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Where The Action In Cairo Is Right Now
While images projected on every media channel show lasers, fireworks, and celebrations, there are tensions rising still. As Al Jazeera reports, police are arresting crews of local TV stations...
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The 6th Longest Bull Market In History
From the lows in March 2009, the S&P 500's 4.3 year rally is now the 6th longest of the 24 bull markets of the last 113 years of data. Interestingly, of those bull markets, the average...
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Visualizing When Higher Education Doesn't Pay Back
College is usually a good investment, but that is not the case for every single school in America. As the following infographic shows, you may want to rethink your decision before handing over that big...
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What's Next For Portugal?
Things must be getting serious in Portugal, they just announced a short-selling ban on select banking stocks - how long before capital controls?Originally posted at Open Europe,A couple of months ago...
View ArticleWhat REALLY Caused the Coup Against the Egyptian President
The protests in Egypt against president Mohammed Morsi were – according to the BBC – the largest in history.The Egyptian military threw Morsi out in a coup today.Why?Irish Times reports:Army concern...
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Obama Releases First Public Statement On Egypt
From President Obama:As I have said since the Egyptian revolution, the United States supports a set of core principles, including opposition to violence, protection of universal human rights, and...
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Guest Post: Gold's Under-Valuation Is Extreme
Submitted by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com,The price of gold fell last week to the $1,200 level. The lemming sentiment in capital markets is uniformly bearish, yet every price-drop brings forth...
View ArticleDominoes, Anyone?
Submitted by Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box,Before a midnight breaks in storm,Or herded sea in wrath,Ye know what wavering gusts informThe greater tempest's path;Till the loosed windDrive all...
View Article4 Lessons From A Life On Wall Street
In 20+ years of life on Wall Street, ConvergEx's Nick Colas has had four mentors who helped him make sense of the business. Some were very hands-on, and others taught more by example. In an...
View ArticleNot Yours To Give
Submitted by Col. David 'Davy' Crockett, US Representative from Tennessee via The Daily Reckoning blog,One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit...
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A Can't Lose Deal... "Public" Venture Capital
originally posted at http://capitalistexploits.at/By: Chris TellAfter the debacle that was Solyndra, we hoped that "public" venture capital would die a much deserved death. Alas, we once again...
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This $1.2Bn Crime Affects YOU!
This $1.2Bn Crime Affects YOU!By Phil of Phil's Stock World$1.2 BILLION DOLLARS.That's how much was stolen from US consumers this week by the crooks who run their usual scam at the New York Mercantile...
View ArticleChina 'Officially' Moves From Made-Up Data To Hiding Data
When the official Chinese PMI printed a few days ago we noted the 'odd' fact that several of the key sub-indices were 'missing'. While most put this down to some 'hiccup' or aberration, we wondered at...
View ArticleThe Next American Revolution
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,Some July 4th thoughts on revolution as a process rather than an event.The next American Revolution will not be an event, it will be a process. We...
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Say Hello to Inflation, Inflation is Dead
Say Hello to Inflation, Inflation is Dead(Featured in Market Shadows Newsletter, Fables and Fairy Tales. Also in the newsletter: A classic fable applied to investing, the selling of 4 puts, an...
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The Men That Broke Banks - Rogue Traders
Follow ZeroHedge in Real-Time on FinancialJuiceAn unprincipled, deceitful, unreliable scoundrel. A vicious and solitary animal. An organism that shows a variation from the standard. What are we talking...
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Clashes Between Foes, Supporters Of Mursi In Cairo Caught On Tape
How the times change: two years ago, the victorious, resurgent, and US-supported, Muslim Brotherhood seemed unstoppable and was literally and metaphorically wiping out all obstacles in its way to the...
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Which State Drinks The Most (And Least) Beer?
On a day when the underlying reason for celebration in the US is often washed away by a few gallons of alcohol, we thought it timely to see just which states are the biggest soaks. It is likely no...
View ArticleAs Egypt Re-Coups And Cairo Violence Escalates, The US Secretary Of State Is...
As the escalation in violence between members of the pro-Mursi Muslim Brotherhood and the military-backed victors of this week's coup gets worse with at least 6 dead now according to Al Arabiya, the US...
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Intense Clashes Break Out Near Cairo's Tahrir Square (10 Dead) - Live Feed
UPDATE: Egypt Clashes Leave 10 Dead, Health Ministry Says (AP) As we feared, the initial celebratory images have turned rapidly into running skirmishes, molotov cocktails, burning cars, and now six...
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