"Ms. Wantanabe" Bets On Resurgent Yen As PE Cashes Out
Make no mistake, we have had our fair share of laughs at the expense of China’s equity mania, with the millions of new trading accounts opened by semi-literate housewives and security guards-turned day...
View ArticleHow Jamie Dimon Became A Billionaire
Two years ago, bank analyst Mike Mayo asked JPM chief Jamie Dimon a simple question: why should affluent customers not pick UBS over JPM due to a mismatch in capital ratios, to which Dimon's response...
View Article"Bernanke & Greenspan Have Destroyed America" Schiff & Maloney Warn "People...
Ali and Frazier, Laurel and Hardy, Mayweather and Pacquiao, Liesman and Santelli, and now Schiff and Maloney. Peter and Mike join clash of the titan-like to discuss their investment strategies and...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 5
Europe shares set for worst week of 2015 (Reuters)Jobs Report Not Likely to Trigger June Rate Hike (Hilsenrath)U.S. jobs market seen firming despite lackluster growth (Reuters)Gross Says Bond Rout...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 9
Greece Said to Submit Revised Budget Plan in Bid for Funding (BBG)Protesters seek firing of Texas officer who threw girl to ground (Reuters)HSBC to cut 50,000 jobs in quest for higher dividends...
View ArticleHow Accredited Investors Can Beat The Institutions In Monetizing The...
This is a step-by-step guide for accredited investors and high net worth individuals to make money investing in the bitcoin ecosystem guided by the lessons learned (not) from the previous paradigm...
View ArticleThe "Global Macro Investor" - An Interview With Raoul Pal
Submitted by Erico Matias Tavares of Sinclair & CoRaoul Pal has previously co-managed the GLG Global Macro Fund in London for GLG Partners, one of the largest hedge fund groups in the world. He...
View ArticleBilderberg 2015 – Where Criminals Mingle With Politicians
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Out at my car I couldn’t be bothered to get into the whole ‘probable cause’ thing so I flung open the doors and with as much good cheer as I could...
View ArticleChina Market Cap to GDP at 118% and Margin Debt at 3.6%, after 130% Stock...
Chinese Market Cap to GDP at 118% After Shanghai Comp Index (SHA:000001) 130% Rise in One Year. 4k+ New Hedge Funds Started Chinese Secular Bull Market or Bubble Crash?The financial mania continues...
View ArticleAs Greek Bonds & Stocks Crash, Here's Who Keeps Catching The Falling Knife
Greek 10Y yields are breaking back above 13%, bonds ar trading at 50 cents on the dollar, Greek stocks are near multi-decade lows, and Greek bank bonds have collapsed amid the ever-more-likely Grexit...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 22
Mood brightens after latest Greek offer to creditors (Reuters)ECB's Nowotny - Greek banks have funding extension for today (Reuters)Any Greece deal must match party manifesto, minister says...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 23
Greek offer to creditors runs into angry backlash at home (Reuters)Tsipras Seeks to Stave Off Greek Defections Over Aid Plan (BBG)Austria finmin says no agreement on Greek proposals without concrete...
View ArticleThese Three Events Will Shatter "Liquidity Illusion", Trigger Crisis, OECD Says
The OECD has released its first Business and Finance Outlook which the organization describes as “an annual publication that presents unique data and analysis that looks at what might affect and...
View ArticlePension Funds Are "Compromising Their Solvency" OECD Warns
Four months ago in “The Global War On Pensioners”, we highlighted the impact perpetually suppressed risk-free rates are having on pension funds. The critical point is this: the lower the investment...
View ArticleThe Bush Family Goes "All In" For Number Three (With The Help Of Its Bankers)
Submitted by Nomi Prins via TomDispatch.com,Money, they say, makes the world go round. So how’s $10 billion for you? That’s a top-end estimate for the record-breaking spending in this 1% presidential...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 30
EU in last-ditch bid to Greece, urges "yes" vote to bailout (Reuters)In? Out? In between? A Greek legal riddle for EU (Reuters)Tsipras Says EU Won’t Eject Greece as Cost ‘Immense’ (BBG)Empty Greek ATMs...
View Article"Diva Of Distress" Dissed: Court Tosses Lynn Tilton's Lawsuit Against SEC,...
It took the SEC nearly two years after Zero Hedge first warned in September 2003 that something is very wrong with the CLO's issued by Lynn Tilton and her Patriarch Partners, to admit just that....
View ArticleGross Says Hold Cash, Prepare For "Nightmare Panic Selling"
Ever since bond market liquidty became the topic du jour across Wall Street (just a few short years after it was first raised in these pages), analysts, pundits, and reporters alike have begun to...
View ArticleWhen Disruption Gets Too Disruptive
With massive strikes in France and now drivers shooting passengers, Uber is making headlines everywhere. While some might say any publicity is good publicity (and any disruption is good disruption),...
View ArticleThe "Smartest Money" Is Liquidating Stocks At A Record Pace: "Selling...
Just over two years ago, at the Milken global conference, the head of Apollo Group Leon Black said that "this is an almost biblical opportunity to reap gains and sell" adding that his firm has been a...
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