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Biggest Winner From Obama Reelection? "Guns And Ammo"
Whether greed-prone, fear-stricken, or full-prepper; the post-election performance of both gun-and-ammo 'makers' and gun-and-ammo 'searches' on-line has been remarkable...Search Volume goes limit-up......
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Goodbye Japan, Hello Korea
As the government and Bank of Japan constantly survey the marketplace for speculation while intervening en masse with ever-decreasing levels of effectiveness, we thought the following charts would...
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Guest Post: Gold & The Dollar Are Less Correlated Than Everyone Thinks
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via Peak Prosperity,Whenever I make the case for a stronger U.S. dollar (USD), the feedback can be sorted into three basic reasons why the dollar will continue declining...
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US Budget Deficit Soars In October As Government Spends Over $300 Billion In...
Moments ago the MTS released the final October budget report. It was not pretty, although those who read our report on how much debt was added - $195 billion to be precise - in the first month of the...
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China Unveils Latest Military Drone
China, whose military capabilities are largely mocked by the conventional wisdom, is ignoring the jeers and is rapidly building up not only its navy, but is modernizing its air force now too. Case in...
View ArticleGuest Post: Real Danger Of “Obamacare”: Insurance Company Takeover Of Health...
Via Nomi Prins of NomiPrins.com,Election rhetoric shuns the big picture in favor of the bigger platitude. Now that The Show is over, we are left with the equivalent of a Sunday morning hangover...
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Remember When A Fed Permadove Promising Perpa-ZIRP Sent Stocks Higher?
There was a time when bears looked on with dread as a Fed Permadove and vice chair Janet Yellen cleared her throat in advance of delivering prepared remarks, knowing well the algos would go full...
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A Game Of Two Halves As Equities Tumble To Risk Reality
Leveraging EUR strength (USD weakness) in the US-open-to-EU-close to ramp stocks to highs was rapidly followed by a collapse back to reality in US equities from EU-close-to-US-close. Just remarkable....
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Adding Insult To Rocket Attacks, Bank of Israel Now Underwater On Its Apple...
It was all going so well, first name terms with Obama and AAPL up 30% from where you bought it... a mere two months later and the Bank of Israel is now underwater on their AAPL shares and about to...
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Tilson Releases September 30 13-F: Top Positions Are AIG And AAPL
Just when we thought blowing up one fund in one year is enough for Whitney Tilson (recall from July: It's Official: T1 Is Not T2; Tilson Liquidates To Buy More Of The Same), we got a glimpse of his...
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Deer Emerges As Stocks Slump Half Way To Reality
The crowded liquidity-fueled pump-fest of the last few months is beginning to unwind. Look around at where the damage occurred. Equities and Credit were smashed; the USD is practically unchanged;...
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Why The Troika's Forecasts Are A Total Joke In One Easy Chart
The remarkable forecasting skills of the Troika and the immense decisions being taken on the back of these 'sacrosanct' projections need to be put into context. We are more than happy to do that (as we...
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Greenlight Capital And Third Point September 30 Holdings Summary
With the star (and legend) of John Paulson long dead and buried, and his Disadvantage Minus fund an embarrassment, wrapped in a monkeyhammering, inside a humiliation, there are few "groupied" HF...
View ArticleHouse Republicans Find Corzine Guilty Of MF Global Collapse, Missing Funds;...
It appears that these days not even the Corzining of client money can happen without it being split across furiously polarized party lines. As it turns out hours ago, the Committee on House Financial...
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With Over 100,000 Supporting Texas Secession, Ron Paul Weighs In
With just 5 days needed for the Texas secession petition to surpass 100,000 signatories, all is not well with the Union...... actually, not only are things not well with the Union, things are getting...
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The Four Charts That Corporate Bond Managers Fear The Most
Much is made of the 'apparent' bubble in Treasury bonds - a 30-year or so relatively consistent trend in government bonds (through thick and thin) and yet allocations remain minimal compared to our...
View ArticleGuest Post: Miligate: Geishas, Courtesans And Groupies
Submitted by Ben Tanosburn,Congress, particularly that uppity Senate club of multi-millionaires, seems always ready to remind us – the hoi polloi citizenry – that it is much more than the legislative,...
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Could You Live On Social Security?
$1,130.33 is the average monthly social security benefit. Assuming you worked 40 hours a week, every week, that's the hourly equivalent of $6.40. Where can you live? Will savings save you?
View ArticleBP Hit with the Largest Criminal Penalty in U.S. History Over Gulf Oil Spill
As we’ve documented for years, BP was criminally negligent in connection with the Gulf oil spill, and has gone to great lengths to cover up the scope of the disaster … including low-balling spill...
View ArticleDTCC Provides Update On Status Of Flooded Securities Vault
As has been widely reported previously, while the NY Fed's deep underground gold vault remained dry during the Sandy flooding in downtown NY, one institution which got badly hurt was the DTCC, aka Cede...
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