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Why The US' Economic "Shirt" Can't Stay Clean For Long?
With any and every asset-gatherer capable of forming a sentence being trotted out on business media to proclaim victory and elucidate on why "there is no where else to invest but stocks" and "the US is...
View Article22 Facts That Prove That The Bottom 90% Of America Is Systematically Getting...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,The mainstream media is not telling you this, but the truth is that most Americans are steadily getting poorer. The middle class is being...
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Richard Koo On The Ineffectiveness Of Monetary Expansion
Excerpted by George Dorgan of SNBCHF blog,These are extraordinary times for central banks. Near zero interest rates and massive liquidity injections are still failing to bring life back to so many...
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2011 vs 2012 vs 2013 - Spot The Odd One Out
Here is why for the 2013 edition of "attempt to decouple reality from stocks (and fail every time)", the global central banks realized that just the Fed (2011), and/or just the Fed and the ECB (2012)...
View Article"You've Reached Your Slice Limit Mayor Bloomberg" - The Food Police Meets The...
After months of legislating soda sizes and steak rarenesses it seems the food police have finally met their match. As The Daily Currant "reports", in protest over the proposed soda ban in NY, the...
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How Japan’s “Stealth Constitution” Destroys Civil Rights And Sets The Stage...
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,If there was ever a clear sign that the leadership of Japan is fully aware that the country is about enter a terminal economic catastrophe this...
View ArticleWill JPMorgan's "Enron" Be The End Of Blythe Masters?
One year after the infamous Jamie Dimon "tempest in a teapot" fiasco, which promptly turned out to be the biggest TBTF prop-trading desk debacle in history, things were going well for JPMorgan. On one...
View ArticleWe Begin
The Matrix was a movie released on 33-11-999, or as more commonly formatted (in the USA), 3-31-1999. In the 14 years since it's debut it has become one of the most influential cultural icons of any...
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Gold And Silver Bullion Coin And Bar Shortages Continue
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,476.50, EUR 1,124.95 and GBP 949.34 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,456.00, EUR 1,106.22 and GBP 935.07 per ounce. Cross Currency Table – (Bloomberg)Gold rose $8.10...
View ArticleThe Week That Was: April 29th- May 3rd 2013
Succinctly summarizing the positive and negative news, data, and market events of the week...PositivesMarch consumer spending rises, but look at what they spent it onAt least someone has a backlog: Gun...
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Are Stocks Still Cheap?
According to the media hype, stocks are never expensive; but if you care a little about the actual price you are paying for stocks, perhaps the following two charts will at least raise a doubt about...
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A Market "Based" On Monetary Surreality
With macro data becoming worse and worse (more and more bullish for Fed free money) and stocks off to the races (despite earnings that are abysmal), we thought a litle reminder of just what is driving...
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Caption Contest: Iron Ben 1
With Iron Man 3 taking the theaters by storm this weekend, it is only appropriate that Iron Ben would make a cameo appearance now that the impregnable Dow crossed 15K, the S&P is over 1600, and...
View ArticleElliott's Singer On Bernanke Destroying "The Value Of Money" And "Uprooting...
Previously, it was Seth Klarman, one of the most respected value investors of all time warning against the hubris of economists, the complacency of investors and the stupidity of politicians. Now, it...
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Guest Post: A Bubble In ‘Safety’ Driven By Bond Funds?
Submitted by Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man blog,A Bubble in 'Safe Assets'?Bloomberg recently published an article on a report by Seth Masters, the chief investment officer of Bernstein Global Wealth...
View ArticleThe Monarchs Of Money
The world's central banks have printed unimaginable amounts of money in recent years - "these guys are really more powerful than the government." Neil Macdonald explores what this means for the global...
View Article"New Normal" Mungerisms: From Jews & Gold To Bankers & Heroin
The bespectacled Robin to Buffet's Batman is at it again. After casting disparaging remarks about the hard-money fanatics of the world with his "only old jews like gold" comment last year, in a brief...
View ArticleA. Gary Shilling - Six Realities In An Age Of Deleveraging
Submitted by Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live blog,In Part III of Lance's series of reports from the 10th annual Strategic Investment Conference, presented Altegris Investments and John Mauldin, the...
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When Goldman Is OK With "Sharing" Trade Secrets
When it is on the receiving end of course.Several days ago we reported that Goldman's various judicial pawns would not rest for a minute until they made the life of the original "HFT code stealer"...
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Around The Tax-Avoiding World In 53 Minutes
"Where do multinationals pay taxes and how much?" Gaining insight from international tax experts, this excellent documentary takes a look at tax havens, the people who live there and the routes along...
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