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This Simple Strategy Could Have Potentially Saved Billions
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.atDeal making is glamorous. Apparently...When I tell people what I do in private equity I get strange responses. "Oh, that sounds so great, so glamorous," while the...
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Israelis vote as 'King Bibi's' reign hangs in the balance (Reuters), Factbox: Main candidates in Israel's election (Reuters)Iran Can Add Million Barrels a Day of Oil If Sanctions Halt (BBG)Kremlin...
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Caught on Hot Mic – Janet Napolitano Says “We Don’t Have to Listen to This Crap”
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Before I get to the meat of this post, let me provide a little background. Late last year, I covered how the former head of the Department of...
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Clinton Foundation’s Deep Financial Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch Revealed
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty BlitzkriegClinton Foundation’s Deep Financial Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch Who Pushed for Closer Ties to EU RevealedBetween 2009 and 2013, including when Mrs. Clinton...
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Benchmarking $666M of Venture Capital Investments In the Crypto-currency Space
The $665 Million Evolution in a Space Nobody Respected a Year AgoYou probably already know that the Internet circa 1994 was the biggest investment opportunity (for those who had the foresight and...
View ArticleWithout Buyback Back Up, Futures Fail To Find Fizzle
After three days of unexpected market weakness without an apparent cause, especially since after 7 years of conditioning, the algos have been habituated to buy on both good and bad news, overnight...
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Saudi Arabia, allies launch air strikes in Yemen against Houthi fighters (Reuters)Pilot on Crashed Jet Was Locked Out of Cockpit, NY Times Says (BBG)Why Bombing This Tiny Oil Producer Is Roiling the...
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3 Charts To Prove That 'Shadow Banking' Could Collapse The Entire Financial...
Despite seeing the world economy and global financial system experiencing a total meltdown and despite multiple pledges from policy makers all over the world to ban shadow banking procedures, no steps...
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Lynn Tilton Charged By SEC For CLO Fraud, As Warned Here Nearly Two Years Ago
Back in September 2013 we wrote "Coming Soon To A Theater Near You: MBIA's $1 Billion World War Z" in which we explained why MBIA will soon have a substantial problem (amounting to just about around...
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Iran, powers push for nuclear deal as clock ticks toward deadline (Reuters)How DIY Bond Traders Displaced Wall Street’s Hot Shots (BBG)MillerCoors Caught in a Downdraft (WSJ)Saudi-led strikes again hit...
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How The Fed Has Failed The Nation (In One Chart)
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,There is only one way to end the financial tyranny of the Federal Reserve - abolish it, and put an end to the predatory pathologies of its policies....
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Four TBTF Banks Threaten To Withhold Funds To Democrats Over Elizabeth...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Having already proven that their institutions are above the law in the aftermath of the financial crisis, executives at the “Too Big to Fail and...
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AIG Lite: Margin Call Claimed First Foreign Casualty Of Austrian "Black Swan"
We’ve written quite a bit lately about Austria’s Heta, the bad bank gone... well, bad, or as we’re fond of calling it, Austria’s Black Swan. Recapping, an outside audit identified a €7.6 billion hole...
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The Economic Wall Dead Ahead Is Hidden Behind False Signs Of "Recovery"
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,This morning I had left the TV mistakenly tuned to CNBC with the sound on - and unavoidably caught another bullish strategist jawing about the US...
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The "Revolver Raid" Arrives: A Wave Of Shale Bankruptcies Has Just Been...
Back in early 2007, just as the first cracks of the bursting housing and credit bubble were becoming visible, one of the primary harbingers of impending doom was banks slowly but surely yanking...
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Israel, U.S. Lawmakers Press Case Against Iran Nuclear Deal (WSJ)Rand Paul tries to broaden libertarian appeal (Reuters)Fewer Oil Trains Ply America’s Rails (WSJ)Chicago voters go to polls in first...
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Shell Will Buy BG Group for $70 Billion in Cash and Shares (BBG)IMF warns of long period of lower growth (FT)Wall Street sanguine as it heads into worst earnings season in six years...
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Wall Street's Biggest Banks May Have To Make Good On $26 Billion In Oil Hedges
Selling billions of dollars worth of insurance on things that turn out to, on occasion, exhibit extraordinary volatility can be a dangerous thing — just ask AIG which was sucked dry by collateral calls...
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Days Of Crony Capitalist Plunder - The Deplorable Truth About GE Capital
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,GE’s announcement that its getting out of the finance business should be a reminder of how crony capitalism is corrupting and debilitating the...
View ArticleFutures Slump As Asian Stock Bubble Calls A Timeout
Judging by the recent action in equity futures, the continuously rangebound US market since the end of QE may be entering its latest downphase, catalyzed to a big extent by the recent strength in the...
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