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View ArticleObama's Missing Link: No Direct Connection Between Assad And Gas Attack
While one can speculate if the sarin gas attack on August 22 was ordered and orchestrated by Saudi/Qatari petrodollar interests, with the assistance of the CIA and the funding of al Qaeda, and executed...
View ArticleThe Fed's Birthday Party Trick: A Market Of Monetary-Punch-Drunk Liquidityholics
If ever there was an investor reaction that summed up just how much the Federal Reserve has broken the markets it was yesrerday morning's post-dismal-jobs-report surge. As John Phelan notes, we now...
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Is Forward Guidance Already Dead?
While the market has been fixated lately on the question of when and how the Fed will taper its asset purchases, perhaps as important for the rates market (and the magic that levitates stocks) is the...
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Who Is Going To Buy The US Debt If This War Causes China, Russia And The Rest...
Yesterday we implied a difficult question when we illustrated the huge size of US Treasury bond holdings that China and Russia have between them - accounting for 25% of all foreign held debt -...
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Tokyo To Host 2020 Summer Olympics
Despite Mariano Rajoy's solemn promises that awarding the 2020 Olympics to Madrid would boost the Spanish GDP by 1.8% and lead to the creation of anywhere between 168,000 and a few hundred million new...
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Labor Force Participation Crisis? Don't Blame Demographics!
The Labor Force Participation Rate - in English, the percent of the population that is either in a job or looking for a job - fell yesterday to fresh 35 year lows. This is not a new trend, in fact...
View Article“We Don’t Feel Any Impact Of Abenomics Here”
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterFor Japan’s three megabanks, lending has rebounded. But instead of funding industrial projects in Japan, they’re funding...
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Syria's President al-Assad Interviewed By Charlie Rose: Highlights
Earlier today, Charlie Rose who traveled to Damascus previously, interviewed Syria's president al-Assad at the presidential palace. The interview will air in its entirety on PBS's "Charlie Rose" show...
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Thoughts on the Week Ahead
There were several important developments over the weekend that may influence the activity at the start of the new week. First, the Australia drove out the Labor government, with its largely...
View ArticleJPMorgan Closes Precious Metals Sell Recommendation, Goes "Tactically...
One of the most underreported sentiment shifts of the past week was JPM's announcement late on Friday, that the firm quietly went long commodities - specifically base metals and copper (in addition to...
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Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In...
There was much discussion of Friday's "disappointing" non-farm payrolls goal-seeked, seasonally adjusted, X-13-ARIMA conceived jobs "number." The conclusion was that it showed an economy which one year...
View ArticleGuest Post: On QE, US Foreign Policy And Who Really Wins The Upcoming War In...
Submitted by Ain't No Fortunate SonOn Quantitative Easing, American Foreign Policy, and Who REALLY Wins the Upcoming War in SyriaQuantitative Easing, or QE, has as it’s raison d’etre the monetization...
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Spotted Near The US Embassy In Lebanon
There are some in Congress who may be fooled by a few YouTube videos, but the international community, especially the part of it that may soon be on the receiving end of a few hundred of Raytheon's...
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Putting The US 'Real' Minimum Wage In Global Economic Context
The topic of "minimum wage" had been a hot one recently until Obama's red line and Syria stole the front pages. However, no matter how much one explains the dilemma of 'who, eventually,' pays for the...
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Will Berlusconi Be Responsible For Another European Crisis?
Sylvio Berlusconi is no stranger to being a catalyst for European crisis: in November 2011 it was his unwillingness to leave the PM post (and be replaced with a Goldman technocrat), that precipitated a...
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Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Like Ben "Barrel'o'Monkeys" Bernanke
"What's more fun than a Barrel of Monkeys? Nothing!" What could be better than assembling a long chain of tangled monkeys, each reliant on those either side of it for purchase, with just the one person...
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Despite AAPLooza, Stocks Rally For 7th Day In A Row
AAPL's demise was shrugged off by a broader market as VIX was slammed lower once again to 14.00% stirring the S&P to its 7th green day in a row and best run in 2 months. The Dow outperformed on the...
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Today's WTF Moment
Presented with little comment aside to ask just how levered the market is when a 'twitch' lower in VIX smashes the entire S&P 500 index up by 0.3% in 15 minutes... now where have seen that before???
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