Guest Post: Central Planning's Christmas Problem
Submitted by Jeff Snider of Atlantic Capital Management Central Planning's Christmas Problem Most of human history conforms to established patterns, forming the basis of modern statistical analysis....
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Jump Risk Jumps After American Bankruptcy, Sends Junk Plunging As Major Debt...
A week ago, the reputation of legacy carrier American Airlines as being the only one to avoid bankruptcy is not the only thing that went pop. Along with it went the fervent optimism of high yield debt...
View ArticleS&P Warns It May Cut Most European Banks, European Union Itself
Not sure why the market is surprised by this, but it is. S&P PLACES LARGE BANK GROUPS ACROSS EUROZONE ON WATCH NEG - BNP, SocGen, Commerzbank, Intesa, Deutsche... pretty much everyone. EUROPEAN...
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Consumer Credit Rises By $7.7 Billion In October, Although Revolving Is Just...
At first blush today's consumer credit report was simply gorgeous: an increase of $7.7 billion total on expectations of $7 billion. Just what the Keynesian voodoo doctor ordered right? Wrong. The...
View ArticleTechnical Report-Still Bullish but overbought
By UBS Technical Research from www.thetrader.se US Trading: The concerted action from central banks has been extending last weeks rally but with our short-term momentum indicators reaching overbought...
View ArticleAttempt Made On Deutsche Bank Head's Life: Explosive Package Addressed To CEO...
It seems that popular anger at the banker minority will no longer be confined to tent-based vigils in public parks. In Germany, someone just escalated a bit to quite a bit. The irony, in this case, is...
View ArticleUpdate - Denied.... And Here Is Today's Completely Idiotic Rumor
Update: Steve Liesman with the party spoiler: "Imf official denies 600b aid rumor." Yet idiots still bidding stocks. With just 20 minutes left, today the rumor comes not form the FT but the Nikkei:...
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Equity Market Goes Winehouse
Sometimes we just shake our heads. Other times, we just sob anxiously into our handkerchieves. This afternoon's rumor-ramp-denial-no-dump was absurdity at its very best. A 16pt rip in ES on the basis...
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In Past Week Americans Pull The Most Money From Stock Market Farce Since US...
As if we needed another confirmation that the sad joke of a market has now succeeded in driving virtually everyone out courtesy of precisely the kind of bullshit we saw in the last 30 minutes of...
View ArticleJournalists Jumping To Conclusions Can Get Contusions
Journalists Jumping To Conclusions Can Get Contusions Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner Pedro da Costa, maybe the smartest and best reporter covering the Fed, and who seems like a good...
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Goldman On Deleveraging And The Sovereign-Financial Feedback Loop
It is no surprise that there is both an implicit and explicit link between financial entity risk and that of their local sovereign overlord. The multitude of transmission channels is large and the...
View ArticleMarc Faber: "I Have A Very Special Stock Tip For You. The Symbol Is G-O-L-D"
It has been a while since the Marc Faber graced Zero Hedge. It is time to remedy that. Providing his traditional dose of snark, tragedy and realism, the Gloom, Boom and Doom report author spoke to...
View ArticlePivot Capital On China's Investment Boom (And Pending Bust)
The will-they, won't-they argument over the sustainability of China's capex-driven growth and the transition from an investment-led/high-growth economy to a consumption-driven/lower-growth model is...
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Guest Post: Start Thinking in Terms of Gold Price
Submitted by Jeff Clark of Casey Research Start Thinking in Terms of Gold Price A young woman – let's call her Andrea – inherited some money from her father in late 1997. She was only nineteen at the...
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"This Time Will Not Be Different": Interactive Chart Of Market Reactions To...
Looking at this Friday's nth European summit, one could be forgiven to forget that so far in 2011 there have been no less than 10 Eurozone finance minister meetings and summits. TEN. And courtesy of...
View ArticleThe Strenuously Hushed-Up Fundamental Flaw In The Tax Code
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com “Corporate Tax Dodging In The Fifty States,” a report that the CTJ released today, found that the largest corporations paid little or no state income taxes in any...
View ArticleGuest Post: Black Swans And Complexity
Black Swans And Complexity Submitted by Jim Lewis Nassim Taleb is wrong about the financial crisis and black swans. The ongoing financial crisis is not the result of a perplexing phenomenon of...
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The Militarization of American Police – and Shredding of Our Constitutional...
POLICE BEING MILITARIZED NATIONWIDE Journalists from across the spectrum have documented the militarization of police forces in the United States, including, CNN, Huffington Post, the Cato Institute,...
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4 Reasons to be Bearish
Betting against equities – the market – is always difficult. First, the market isn’t designed to go down. Companies provide those goods and services for one reason – to turn a profit, and hopefully,...
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Call on US Supreme Court to Hear Standard Chartered v. FINRA
Note: For another example of FINRA's questionable behavior, I interviewed Larry Doyle on FINRA and Auction Rate Securities, about a year and half ago. If you missed it, here's a link. ~ Ilene Sense on...
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