, Or Peace?
It seems an obvious question but from the top down, based on the great and good leaders of the United States of America, it appears from their State of the Union speeches that 'War' indeed trumps...
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17 Signs Of A Full-Blown Economic Depression Raging In Southern Europe
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,When you get into too much debt, eventually really bad things start to happen. This is a very painful lesson that southern Europe is learning...
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Quadwitching Fun & Games
Stocks finally took a break from ten successive daily new highs. The S&P 500, just shy of its all time record high (1565), couldn’t clear that hurdle Friday. Gaining sectors included newly...
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An Orwellian America
Via Gordon T Long (pdf) An Orwellian AmericaAs a young man, I voraciously read George Orwell’s “1984”, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and Alvin Toffler's trilogy which included "Future Shock"',...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Roadmap For American Grand Strategy Part 3 (Of 3)
Following Part 1's discussion of America's Dangerous Drift, and Part 2's succincy summation of why America needs a Grand Strategy, today's Part 3 concludes with a discussion of the 'choice' American...
View ArticleSaxo Bank CEO: "This Is Full-Blown Socialism And I Still Can't Believe It...
Authored by Lars Seier Christensen, CEO Saxo Bank; originally posted at his blog at TradingFloor.com,It is difficult to describe the weekend bailout package to Cyprus in any other way. The confiscation...
View ArticleIMF: Eurozone Banks Are In Trouble, Trample Taxpayers and Democracy To Bail...
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterEurozone nations have to fundamentally reorganize themselves and shift sovereignty away from national parliaments to new layers...
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Eric Holder: Organized Crime’s Man of the Year
Eric Holder: Organized Crime’s Man of the YearBy George MantorIf I were a high level criminal, I would sleep with a life-sized blow-up doll of Eric Holder. How could I not love this man?When it comes...
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For Everyone Shocked By What Just Happened... And Why This Is Just The Beginning
Today, lots of people woke up in shock and horror to what happened in Cyprus: a forced capital reallocation mandated by political elites under the guise of an "equity investment" in insolvent banks,...
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All Aboard The Equity Elevator - Next Stop......... Down?
By now we know that all news is good news, no matter what the reality of the situation is. The smart folks are telling everyone to risk everything & jump on board the volumeless, momentum driven...
View ArticleGermany And IMF's Initial Deposit Haircut Demand: 40% Of Total
As the President of Cyprus proclaims to his people that "we' should all take responsibility as his historic decision will "lead to the permanent rescue of the economy," it appears that the...
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Is Greenspan Sealing the Market’s Fate?
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum of Acting Man blog,The Third-Biggest Living Contrary Indicator of All Time Speaks UpThere once was a time when it was fair to say that Alan Greenspan was the biggest...
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BuLLDoZiNG a BaNK...
By @blumaberlin . "Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness, will never seek the light."--Bruce Lee (h/t @ljuti)
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Even Democratic Party Loyalists Starting to Wake Up to the Fact that Obama Is...
Glenn Greenwald notes that even Democratic party loyalists are getting fed up with Obama’s Bush-like actions:Even the most loyal establishment Democrats are now harshly denouncing the president for...
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Two Sides of Cyprus
Let me first (try to) give you a justification for the seizure of bank deposits in Cyprus.Everybody who knows any thing about Cyprus also knows that the domestic banks were a parking lot for Russian...
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Where 'Channel-Stuffed' German Cars Go To Die
With the collapse of Europe's auto market, and the channel-stuffing that is rife in every car manufacturer in the world, it is no surprise that at the end of their brief lease periods, European cars...
View ArticleSell-Side Strategists Summarize Cypriot Tsunami
The usually optimistic bunch of salubrious sell-side strategists are mixed in their perspective of the latest debacle to roll ashore from Europe. Most, if not quite all, expect short-term 'nervousness'...
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