Frontrunning: September 27
Madrid Protesters March Again as Spain Braces for Cuts (Bloomberg) Euro Can Bear Fewer Members as Czech Leader Calls Greeks Victims (Bloomberg) Chinese Industrial Profits Fall 6.2% in Fifth Straight...
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In America, Journalists Are Considered Terrorists
Painting by Anthony Freda: www.AnthonyFreda.com. We’ve previously noted that American journalists are an endangered species (click on the links for stunning details): If they criticize those in...
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'Mugabenomics' From Zimbabwe To The UK - "Gold Is Good"
From GoldCore Gold Bullion 'Mugabenomics' From Zimbabwe To The UK - "Gold Is Good" Today’s AM fix was USD 1,777.25, EUR 1,374.73, and GBP 1,102.38 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,778.50, EUR...
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Guest Post: The War Between Credit And Resources
Submitted by Gregor McDonald via Peak Prosperity, The Federal Reserve is probably not ready to take the aggressive plunge into Nominal GDP Targeting, but it likely will. Such a policy, which received...
View ArticleMarket Thoughts From David Rosenberg
From Gluskin Sheff's David Rosenberg Market Thots Well, things are getting quite interesting. The consensus view was that QE3 was going to send the stock market to the moon. Yet the peak level on the...
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A Reminder Of Why A Fiscal-Cliff Compromise Is Not Coming Any Time Soon
CEOs suggest a major reason they are not spending is 'policy uncertainty', politicians blame the other side for stifling growth because of 'policy uncertainty', and brokers, bankers, & economists...
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How '125' Became The Most Important Number For The US Economy
The unending efforts of our glorious central-banking planners to raise asset prices and encourage 'animal spirits' through the trickle-down of unicorn-tears via the wealth effect have side-effects....
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Meet The Billionaires Behind The Best Presidents Money Can Buy
The last time we checked on the (funding) status of America's real presidential race - the one where America's uber-wealthy try to outspend each other in hopes of purchasing the best president money...
View ArticleQBAMCO On Nominalists, Realists, And The Madness Of 'Chicago Plans'
The blinding nominal light of a Dow Jones Industrial Index near pre-crisis highs is enough provocation for most of the well-assuming US citizenry to 'believe'. Ahead of the third and final Presidential...
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Gold And Silver Worth $1.4 Billion Carried In Baggage From Turkey To Iran,...
Submitted by GoldCore Gold BullionGold And Silver Worth $1.4 Billion Carried In Baggage From Turkey To Iran, UAE And Middle East in SeptemberToday’s AM fix was USD 1,679.00, EUR 1,313.05, and GBP...
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Monday Market Uncertainty – Waiting to See Who Runs America
Monday Market Uncertainty – Waiting to See Who Runs AmericaCourtesy of Phil's Stock WorldToday doesn't matter.Tomorrow won't matter either. Nothing will matter much, trading-wise, until we know what...
View ArticleDaily US Opening News And Market Re-Cap: November 9
From RanSquawkEuropean markets receive a swift reminder that a Greek resolution is not on the horizon, as EU sources say Greece are considering rolling over T-bills on November 16th due to a possible...
View ArticleDaily US Opening News And Market Re-Cap: November 12
From RanSquawkEuropean markets receive a swift reminder that a Greek resolution is not on the horizon, as EU sources say Greece are considering rolling over T-bills on November 16th due to a possible...
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Crony Currency Club Cartel Controls Captives
(Note from Tim: This is one of those Slope of Hope posts that is Big Enough To Be Seen From Space, and it is written by a frequent contributor to Slope, BDI. Although, permabear that I am, I don't...
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Obama To Demand $1.6 Trillion In Tax Hikes Over Ten Years, Double Previously...
If the Fiscal Cliff negotiations are supposed to result in a bipartisan compromise, it is safe that the initial shots fired so far are about as extreme as can possibly be. As per our previous...
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Guest Post: What's Next In The Middle East?
Submitted by John Aziz of AzizonomicsWhat's Next In The Middle East?While the missiles, planes and rockets fly over Gaza and Israel, both Hamas and the Israeli government have been engaged in a battle...
View ArticleSwiss Capital Controls Escalate As Credit Suisse Sets Negative CHF Deposit Rates
In a world that already makes little sense to most, Credit Suisse just pushed the envelope a little further. The bank has just announced that going forward it will be charging for firms to hold a CHF...
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The Keynesian Revolution Has Failed: Now What?
Authored by Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Securities,A Premonition From a Halcyon EraIn 1968, America was literally over the moon. Apollo 7 had just made the first manned lunar orbit and the nation would...
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Yuan and Won: Now this is New
There has been much fanfare over the swap lines that China's central bank has established with numerous countries. Many observers see those lines as evidence of the internationalization of the yuan...
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US, French Troops Prepare For Syria Invasion In Response To "Chemical...
The 8 day mini war between Israel and Gaza has come and gone and any attempts at provoking a wider regional conflict, one involving Iran (if indeed this was the intention), have failed. Which means the...
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