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If The Guilty (Mortgage Mafia) Are Never Punished, Housing Will Never Recover
If The Guilty (Mortgage Mafia) Are Never Punished, Housing Will Never Recover And The Rent IS Too Damn High Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner Housing data continues to be mixed. Lagging...
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Erik Townsend: Expect a US Price Shock as Black Swans Come Home to Roost
Submitted by ChrisMartenson.com Erik Townsend: Expect a US Price Shock as Black Swans Come Home to Roost American investor (and longtime CM.com member) Erik Townsend has spent the past several years...
View ArticleEvaporating Japanese Pension Fund Assets
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com Japanese pension funds face a tricky situation. On one side is an investment environment of near-zero yields, declining real estate values, and a stock market...
View ArticleGreek CDS and the New House Rules: Get Over It
"Derivatives shift wealth opportunistically. The theory behind them is to stabilize risk in volatile markets by providing a means to rectify a portion of the losses incurred in less liquid activities....
View ArticleThe Lull
From Mark J. Grant, author of 'Out of the Box and onto Wall Street' The Longer View Saturdays are good days for mulling about. We are not rushing from meeting to meeting and facing the aggravation of...
View ArticleGuest Post: Natgas Down, Opportunity Up
From Marin Katusa of Casey Research Natgas Down, Opportunity Up The energy market is a complex beast, its many parts interconnected through a multitude of linkages. When one part fails, the entire...
View ArticleIran Supreme Leader Khamenei Leads In Iran Parliamentary Election, As Iran...
The results from Iran's parliamentary election, whose outcome will have virtually no impact on the country's foreign, nuclear or Iran policy, and thus change the country's course vis-a-vis Israel and...
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Presenting The Truth Behind America's Fiscal And Employment Picture
Two weeks ago we penned "As US Debt Hits New Record, Fiscal 2012 Tax Revenues Are 10% Higher Than Debt Issuance" which unfortunately was very wrong: we completely forgot that tax revenues in the US are...
View ArticleExcessive Channel Stuffing Forces GM To Halt Chevy Volt Production, Fire 1,300
On Thursday, we were the first to expose GM's latest strong car sales data as nothing more than the latest in a long series of accounting gimmicks known as 'channel stuffing' when excess inventory is...
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Guest Post: Americans Will Need “Black Markets” To Survive
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market Americans Will Need “Black Markets” To Survive As Americans, we live in two worlds; the world of mainstream fantasy, and the world of day-to-day reality right...
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Will Central Bankers Be The Next Unchosen People?
In his latest piece on popular delusions, SocGen's Dylan Grice conducts a much needed advance thought experiment looking at two specific things: on one hand he isolates the next inevitable social...
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An Improbable Fireside Chat
By Mark Grant, an American Citizen A Fireside Chat Picture a fireside, stone around the hearth, Christmas logs of sometime past, a blazing fire and embers glowing beneath them. Imagine a simple room,...
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Guest Post: Warren Buffett Priced In Gold
Submitted by Azizonomics Warren Buffett Priced In Gold Can you say bubble? Or, more to the point, can you say bursting? Warren Buffett loves to bash gold — claiming that stocks are inherently superior,...
View ArticleDavid Rosenberg: "The Best Currency May Be Physical Gold"
Stop us when this sounds familiar: What a no-brainer to suck at the teat and go long some very transparent and liquid debt that matures in less than three years (how can there not be a rally in global...
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North Korea Has Allegedly Tested Nuclear Warheads For Iran
What is one sure thing sure to set triggerhappy warmonger fingers in the US and Israel on Defcon 1 more than the word Iran? The words Iran and North Korea. How about three nouns that will send crude...
View ArticleThe Central Banks' Assault On Savers
From Bill Buckler's Privateer: The Assault On Savers The best and most basic proof that NO central bank anywhere has the best interests of the actual producing economy of their nation as their focus is...
View ArticleRon Paul: "I Think Sanctions Give Iran Motivation To Want A Nuclear Weapon"
There are those who say that while they agree completely with Ron Paul's economic policy of fixing the #1 issue that ails America (as a reminder, total US debt/GDP would only decline under a Ron Paul...
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It's My Parity, and I'll Cry If I Want To
#339966;">Originally published at Slope of Hope........ I believe the EUR/USD is going to approach parity within the next year. All the nonsense we've seen in Europe over the past couple of years is...
View ArticleMy Big Fat Greek Restructuring - The Week Ahead
From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors My Big Fat Greek Restructuring - The Week Ahead The situation in Greece should create some big headlines this week. The bond exchange “invitation” is set to...
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