Frontrunning: May 12
Hillary and Me: The 2008 campaign was a nightmare. Will 2016 be as bad? (Politico)What Timothy Geithner Really Thinks (NYT)Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine self-rule vote (Reuters)Race for AIG's...
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The Writing Is On The Wall... And We Should All Read It
The "Shiller P/E" is much in the news of late, and, as ConvergEx's Nick Colas suggests, with good reason. It shows that U.S. equity valuations are pushing towards crash-worthy levels. This measure of...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 13
EU Court: Google Must Remove Certain Links on Request (WSJ)... people have right to be forgotten on Internet (Reuters)Harsh weather: German Investor Confidence Drops for Fifth Straight Month (BBG)More...
View ArticleSEC Official Claims Over 50% Of Private Equity Audits Reveal Criminal Behavior
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Last week, Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism penned a fantastic piece leveraging a talk by SEC official Drew Bowden. Mr. Bowden heads the SEC’s...
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“Global Bubble ... Ends Very Badly” Warns 'Death Of Money' Rickards
DAILY PRICE Today’s AM fix was USD 1,303.75, EUR 953.73and GBP 777.85 per ounce. Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,300.25, EUR 948.33 and GBP 775.20 per ounce.Gold rose $12.80 or 0.99% yesterday...
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Cuba – Por Que Hay Un Bloqueo
By: Chris Tell at http://capitalistexploits.at/Last night as I was playing a board game with my kids. To make it more interesting we were "bending the rules". Each player was allowed to make a new rule...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 16
Bank of England sees 'no housing bubble' (Independent)‘If the euro falls, Europe falls’ (FT)India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win (Reuters)Global Growth Worries Climb (WSJ)Bitcoin...
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Not Satisfied With Taking Over America's Rental Market, Blackstone Now Takes...
After losing $4 billion as both a lender and equity-holder, Deutsche Bank has decided now is the time to sell The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The lucky buyer of the 3000-room hotel and casino... none...
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Payment Processors, Patents and a Dollop of Healthy Paranoia
Reggie Middleton discussion UltraCoin at the 2014 FinTech conference at Dechert LLP.Coindesk asks "Do Patent Filings from eBay and Western Union Pose a Threat to Bitcoin?" I feel the question is in...
View ArticleDavid Rosenberg And Goldman Sachs Refuse To Pay $250,000 To Listen To A...
As we have reported frequently over the past few months, the 'with and wisdom' not to mention the 'foresight' of Chairsatan Emeritus Ben "subprime is contained" Bernanke is now available for a fee. A...
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Margin Compression Is Coming in the Payment Processing Space As $100 Million...
After an interesting discussion with those in my laboratory, I've decided to apply the forensic analysis team from BoomBustBlog to the privately funded companies in the Bitcoin space. See my post from...
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Echoes Of 1937 In The Current Economic Cycle
Submitted by Brendan Brown via the Ludwig von Mises Institute,It is not too early to ask how the present US business cycle expansion, already more than five years old, will end. The history of the last...
View Article"The Poster Child Of Too Much Money Chasing Deals"
Three weeks after the formation of his company which "plans to" (as opposed to "is doing") "buy underdeveloped land and rill shale wells," 27-year-old Mark Hiduke raised $100 million from a local...
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Gotta Keep Dancing – Trading Of Penny Stocks Soars To Record
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,It seems that no market tops until the bag has been fully passed to retail muppets, and we appear to be in the process of that happening right now....
View ArticleThe (Other) Truth About The Financial Crisis: 10 "Geithner-Sized" Myths Exposed
Excerpted from Toxic bankers, captive regulators: Everything you think about the housing market is wrong; authored by Jennifer Taub, originally posted at The Salon,After the crisis, many expected that...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 27
Vietnam, China trade accusations after Vietnamese fishing boat sinks (Reuters)SEC Set to Spur Exchange Trading (WSJ)Bank of Japan quietly eyes stimulus exit (Reuters)Japan Risks Low Growth Even as...
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Four Reasons to Keep an Eye on North Korea
By: Kevin Virgil at: http://capitalistexploits.at/Last week I wrote about the possibilities of increasing change in North Korea, and its importance in the complex Northeast Asian region, which is...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 29
Snowden: 'no relationship' with Russian government (Reuters)Bond Surge Worldwide Drives Index Yield to One-Year Low (BBG)Shares flirt with record highs on ECB easing bets (Reuters)Goldman Shuns Bonds...
View ArticleAnD NoW FoR ANoTHeR IMPoRTaNT MeSSaGe PReaCHeD To You…BuY MiCHaeL BLooMDouCHe...
. Michael Bloomdouche is obviously set for offshore Bermuda life. But there is no shortage of retired statist $hitheads who are less fortunate, such as war criminal collaborator Condoleeza Rice...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 2
Unstoppable $100 Trillion Bond Market Renders Models Useless (BBG)Afghan president fumes at prisoner deal made behind his back (Reuters)Spain to Unveil $8.6 Billion Stimulus Package (AP)Obama to Urge...
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