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Monster (Pre-Debate) Ramp Sends Stocks Vertical In last Hour
What can we say? All makes perfect sense: earnings dismal (worse than expected) means BTFD and if there is one lever to do that effectively given the massive over-exposure in every levered fund in the...
View ArticleAmazon Cloud Crashes, Takes Part Of Web Offline
Curious why there are those with an online business, who believe that handing over their entire back office infrastructure to one company, aka "going cloud" may not be the wisest of ideas. Just ask all...
View ArticleTexas Instruments Cuts Q4 Revenue And Earnings Forecast
At this point saying Texas Instruments guides lower is about the most habitual thing about this broken market, aside from the traditional Fed-Citadel juiced 3 pm ramp, of course. Sure enough, moments...
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THe GReaT DeBaCLe: RouND 4.0
. Question for Obama: Who is the Khan of the Republic of Bloomfukistan? Question for Romney: Who will you appoint as Ambassador to The Cayman Islands? . Question for everyone: What size douche bag is...
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Reality Check: Is the US Housing Market Really Recovering? Part II
 "Looking at an REO-to-rental strategy, and while a rental strategy is very important, we decided it wasn't the best solution for the FHA, servicers, borrowers and their communities." Carol Galante...
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Nuclear Update: Fukushima Unit 4 Is Sinking (Unevenly) ... Fracking Now...
Fukushima Update: Unit 4 Is Sinking … Unevenly The spent fuel pool at Fukushima Unit 4 is the top short-term threat to humanity, and is a national security issue for America. As such, it is disturbing...
View ArticleAnd The Winner Of The First Lady Debate Is...
While our highly sophisticated scoring methodology - based on length-of-time speaking, words-spoken, and drinking-game-based buzzword bingo scores - has produced a result skewed to the Republican...
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Japanese Government Demands BOJ Do QE 9 One Month After Failed QE 8
 Almost exactly a month ago, the BOJ surprised most analysts with an unexpected increase in its asset purchase agreement by JPY10 trillion bringing the total to JPY80 trillion. There was one small...
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Watch the Third Party Presidential Debate
The presidential debates between Obama and Romney are nothing but a scripted beauty contest. Third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein have sued the presidential debate commission to allow...
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Eyes Wide Shut - "We Are In A Bad Spot"
Submitted by Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, After traveling some, speaking with lots of people, reading, and digesting, I cannot escape the conclusion that things remain hopelessly off track....
View Article"If" Becomes "When"
Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box, If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Non-Corporate Model for the Localized Economy: Guilds
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Guilds offer a dynamic, flexible model for relocalizing and reinvigorating local economies. The primary reason the U.S. economy is stagnating is that...
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On Iranian Sanctions And Chinese Energy Needs
US reliance on oil imports as a share of consumption is gradually declining; but China's, however, is rising and is now higher than the US. As JPMorgan's Michael Cembalest notes, China now has the...
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A Mushroom Cloudy Future: In 2016 Japan, Net Debt Per Capita Will Be $140,000
Sometimes you just have to laugh; or else committing harakiri comes dangerously close to mind. Japan's increasingly terrifying fiscal situation combined with a central bank that is rapidly becoming the...
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China Flash Manufacturing PMI Posts Modest Improvement Even As It Contracts...
Those holding their breath that the PBOC will finally relent and join its "developed world" central planning colleagues in easing - something the tech companies of the world, not to mention everyone...
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David Rosenberg: "What Is Wrong With This Market?
From David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff My Evolving Macro And Market Thots What is wrong with this market? The S&P 500, instead of grinding higher in the aftermath of QE3 actually hit its peak for...
View ArticleFLASH: German gold report reveals secret sales that likely were part of swaps
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: With the Associated Press report appended here, the German gold audit story has just exploded into the English-language press with some important revelations: -- The gold...
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Chart Of The Day: 55 And Under? No Job For You
Nearly two years ago, and progressing to this day, we first observed (and subsequently even the mainstream media caught on) that America's labor force is slowly but surely converting itself from a...
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On That 'China Is At 52-Week Highs' Meme
It appears once again that the behavior of a liquidity-constrained high-beta market-price is encouraging excitement among some of the world's 'smartest' media mavens. "But, but, but, 'China' at 52-week...
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