Frontrunning: January 22
ECB to decide on bond-buying plan to revive euro zone (Reuters)Draghi Is Pushing Boundaries of Euro Region with QE Program (BBG)Investors Wonder Whether ECB Will Do Enough (WSJ)Treasuries Drop With...
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Saudi Arabia’s New King Probably Will Not Change Current Oil Policy (BBG)Saudi King’s Death Clouds Already Tense Relationship With U.S. (WSJ)Oil Pares Gains as New Saudi King Says Policies Stable...
View ArticleFrontrunning: February 20
Greece Should Not Give In to Germany’s Bullying (FP)Greece Can Pay Its Debts in Full, but It Won’t (WSJ)Early Friday humor: Euro Region Economy Strengthens Amid Wrangling on Greece (BBG)Euro zone may...
View ArticleFrontrunning: March 16
Germans Tired of Greek Demands Want Country to Exit Euro (BBG)Weak euro powers European stocks to new highs (Reuters)Siemens Cheers Euro Slump as Emerson Eases Dollar’s Sting (BBG)A Police Gadget...
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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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Money Printing And The Bane Of Financial Engineering - How The Biggest LBO In...
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,Financial engineering is one of the worst ills perpetuated by the Fed’s regime of cheap debt and money market subsidies for speculation. And these...
View ArticleThe Chilling Thing Blackstone Said about the Oil Bust
Wolf Richter www.wolfstreet.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterRegardless of how troubled oil and gas companies are, “if the assets are good, someone will own them,” explained David Foley, senior...
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The Virtual Immunity Of The Well-Connected: Gen. Petraeus Edition
Submitted by Ray McGovern via Consortium News,The leniency shown former CIA Director (and retired General) David Petraeus by the Justice Department in sparing him prison time for the serious crimes...
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It's Official: Avago Buys Broadcom In $37 Billion Deal, Thousands In Employee...
As the WSJ reported yesterday when it sent the semiconductor space soaring, moments ago Avago (21x EV/EBITDA) confirmed it would buy Broadcom (19x EV/EBITDA) for $37 billion. The reason for the deal:...
View ArticleFrontrunning: May 28
No change in Greek debt talks after another day of spin (Reuters)G-7 Weighs In on Greece as Government Told to Be Serious (BBG)FIFA Faces Mounting Pressure From Sponsors as Visa Threatens to End Deal...
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Meet The Participants Of This Year's Bilderberg Conference
Here are the participants in the Bilderberg meeting over the weekend in Tirol. It is named after a Hotel Chain where the first meeting took place on May 29-31, 1954 in Austria. As the G7 summit of the...
View ArticleFrontrunning: June 11
Pope urges Putin to make 'sincere, great effort' for Ukraine peace (Reuters)Merkel Tells Tsipras It’s Time to Back Talk With Policy Action (BBG)'Greek tragedy' needs happy ending now: EU's Moscovici...
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Bilderberg 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 ArticleFrontrunning: July 13
Greece Capitulates to Creditors’ Demands to Cling to Euro (BBG)Euro zone strikes deal with Greece after all-night struggle (Reuters)Tsipras Moves From Predator to Prey at Euro 'Torture' Summit...
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Toys'R'Us Bonds Crash As Suppliers Set To Tighten Credit Lines
Just two years after Toy'R'Us attempted (and failed) to IPO, Bloomberg reports that insurance companies are cutting back on their coverage of the firm's suppliers. Without this 'insurance', which...
View ArticleFrontrunning: August 18
China stocks slump 6 percent on fears of further yuan depreciation (Reuters)U.S. Lacks Ammo for Next Economic Crisis (Hilsenrath)Emerging Markets Extend Slide as Commodities Fall; Pound Jumps...
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Forget China - Oil Price Is Main Driver Of Market Turmoil
Via GEFIRA.org,Commentators are linking the current market turmoil to problems in China. Our team sees the oil price as the main driver behind the market route. Low oil prices are positive for...
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Sep 10 - Hilsenrath: Agreement on September Hike Eludes the Fed
EMOTION MOVING MARKETS NOW: 13/100 EXTREME FEARPREVIOUS CLOSE: 13/100 EXTREME FEARONE WEEK AGO: 10/100 EXTREME FEARONE MONTH AGO: 14/100 EXTREME FEARONE YEAR AGO: 42/100 FEARPut and Call Options:...
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Deep State America
Authored by Philip Giraldi, originally posted at The American Conservative,It has frequently been alleged that the modern Turkish Republic operates on two levels. It has a parliamentary democracy...
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David Petraeus, "Treasury Analyst": Please Don't Quit Your Day Job
We read with interest and even greater amusement a CNN attempt to explain how China's selling of US Treasury is a perfectly normal thing, one which anyone could have predicted (even if nobody actually...
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