Nancy Pelosi Gets Booed And Heckled By Supporters For NSA Support
Submitted by Michael Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,You know it’s bad for the establishment when Nancy Pelosi gets booed and heckled by her own supporters at a progressive gathering in her home...
View Article“Flying Money”
Originally posted at http://capitalistexploits.at/China circa 1100…This was a time when commerce was booming, life was grand and the Chinese economy was expanding rapidly. We don’t know the figures but...
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Is This The Recovery In Housing They Wanted?
A mortgage market that is practically 100% government-driven, impossibly low rates for impractically long periods of time, no MtM concerns to clear delinquent or foreclosed property from bank balance...
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Chinese Stocks Drop To Lowest Since Jan 2009; Down 20% From Feb Highs
With US equities 7.5% off their all-time highs and on the verge of instigating a 'Markets In Turmoil' special, we thought it perhaps of note that the growth engine of the world continues to see real...
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Pan-Tech-Monium
Tech stocks seem cheap on paper - based on valuations relative to the market using both P/E multiples and free cash flow yields they are the cheapest they have been in decades - but as JPMorgan's...
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What’s Next For Gold? Bear Vs. Bull Debate
How should investors approach sub-$1,300 gold? VisualCapitalist's analysts each take a side and answer five questions:1) How does the interest rate impact gold?2) What is the inflation impact on...
View ArticleGuest Post: Paul Krugman The Marxist
Submitted by James E. Miller via The Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada,Someone once wrote that criticizing economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is the internet’s favorite pastime. I,...
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Asia Crumbling; China's Worst 2 Days In Almost 4 Years, Nikkei 450 Pts Off...
Things are getting a little out of hand in Asia once again. China's Shanghai Composite is down 3.7% at the break for its biggest 2-day drop in almost 4 years (-8.9%) and Japan's Nikkei 225, after...
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The World's Most Vice-Prone Nations
In a world of surging youth unemployment, increasingly-wide wealth inequalities, and generation of older citizens working longer implicitly impacting the youth, we thought it perhaps useful to see...
View ArticleSome Hard Numbers On The Western Banking System
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,At our Offshore Tactics Workshop in Santiago three months ago, Jim Rickards (author of the acclaimed Currency Wars) told the audience of roughly 500...
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The Complete Annotated History Of Spying (On Ourselves)
Presented with little comment - via the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the full timeline of legislation, rulings, and events related to domestic surveillance in the United States (based on credible...
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Death by Leverage
Death by LeverageBy Paul Price of Market ShadowsAmerica’s national debt exceeded $15 trillion [with a T] for the first time on November 15, 2011. Deficit spending since then has pushed the total...
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Bernanke's Taper Bluff
(Wikipedia): Call My Bluff was a long-running British game show between two teams of three celebrity contestants. The point of the game is for the teams to take it in turn to provide three definitions...
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Guest Post: The Evolution Of The Case-Shiller Index...
Originally posted at The World Complex blog,...viewed in real time is like watching paint dry, but without the possible dramatics of runs. Hence, the long break since the last time I looked at this.In...
View ArticleIt's Time To Sell Rockefeller Center To Japan Again
Back in the 1980s Japan found itself in an admirable, if unsustainable, position: the Nikkei was trading in the upper-30,000s (yes, three times higher than where it trades now after so much hyperbole),...
View ArticleTake Me Public!
Originally posted at http://capitalistexploits.at/The dream of going public is almost universal among entrepreneurs. It seems to represent the Holy Grail of accomplishments, the culmination of years...
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Asian Deja Vu: Gold And Japanese Stocks Plunge Again
UPDATE: Nikkei 225 -360 from US day-session closeWhether some major fund just got another tap on the shoulder or the liquidity cracks are showing up in all asset classes is unclear but just as we saw...
View ArticleIt's Acts of Journalism that Matter Not People Called "Journalists"
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,It is the job of the Fourth Estate to act as a check and a restraint on the others, to illumine the dark corners of Ministries, to debunk the...
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The Mainstream Media "Explains" Stuff Again, Hilarity Ensues
Yesterday, the mainstream "media"was very useful in explaining why both bad economic news and good economic news lead to stock market rallies. Today, the same mainstream media is even more useful in...
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Jeff Gundlach: "What In The World Is Going On (Redux)" - Live Webcast
A month ago DoubleLine's Jeff Gundlach laid out his most recent chartapalooza view of the world and a lot has clearly changed in that brief period. In light of his comments this morning on CNBC that...
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