Frontrunning: July 26
The Citadel-SAC connection (BBG) - just wait until the Citadel-FRBNY connection emergesLetter backs Yellen for Federal Reserve role (FT) - or said otherwise, the Democrats would like the Fed to rule...
View ArticleIt Is Happening Again: 18 Similarities Between The Last Financial Crisis And...
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,If our leaders could have recognized the signs ahead of time, do you think that they could have prevented the financial crisis of 2008? That...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 1
Headlines only idiots, Schrodinger and Goebbels could love: China Manufacturing Gauge Shows Unexpected Strength (WSJ)China's factory activity shrank for a third straight month in July to its lowest...
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Witches Brew: Part 5 - Fingers of Instability!
Send to A Friend | View as PDF | View Newsletter Archives | Subscribe to TedBits.comA New Issue of the TedBits Newsletter, written by Ty Andros, is Available! Click here to read the newest TedBits...
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The Most Important Number In The Entire U.S. Economy
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,There is one vitally important number that everyone needs to be watching right now, and it doesn't have anything to do with unemployment,...
View ArticleBank Of America Reveals Pending DOJ Civil Charges Against It, Merrill Lynch
Lurking deep in the just filed Bank of America 10-Q (alongside data on its quarterly trading acumen which as usual made a mockery of random statistical probability distribution with just 7 days of...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 2
Low Wages Work Against Jobs Optimism (WSJ)Tourre’s Junior Staff Defense Seen Leading to Trial Loss (BBG)Russia gives Snowden asylum, Obama-Putin summit in doubt (Reuters)Fortress to Blackstone Say Now...
View ArticleGuest Post: Enron Redux – Have We Learned Anything?
Submitted by Sue McNamara and Bruce Corneil of Beutel Goodman,Greed; corporate arrogance; lobbying influence; excessive leverage; accounting tricks to hide debt; lack of transparency; off balance sheet...
View ArticleGoldman Sued For Monopolizing US Aluminum Warehousing Market
Over two years after Zero Hedge first accused Goldman and JPMorgan of becoming monopolists in the commodity warehousing business (see "Goldman, JP Morgan Have Now Become A Commodity Cartel"), and two...
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Guest Post: Still Waiting
Submitted by Tim Price's The Price of Everything blog,“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”- The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ by Oscar Wilde.The failure of...
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Guest Post: Trying To Stay Sane In An Insane World - Part 2
Submitted by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform blog,In Part 1 of this article I detailed the insane solutions proposed and executed since 2008 by our owners as they attempt to retain and further expand...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 6
Washington Post Company Chairman and CEO Donald Graham talks about the sale, what it means for the future of The Post (WaPo)Private-equity firms are adding debt to companies they own to fund payouts to...
View ArticleDavid Stockman: Hedge Funds, Prime Brokers, And The Whirligig of Wall Street...
As David Stockman, Reagan's infamous Budget Director, writes in his bestseller, The Great Deformation: The Corruption Of Capitalism In America– "the last thing hedge funds do is hedge." The hedge fund...
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Stock Market Bubbles And Record Margin Debt: A (Repeating) History Of...
It is well-known that as part of the S&P500's ascent to new records, investor margin debt has also surged to all time highs, surpassing for the past three months previous records set during both...
View ArticleThe Incredible Shrinking COMEX Gold Warehouse Inventories
During this banker raid on paper gold and paper silver, while banking shill Nouriel Roubini was spouting more propaganda in the distribution channels of the mass media of a gold collapse to sub-par...
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Wednesday Humor: Kevin Henry, Moonlighter?
We all know where Kevin Henry spends the hours from 9:30 am until 4 pm (and on various emergency situations, 24 hours per day): thanks to LinkedIn, we know that the Senior Trader/Analyst at the Federal...
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Guest Post: What Is Going To Happen If Interest Rates Continue To Rise Rapidly?
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,If you want to track how close we are to the next financial collapse, there is one number that you need to be watching above all others. The...
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BATS And DirectEdge To Merge, Terms Not Disclosed
When you add High Frequency Trading exchange 263 and High Frequency Trading exchange 264 (read all about DirectEdge over the years here), you get a whole lot of happy algos. It also means that MtGox...
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First Signs of Hyperinflation Have Arrived: US National Debt Can Travel From...
original artwork above courtesy of @williambanzai7 The first signs of hyperinflation have arrived. As I will explain later in this article, it began last week with the meeting of POTUS Obama and his...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 28
Merkel Blames SPD’s Schroeder for Letting Greece Into Euro (BBG)U.S. Bank Legal Bills Exceed $100 Billion (BBG)U.K. to Request U.N. Action to Protect Syrians From Chemical Weapons (WSJ) - and Russia...
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