World™s Richest Lose $33 Billion This Week BL
Wall Street Logs Worst Week in 2012 Reuters  Schwab Market Update
Facebook Falls Back to IPO Price WSJ  Nasdaq Glitches Disrupt Debut
Europe thinks the unthinkable on Greece   Reuters
Facebook™s Years of Private Trades Revealed CNBC 'Facebook is over-hyped'
Fed May Prefer Another Twist to Adding Assets BL
Facebook IPO Draws Highest Ever Retail Demand CNBC
Irish Banks May Tip State Into Bailout 2 BL
More Turmoil to Come, Buy Real Assets: Jim Rogers CNBC
Liquidity Risk and Credit in the Financial Crisis FRBSF
What Dow Theory says about correction Hulbert
Global banks see market rally on Greek exit Pritchard
Betting that world authorites will flood the international system with liquidity...
Will the Fed and the ECB Put in Place New Financial Accommodation? NT
Gold Sets For Rally As Fed And ECB Rev Up The Printing Press Forbes
The Bernanke Bust - European deposit flow and the money supply Pollaro
Forget Greece, China Is Biggest Risk: Marc Faber CNBC
Tim Geithner On Dimon: Federal Reserve Banks Have 'Perception Problem' HP
Apocalypse Fairly Soon Krugman - Peter Grandich - Smith Q&A - Baum
JPMorgan Unit Has $100 Billion of Risky Bonds FT LTCM. Amaranth. JP Morgan?
“Two years ago they kind of kicked off [renewed market activity in risky assets].  It was like they provided some kind of ‘philanthropic™ service to the market to encourage it to get going.”
Is Dimon™s ‘Stupid™ Defense a Smart Move? D. Gross
Facebook Prices IPO at Record Value   WSJ
Take this Facebook IPO and shove it MW
Facebook Is a 'Lottery Ticket': Analyst CNBC
Ben Graham™s Net-net … Alive, well & working in 2012 Pabria
HP Considers Cutting at Least 25,000 Jobs Reuters
JPMorgan's Dimon says will testify before Congress Reuters
Was Ackman really needed to shake up CP? G&M
Dollar-Wary China Soon To Be World's Top Gold Buyer Forbes
Silver trading active in first week Shanghai Daily
Spain beset by bank crisis, downgrades, bond pressure Reuters
Spanish Banks Downgraded as Borrowing Costs Soar Reuters
“This unfavorable trend looks set to remain firmly in place ... Ultimately,  this ratcheting up of yields will likely require some form of outside  intervention.”
Banks' Rising Bad Loans Add to Spanish Troubles CNBC
'Vulture funds' circle as Greece fears grow Inde
Kenneth Dart...was handed an estimated €400m (£320m) cheque from Greece this  week, after successfully calling the country's bluff and refusing to take part in the restructuring...
The Greek run Economist
It is not a good idea for Greece to leave the euro. But it is time to prepare for its departure
The Hayek Effect: The Political Consequences of Planned Austerity American
Why China™s RMB exodus IS the story FTA
Only reforms can revive China™s growth Xie
China Car Dealers Struggle as Stockpiles Rise BL
Dealerships for Honda, Chery, and Geely carried more than 45 days of inventory as  of the end of April, exceeding the threshold that foreshadows  debilitating price cuts...
Even $3T Can™t Buy China Love or Good PR Pesek
BRIC Bear Market Not Cheap Enough for de Vaulx Finding Zero Buys BW
Bovespa Enters Bear Market as Global Economy Concern Deepens BL
Iran attack decision nears, Israeli elite locks down Reuters


Gold™s hasty demise from safe haven to risky asset G&M
Buffett's Berkshire to Buy Media General Papers AP
Mortgage Rates Hit Fresh Lows: 30-Year at 3.79% TheExchange
U.S. Jobless Claims Showed No Improvement Last Week BL
Analysis: U.S. bond bulls not ready to call off the charge Reuters
Will This Decade Be More Grim Than the 1930s? CNBC
America is getting close to this point now – every injection of stimulus having a smaller and shorter-lived effect than its predecessor with some  estimates now indicating that each $1 of stimulatory input results in only 12 cents of additional output.
Fitch Says Global Banks May Need $556B Reuters
JP Morgan, TBTF and ZIRP Saft Salmon - EB - Keen - Smith - Reich
Supply-Siders™ Case for Austerity Carries No Shame Shlaes
Is Greece the Lehman of 2012? La Monica
A Harvard MBA's radical quest to erase his debt Fortune
Luxury Homes Spur Bidding Wars in Los Angeles BL
Even properties in need of extensive renovation are being fought over by shoppers who expect to resell them for more after a remodel or rebuild.
Foreclosures Plunge to Five-Year Low in U.S. Recovery: Mortgages BL
JPMorgan's Trading Losses Have Jumped at Least 50% NYT
4 hard lessons of 2008 Dimon must accept   Farrell
JPMorgan's future losses at the mercy of an obscure index Reuters
For the Rich, Diamonds are the New Stocks CNBC
Ahead of Facebook I.P.O., a Skeptical Madison Ave. Dealbook
India Set to Overtake US as Facebook™s Largest Market CNBC
Insight: Peak, pause or plummet? Shale oil costs at crossroads Reuters
China Q1 gold demand hits record, bucks global fall- WGC Reuters
WGC: “Central banks across the globe continued the now established trend of net purchasing with demand in Q1 2012 reaching 80.8t”
“The hope is that a departure from the eurozone would happen over a weekend, allowing each of the UK's major banks to deploy hundreds of people to switch over computer systems to allow them to handle the Greek drachma  again....”
Eurozone banks nearly collapsed, says ECB director Guardian
Exclusive: ECB stops operations with some Greek banks Reuters
The ECB only conducts its refinancing operations with solvent banks.
Cost of Greek exit from euro put at $1tn Guardian
Spain could be locked out of the markets, says Mariano Rajoy   Telegraph
'If We Leave the Euro, Everything Will Be Worse' Spiegel
Flight of the euros - Any vague “connection” to Europe is enough to get you hammered:
David Cameron: “Either Europe has a committed, stable, successful eurozone … or we are in uncharted territory.”
Eurozone is 'tearing itself apart', says Mervyn King Telegraph
Bankia shares plunge again on worries over finances BBC
China's assets in euros 'must be protected' China Daily
China consumers less willing to spend in first quarter: Nielsen Reuters
Net lending by big-4 Chinese banks almost zero Shanghai Daily
Money is fleeing China Macro Business
China's US$5.8b subsidy scheme to boost consumption Shanghai Daily
Official: Yuan much more convertible China
China's currency is just around the corner from being fully convertible and the economy's capital account is already far more convertible than outside institutions give it credit for...
HK willing to promote worldwide use of the yuan Shanghai Daily
Welfare recipients hit another record Yomiuri
Has Canada Contracted Dutch Disease? WSJ


JPMorgan Trade Fallout 'Could Get a Lot Worse': Whitney CNBC
Several on FOMC Said Easing May Be Needed on Faltering BL Minutes
Facebook IPO Triggers Retail Investor Craze Reuters
Shareholders Sue JPMorgan Chase Over Trading Loss Reuters
New Home Construction in U.S. Exceeded Forecasts in April BL
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Grandich
Low interest rates pressuring US bank margins DB Research
FX Forecast Update: Summer headwind against the euro Danske Yield Forecast Update
The real Dimon Principle Hulbert
Why We're All J.P. Morgan Now Arends
Crossroads Aleph  Blame Ben - Dr. HB - Sheehan - Panzner - Spitzer
What will a Greek default mean for you? G&M
The Clash of Generations Kotlikoff and Burns
The Global Economy: What the Next Three Years Will Look Like El-Erian
Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' Taibbi
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Buys 10 Million GM Shares CNBC
Facebook Boosts Share Offering by 25% to Raise as Much as $16B BL
Regulators Snooze While JPMorgan Lights the Fuse Weil
Hedge Funds Worry About JPMorgan Probe CNBC
Tight rules would not have stopped JPMorgan losses Das
Obama has assets in JPMorgan accounts: White House Reuters
Gates™s $4 billion foray in global family planning Farrell
Gold Tumbles Into Bear Market BL
The “shaky hands” will continue to be shaken out of the market Barron™s
Gold Price Can Rise Once Its Euro Correlation Fades WSJ
Checking the Vaults - Germans Fret about Their Foreign Gold Reserves Spiegel
Are the bars really where they are supposed to be?
U.S. energy independence is possible USAT
Counting the output from Canada and Mexico, North America is "the new Middle East," Citigroup analysts declare in a recent report
Oversupply in platinum market on recycling Shanghai Daily
Fears of US farmland bubble echo history FT (via Google)
Finding Sources of Rare Earths beyond China NCPA
“You cannot keep on milking a cow without feeding it.”
Grexit will cost 155bn for Germany, France ... Pritchard  Mish
Foreign holders of €422bn of Greek debt warned to brace for "killer losses"
Lynn: “Germany will realize the risks involved, eat its words and come up with a mega bailout.”  Merkel: I Want Greece to Stay
Greek Central Bank Warns President of Anxiety BL
Greece on brink of collapse Telegraph  Merkel and Hollande spell out Greek fear FT
Greece™s predicament: Lessons from Argentina VOX
Unscrambling the Euro Eggs Krasting
Greeks Withdraw Nearly $1 Billion From Local Banks CNBC
Italy's banks shaken as economic slump deepens Pritchard
European Finance Ministers Reach Compromise NYT
The agreement was required for Europe to implement new global rules on banking standards known as Basel III...
US to keep duties on Chinese foundry coke China Daily
Vancouver™s real estate swoon deepens G&M
Underwater Hotel to Be Dubai's Latest Extravagance BL

China Buys More U.S. Treasuries in March BL TIC

High-Speed Trading: Profit - and Danger - in Milliseconds CNBC
FBI opens probe into JPMorgan loss Reuters  Geithner
12 year old delivers scathing critique of Canadian banks G&M
Greece Makes Repayment on 435M Euro Bond BL
Greece Calls for New Elections After Failed Bid to Form Government BL
Homebuilder Confidence in U.S. at 5-Year High BL
Retail Sales Increase at Slowest Pace of Year BL
Economic Resilience Is Firewall of the U.S. Economy Bangalore
Game Over? Some Pros See 20% Drop in Stocks Ahead CNBC
The Fed: Mend It or End It? Paul
Investors are shunning the stock market, and who can blame them? NYT
California targets health, public workers to fix budget hole Reuters
The California economy is the ninth largest in the world and just smaller than Italy's economy.
JPM Chase Chairman, Jamie Dimon, the Whale Man, and Glass-Steagall Nomi Prins
A whale in the waters of negative yields Gross (via Google)
The European Farce Ferguson Rogers - Baker - Panzner - Hudson - Kass - Yardeni - Jubak
Student loans: The next bubble NYP
The Crisis of Interventionism Mises
IMM Positioning - Investors buy USD: EUR oversold Danske
Red Flags on Bets Said to Go Unheeded by Chase Bosses NYT
At JPMorgan, the Perfect Hedge Remains Elusive Sorkin
JPMorgan's Dimon to Face Calls to Split Top Roles Reuters
Obama says JPMorgan loss shows need for Wall Street reform Reuters
Romney: JPMorgan Chase Loss Is Part Of Free Market Risk   Reuters
Facebook hikes IPO range to raise $12.1 bln: source Reuters
SEC targets shell-company fraud USAT
With bear market, are glory days over for commodities? G&M
Why Gold Is No Longer a Safe Haven for Investors CNBC
Ratings cut on 26 Italian banks BBC
If Greece -- and this is the will of the great majority - - wants to stay in the euro, then they have to accept the conditions Schaeuble
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Time to Admit Defeat:  Greece Can No Longer Delay E-Zone Exit
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Greece Faces Big Debt Payment Tuesday: Now What?
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Independent: The "Grexit" turmoil sent billions flooding into low-risk assets
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Investors rush to buy Kate Middleton's gold coin to counter the euro volatility
Euro zone finance ministers dismiss Greek exit "propaganda" Reuters
Viewpoints: What if Greece exits euro? BBC
Warner: ...does anyone believe Greece capable of managing such a transition well given the positively heroic scale of mismanagement to date?
China Growth Seen at 13-Year Low by Pimco BL
China January-April FDI inflow at $37.9 billion, outlook dark Reuters
The longest period of declining inflows since the depths of the global financial crisis and a sign of the external headwinds facing the economy.
Tide Turning in Japan Deflation Fight: BOJ BL
Russia Stocks in Bear Market as RTS Tumbles 20% From Year High BL

Dancing at the Edge of a Cliff Hussman
Dimon geezers Price
Waving the White Flag Mauldin
World edges closer to deflationary slump as money contracts in China Pritchard
Investors, time to face the truth Fleck
Another summer sag for stocks? Brimelow Summer Crash?
Why We Regulate Krugman  EB - Sober Look - Keenan - Panzner - Keen - Epstein - Smith
Is the Government Backing a New Housing Bubble? Fiscal Times
House Votes to Cut Food Stamps BL No Recovery for Single Moms WSJ
Harrisburg Ex-Mayor Left City Near Bankrupt BL
The impossible hope of an end to austerity VOX
The Fear That JPMorgan Might Not Be Alone   BL Video
Trading Loss at JPMorgan Claims a Top Executive NYT
Elizabeth Warren: Jamie Dimon Should Resign From New York Fed Board HP
JPMorgan Unit's Whole London Staff at Risk BL
Drew Survived, Ascended Through Mergers WSJ (via Google)
The Core Problems With JPMorgan's Failed Trades   Reuters
Banks Tread a Fine Line in Trading Dealbook
Wozniak to Buy Facebook Regardless of Price BL
Yahoo suffers another setback with CEOs dismissal G&M
Investment Risks Power the U.S. Economy (Pt 1) Conrad
Speculators cut bets on a rally in commodities by the most since November BL
A Rare Speed Bump in Commodities' Long Run   WSJ (via Google)
Oil prices could double by 2022, IMF warned Guardian IMF Paper
The energy wars heat up ATimes
Wheat Feeding to Decline Over Next Year AGWeb
Italy, Spain See Borrowing Costs Rise at Auctions Reuters
EU leaders set for showdown Guardian
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DM: The fate of the Euro could be decided in the next 48 hours
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Greece Nears 'Moment Of Truth' - Crunch time
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Time is running out very quickly...
Euro Officials Begin to Weigh Greek Exit BL
Greece: A nation on the brink Inde
Euro zone turmoil boosts London property stampede Reuters
The reason Greeks are coming is very simple...Greece is screwed, there are no jobs and it has been run by crooks."
The final death throes of the euro Bootle
Europe's woes hit global demand for luxury homes Reuters
Spiegel: Spain's banks are now amongst the greatest problem children in the euro zone.
Spain short-term debt costs to stay high after bank plan Reuters
Output falling, euro zone heads for recession G&M
Analysis: China growth risks signal need for fiscal action Reuters
Chinas economy has yet to bottom MW
Private loans in Wenzhou fall 30% on credit crisis Shanghai Daily
Hedge Fund Industry Experiences New Boom in Asia FT


Wall Street Week Ahead: Stocks face choppy seas of bank woes, uncertainty Reuters
China Central Bank Cuts Reserves to Boost Economy Reuters
Risk Off Gains a Foothold Noland
Why it's time for higher interest rates Bair
The Greater Fool Theory Cornerstone
Plunging Commodity Prices Are Ominous For Stocks Harding
Is the 3-Year Bull Market Rolling Over? Nasdaq
Fed's Repression Meets Investors' Revulsion Forsyth (Complete via Google)
So why is the broad swath of investors fleeing attractively valued stocks when the alternatives are bonds with paltry yields and cash returning nil and both not keeping pace with inflation?
Cycle Check Swenlin
How to play nice with the bears of summer MW
The wrecking ball of hidden inflation MyBudget Kass
Weekly Focus: The Greek tragedy continues - Global Views - Global Equity
California Deficit Swells to $16 Billion, Governor Says BL
Greek Chaos Threatens World Economy-And Obama Cassidy
At JPMorgan, the Ghost of Dinner Parties Past Morgenson
Jamie Dimon: Trading Losses Are Not Life-Threatening CNBC
Volcker Rule Proponents Say JPMorgan Loss Bolsters Case BL
JP Morgan's $2bn loss was an accident waiting to happen Telegraph
Senior executives at JP Morgan were given repeated warnings about the  controversial unit responsible for a shock $2bn (1.2bn) trading loss at the bank, it can be disclosed.
JPMorgan Cut by Fitch as S&P Reduces Outlook to Negative BL
Wall Street: It's Just Kids Playing With Dynamite Blodget
What Jamie Dimon Doesn™t Know Is Plain Scary Weil
In JPMorgan Chase Trading Bet, Its Confidence Yields to Loss - The Bet That Blew Up
JPMorgan's trading debacle: why $2 billion is just the start Fortune
What Happens When the Next Too-Big-Too-Fail Bank Goes Under? TIME
SEC Madoff Report Called Into Question BL
Is Europe on a Cross of Gold? Eichengreen
Euro Parity With the Dollar? US, China Better Watch Out FT
German Finance Minister Dares Greece Exit BL
Greek Tragedy NYT
European Warning Over Spanish Deficit NYT
U.S. fiscal cliff to rival euro crisis looms over Canada TStar
Vancouver Housing: Bumpy Landing Ahead BMO  Toronto vs Vancouver


Greece Socialist Leader Fails to Form New Government AP
Facebook's Saverin Gives Up US Citizenship before IPO BL
Bond market madness Hulbert
Nothing Left for a Vanquished Virtuous Cycle Xie
Europe and America have run out of monetary tricks and emerging-market support, leaving their economies on the brink
Don't Ignore The 'Fiscal Cliff Comstock
Fiscal cliff poses a Greek moment for the U.S. MW
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Sell in May, and Go Away,' Strikes Again Dorsch
The European Subtext Sheehan  Jesse - Saft - BeSpoke - Panzner
U.S. deficit looms large despite April surplus AP
Six ways to fight the coming bear bond market Reuters
Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People Taibbi
Sprott keeps faith that gold, silver havent lost their shine G&M
Moodys Issues Capital Warning to Global Banks FT
SEC Opens Investigation Into JPMorgans $2 Billion Loss NYT
CFTC Said to Review JPM Derivatives Trades BL
Does Jamie Dimon Even Know What Hedging Risk Is? azizonomics
J.P. Morgan is Exhibit A for Volcker Rule need MW
JPMorgan Reports $2 Billion Loss on Synthetic Positions BL
This portfolio has proven to be riskier, more volatile and less effective as an economic hedge than the firm previously believed
Others in the Spotlight After JPMorgans Big Trading Loss Dealbook
He [Dimon] said the bank has an extensive review underway and has already found many errors and bad judgment. 
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Whale of a Call: Dimons Notable Quotes WSJ
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Breaking Up Four Big Banks Economix
Facebook IPO Demand Weaker Than Forecast BL Already oversubscribed: source
Dewey & LeBoeuf pension plans seized; faces lawsuit Reuters
Sony Falls to 31-Year Low on Missed Estimates BL
The gay marriage windfall CNN
Gas prices: Down and headed lower CNN
Gloss dims on silver's debut Shanghai Daily
On a wing and a prayer: Spain bank deal 'doomed' Inde
Europes Achilles heel Economist
Amid growing risk of a Greek exit, the euro zone has yet to face up to the task of saving the single currency itself
Euro-zone contagion - If Greece goes... Economist
Europe's nuclear brinkmanship with Greece is a lethal game Pritchard
Euro Economy to Shrink as Spain, Italy Re-Enter Recession BL
China April Inflation Up 3.4%, Above Forecast Reuters  Brakes hit trade growth
Japan Will Follow Europe With a Debt Crisis: Kyle Bass CNBC
Hong Kong Set for Slowest Growth Since 2009 BL
Doomsday scenarios spread about No. 4 reactor at Fukushima plant Asahi

Faber Sees '87 Crash If Stocks Rally With No QE3 BL
Speech by Chairman Bernanke on banks and lending: the state of play FED
Greece's Socialist Leader: We Want Euro - But Not Austerity CNBC
Spain's Potential Bank Losses Fivefold Greater, Group Says BL
Trade Gap in U.S. Widens More Than Forecast BL U.S. Jobless Claims Decline BL
Safer debt soars across world as euro storm builds Reuters
Investors are willing to accept returns of next to nothing in exchange for shelter...
Post-Financial Crisis How do the Major Economic Players Stack Up? NTrust
Consumer Credit Worse Than You Think Bianco
Hedge funds head for big banana skin Hendry
Time for 'Helicopter Drops' by Major Central Banks: Citi CNBC Rajan
Are central banks creating the wrong kind of money? FT
Bernanke Gets 75% Approval From Investors in Global Poll BL
European Central Bank Leveraged Like Lehman: Author CNBC
Fed clears China's first US bank takeover AFP
Governments Snake Oil Wont Cure Jobs Ailment Baum
Keynesianism Is The New Black Death Forbes
Dont Fight the Last War The Absolute Return Letter
Lessons from the Battlefields of Risk Management
A Heady Time for Muni Bonds BW
How venture capital is broken Salmon Smith - Rubin - Mirhaydari - Reich - Sprott - BeSpoke
An Alternative to Alternatives Richard Bernstein
An Audacious Promise: The Moral Case For Capitalism Manhattan Institute
Shadow economies around the world: Model-based estimates VOX
Fed Foe Ron Paul Breakfasts With Bernanke at Central Bank WSJ
So did Wednesdays meeting overturn any deep-set beliefs?
Einhorn and Ron Paul Tackle the Fed FOX
Cisco outlook underwhelms, economy fears persist Reuters
Krispy Kreme puts investors in a hole   MW
The 'Secret Bank Bailout' Is Neither Secret Nor a Bailout Atlantic
Everyone's Problem: Looking Beyond the Wal-Mart Bribery Case Wharton
Q&A: Why oil's slide is only just beginning G&M
Fear Miners Set to Fall Off 'Supercycle' FT
With metals prices down more than 20% from last years highs, could the supercycle be over?
Chinese drill for oil in troubled waters FT
CIC Stops Buying Europe Government Debt on Crisis Concern BL
Merkel says "growth on credit" would deepen crisis Reuters
Europe's delusional search for growth Warner
Spain takes over Bankia to fight crisis Reuters
Since the banking crisis began, Spain has bailed out seven smaller savings banks, but the Bankia rescue is by far the biggest...
Spain Underplaying Bank Losses Faces Ireland's Fate BL
Get ready for the Spanish bailout Roubini
Greece Euro-Exit Debate Goes Public Amid Concerns BL
Europe Eyes Shift from Austerity to Growth Spiegel
Special Report: Europe Struggles to Hold Itself Together Wharton
China trade data show surprising weakness MW
China's inflation eases, but worries continue China Daily
Sales of used homes decline Shanghai Daily
Asia Currency Options Least Bearish in Year on Yuan Risk BL
Will decade be an economic rerun of the 1970s? G&M
RBI curbs exporter FX holdings to lift rupee Reuters
Incessant government meddling pushing Brazil back into bear mode DJ