Fear and Trembling In Muni Land
Wolf Richter  www.testosteronepit.com  www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterMunicipal bond investors, a conservative bunch who want to avoid rollercoaster rides and cliffhangers, are getting frazzled....
View ArticleJim Rogers On "Buying Panic" And Investments Nobody Is Talking About
Submitted by Nick Giambruno via Doug Casey's International Man,I am very pleased to have had the chance to speak with Jim Rogers, a legendary investor and true international man.Jim and I spoke about...
View ArticleWall Street's Latest Investment: Ex-Convicts
Either the Volcker Rule is making Wall Street's menu of investment choices so unbearably limited, or traditional assets are so overpriced Wall Street won't even touch them with other people's money,...
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Forbes Reveals Its "Top 30 Under 30" In Finance
Roughly around the time when the death knell for SAC Capital as a hedge fund (now since defunct, existing purely as a family office following the biggest insider trading crackdown against a US-based...
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23 Reasons To Be Bullish On Gold
Submitted by Laurynas Vegys via Casey Research,It's been one of the worst years for gold in a generation. A flood of outflows from gold ETFs, endless tax increases on gold imports in India, and the...
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China Overtakes US As World's Largest Trader (Except With Japan)
Overnight China reported disappointing export data, missing expectations of +5%. The gvoernment explained this on the basis that they were losing their competitive edge since the Yuan has strengthened...
View ArticleBank Of America Smiles On Its Junior Bankers, Tells Them To Take 4 Weekend...
In a memo to employees today, Bank of America has made some 'improvements' to its recommendations for analysts and associates working hours...*BOFA ANNOUNCES IMPROVEMENT IN WORKING CONDITIONS FOR...
View ArticleFutures Shake Off Weak Earnings, Levitate Higher: Global Market Summary
Weak results from Intel, American Express and Capital One, not to mention Goldman and Citi? No problem: there's is overnight USDJPY levitation for that, which has pushed S&P futures firmly into the...
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The US Is Closed, But Markets Elsewhere Are Open - Full Overnight Summary
On MLK Day, we party like its 1991... in the Shanghai Composite that is. The main Chinese index slid another 14 points overnight to its lowest level since the June near-banking sector collapse...
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"Endless Growth" Is the Plan & There Is No Plan B
Submitted by Chris Martenson via Peak Prosperity,After five years of aggressive Federal Reserve and government intervention in our monetary and financial systems, it's time to ask: Where are we? The...
View ArticleIs the Housing Sector a Drag on the US Economy?
The S&P/Case-Shiller 20 City Index rose at a 13.8% annual rate in November. Â This proves that the US housing market continues to recover, right? Â The headlines in most news stories and economic...
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Why This Harvard Economist Is Pulling All His Money From Bank Of America
A classicial economist... and Harvard professor... preaching to the world that one's money is not safe in the US banking system due to Ben Bernanke's actions? And putting his withdrawal slip where his...
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Paul Singer's "Vision" Of The Coming "Riot Point" And The Fed's "Formula For...
We sympathize with traditional stock and bond investors, who are faced with extremely poor choices today. QE has distorted the prices of all traditional asset classes to such an extent that none...
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Bank Of America Asks "Do Obamacare Costs Exceed The Benefits?"
Authored by Ethan Harris of Bank of America Merrill Lynch,Healthcare and the economyFew laws cause as much high blood pressure as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Supporters of the law consider it the...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Merger Of State And Commerce
Submitted by Stephen Merrill, editor of the Alaska Freedom News. He served in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and as a Navy Reserve Intelligence OfficerThe Merger of State and CommerceThe...
View ArticleFrontrunning: February 26
California couple finds $10 million in buried treasure while walking dog (Reuters) ... not bitcoin?Dimon Says Threats to JPMorgan Span Google to China Banks (BBG)Stocks So Many Love to Hate Buoyed by...
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Emerging Market Banking Crises Are Next
Financial headlines have rightly been dominated by the largest 7-day sell-off of the Chinese yuan on record. Everyone's speculating whether it's been a deliberate move by the People's Bank of China...
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One Emerging Market To Buy
Investors can't bail fast enough on emerging markets at the moment. And rightly so, given the potential for further problems as I highlighted in last week's post, Emerging Market Banking Crises Are...
View ArticlePrem Watsa's 9 Observations Why There Is A "Monstrous Real Estate Bubble In...
Excerpted from Prem Watsa's Fairfax Financial Holdings investor letter,There is a monstrous real estate and construction bubble in China, which could burst anytime. It almost did in 2011 but China...
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Bond Trading Grinds To A Halt: Goldman Set To Report Weakest Q1 Since 2005;...
The topic of disappearing bond market liquidity and volume has been beaten to death on this site over the past several years. Nothing new here: thanks to the Fed's central-planning mission creep which...
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