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Which John Kerry Said The Following?
In the extract below we have taken the liberty of replacing "Vietnam" with "Syria."In our opinion and from our experience, there is nothing in [Syria] which could happen that realistically threatens...
View ArticleSummary Of The Current Situation
A must read summary from Scotiabank's Guy HaselmannSummary of Current Situation After 5 years of zero interest rates, negative real yields, trillion dollar annual fiscal deficits, trillions of dollars...
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Has The Selling Of VIX Come To An End?
VIX futures positioning hit another all-time record short just two weeks ago after collapsing to 12-month high levels as "Taper" concerns increased. From the start of July to the 3rd week of August VIX...
View ArticleAre The Real Enemies In Syria Or Washington?
Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market blog,“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of...
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And Now The Unions Are Angry At Obamacare: AFL-CIO To Press For Healthcare...
While Syria may have avoided a fate of being bombed (or worse) just so Obama could find what's in it (or rather the pretext to have gotten involved in the first place) Obama's Affordable Care Act did...
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Police Raid Swiss Home Of Israel's Richest Man
Israel's richest person Beny Steinmetz, who amassed his $7.4 billion net worth beginning in the diamond trade, has seen his Geneva home raided by Swiss police following a request from the Government of...
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NSA and Israel
Follow ZeroHedge in Real-Time on FinancialJuiceFriends are for sharing with, aren’t they? That’s the way it has always been. I’ll scratch your back and you can scratch mine is the motto of the National...
View ArticleEminent Domain Mortgage-Seizure "Approved" For CA City
Despite PIMCO, DoubleLine, and pretty much every other major mortgage bondholder in the world litigating the actions, Richmond, California's leaders approved this morning a plan for the city to become...
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The Slow Rise And Quick Fall Of The SEC's Enforcements
New SEC Chair May Jo White's motto "you have to be tough" and plans to toss out the SEC enforcement policy that allowed almost all defendants to settle cases without admitting wrongdoing sound great;...
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Employment: Trending Down
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,The growth rate of employment is declining over time, as positive growth weakens and recessionary declines deepen.Charts and data provided by longtime...
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The "Gold" iPhone?
Sometimes you have to step back and laugh... spurious correlation perhaps, but over 10 years, 2 years, 2 months, or 2 weeks; the ebbs and flows of AAPL shareholders and spot gold prices seem oddly...
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Trained Fleas!
By: Chris Tell at capitalistexploits.atOne technique to ensuring kids don't misbehave is to threaten them with a trampling from fully-grown elephants. It works better than chaining them up or locking...
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2600 Years Of Financial Innovation
Earlier we mused whether in a world in which the central banks have failed to stimulate the money multiplier, and thus GDP...... the only possible way out, now that the epic stock of global debt makes...
View ArticleStocks Showing Multiple Signs of a Top
Tops never form cleanly. I’ve made the mistake of attempting to call a top on the “dot” in the past. The reality is that anyone who attempts to do so is exercising their ego more than their judgment....
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Vibrator Sales Help Make "Hello Kitty" Founder A Billionaire
85-year-old Shintaro Tsuji is the founder of Sanrio - the firm that introduced "Hello Kitty" in 1974. Sanrio's shares have doubled this year making the founder a billionaire, amid the Abenomics...
View ArticleGoldman Expects $10-15bn Taper And Fed Walking-Back From Employment Thresholds
With bonds and stocks rallying (and the USD dropping) notably in the last few days, one could be forgiven for believing the Taper is off but Goldman's baseline forecast remains for a $10bn reduction in...
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2008 to 2013: Picturing Crisis, Recovery, And Change
Starting with the day Lehman Brothers collapsed, Bloomberg Businessweek examines the financial crisis as it affected the lives of the people who created it, tried to stave it off, protested it,...
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VIX WTF Deja Vu
On a day when the CBOE was struggling to disseminate data, exchanges proclaiming self-help against one another, weekly expirations and an AAPL share price well below early week pin-risk levels, it...
View ArticleUK Realtors Ask Central Bank To Halt Housing Bubble
"The Bank of England now has the ability to take the froth out of future housing market booms, without having to resort to interest rate increases," is the way the UK's realtor association explains...
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