The Complete Chartpack Of The Top Global Themes For The Next Five Years
The investment environment is changing at a rate that's representative of global economic imbalances, fund flows, and geopolitical risks. We believe this decade will continue to witness greatly...
View ArticleThe Aerodynamics Of Nihilism
From Mark Grant, author of Out of the BoxThe Aerodynamics of Nihilism We live in a world now which may be described as, "Nothing Matters.""Nothing matters until the day that it does and then everyone...
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Fear The Uncorrelated Stock Market
Asset price correlations across a wide spectrum of industries and asset classes are meaningfully lower than the last few months. ConvergEx's Nick Colas note that this is something completely...
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Do Markets Sense Trouble?
Retail Sales lay an egg (-.4% vs 0% exp & prior 1.1%) and ex-Autos/Gas (-1% vs .3% exp & prior .4%). The more unreliable U of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Indicator (72.3 vs 79 exp & prior...
View ArticleThe Great Global Tax Grab is Already Underway
The world will soon be facing a tsunami of defaults on bad debts. This will include municipal or local government defaults such as the one now occurring in Stockton California, governments...
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Guest Post: 11 Economic Crashes That Are Happening Right Now
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,The stock market is not crashing yet, but there are lots of other market crashes happening in the financial world right now. Just like we saw...
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Eight WTF Divergences
Following up on last week's twelve WTF charts, we thought it might be appropriate to look at the current equity market's efficient discounting knowledge relative to eight historically correlated...
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The Great Unrotation In US GDP
While most argue that the Fed has its foot on the throat of the bond market - and thus they do not reflect 'economic reality', it is hard to argue with the following chart of 30 years of Fed-intervened...
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Gold: A Great Buying Opportunity Approaches
Gold has officially entered a bear market, declining more than 20% from the September 2011 peak of US$1,924/oz. I warned in December last year and in March this year that gold was likely to fall...
View ArticleCongress Exempts Most Federal Workers From Key Insider Trading Reporting...
Back in 2012, amid "intense pressure from Obama" including an appeal for its passage in his 2012 State of the Union address, Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act...
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Guest Post: The Great Postal Fraud
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning PlatformThe Great Postal Fraud“One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the...
View ArticleThe Gloriously Ballooning Bailout Bedlam Of Cyprus
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterBailouts start out small. At first, Cyprus just had a funding crisis; the markets had gotten smart, after years of dousing the...
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Japan's Full Frontal: Charting Abenomics So Far
Curious how Abenomics is progressing six months after its announcement? These charts courtesy of Diapason should provide a convenient status update. And some accompanying thoughts from author Sean...
View ArticleJohn Paulson Loses Over $300 Million On Friday's Gold Tumble
There were many casualties following Friday's 4% gold rout, but none were hurt more than one-time hedge fund idol John Paulson, who according to estimates, lost more than $300 million of his own money...
View ArticleDoug Casey On Second Passports
Doug Casey on Second Passports, Submitted by Doug Casey with Louis James of Casey ResearchLouis James: Doug, a lot of our readers have asked about getting a second passport. I realize this is a large...
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China Takes Another Stab At The Dollar, Launches Currency Swap Line With France
One more domino in the dollar reserve supremacy regime falls. Following the announcement two weeks ago that "Australia And China will Enable Direct Currency Convertibility", which in turn was the...
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HOT Users In Canadian Equity Markets
The Analytics Group of IIROC performed a Trading Review and Analysis of High Frequency Trading on Canadian equity markets. IIROC uses a methodology to identify user IDs exhibiting high order-to-trade...
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HeaDS I WiN...
. The bull has now taken its place As the head of the whole human race Markets now rise As Liberty dies Our system is such a disgrace!The Limerick King .The people just don't understand Our system is...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Return Of The Money Cranks
Authored by Detlev Schlicter, originally posted at DetlevSchlichter.com,The lesson from the events of 2007-2008 should have been clear: Boosting GDP with loose money – as the Greenspan Fed did...
View Article"My Savings Account Was Confiscated And All I Got Was This Cyprus Passport"
While the supposedly-coercive decision to hand over most of the nation's gold to the European Union was surprising to some, the latest policy decision from Cyprus' President Anastasiades looks set to...
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