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
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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 showsConfusion 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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