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Bet On Central Banker Lies, Double Your Money
From mid-March, the difference in credit risk between banks that took LTRO loans and banks that decided not to become stigmatized and subordinate their existing senior unsecured bond holders has now...
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Want To Trade FX Like A Central Banker On Full Tilt? Apply Here
Tired of being stopped out by the latest HFT FX algo du jour? Disappointed by having only 500x margin purchasing power? Disenchanted by not having an infinite balance sheet, the inability to manipulate...
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Europe Is Now Red For The Year
A sea of red is flowing from European equity markets and it seems they are unable to stem the flow as IBEX (the Italian equity index) nears March 2009 lows (down 18% YTD) but dispersion across European...
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Silver Seen Over $40/oz in 2012 – Store of Value Remains Undervalued
Gold rose $1.50 or 0.09% in New York and closed at $1,640.80/oz yesterday. Gold traded sideways in a narrow spread in Asia and continued this in European trading climbing up around 0.16%. Gold rose...
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Guest Post: Why The Left Misunderstands Income Inequality
Submitted by Azizonomics Why the Left Misunderstands Income Inequality There is a widely-held notion on the political left that the key economic problem that our civilisation faces is income...
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Google 1Q 2012 Earnings Update
Google posted robust 1Q results topping the consensus estimates by a wide margin – revenues increased 24% to US$10.6 billion as against US$8.6 billion in the same period, a year earlier. This was...
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NASDAPPL Crumbles Amid Sideways Volatile Week
Take your pick of how to describe this week's action. The Dow was green, S&P 500 unch (ES closed right at its 50DMA), and NASDAQ down for its biggest 2-week loss since the rally began. Heavy volume...
View ArticleNSA Whistleblower Speaks Live: "The Government Is Lying To You"
Just a month ago we raised more than a proverbial eyebrow when we noted the creation of the NSA's Utah Data Center (codename Stellar Wind) and William Binney's formidable statement that "we are this...
View ArticleGuest Post: How To Speculate Your Way To Success
Submitted by Doug Casey of Casey Research, Source: JT Long of The Gold Report (4/20/12) So far, 2012 has been a banner year for the stock market, which recently closed the books on its best first...
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Listed House Sale Closings Rose 74,000 in March, Prices up 5% in Month, 2.5%...
Listed House Sale Closings Rose 74,000 in March, Prices up 5% in Month, 2.5% in Year Courtesy of Lee Adler of the Wall Street Examiner The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported on Thursday...
View ArticleMoney As Debt
On a day when Lagarde happily trots out statement after statement that the IMF has another bucketful of promises to solve the world's excess debt problems with its own debtors providing more of the...
View ArticlePushing The Euro To The Brink
“There is no more risk that the euro will implode,” declared French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday, two days before the first round of the presidential election. Europe is “recovering,” he said...
View ArticleWaiting for the Opening Whistle (or Not)
Preamble: There is a rich compost heap here at ZH from which we can take our share to turn and prepare for our respective gardens. I've thrown down the gauntlet here and there, made a few...
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Guest Post: Where’s The Crisis?
Submitted by Azizonomics Where’s The Crisis? A hilarious BusinessWeek piece from 2005 asked: Is the U.S. in a savings crisis? We think not, though one may be brewing if attitudes toward the budget...
View ArticleOn war in Europe
"Even on the eve of war, however, there was still considerable optimism that the peace would hold. Europe had experienced several decades without a major war, and in the meantime, industrialization...
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CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF LISA EPSTEIN, DEMOCRAT, for CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT, PALM...
Contact: Quan Cao Tel: (561) 866-7028 Email: Quan@LisaForClerk.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF LISA EPSTEIN, DEMOCRAT, for CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT, PALM BEACH COUNTY Palm Beach County,...
View ArticleWeighing A Strip Club Tax While Municipalities Hit the Wall
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com While all eyes are on Europe, California is hobbling along its own path to, well, a tsunami of last-minute bills. In total, 665 bills are scheduled to be debated...
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Is Gold Volatility The Cheapest Event-Risk Hedge?
With the plethora of mounting event risks, from the end of Operation Twist to numerous elections, the possibility of QE3, the US fiscal situation, the ECB/Bundesbank battle, and China's...
View ArticleDeath of Crudubeeleetee
The implications of the rudderless ship that is the Netherlands are becoming clear as mud. Lex Hoogduin says we shouldn't be overly preoccuppied with our credibility. I am interested in this question...
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Citi's Englander On What Can Go Wrong In The Next 11 Days?
1) Regional Fed presidents are talking hawkish but markets are pricing dovish. Expectations of fed actions have retraced sharply since March. Consider the path of the October 2014 fed funds futures...
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