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Wall Street Week Ahead: Central banks, data to steer investors Reuters Here's Why Next Week's Economic Reports Are The Most Critical in Months! Harding The Global Reflation Trade Noland The Cashless Society Mauldin Capitalism is killing our morals, our future Farrell 6-Month Unfavorable Seasonality Period Approaches Swenlin Virtual currencies threaten to go viral FT (via Google) Median Pay in U.S. Is Stagnant, but Low-Paid Workers Lose Norris Federal Cuts Are Concern in Modest U.S. Growth NYT Global Views Scotia Baker - Reformed Broker Jim Chanos: China: The Edifice Complex - Wine Country Conference Presentation Mish Loans Borrowed Against Pensions Squeeze Retirees NYT Stock Analysts Tell All! WSJ
Trying to Slam the Bailout Door Morgenson Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever Taibbi Gold-Stock Panic Levels ZEAL Sprott - Incredible Global Gold Rush Triggers $3,000 Target King Platinum: Time to Dust Off and Get Back on the Horse Sprott Facebook CEO reaped $2.3B gain on stock options AP CBOE Staff Knew of Problems in Advance WSJ
Chinese Industrial Companies’ Profit Growth Slowed in March BL Japans’s Scary Lesson on Slashing Interest Rates Pesek Greece starts firing civil servants for first time in a century CSM £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in quest for nuclear fusion Inde Bangladesh Arrests Execs After 324 Killed in Factory Collapse BL
A modest first-quarter rebound, but not enough to lift the middle class WSJ The incredible stagnant U.S. economy Irwin
Most market players expect a further recovery in gold prices next week G&M Gold Falls on GDP, Trimming Biggest Weekly Gain in 15 Months BL Total US Debt To GDP: 105% ZH Growth in U.S. Trails Forecasts as Defense Spending Falls BL The Noose On The Economy Is Tightening Comstock Doomsday? SocGen Predicts S&P to 450, Gold at $10,000 Barron’s Policymakers’ efforts to manage the cycle have actually made things far more volatile The 7 Biggest Risks to Financial Stability WSJ Failure to Understand the Commodity Market Armstrong Get Out Your Shopping List, a Market Bottom Is Coming Puplava Has the next crisis begun? Mirhaydari Crashing the 90 Percent Club Baker Krugman Gold Acting Man Rogers - Barron - Phillips - $1150 an ounce? - Smith Are You an Investor or a Story Teller? Ritholtz BEA: Myths and Misperceptions About The U.S. Economy via Ritholtz Featured Article: (Video) Top 3 Technical Tools Part 2: Relative Strength Index (RSI) EW
Pimco’s Rising Stars Pull in Money for Future After Gross BL George Soros Discloses Enormous J.C. Penney Investment AP What Apple Can Learn From Warren Buffett Weil U.S. Regulators: Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Threaten Economy AGAIN HP High Yield Spreads Drop to a New Low BeSpoke Fight Back! Privatize the FAA! Ferrera
The great Spanish nation can end its crucifixion at will by leaving EMU Pritchard Bundesbank confirms sent ECB report to German court Reuters ECB Should Weaken the Euro: Bini Smaghi CNBC 10 Lessons from Cyprus Lachman Japan consumer prices fall for 5th month in a row MW Japan Needs More Than a Devalued Yen BW he collapse of Japan’s bubble wiped out the equivalent of three years of GDP, compared with one year in the 1929 U.S. crash... Japan's 'wall of money' proves elusive for global markets Pritchard Japanese investors are repatriating funds at an accelerating pace The Road to the Elusive 100 Yen WSJ China Top Leaders Warn on Financial Risks as Rebound Falters BL PetroChina's net income in Q1 drops 8% Shnaghai Daily Too many to fail? Debt bookrunners soar Finance Asia Fresh blow for ENRC as fraud inquiry is launched Inde Accountancy firms 'use Treasury knowledge to help rich avoid tax' - MPs Guardian France Woos China With More Than Cheese and Wine CNBC
“If Japan succeeds with its 2 percent inflation target, interest rates will rise at some point and they just need to reach 2.8 percent for the interest on government debt to equal government revenues...The bond market will revolt well before it reaches that point though...” Gruber
Bernanke Says Alternatives to Libor Being Considered BL Initial Jobless Claims in U.S. Fell Last Week to 339,000 BL Central Banks Load Up on Equities as Bond Yields Fall BL Austerity loses an article of faith Martin Wolf Foreshadowing a bear market MW On the Leading Edge Kass Apple, the Fed and the financial fallacy Saft Carney steps into the role of superhero Reuters Carney argues he protected dollar’s value during term as governor CP Public debt and economic growth, one more time VOX Reinhart-Rogoff and Herndon-Ash-Pollin EB Sanders - Mish Taleb Gets Into Historic Twitter Brawl BInisder
Despite cautious talk, banks push risky deals Fortune Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley preach caution, even as their bankers return to pre-crisis deals. Wall Street Jobs Plunge as Profits Soar: Chart of the day BL Saving Social Security: Why New Proposals Are Drawing Fire Wharton How Does One Fake Tweet Cause a Stock Market Crash? TIME Gold Rout for Central Banks Buying Most Since 1964 BL From Rout to Rush - Gold Stages Quiet Rally CNBC Texas University Fund Sold $375 Million in Gold Bars BL Barrick Gold cuts spending, may suspend troubled Pascua-Lama project Star
Spain Unemployment Breaches 27% on Recession BL Italy needs Churchillian leader to fight 'war damage' of EU austerity Pritchard Germany rejects joint EU bank deposit scheme - Merkel Reuters Europe’s Sovereign Debt Problem: A Call for a Clear Destination PIMCO Europeans Are Thinking the Unthinkable: That Debt Defaults Might Make Sense TIME EU's Rehn: fiscal adjustment slowing down in Europe Reuters UK avoids triple dip better than expected GDP growth Guardian Whose Side is the Reserve Bank of Australia on Asia Sentinel Too many to fail? Debt bookrunners soar Finance Asia How do Canadian and U.S. house price fundamentals stack up? G&M
Bangladesh Building Collapse Kills Scores Of Workers... HP
Housing Rebound in U.S. Hampered by Own Success as Costs Climb BL 10 investing rules for the coming bond crash Farrell Quarterly Review and Outlook - First Quarter 2013 Hoisington The next crisis: Fed promised, Fed delivered Saft House GOP accuse Fed of 'willful obstruction' TheHill Where the hell is Ben? Sorry, that’s ‘personal’ Crudele In full: Barnier's letter to Bernanke FN Dow 16,000! Barron’s Our latest Big Money poll shows record levels of bullishness among America's money managers, despite concerns about the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve policy, and Europe's financial mess Bond Bubble, Or Rational Expectations? Visualizing 220 Years Of Treasury Yields via ZH Abnormalcy Bias Burning Platform US Mint suspends some gold coin sales after demand surge Reuters In addition, the Mint has been allocating its silver coins since late January due to strong demand and limited inventory India Gold Premiums Soar as Demand Outstrips Supply WSJ "We have not seen this kind of premium on gold imports in years" The Last Contango Acting Man Bartlett BL: Goldman closed its bearish recommendation on gold as prices moved above $1,400 Ron Paul on Bitcoin: If I Can't Put it in My Pocket, I Have Reservations BL Video The return of the prodigal interest only loan Dr. HB Smith - Saville 10 picks for a correction, revised Jubak Welcome to the Anarchy Economy D. Gross
Wall Street is at it all over again Macleans Human Beats Machine This Time as Fake AP Twitter Post Roils Stocks BL FBI Probes Hacking of Associated Press Twitter Account BL Co-op pulls out of deal to buy 632 Lloyds bank branches Telegraph Housing Sector 56% Back to Normal WSJ Federal Regulators Finally Decide To Sound Alarm On Student Debt HP Government loan to Fisker to be scrutinized in congressional hearing Reuters Foreign Investors Help Fuel U.S. Shale Boom BL Can anything stop Tesla? LaMonica
German Confidence Index Declines After Winter Chill BL Analysis - ECB poised to cut rates to help recession-hit euro zone Reuters Guardian: Analysts said a rate cut was imminent after Jens Weidmann, head of Germany's central bank, conceded that lower interest rates would be considered German 'Alternative':Parallel Currency Idea Carries Great Risks Spiegel Sterling: the Currency That's Most Like Rocky? CNBC 'Abenomics' changing opinions and skirt lengths in Japan CNN Even Abenomics can't ignore Japan debt CNN S&P warns on Abenomics Finance Asia BOJ's new price forecasts Friday to be credibility test Reuters "These new BOJ figures will be more a vow of determination rather than credible forecasts” Japanese Inflation Expectations, Revisited FRBNY Why Abenomics is leading to a squid shortage in Japan Reuters Bubble from China’s boom has slow leak Financial Review Australia buys China government debt CNN Debt pressure on local authorities Standard Nearly 3.5 trillion yuan of local government debt in China will be due in the next three years Chinese and Japanese ships cluster around disputed islands CNN
A false report of explosions at the White House that wiped out $136 billion from the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index in about two minutes highlighted the risks of the computerized trading that dominates the $18 trillion market. Bloomberg Markets Plunge Briefly on Fake AP Terror Tweet CNBC Bulls Hit Things That Make You Go Hmmm... Surf’s Up! Saut Is the Fed's Medicine Really Poison? Baum Bye Bye, Bernanke? AP Medieval monetary practices VOX Why Barron's Prediction of Dow 16,000 Favors the Bears Haver Deficits are falling. For now CNN Sovereign credit concerns, low interest rates reshaping world reserves Reuters Supercomputers could generate warnings for stock crashes Denver Post Are bonds the stock market's Achilles heel? MW Monthly Economic Monitor NBF IMM positioning: CAD shorts at most extreme since 2007 Danske Reinventing GDP MyBudget Smith - Warren - Crossing Wall St. - Keen - Schiff How Did the World's Rich Get That Way? Luck BW
Netflix Erases Doubts With Signup Gain Propelling Share BL Goldman Backs Mullen in Rentals After Subprime Short BL Report: 3D Printing Will (Eventually) Transform Manufacturing Design News Where eight renowned investors think commodity prices are going G&M Gold sale not a priority: Cyprus finance minister Reuters Sprott: Can the gold hawk find magic after the commodities crash? G&M Why Gold May Have Hit Bottom, For Now CNBC Foreign Investors Help Fuel U.S. Shale Boom BW
Germany's private sector shrinks as eurozone decline continues - live Guardian German 'Alternative':Parallel - Currency Idea Carries Great Risks Spiegel Era of austerity has run its course, EU says Reuters Research Euroland: Fact Book Greece Danske The next steps for the euro: what is needed to ensure its survival? Schroders S&P Says One-Third Chance of Japan Downgrade Reuters Chinese Stocks Slump Most in Three Weeks as Manufacturing Slows BL Uh-Oh, China's PMI Miss Spells Trouble Ahead CNBC Lending in the Dark Project Syndicate The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible… Sinopec issues biggest dollar bond in a decade FA Rising mood lifts new home sales Shanghai Daily
The Endgame is Forced Liquidation Hussman Breakdown Price A Rake Too Far: Optimal Platform Pricing Strategy Above The Crowd Dealers Say No End to QE in 2013 as Hatzius Sees 2016 Rate Rise BL Investors worry bull market is running out of steam USAT Reinhart-Rogoff data problems EB Krugman - Smith - Mish - DH The Underground Recovery Surowiecki 10 secrets to retire a happy millionaire Farrell How Twitter is becoming your first source of investment news Ritholtz Rogers: The One Lie That Will Bring Down America Money Morning
Apple's dimming luster roils suppliers, investors Reuters Facebook Leans In Vanity Fair Earnings Results Flashing Warning Sign for Stocks CNBC Apollo-to-Goldman Embracing Insurers Spurs U.S. Concerns BL ABB bets on solar power with $1 billion takeover Reuters The gold panic of 2013 Fleck Gold traders pick bargains fearing price rise Reuters Gold loses sheen, but still a safe bet China Daily The Secret World Of Gold via ZH Rick Rule Hedge Funds Show No Fear Over Gold's Plunge Reuters Commodities slump sends slow ripples through world economy Reuters Having poured $400B into commodities over the past decade, many investors are now selling Goldman Sachs cuts copper forecasts MW
France misses 2012 deficit target, Spain's shortfall widens Reuters Inexplicably high euro is crippling growth, says Oleg Deripaska Telegraph Wolfgang Schaeuble in Washington: You Don’t Get Europe WSJ Austerity lowers eurozone deficit in 2012 AP Underwater: The Netherlands Falls Prey to Economic Crisis Spiegel UK households feel even worse off as prices rise and pay slows Guardian Japan Inc. Hesitates to Invest as Yen Spurs Nikkei Rally BL China Housing Bubble? Watch These Cities CNBC
Austerity is a Consequence, not a Punishment Mauldin Fault Lines Noland Hard Money Man - Paul Volcker’s Economy Boston Review Part-Time Work Becomes Full-Time Wait for Better Job NYT Warning Signs For Market Are Becoming Ominous! Harding Before Housing Bubbles, There Was Land Fever Shiller Re-inflating the bubble NYP President Obama's Predictable Budget: More Spending, More Tax Increases Ferrara 10 secrets: Retire a spiritually happy millionaire Farrell Finding the best four-year market forecaster Hulbert Global Views Scotia Global Equity BMO Weekly Focus: Central banks turn softer on fragile global recovery Danske More Risk, Less Reward Schwab Bond Insights Daring to Knock on the Boardroom Door Morgenson Bernanke to Skip Jackson Hole Due to Scheduling Conflict Reuters Gold Panic!?! ZEAL A Technical View for Gold Swenlin What Is Pushing Down the Gold Price? Acting Man 12 (Misguided) Commandments of Gold Bugs Ritholtz Precious Metals Update Sprott (MP3) Commodities Update: Gold bubble eliminated Danske Copper Slumps Into Bear Market BL Monthly-pay dividend ETFs: Are you overexposed? G&M
Fitch downgrades UK credit rating Telegraph Why Japan is now land of the rising stocks MW Finance ministers endorse Japan's easy money USAT China Veers off Track… Temporarily BMO Housing loan risks still high Monitor - Japanese investor flows Danske Free to Spend, Developing Economies Recover Quicker Norris 7.0-magnitude quake hits Sichuan China Daily
Commodities Join Global Stocks Falling in Week, Gold Drops 7% BL Global shares rebound but worst week since June looms Reuters Substantial Evidence Of An Economic Slowdown Comstock The Price is Wrong – and So is Krugman Mises Retail Investors Are Being Fooled by Bernanke: Biderman Yahoo Mark Carney: UK is a 'crisis country' along with the eurozone and Japan Guardian The Pharaoh’s Dream Bosomworth Growth Scare Puplava Attack of the Locusts - Part II Long The Excel Depression Krugman EB - Chapman Oh no, they are saying it’s different this time Saft One Man’s Currency Is Another Man’s Bet Norris What do you get when you combine evangelical fervor with leverage and rising speculation? A meaningful market correction is coming, charts suggest G&M The Great Yield Chase Morningstar
Wall Street Guys Always Make the Best Villains Weil Blackstone ends pursuit of Dell: sources Reuters Gold slide flashes warning signs for global economy Reuters Some are even talking about the possibility the United States could head back into recession... Gold: Speculative traders blamed for price plunge Telegraph Gold Wipes $560 Billion From Central Banks as Equities Rally BL Gold Traders Split on Outlook as Asian Jewelers Buy: Commodities BL Goldenfreude: Skeptical Advisers Can't Help Gloating BL The case for owning gold has collapsed MW China Targets Greenland for Mining YALE Mark Carney: UK is a 'crisis country' along with the eurozone and Japan Guardian
EU promises less austerity as G20 debates debt Reuters Debunking austerity claims makes no difference to monks and zealots Pritchard EU and American funds boost FDI in China Shanghai Daily Housing loan risks still high China Daily Yuan Has Best Week in Six Months on PBOC’s Band-Widening Signals BL Is a Big Change in China’s Currency Policy Imminent? CNBC India Infrastructure Spending Bogs Down - Infrastructure Bottlenecks Asia Sentinel Cola Wars, China Style Caixin Risky 'Abenomics':Can Japan Jumpstart Its Economy? Spiegel Japan defends easy money gamble CNN “Third Arrow” ? “We aren’t intending to weaken the currency at all,” Kuroda Spanish Squatters Invoking Robin Hood Deter Investment BL The proliferation of illegal tenants threatens to complicate efforts to manage the bad bank... Canada's brokers demand answers on missing financial data G&M Canadians Now More Affluent Than Americans WSJ
One Boston bombing suspect dead, other still at large MW
Three Fed Presidents Say Disinflation May Prompt Easing BL Jobless Claims Little Changed as U.S. Job Market Stabilizes BL Central Bankers Say They Are Flying Blind FT G-20 Seeks to Curb Currency Weakening as Tool to Boost Trade BL Fed and Bank of Japan caused gold crash Pritchard Insight: Central bankers cast as superheroes with no script Reuters Central Banks’ Outdated Independence Project Syndicate America needs a new war or capitalism dies Farrell The End of Growth, Part 1 Das VIX Is About to Take Market on a Wild Ride CNBC A Falling Unemployment Rate Is Always Good BL Moody's may downgrade billions in muni debt MW High student debt is dragging down the U.S. economy BL Fed Inspector General Begins Audit of Early Minutes Release WSJ Meditation and the art of investment Saft Smith - Mish - Baker - Krugman - GreenbackD Your Choice: Jim Cramer or William F. Sharpe HP
Bank of America revenue drops, legal settlement stings Reuters Ebay Regulator Says Banks Still a Risk for Taxpayers Reuters SEC to Move Past Financial Crisis Cases Under New Chairman White BL Fertilizer-plant explosion injures 100 in Texas MW Madoff documentary 'In God We Trust' to premiere MSN Forget Cyprus. Imagine the Fed Selling Gold BL What Wall Street's Gossips Are Saying About George Soros Shorting Gold BI The gold rotation Finance Asia As Gold Crashes, One Contrarian Spots 'Buy' Sign CNBC As commodities crash, recession looms larger MSN Falling Commodity Prices Spell Trouble Asia Sentinel Cheaper Oil's Silver Lining Kass Commodity Snapshot BeSpoke
Cyprus Bailout in Danger as Opposition Grows CNBC German parliament approves Cyprus bailout Reuters Bank of England job will put Carney to the test Reuters The Poverty Lie:How Europe's Crisis Countries Hide their Wealth Spiegel Top German economists cut growth forecast Telegraph Debt pipeline builds as execution becomes more difficult Finance Asia China is repeating Japan’s economic mistakes Das Commentary: Wasteful investment and spending stunts growth Yuan hits high to dollar for 4th day SD China’s Home Prices Gain as Guangzhou Rises Most in 2 Years BL Equity limit raised in insurers to attract investors China Daily China Overtakes U.S. to Lead Green Energy Investments Daily Ticker How the China Development Bank is Rewriting the Rules of Finance: Debt, Oil and Influence Brookings Eight are charged by FCA over £5m landbanking fraud Inde This time is different - thanks to data manipulation Warner
Fed’s Beige Book: District-by-District Summary WSJ
Are Earnings Expectations Realistic? Mauldin World Economic Outlook IMF Yield Forecast Update - Central banks take major steps to fight crisis Danske SNB’s Danthine Says Economy Vulnerable to Credit Bubble BL Hyperactive Monetary Policy:The Good, the Bad and the Ugly PIMCO Reinhart and Rogoff's maths mistake Baker -- Reinhart-Rogoff Response to Critique WSJ Baker How America Can Beat Deflation, NYC Style RBroker Philadelphia Holds Closed Meeting With Wall Street BL Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics Guardian More Selling on the Way? Watch This Chart CNBC Central bank stimulus under the spotlight at IMF, G20 Reuters Rogers Says Gold Going `Much Higher' Over Decade BL Video Lurching Gold ETF Veers From Metal by Most in Year BL 12 Rules of Goldbuggery Ritholtz Roberts - Embry Sprott: Why a gold bug won’t throw in the towel G&M The gold price crash is further evidence of market rigging Telegraph The day gold died Weidner Gold’s fall not a harbinger of happy days Saft Gold May Help in the Apocalypse. Canned Food's Better BL Cheap gold stocks: Approach with caution G&M As global price slumps, "Abenomics" risks drive Japan gold bugs Reuters Gold's Fall Costs Paulson $1.5 Billion This Year FT
Bloomberg sues CFTC over cleared swaps margin rule Reuters Underlying the lawsuit is a looming battle between exchanges and investment banks over who rules the lucrative derivatives market... Intel foresees second quarter sales decline as PC market shrinks Reuters YHOO If Apple Breaks $419, the Stock Market Will Break TheStreet Authorities charge Swiss banker, attorney in tax probe Reuters
IMF cuts UK growth forecasts and urges Osborne to slow austerity Telegraph Capital Study: Chinese Investment in Europe Hits Record High Spiegel Hiding the World's Money Asia Sentinel No Need for Panic Over China Growth: CIC Head CNBC China Set to Deepen N. Korea Ties With New Bridge BL
Merk Gold and Currency Outlook Merk Central Banks Risk Independence With Continued Easing BL Fed's Plosser wants to take steps to ready for QE exit MW When Can We All Admit the Euro is an Economic Failure? Duy Hunting Witches Price Smith Silicon Valley Needs a Union Hutchinson HSBC says gold oversold, looks for “slow grind higher” G&M Gold Trades at Most Oversold Levels on Record G&M The Price of Gold Is Crashing. Here's Why BW Gold Slump Sparked by European Sale Concern, Goldman Says BL If gold is not a haven, what is? G&M Roberts: “The Fed used naked shorts in the paper gold market to offset the price effect of a rising demand for bullion possession...” Schiff As price of gold falls, conspiracy theories rise up G&M Maguire - LBMA Default Triggered Gold & Silver Takedown King World News CNBC: You're also seeing people selling energy profits to pay for metals losses. Indians Defer Gold Purchases, Betting Bear Market Set to Deepen BW Eric Sprott sells big chunk of Silver Trust units G&M IMM positioning - EUR shorts reduced in the wake of BoJ policy response Danske FX Forecast Update - April: Euro support to continue for another couple of months Danske Measures 'will boost solar panel companies' China Daily
Moody's lowers China outlook after Fitch downgrade Reuters China's fiscal revenue expands slower in Q1 Shnaghai Daily Soros likens China trusts to subprime Finance Asia Wage and Price Dynamics in a Large Emerging Economy: The Case of China via BP Commerzbank CEO:Bank Must Repay State Aid 'As Quickly as Possible’ Spiegel Research Euroland: Fact Book Portugal Danske Protecting the eurozone at all costs is undermining IMF’s validity Warner Country Income Shares per PPP Triple Crisis Dubai Supremacy Challenged as Global Banks Move Out BL
Gold Plummets to Two-Year Low WSJ Gold's 9.4% Drop on Comex Is Largest in 30 Years Gartman on Gold: We’ve Never Ever Seen Anything Like It Paulson Gold Bet Loses Almost $1 Billion: Chart of Day BL Exclusive: Regulator to fault JPMorgan over Madoff accounts Reuters Dow Skids 250, Nasdaq Drops 2%; Vix Spikes Nearly 40% CNBC U.S. Stocks Extend Losses After Boston Explosions Reuters Rising Costs Hammer US Home Builder Confidence CNBC New York Trader Pleads Guilty in $1B Apple Stock Scheme AP Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip (or, How to Blow a Bubble) Hussman Gleanings Saut & Brown 9 dark omens that show how U.S. growth will wither Farrell Fed Is the Villain in Krugman-Stockman Brawl Cohan This Is the Final Liquidation of the Gold Bug Swanson Gold sank further into bear-market territory on Monday Reuters Goldman Blows Through Year-End Gold Price Target Three Days After Telling Clients To Short BI God is Making Gold Crash to Test Your Faith RBroker Yves Low bullion prices lure shoppers Shnaghai Daily Shoppers swarmed into gold jewelry shops in Shanghai over the weekend The Next Housing Bubble National Interest Growing student debt EB Smith - Mish - Krugman Measuring the credit crunch VOX House prices shoot towards a ceiling Keen The bulls are roaring, house prices are rising, and all's well with the world. Or maybe not...
Is the Fed Handing Out Valuable Tips to Insiders? Big Picture Exclusive: Wells Fargo cuts approved list of money managers Reuters It hurts when the shamer is Jim Cramer MW Financial crisis caused by too many bankers taking cocaine, says former drugs tsar Telegraph 50 Experts on Parties, Management, Zombies, Self-Improvement, and More BW World's Top Commodity Traders Pocket $250 Billion FT
China growth risks in focus as first quarter data falls short Reuters China’s Global Currency: Lever for Financial Reform Brookings Ex-Soros Adviser Says BOJ’s Massive Easing to Backfire BL Challenges Confronting The Bank Of Japan’s Attempted Reflation Scotia Will It Work? BMO A Yen for Yield Could Rock U.S. REITs WSJ Europe's Austerity Era Could Be Coming to an End CNBC German 'Wise Men' push for wealth seizure to fund bail-outs Pritchard Portugal’s elder statesman calls for 'Argentine-style' default Pritchard Spanish resorts on Chinese wish list Inde Axa warns of house market ruin Inde Tensions rise on the Korean peninsula Schroders Quickview Chavez's ally Maduro wins in Venezuela, opposition protests Reuters
Things Have Gone Too Far Noland Assume a Perfect World Mauldin The Next Phase in the Precious Metals Bull Market Puplava Blind Faith In The Fed Is Not Enough Comstock Economy Bears Turn Bulls Seeing 3% GDP Growth in U.S. BL U.S. warns Japan over currency MW Treasury Strategy and survival: The game of global currency heats up G&M Why Home Prices Change (or Don’t) Shiller AAII Investor Sentiment Numbers Are Strange Swenlin Exclusive - G20 to consider cutting debt to well below 90 percent of GDP: document Reuters Gold Breaks Support – What Now? Acting Man GLD Holdings Plunge ZEAL Billionaire John Paulson Loses Over $300M as Gold Falls BL Big Banks Report Record Profits... While Lending Even Less BL Video "If Cyprus can break the gold market, then [there are] many reasons to be worried, with Slovenia, Hungary, Portugal, Spain and Italy in line" Understanding How Seasonal Market Strategies Work! Harding The Real Significance of the Bitcoin Boom (and Bust) TIME Krugman’s ‘Lust’ NY Sun Signs of Easier Money for Mortgages NYT
Note to New S.E.C. Chief: The Clock Is Ticking Morgenson American Dream Eludes With Student Debt Burden BL Big Banks Report Record Profits... While Lending Even Less HP Ex-Credit Suisse trader pleads guilty in U.S. mortgage case Reuters Nasdaq chiefs pay for Facebook fiasco Inde Low finance: Sexy shoe-shiners hit Wall Street MSN
Debt is Deferred Taxation & Why The Fed’s Expansion was not Inflationary WSJ Cyprus Facing Rough Ride: Finance Minister CNBC Cyprus must use gold sale profits to pay ECB Telegraph The Cypriot 'poison' is spreading Guardian Germany puts brakes on EU bank union with treaty call Reuters Troika concludes Greek bailout review, next aid tranche soon -source Reuters Yuan reaches record high against the US dollar SCMP Shanghai index sees 3rd straight weekly loss Shanghai Daily China's housing bubble Global News Paris vies to be yuan hub China Daily China’s Increasing Interest in Africa: Benign but Hardly Altruistic Brookings Balance-sheet repairs in European banks VOX
Retail Sales in U.S. Decline by Most in Nine Months BL Michigan Consumer Sentiment Declined in April to Nine-Month Low BL El-Erian: Cyprus Rescue Goes From Bad to Worse CNBC Bernanke Says Interest on Reserves Would Be Main Tightening Tool BL Cheap Mortgages Are Hiding the Truth About Home Prices BW Optimistic about 2013? Your brain is numb Farrell Ackman Warns of REIT Crackdown With Rising Conversions BL Fed’s Plosser calls for end to QE Finance Asia Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires BW “I’ve got a friend who forgot he had his computer mining Bitcoins in his garage—he checked and it’s worth about $12 million today” The elusive party, codenamed "Bitcoinbillionaire", gave away around $12,000 worth of the currency over eight hours to 13 other Redditers, seemingly selected at random, then signed off with a quote from libertarian politician Ron Paul: "It's no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking." Telegraph Trading in Bitcoin Halted at Largest Exchange CNBC Despite the drop, bitcoin is still up more than 800 percent year-to-date Krugman vs. Stockman Whitney Gold- The Rodney Dangerfield Asset of The 21st Century Grandich Schiff on Gold Who Makes Up the “Working Poor” in America? WSJ
JPMorgan Analysts Say Big Investment Banks Are ‘Uninvestable’ BL The Hysteria Over Inside Information Weil Saft Analysts discuss paradigm shift: breaking up banks Reuters Ex-FDIC Chair: 'Too Big To Fail' May Be Over HP Manhattan Apartment Rents Near Peak as Gains Accelerate BL Buy natural gas, Jeremy Grantham says G&M Homes are not as affordable as you think CBS Ex-KPMG auditor freed on $150,000 bond in tips-for-cash scheme Reuters Canadian Dollar Reaches 7-Week High on Commodity-Linked Demand BL Gold, Long a Secure Investment, Loses Its Luster NYT
Cyprus forced to find extra 6bn for bailout, leaked analysis shows G Confusion Grows The Euro Zone Crisis Is Back - On Multiple Fronts CNBC EMU plot curdles as creditors seize Cyprus gold reserves Pritchard “France Is On The Brink of A Secondary Depression” AA Merkel’s One-Time Ally Steinbrueck Forges Platform to Unseat Her BL BOJ's Kuroda: have taken all steps needed for inflation goal Reuters China Customs Official Apologizes for Incorrect Data BL Analysis: Yuan speculators muddle China's exports, complicating reform Reuters Forex purchases rise for 3rd straight month China Daily China’s Global Currency: Lever for Financial Reform Brookings Chinese banks extend more loans Shanghai Daily In Japan, Politics Propels a Stock Market Rally BW Pimco Sees Hyperactive Aussie Easing Aiding AAA Gains BL Royal Bank apologizes to employees over outsourcing move G&M Lawmaker drops bombshell: North Korea may have nuclear missiles CS Monitor N. Korea’s Retro Propaganda Calls U.S. Boiled Pumpkin BL
4 reasons you can’t trust earnings reports Farrell Jobless Claims Drop Affirms U.S. Labor Market Progress: Economy BL Why the Stock Market Goes Up As Jobs Go Nowhere FS Q2 2013 Global Wealth Perspectives Hahn Goldman, Citigroup Received Fed Minutes Early BL The release was “entirely accidental...“This was a list of professional contacts that one individual had” The Fed's Holmes-Moriarty Problem Baum Is the Federal Reserve breeding the next financial crisis? VOX Telling (Taper) Time PIMCO IMF chief says easy monetary policy should stay for now Reuters CDOs Are Back: Will They Lead to Another Financial Crisis? Wharton Harvard Economist:'The Crisis Isn't Over in the US or Europe' Spiegel Bitcoin Bubble Bursting in Real Time on the Internet PCMag Bitcoin Bounces Back After Crashing Nearly 60% CNBC Obama budget requests U.S. funding shift for IMF Reuters Japan at War Krasting Duy - EB - Cramer - Smith - Krugman - Mayo A 1998 danger signal resurfaces MW
Worst PC sales drop in history CNN Honda, Nissan and Toyota in mass recall CNN For $168 Billion We Should Get a Better Return Baum Fed Finally Admits Student Debt Is A Huge Problem HP Stockman has blown some bubbles, too MW The Bullet Bubble: Is Ammo The Next Bitcoin, Or Gold In The 1970s? Forbes Gold losses seen limited on Cyprus bullion sale plan Reuters “The bigger concern for the bullion market may be the potential for other distressed euro zone nations to liquidate a portion of their gold reserves”
For Japan's loan-starved banks, BOJ's big bang carries new risk Reuters Tobin Tax is madness for Europe, and economic war against Britain Pritchard Greek unemployment tops 27 percent to hit new record in January Reuters Official: Britain is more credit worthy than China Warner Investor George Soros: Germany Must Accept Eurobonds or Leave Euro Spiegel Wolfgang Münchau Germany's auto industry: Export engine stuttering DB Research Austrian finance minister turns spotlight on UK, U.S. in bank secrecy row Reuters Philippines Could Be Crippled by New FDI Rules Asia Sentinel
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