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U.S. Budget Deficit for March Falls to $107 Billion AP
Pimco's Gross Turns Positive on 10-Year Treasurys WSJ
The Use and Abuse of Monetary History Eichengreen
China banks "significantly exposed" to shadow financing - Fitch Reuters
Fed Exit? What Exit? Gold & Dollar Implications Merk
In search of the ‘Great Rotation’ Hulbert Ritholtz
Bitcoin passes $200 mark for the first time Telegraph
Digital Gold Rush:The Bitcoin Boom and Its Many Risks Spiegel
Germany’s Choice Soros
Japan’s big leak Saft Krugman - Smith - ZH - Turley
Investment Bulletin: Global Equity Strategy Bedlam Schroders
Obama Proposes $3.77 Trillion Budget to Revive Debt Talks BL
Housing's Big Challenge: $1 Trillion in Student Debt CNBC
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Counting on 7.5% when Treasury bonds are paying 1.74%? That's going to cost taxpayers billions.
Chasing the hedge-fund lie Weidner
Icahn: Still Cagey After All These Years Barron’s
Herbalife trading halted after auditor KPMG reveals alleged insider trading Guardian
Goldman cuts gold price forecasts, recommends short position Reuters
Japanese Rush to Sell Gold as Price in Yen Jumps WSJ
Trashing The Gold Standard is Now The Stuff Of Amateurs Forbes
Subsidized Corn Destroying Global Bio-Diversity Triple Crisis
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George Soros urges Angela Merkel to consider quitting euro Guardian
It's now simply a question of when Merkel will grasp debt mutualisation Warner
Deposits flew into Greek banks during Cypriot crisis Reuters
ADB warns about Asia's energy policies Asia Sentinel
Putin’s Central Bank Pick Avoids Kuroda-Style Revolution BL
Ex-HBOS chief Crosby asks to be stripped of knighthood Reuters
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The Great Secret Saut
Stock Crash Likely If Rally Continues: Marc Faber CNBC
Bill Gross: Beware of 'Monetary Red Bull' CNBC
Funny Money and the Super-Rich Hutchinson
The U.S. economy has its problems, but it’s still better than everywhere else Roubini
Here’s why the housing recovery hasn’t led to a hiring boom WP
Bernanke Says Fed to Press Banks to Curb Liquidity Risk BLBernanke: You Know What Keeps Me Up At Night WSJ
BlackRock Warns Fed to Rein in QE FT
Add BlackRock to the growing list of Fed critics who are warning of trouble ahead for the bond market.
Currency Wars vs. Currency Spillovers EB Mish - Reich - Volcker
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How Does the U.S. Quit Housing When Fannie, Freddie Rake in Billions? BL
CFTC Said to Subpoena ICAP Brokers, Dealers on Swap Prices BL
'Secrecy-Cloaked Companies':Deutsche Bank Criticized for Offshore Operations Spiegel
Beware of Economists Peddling Elegant Models BL
ICAP rejects allegations over swaps Telegraph
Sprott: French megabank SocGen is dead wrong on gold G&M Embry
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Yuan-Aussie direct trading to start Shanghai Daily
Flood of Japanese Cash Boosts EU Bonds BW
Chinese officials critical of BoJ move Finance Asia
Moody's: BOJ move won't solve fundamental problems NHK
France Faces 'Devastating Scandal' as Economy Stalls CNBC
Three New Lessons of the Euro Crisis Project Syndicate
Putin Squeezes UBS to Deutsche Bank Using Oligarchs as Lever BL
China Failed Mining Deals Top $45 Billion on Hanlong Bungle BL
Bird flu clouds some industries in China China Daily
Did Thatcher transform Britain's economy for better or worse? Elliott
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One of the striking features of the recent market advance has been the nearly triumphant confidence that there is zero risk of a U.S. economic recession.
Critical Warning No. 13: Stockman’s ‘Apocalypse’ Farrell
Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine Price
Going with the flow, down the drain Fleck
Fed Faces Risk of Fourth Summer Slump While Pushing QE BLBye-Bye Bonds, Hello Equities: Central Banks FT
Central bankers are putting cash into riskier assets and exotic currencies to compensate for ultra-low returns on US Treasuries...
Liquidity Carpet Bombs Fueling Asset Bubbles, Rohde Says BL
As stocks mark new all-time highs, many investors are left behind Ritholtz
Treasury Bond Market's Warning More Frightening Than Jobs Report HP
Why US Jobs Are Going to Get a Lot Worse CNBC
What Risk Premium? Crossing Wall St. EB - Slack Wire - Smith
Smith and Steve Gjerstad on Housing and the Never-Ending Recession YouTube
U.S. sees highest poverty spike since the 1960s Daily Mail
Disability Fund to Be Depleted by 2016 WSJ
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Why Rescue Fragile Banks? Outsource Them Instead BL
The Experts: What Lessons Can Investors Learn From Warren Buffett? WSJ
IPO Bankers Become Frogs in Hot Water Amid China’s Market Freeze BL
Money printing could save the day for gold bugs TelegraphGold is no more a safe haven, says Soros Rediff
Trust in Gold Not Bernanke as U.S. States Push Bullion BL
“The legislation is about signaling discontent with monetary policy and about what Ben Bernanke is doing...”
All the World's Gold Weighs in At... Newser
Nick Leeson - Ireland’s New Insolvency Expert CNBC
Nick's experience dealing with financial challenges will be an invaluable asset to our very strong team of professionals.
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Euro crisis: Portugal borrowing costs rise amid fears for bailout TelegraphEuro zone sentiment dips in April on Cyprus woes Reuters
Hey, They Are Stretching the Truth Way Too Far El-Erian
Secret Athens Report:Berlin Owes Greece Billions in WWII Reparations Spiegel
The total could be enough to solve the country's debt problems, but...
Greek bank merger halted MW
ECB's Weidmann: Lesson from Cyprus is banks can be wound down Reuters
Taxpayers to foot bill for Slovenia's banking crisis Shanghai Daily
China Local Debt May Be $3.2 Trillion, Ex-Official Says BL
Almost double the figure given in a 2011 report by the National Audit Office
In China, risks of unwanted assets lurk in the shadows Reuters
Researcher: Big Chinese banks 'faking' loans to small firms Shanghai Daily
Global miners keen to tap Chinese market China Daily
Hong Kong nets only small fry for laundering illegal Chinese money Reuters
Canada to probe report that RBC outsourcing work Reuters
China Says It Can Manage H7N9 Virus as Infections Rise BL
Photos: China’s New Bird Flu Battle WSJ
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Stockman, Orszag in budget battle royale ReutersTV
Stockman feels force of Washington fury FT
The Long Mystery of Low Interest Rates Rogoff
Forever Fed: Jobs Blues Set Up Eternal Easing CNBC
The market farce is ending Mirhaydari
Is the Global Economy Slowly Falling Apart? TIME
The Shrinking Ranks of the Working Norris
Forget About The Fed Dialing Back QE3 - Buy Bonds! Harding
Why it pays to sell in May Hulbert
Expecting a Weak Q2, But Likely a Buying Opportunity Puplava
Bitcoins are a bubble CNN
Bitcoin Really Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State BL
Sorry, Libertarians, History Shows Bitcoin Isn't the Future BL
Junk Bonds Get Junkier, but Still Sell Briskly Norris
Forget Debt Fears, the US Is Better Than Germany FT
The Assault On Gold Roberts
The Federal Reserve’s attack on bullion is an act of desperation that, when widely recognized, will doom its policy.
Where Does America’s Recovery Stand Now? BMO
Global Views Scotia Global Equity BMO Real SPX Record Highs ZEAL
Weekly Focus: ECB to dig further... - Business Cycle Monitor: Recovery moderating Danske
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The Infinity Pool of Executive Pay NYT
Wal-Mart Bonds Fly Off Shelf as Shoppers Stay Frustrated BL
JPMorgan Campaigns to Keep Dimon in 2 Top Jobs Dealbook
"Green" car maker Fisker fires 75 percent of workforce Reuters
Gold Mining Stocks Still Negative Swenlin
Sprott: Why SocGen Is Wrong About Gold's Imminent 'Demise' via ZH
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Portugal court strikes down part of austerity CNN
Euro Zone Lending Rates Differ Drastically by Country WSJ
Abenomics and the Japanese Economy CFR
The Promise of Abenomics Stiglitz
Protecting Yourself From Japanese Insanity Forbes
China's big banks "faking" their micro loans: researcher Reuters
China’s Xi Warns Against Regional Chaos as Korea Tensions Rise BL
S&P posts 2013's worst weekly drop on jobs data Reuters
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A Topping Pattern In The Market Is Underway Comstock
Soros Joins Gross in Warning Kuroda Plan Risks Yen Rout BL Soros on CNBC
The Growing Sentiment on the Hill For Ending 'Too Big To Fail' Taibbi
Only Tiny Percentage Opposed to Breaking Up Big Banks Ritholtz
El-Erian: Central Bank Efforts May 'End in Tears' CNBC
Fed Is Weighing a Reaction to Stirrings of Recovery NYT
Markets Fears 'Loose Cannon' at Fed: Janjuah CNBC
Fed's Evans edges closer to fellow dove's rate-rise plan Reuters
Mom and pop: The world’s worst investors MW
Bullish Sentiment Drops For Third Straight Week BeSpoke
The Stockman Backlash Schiff Smith - Mish
Analysis: Big inflows into bonds undercut the "Great Rotation" Reuters
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The SEC Let Steven Cohen Off Easy Weil
Offshore Leaks: Vast Web of Tax Evasion Exposed Spiegel
Exclusive: UBS was mystery lender for Thai group's Ping An buy from HSBC - sources R
Bond Traders Club Loses Cachet in Most Important Market BL
Commodities Update: Yet to return from holiday Danske
China Turns Graveyard From Goldmine Hurting Ship Makers: Freight BL
Roosevelt's gold confiscation: could it happen again? Telegraph
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BOJ's Kuroda: monetary onslaught won't cause asset bubbles ReutersKuroda: “We will be vigilant of the risk of a bubble”
Kuroda makes history with monetary blitz Pritchard
Analysis: No Plan B in Japanese central bank's new playbook Reuters
Kuroda Leads Japan Down Bernanke’s Path of Escalated Easing BL
ECB's Coere sees euro zone inflation straying off course Reuters
Europe’s Perpetual Crisis Papantoniou
Denmark Vows to Protect AAA Rating Amid Stimulus Plan BL
HBOS: former bosses 'should be banned from financial sector' Telegraph
North Korea Rattles the Saber, and Markets Shrug BW
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Yen Tumbles Most in 17 Months as BOJ Doubles Stimulus BL
Jobless claims at four-month high, cast shadow over jobs market Reuters
Helicopter QE will never be reversed
The Need for Wholesale Change Absolute Return Letter
A Man in the Mirror Gross
Caveat Depositor Sprott
Former US Treasury Official - Fed Desperate To Save System King
Gold Bugs Had the Best Monetary Rule Baum
The Greatest Collapse in History? Acting Man Krugman - Mish
Russell 2000 vs S&P 500 Divergence: April Fool's Joke or Something Else? BeSpoke
Investors Pile Into Housing, This Time as Landlords WSJ
Demand for space in U.S. strip malls still weak in first quarter Reuters
Janet Yellen: A Keynesian Woman at the Fed Cassidy
(Video) How Market Losers Think - and How to Stop Doing It EW
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Chart Explains The Biotech Bull Market TheStreet
What Jamie Dimon Won't Tell You Baseline
Ex-Goldman trader Taylor pleads guilty to wire fraud Reuters
Bundesbank Probes Deutsche Bank Over Hidden Losses FT
Gold extends losses to lowest since May at $1,539.74/oz Reuters
Gold, Hit Hard Today, to Face a Test Friday Street
The death of peak oil EB
Alberta’s bold plan to cut emissions stuns Ottawa and oil industry G&M
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Reuters: The decision marks a return to the BOJ's five-year quantitative easing policy that ended in 2006, when it flooded markets with cash...
IMF sets terms of Cyprus bailout Guardian
Cyprus Turks Share Pain as Banking Crisis Revives Talk of Unity BL
Mystery Deepens Over Cyprus' Capital Controls CNBC
Will Cyprus Force Draghi to Finally Cut Rates? CNBC Draghi Mulls Plan B
Decoupling - One expensive euro Economist
How we learned to stop worrying and love capital controls Triple Crisis
Shanghai's land sales surge in value Shanghai Daily
More Headwinds for the Indonesian Economy Asia Sentinel
How it all went wrong at Barclays Telegraph Barclays lost sense of reality
Korea's Default Risk at Six-Month High Chosun
Canada’s surprisingly large exposure to our too-big-to-fail banks G&M
Brace for More Market Tremors From North Korea CNBC
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Fed hawk Lacker and dove Evans face off over inflation Reuters
Fed’s Kocherlakota Calls for More Stimulus WSJ
The Bernanke Fed's Printing Press Explosion Now Exceeds Two Trillion Dollars Auerback
Marc Faber: Cyprus Will Happen Everywhere CNBC
What OMF Means For Gold G. Long
Do You Believe China's GDP Numbers? Mish Jesse - Yardeni - MB - Dr. HB - Smith - Cramer
Eye of the Beholder: Dissecting the Variety of Price-Earnings Ratios Sonders
A stock strategy to weather the downturn MW
World-Wide Factory Activity, by Country WSJ
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Regulators Let Big Banks Look Safer Than They Are Bair
For every trillion dollars in accounting assets, these megabanks calculate their capital ratio as if the assets represented only $550 billion of risk
Fannie Mae Beats Wal-Mart and GE With Record Profit in 2012 BL
Fannie and Freddie, the $5 Trillion Gorillas the U.S. Just Can't Kill BL
Auto News Flash Scotia
20-stock portfolio built to weather good times and bad G&M
SSE fined record Ł10.5m for 'prolonged' energy mis-selling Telegraph
Analysis: Spills flame Canadian oil debate, but won't curb flows to U.S Reuters
Gold hits 10-month low, attracts bargain buyers Reuters
Beer and hot dogs: Which ballparks charge most CNN
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Bank of Japan Preview: Kuroda expected to leave his mark Japan
Life after the Fall: The Aftermath of the Cypriot Banking Collapse Spiegel
Cyprus President Invites Probe of His Family Firm FT
Mexico Follows U.S. in Foreclosures Crushing Builders BL
Property curbs make their mark in Shanghai China Daily
Chinese consumers less upbeat about future Shanghai Daily
Portuguese government faces no-confidence vote Guardian
EU Financial Transaction Tax Seen Costing Britain $6 Billion BL
Asia's Fossil Fuel Addiction Asia Sentinel
Barclays says review makes "uncomfortable reading" Reuters
Heavily indebted South Korean shipbuilder STX on its knees Standard
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The only 4 strategies to use in the next crash Farrell
Japan: Monetary Madness in Times of Unsustainable Deficits? Merk
Rosenberg: I See 10 Signs That Show The Stock Market Is Overbought via BI
The Global Economy on the Fly Roubini
"Indigenous" – a New Threat to Our Well-Being Hutchinson
Greenspan’s bullish, time to sell Keen
Shut Up, Savers! Surowiecki
Debt = Serfdom Smith Mish - Schiff - Krugman - Sober Look - Paul
The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland American
Do Industrialized Countries Hold the Right Foreign Exchange Reserves? FRBNY
Lessons from the Recent Recession: The Faster They Grow, the Harder They Fall FRBSL
IMM positioning: Investors still moving out of the euro Danske
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Ex-SEC chief Schapiro to join a private consultancy firm: WSJ Reuters
10 things financial advisers won’t say MW
Panasonic unit in bribery investigation The Age
SEC probes Silvercorp short-seller fight G&M
Apple apologises to China customers BBC
IMF Proposes $1.40 A Gallon Gas Tax On US Drivers FOX
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The Cyprus File Das
Cyprus Seeks More Time to Meet Targets in Talks With Troika BL
Cypriot president angrily denies claims family member exported bank funds Guardian
Could Cyprus go the way of Ecuador? Salmon
Deposit insurance after Iceland and Cyprus VOX
Demetriades: “Once people realize how well capitalized the banks are there is little reason why there will be deposit flight”
Euro-Area Unemployment Rises to Record 12% Amid Recession BL
UK manufacturing contracts for second month in March - PMI Reuters
Yuan hits firmest to dollar in 19 years Shnanhai Daily
Home prices continue to rise China Daily
Japan just might be set to open a new chapter ReutersAt a two-day rate review that ends on Thursday, the central bank is likely to start open-ended asset purchases immediately
How Closely Is Kuroda Emulating Bernanke? CNBC
Reuters: Kuroda may not be able to sway a board divided on how much the BOJ should ramp up bond buying and how to convince markets it will not monetise public debt.
Japan Banks Urge Abe to Release ‘Third Arrow’ to Spark Lending BL
Mainland, Taiwan agree to further ease bank caps Shanghai Daily
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Cooling factory activity hints at slowing economy Reuters
We Should Already Have Learned How This Will End Hussman
Stockman Warns of Crash Of Fed-Fueled Bubble Economy BL NYT“Notwithstanding Bernanke’s assurances about eventually, gradually making a smooth exit, the Fed is domiciled in a monetary prison of its own making...These policies have brought America to an end-stage metastasis. The way out would be so radical it can’t happen”
-- The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America Amazon
"Is the Federal Reserve Breeding the Next Financial Crisis?" EB
When Interest Rates Rise Feldstein
'Fixing' The Payroll Problem Contrary Investor
Turning a blind eye to Cyprus Fleck
Ten Things That Could Wreck the Bull Market 24/7 3 Bearish Charts
Warren & the Vampire Squid WSJClearly, he loves blood in the water as much as the next squid. He's just more clever going in for the kill. Tax Lover Buffett Dodges Taxes In GS Deal Keenan
Bernanke Breaks Down: "This Whole Thing Is a Kleptocracy" Smith MyBudget - Dr. HB
Embracing the Dark Side: Trading in the Shadows NYT
Fiscal consolidation and implications of social spending for long-term fiscal sustainability VOX
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Will Wall Street Ever Learn E-Mails Are Forever? Cohen
Money-Laundering Banks Still Get a Pass From U.S. BL
How Funds Massage Numbers, Legally WSJ
Then there's the problem of "survivorship bias”...
SEC Inaction Leaves Town Victim To Massive Ponzi Scheme HP
New sheriff of Wall St. is racking up insider trading convictions LAT
Fishing for Value Barron’s
Broke California Unveils Fish-Saving Boondoggle BL
Analysis: Insider case against SAC manager may be tough to prove Reuters
Gold Miners Have ‘Terrible Structural Features’: Morningstar Barron’s
Lower Gold Prices Could Make Miners Worthless, BofA Says WSJ
Exxon oil spill in Arkansas seeps into Keystone debate G&M
3D Printing for $200? This Company Makes it Reality BL Video
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Cyprus seeks to find people behind bank crisis FTHead of Cypriot church urges finance minister to resign Telegraph
Cyprus bets on casinos to boost economy after savings raid Guardian
Russia won't help out Cyprus depositors, says minister Reuters
Japan business mood improves as market reacts to "Abenomics" Reuters
Chinese Manufacturing Gauge Rises to Highest in 11 Months BL
Beijing, Shanghai Add to Home Curbs as China Acts to Cool Market BL
US firms less focused on China China Daily
Angela Merkel fails to escape eurozone crisis on Italian holiday Telegraph
Is Germany too powerful for Europe? Elliott
Emerging Markets Dump Billions Worth of Euro FT
Accounts at EU banks are 'a joke', warn analysts Inde
Number of the Week: College Grads in Minimum Wage Jobs WSJ