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At around this time over the past few years I’ve written about the posh holiday parties I went to. No luck this year. I went from the A-list to the Shit-list (I blame the blogging). So instead of...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Present: "Are The Brokers Broken?" - A Reprise
Often times we are asked "why does Zero Hedge prefer to provide information in piecemeal increments and isolated snapshots (of irregularity) rather than write comprehensive articles (or even a book)...
View ArticleSol Sanders | Follow the money No. 98 | Moves speed up on a complicated Asian...
Latest from Uncle Sol. A version of this column is scheduled for publication in The Washington Times, Monday, December 26, 2011. Merry Christmas. Chris Follow the money No. 98 | Moves speed up on a...
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A SWIFT Denial - How In Europe, Even Admission Of A "Plan B" Is Equivalent To...
While we have long known that the drachma, and recently the lira, have seen significant "when issued" interest by institutional clients desiring to hedge their currency collapse exposure, and thus...
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A Few Chinese Bad News Bears To Spoil A Happy New Year
By EconMatters Goldman's Jim O'Neill noted in a recent interview that the world's future prosperity depends on China's growth. While we don't totally agree with that assessment as we see China as one...
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How The FAZ-Mobile Promises To Lose 99.6% Of Your Money Even If The Market...
Three years ago, when it first became largely adopted by the mass investing population as a hedge to a collapsing market, the 3x levered ETF known as the Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares, or FAZ...
View ArticleRonald Reagan's 1981 Christmas Address
Things sure have changed in the past 30 years... Abridged transcript (full version can be found here): Good evening. At Christmas time, every home takes on a special beauty, a special warmth, and...
View ArticleWorld's Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct...
To all who still think that in the war of attrition between the USD and the EUR (because contrary to what some have "discovered" only recently, currency wars have been going on for a long, long time...
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China Insolvency Wave Begins As Nation's Biggest Provincial Borrowers "Defer"...
Remember, back in the day, when a bankruptcy was simply called a bankruptcy? Naturally, this was well before ISDA came on the scene and footnoted the living feces out of everything by claiming that a...
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All HaiL THe MiGHTY CoN!
“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”--Genghis Kahn
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Guest Post: The Nightmare After Christmas
By Detlev Schlichter of The Cobden Center The Nightmare After Christmas The pathetic state of the global financial system was again on display this week. Stocks around the world go up when a major...
View ArticleJapan Will Raise More Cash From Debt Issuance Than Taxes For Fourth Year In A...
While the world is watching Europe and the US for signs of imminent decoupling, and now has added China to its insolvency focus list, things in Japan, which is "fine" courtesy of a self-destruct...
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Bull Markets, Buying Opportunities, and Gold
Bull markets are extraordinary opportunities for wealth creation. There is something unquantifiable about the persistence of price as it moves higher. How to define a bull market is another question,...
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Globalization, The Decade Ahead, And Asymmetric Returns
It is not unusual for us to note the Knightian uncertainty that lies ahead of us (the unknown unknowns) and question the nth-decimal-place accuracy of VaR-based risk budgeting when the next long-only...
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Hold On Tight: European Bond Issuance In January Is About To Get Very Bumpy
While someone continues to guietly push the EUR offer ever higher in the quiet holiday session, the reality is that with only 5 days to go in 2011, the holiday for Europe is ending, and "the pain"TM it...
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The Endgame: Japan Makes Another Move
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com It’s a doozie. On December 24, the cabinet approved a draft budget for fiscal 2012 whose headline numbers were horrid enough: ¥90.3 trillion ($1.173 trillion) in...
View ArticleJim Rogers 2012 Outlook: Pessimism With Scattered Crises
Typically limited to 90 second soundbite-gathering exercises on mainstream financial media, Australia's Finance News Network gives Jim Rogers the chance to discuss much more broadly his outlook not...
View ArticleOn Europe, Inflation, And Gold.
Via GoldMoney.com, In this video Philipp Bagus, Assistant professor of Economics at Madrid’s Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and author of The Tragedy of the Euro, and Alasdair Macleod of the GoldMoney...
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Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices?
Did bankers use the MF Global to suppress gold and silver prices and create the panicked appearance of collapsing precious metals to give themselves additional precious time to delay the crash of the...
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Did Bankers Deliberately Crash MF Global to Crash Gold and Silver Prices?
Did bankers use the MF Global to suppress gold and silver prices and create the panicked appearance of collapsing precious metals to give themselves additional precious time to delay the crash of the...
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