Frontrunning: March 17
Putin Is No Mad Man to Russians as Power Play Trumps Economy (BBG)Alibaba picks U.S. for IPO; in talks with six banks for lead roles (Reuters)Russia hearts selling German energy: Billionaire Fridman’s...
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USA: Economic Thumbs-Down
Follow ZeroHedge in Real-Time on FinancialJuiceAs Putin rejoices at his new-found wealth in Crimea after it was annexed (in a duff referendum where there was either ‘now’ or ‘later’ up for grabs to...
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Australia says nothing spotted in search for plane (AP)Putin looks to Asia as West threatens to isolate Russia (Reuters)China Billionaire Builds Metals With Dreyfus, Glencore Hires (BBG)China Beige...
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One-Ship Ukraine Navy Defies Russia to the End (WSJ)Crimea-Induced Trading Surge Stokes Moscow Exchange Rally (BBG)Moscow says Ukraine stops Russian crews disembarking in Kiev (Reuters)New images show...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 28
Crimea Resolution Backed by U.S. Barely Gets UN Majority (BBG)Russian Buildup Stokes Worries (WSJ)As reported here first: China’s Developers Face Shakeout as Easy Money Ends (BBG)U.S. House Poised to...
View ArticleWest Desperate To Break Russia-China Axis, But "Money Talks" Straight To Putin
Among other things, there is one major obstacle to the West's "costs" imposition on Vladimir Putin and his Russian economy - China. So far, a Xi Jinping has described, China has been a "sleeping lion"...
View ArticleBuy-To-Rent Is Officially Dead In California
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,I’ve chronicled the saga of “buy-to-rent” for well over a year now. From some of its most exuberant phases to its now epic retreat (investment...
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An App for Your Country?
By: Chris Tell at http://capitalistexploits.at/The world's gone "tech crazy" once again. ZeroHedge.com recently ran a great article showing the buying spree in the new "Dotcoms."I've nicked the graphic...
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The Housing Bubble Is Still Raging In These 20 "Buy-To-Rent" Cities, And...
Earlier today we reported that the nearly two year long scramble by Wall Street asset managers to gobble up distressed and other properties, most often subsidized by the government using various...
View ArticleFrontrunning: April 3
Russia says expects answers on NATO troops in eastern Europe (Reuters)Dealers say GM customer anxiety rising, sales may take hit (Reuters)China Unveils Mini-Stimulus Measure (WSJ)Londoners Priced Out...
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The Chinese Are Buying Large Chunks Of Land Across America (And Zillow Is Now...
Has the United States ever experienced a time when a foreign nation has attempted to buy up so much of our land all at once? As Michael Snyder details below, it appears the Chinese are on a real estate...
View ArticleFrontrunning: April 4
Nato chief defends eastern advance (FT)Russia looks east as it seeks to rebalance trade interests (FT)Plane from Guinea briefly quarantined in Paris after Ebola scare (AFP)US attacks Japan’s stance on...
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ABN Amro Ex-CEO Found Dead
A mere two weeks since former JPMorgan banker, Kenneth Bellando jumped to his death, Bloomberg reports that the former CEO of Dutch Bank ABN Amro (and his wife and daughter) were found dead at their...
View ArticleZillow Study Shows 1 In 3 Homes Are Unaffordable, But Vacation-Home Sales Are...
Submitted by Mike Krieger fo Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,In a further demonstration of the socially destructive and ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, we see that the affluent are buying...
View ArticleHot Air Hisses Out Of Housing Bubble 2.0: Even Two Middle-Class Incomes...
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterAs home prices have soared in cities around the country, sales have cratered. The weather has been blamed, though the weather...
View ArticleFrontrunning: April 8
Russia's Gazprom says Ukraine did not pay for gas on time (Reuters)Ukraine Moves to Keep Control in East (BBG)Banks Set to Report Lower Earnings as Debt Trading Slumps (BBG)More DeGeners and Obama...
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Why Bitcoin is Important
By: Chris Tell at http://capitalistexploits.at/“Bitcoin is the anti currency”; “Bitcoin, the currency of the future”; the “currency of the resistance”; “Bitcoin is a Fad”; “Bitcoin is a fraud”;...
View ArticleFrontrunning: April 9
Top Medicare Doctor Paid $21 Million in 2012, Data Shows (BBG)Separatists build barricades in east Ukraine, Kiev warns of force (Reuters)Greece launches sale of five-year bond (FT)High-Frequency Trader...
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La Quindy Crush
Oops. Another day, another failed IPO. Private equity group Blackstone's darling La Quinta IPO'd at $17 last night raising $650 million (at a multiple of 47 times last year's earnings). This was...
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Asian Data Double Whammy Sparks FOMC-Exuberance Unwind
All the gains that Japan's Nikkei 225 futures had achieved in the post-FOMC-Minutes exuberance have been lost as first Japan (huge miss in machine orders) and then China (huge miss in imports and...
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