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Egyptian Stocks Plunge 9.6% As 'Islamofascism' Rises; Clashes Escalate
Egyptian stocks cliff-dived by their most since the Arab Spring in January 2011 as Morsi'sreach-for-omnipotence sends concerned ripples through the nation that they have replaced 'military fascism'...
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Mas Trouble In Little Spain As Country Layers Constitutional Crisis Onto...
Catalonia's exit polls confirm over two-thirds of votes will go to pro-independence parties that will likely push for a referendum to break away from Spain, which the central government will challenge...
View ArticleGuest Post: The "Out-Of-Touch-With-Reality" Crowd
Submitted by Michael Panzner of Panzner Insights,In “The Biggest Myth About the Fed,” David Beckworth, an assistant professor of economics at Western Kentucky University, suggests that the pessimists...
View ArticleThe Four Debt Ceiling Possibilities For 2013
An extended excerpt from Bill Buckler of The PrivateerThe Four Major Possibilities For 2013There are four likely “scenarios” for what will happen when the US Congress - and the president - come up...
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What A Difference A Year Makes
As we approached the debt-ceiling debacle last year, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth among talking heads and portfolio managers and indeed the latter actually started to put their money...
View ArticleOn Artificial Interest Rates And The Forfeiture Of Growth For Dividends
Diapason Commodities' Sean Corrigan provides an insightful introduction to the critical importance of a market-set rate of interest and central banks' manipulated effect on the factors of...
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Investor Sentiment: A Gift
In last week's "gift" to investors, the SP500 gained 3.5% making up all of the losses that it had sustained for the month of November. I am sure that more than one investor is wondering: Why ever sell?...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes, Germany is Already Preparing For a Grexit
The US Presidential election is over and the world has woken up from the political rhetoric and propaganda to realize that the problems it faced before November 6 are still in place. Indeed, one could...
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14% Of S&P 500 Earnings Is "One Time Write Off" Vaporware
With everyone now well aware that revenues of S&P 500 companies have taken a turn for the worse and are declining for the second consecutive quarter (with well over a majority missing sellside...
View ArticleGoldman's Guess At 'Cliff' Compromise Composition
With hope high that TPTB will see fit not to plunge us over the cliff, we thought it useful to get some perspective on what the grand compromise might look like. Goldman's central assumption - albeit a...
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It Ain’t Money-Good No More
Elisse Walter is an interesting choice to be the next top-dog at the SEC. She's been at the Agency for six-years, so she knows where the bathrooms, and the dirty laundry can be found. She certainly...
View ArticleBulk Investors And The Real-Estate 'Recovery'
Via Pater Tenebrarum of Acting-Man blog,Bulk (Wall Street) buyers have been receiving a lot of attention recently. It's time to take a closer look.There is little data available pertaining to bulk...
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The Scariest Chart Of The Quarter: Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90+...
We have already discussed the student loan bubble, and its popping previously, most extensively in this article. Today, we get the Q3 consumer credit breakdown update courtesy of the NY Fed's quarterly...
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Greek Deal: Unmet Expectations?
Greek Deal: Unmet Expectations? Justin Burkhardt | FXFocus.com The long awaited Greek deal has finally come to fruition, or has it? The old adage that history has a way of repeating itself is something...
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Greek Deal: Unmet Expectations?
Greek Deal: Unmet Expectations? Justin Burkhardt | FXFocus.com The long awaited Greek deal has finally come to fruition, or has it? The old adage that history has a way of repeating itself is something...
View ArticleHead Of The Fed's Trading Desk Speaks On Role Of Fed's "Interactions With...
In what is the first formal speech of Simon "Harry" Potter since taking over the magic ALL-LIFTvander wand from one Brian Sack, and who is best known for launching the Levitatus spell just when the...
View ArticleIs JPMorgan About To Take Over America, Again?
Great and wondrous things seem to be afoot among the righteous bankers of the world. A few months ago Matt Zames was named to get JPMorgan's CIO office out of trouble - and also happens to be the...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Madness Of A Lost Society
Via Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,While we are very far gone at the moment as a society, never forget there are millions of people out there fighting for what is right and we will succeed in...
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Europe's Good, Bad, And Ugly Charts
A glimpse at stock prices, sovereign bond prices, and credit spreads and you could be forgiven for believing that (a la Juncker) Europe has turned the corner. The dismal reality is that one by one,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Science And Sortilege In Today's Political Economics
Via Ben Tanosborn of Tanosborn.com,We are just a decade-short from a century since Balliol College (Oxford) introduced interdisciplinary studies in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) as a modern...
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