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Guest Post: Consumer Debt - Still A Long Way To Go
Via Lance Roberts of Street Talk Live,Consumer Debt - Still A Long Way To GoI have seen numerous articles as of late discussing how the average American family has finally delevered their household...
View Article"Price Per Ounce" In Context
When it comes to commodities priced "per ounce", the two most quoted products are silver, and of course gold. But in a broader context are these prices a lot or little? How do some other less known...
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October Consumer Credit Rises By $14.2 Billion, Government Funds 70 Cents Of...
A month after consumer credit rose by $12 billion (revised) driven by car and student loans, even as revolving credit declined, total consumer credit in October once again rose in both revolving and...
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Three Charts Every Stock Investor Should See
The market continues to track the same pattern it performed going into the failed debt ceiling talks of July 2011. As you’ll recall, then as is the case now, US politicians failed to reach a credible...
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These Funds Are About To Get Creamed If The Nexen/CNOOC Deal Fails
In just over one hour the Canadian government will hold a press conference on the troubled Nexen/CNOOC deal: a deal that will make or break many M&A merger arbs or 2012. And judging by the algo...
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AAPL Death-Cross Pushes Dow To Highs
Of course, it makes perfect sense - the largest market cap company in the world drops further and experiences a death cross and sure enough - the evergreen Dow Jones Industrial Average ended near the...
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Weekly Bull/Bear Recap: Dec. 3-7, 2012
From Rodrigo Serrano of Rational Capitalist SpeculatorWeekly Bull/Bear Recap: Dec. 3-7, 2012This objective report concisely summarizes important macro events over the past week. It is not geared to...
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Guest Post: Complacency Everywhere You Look
Submitted by Michael Panzner of Panzner InsightsComplacency Everywhere You LookWhen trying to get a handle on investor sentiment, the benchmark of choice for many market-watchers is the CBOE S&P...
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Egypt's "Temporary " Dictator To Deploy Army Against Protesters
Update: The devolution is complete as Egypt declares martial law.* * *It was only a matter of time before Egypt's US-endorsed temporary dictator resolved to what will be spun as temporary military...
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Who Is In And Who Is Out In Obama's Second Term Cabinet
Tim Geithner's time is almost done, but the former NY Fed head is only one of very many whose position is expected to be replaced in Obama's second term (just so there is a non-continuous chain of...
View ArticleItaly's Technocratic Government Coming To An End: Goldman's Mark-To-Mario Gambit
In what is the day's most overhyped piece of non-news, we go to Italy to learn what many already knew on Thursday, namely that with the loss of support of Berlusconi's PDL party, Mario Monti's...
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Anything to see here?
Two-years have passed since the signing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare). At this point, one thing is clear, there was a significant “drafting” mistake in the original legislation. There...
View ArticleEgypt's Morsi Rescinds "Dictatorial" Decree
Update: As expected, there is a "but"... From the WSJ:But the new declaration preserves next Saturday as the date of a referendum on a divisive proposed constitution, skirting a key demand of Mr....
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Chart Of The Day: The Real Household Net Worth As A % Of Debt Chart
In the hours following the release of the latest Flow of Funds statement on Thursday, some of the glorified powerpoint-cum-statist tabloid media outlets released a very disingenuous and flat out wrong...
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Guest Post: The Icelandic Success Story
Submitted by John Aziz of AzizonomicsThe Icelandic Success StoryEmotionally, I love Iceland’s financial policies since the crash of 2008:Iceland went after the people who caused the crisis — the...
View ArticleIt’s Official: The Consumer (And The Economy) Is Alive and Dead
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterFriday’s plunge in consumer sentiment—from 82.7 during the post-election glory days to 74.5—was hastily ascribed to the Fiscal...
View ArticleFirst Coke, Now Bloody Center - Government Feed-tervention Escalates
The personal freedom to indulge in 32 ounces of sugary corn-syrup-filled fizzy drinks left New Yorkers with a nasty libertarian taste in their mouths. Now, a few months later, as The Telegraph reports...
View ArticleOn The Fiscal Cliff And A Constitution In Crisis
Authored by Gordon T. Long of GordonTLong.com,The Political Foundation of the status quo in America is based on a Grand Bargain of Complicity between the top 25% who pay approximately 90% of the taxes,...
View Article"The Shape Of The Next Crisis" - A Preview By Elliott's Paul Singer
Transcribed from a speech given by Paul Singer of Elliott ManagementInvesting is an art, more so than a science. And for me, what I get paid for is managing the “dark art,” if you will, of risk...
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