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Guest Post: From Shirakawa To Kuroda: The Regime Change Explained
Submitted by Martin Sibileau of A View From The Trenches blog,The main take away from events in Japan is that the BOJ shifted from a tactic of interventions (under former Governor Masaaki Shirakawa) to...
View ArticleGlenn Beck Claims to Give the Government Until Monday to Come Clean on Saudi...
In the chaotic timeline of events that took place after the Boston bombing, one story that circulated was that a Saudi National had been take into custody and labeled a "Person of Interest". Apparently...
View ArticleGerman Airline Unions Are Revolting
While 'the rest of Europe' appears to remain in beggars-can-be-choosers mode with handouts from the core (even if there is a new template), it appears the people of Germany are beginning to want their...
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An Unprecedented $660 Billion In Excess Debt Demand, And What It Means For...
When the BOJ announced two weeks ago the full details of its expanded easing program, which amounts to monetizing a whopping $720 billion in government bonds over the next year (a move which makes even...
View ArticleQBAMCO On Unreserved Credit Growth And Imperial Constraint
Authored by Lee Quaintance and Paul Brodsy of QBAMCO,Imperial Constraint“Crucifixion can be discussed philosophically until they start driving the nails.”- Wallace StegnerThis piece seeks to make the...
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Yet Another Market Top Indicator
Forget the multitude of divergences from any and every sense of real fundamentals (or other market structures) that the US equity market is exhibiting; deny for just one moment the existential crisis...
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So Who Sold All That Gold? - JPM's Own Version
Since prevailing fringe theory is that JPMorgan and the other bullion banks 'control' the price of gold, we thought it would be interesting to hear yet another explanation for last week's monumental...
View ArticleGuest Post: How Hospitals Profit From Making Mistakes
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,One of the many things holding the nation back at the moment is the complete lack of incentive to be a creative, productive and honest member of...
View ArticleAftershocks
Authored by James Howard Kunstler, via The Burning Platform blog,If the FBI can track down two homicidal Chechen nobodies inside of forty-eight hours from their Boston bombing caper, you kind of wonder...
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A Visual History Of All Asset Bubbles
Maybe not all, but certainly the vast majority of the most popular asset bubbles since before even the Tulip Mania of 1637 (including the Kipper and Wipper currency debasement of the German 30 years...
View ArticleBoston Terror Narrative Starts Falling Apart
We have no idea whether or not the Chechen brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were the Boston terrorists.But several parts of the official narrative are already falling apart.Initially, the claim...
View ArticleBill Fleckenstein: Hold Tight To Your Gold
Submitted by Adam Taggart of Peak Prosperity,The bond market is an accident waiting to happen. When the bond market finally does crack, it is going to be one epic nightmare that is going to make 2008...
View ArticleDoes Netflix' $3.3 Billion Off-Balance Sheet Liability Make It A "House Of...
While the mainstream media, seemingly comprising of accounting 101 rejects and completely unaware that "profit" is merely an ephemeral, intangible accounting concept, and that for true business model...
View ArticleHousing's Trek From America's "Socialism", Through UK's "Communism" Ending in...
Socialism is a dirty word in many parts of the US, but as the FT reports, the government has turned its mortgage market into a giant nationalized enterprise on a par with China’s Red Army with over 90%...
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China PMI Miss Slams JPY-Carry Trades
Thanks to a drop into contractionary territory for both New Export Orders and Employment, HSBC's Flash China Manufacturing PMI missed expectations and dropped to its equal lowest 'expansionary' print...
View ArticleGuest Post: Boston Marathon Attacks, Chechnya And Oil - The Hidden U.S....
Submitted by John Daly of OilPrice.com,As Boston and U.S. security agencies congratulate themselves over the apparent neutralization of a pair of Chechens that bombed the Boston Marathon, troubling...
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BitCoin, Or BetaCoin? What The Venture Capitalists Are Thinking
After a disastrous few days in early April, bitcoin is back over $100 and up on the month, the year and its short lifetime. ConvergEx's Nick Colas is intrigued and continues to believe that this...
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Guest Post: Poker And Trading
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum of Acting Man blog,An Interesting StatisticWe have previously written an article discussing the parallels between games like chess and poker and trading. Although we...
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America The Fallen: 24 Signs That Our Once Proud Cities Are Turning Into...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,What is happening to you America? Once upon a time, the United States was a place where free enterprise thrived and the greatest cities that...
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On China's Rising Hatred Of The Japanese, And Why The BoJ Just Doesn't Get It
It is becoming increasingly evident that Japan is attempting to use monetary policy to paper over the cracks of imploding foreign policy decisions. The 'storm in a teacup' that has brought China and...
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