The Undiscovered and Lucrative “DTA” Trade
I like to poke around after a crisis has burned out. I’ve been spending a lot of time of late looking at bank stocks of every stripe across the country. The beauty of doing this kind of work is that...
View ArticleOpen thread Jan. 18, 2013
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View ArticleDaily Interest Rate Monitor – January 18
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View ArticleWeekend Lecture: Floored
No lecture this weekend but a special treat courtesy of 4xreview.Step into the pit of the Chicago mercantile exchange with the full length movie Floored.(click here if video is not observable) Read...
View ArticleU.S. Equity Sector ETF Weekly Performance – January 18
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View ArticleFrance And The UK Could Be The Lynchpins Of Europe
By: John Browne Friday, January 18, 2013Over the past two months, Europe’s problems seem to have disappeared from the headlines. However, the new French Socialist government is pushing ahead with...
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Myanmar And China Have A Conflicted Friendship
EventOn January 17th Chinese officials confirmed that, during hostilities between Myanmar's military and rebels from that country's ethnic-Kachin minority, a bomb had landed in Chinese...
View ArticleRising Gas Prices Threaten Economy Again, Obama Needs to threaten Evil...
By EconMattersHistory of Bubble CreationEveryone on Wall Street are a bunch of evil speculators, paying off ratings agencies to rate garbage mortgage backed securities triple A, so they could resell...
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CHARTS: Job Gains And Losses Since 2007
In response to Interactive Map: Job Gains and Losses in the Recovery by Job Type (Healthcare, Education, Mining, Construction, Finance, Real Estate, etc), I exchanged Emails with Salil Mehta who has a...
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Correction at Hand?
The technical tone of the major foreign currencies deteriorated in recent days. It appears to be a cascading effect. Favorite risk-on currencies, like the dollar-bloc, failed to participate in the...
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ECRI Says We're In A Recession, But They're Own Indicators Say We're Not
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) rose in the latest public data. It is now at 130.4 versus the previous week's 128.1 (which is an downward revision from...
View ArticleETF Insider: Bulls Win Again
Much to the bears’ surprise this week, equity markets pulled off another green streak as euphoria levels remained strong. The bulls had few reasons to take profits as markets digested several upbeat...
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The Departure Of Tom Albanese Marks The End Of The Decade That Changed Mining
Shortly after Tom Albanese (pictured) took the top job at Rio Tinto in 2007, the mining giant emerged victorious in the bidding war for Alcan, a Canadian aluminium company.No one doubted that it was a...
View ArticleRising Gas Prices Threaten Economy Again, Obama Needs to Thwart Evil...
By EconMattersHistory of Bubble CreationEveryone on Wall Street are a bunch of evil speculators, paying off ratings agencies to rate garbage mortgage backed securities triple A, so they could resell...
View ArticleCool Video: Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
Hat tip to Maria Popova for spotting this cool video from Colm Kelleher at TEDEucation. Read more posts on Marc to Market »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about...
View ArticleCrisis, Contagion, and the Need for a New Paradigm
In his lecture at the Latsis Symposium 2012 “Economics on the Move” in Zurich, Nobel Laureate Joe Stiglitz nails the fundamental problem and crisis of modern macroeconomics, which failed to predict...
View ArticleGold’s 50-day Moving Average
If technical levels matter, they matter in gold. Check out how it was rejected both Thursday and Friday right at the 50-day moving average.Looks like gold is about to break either way. We’ll wait for...
View ArticleChinese Electricity Conclusions Reexamined
By EconMatters China`s 4th QuarterChina`s economy grew 7.9% for the fourth quarter of 2012, signaling to some that China might be rebounding from a two-year downtrend in economic growth. When it...
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High Margin Requirements Are Killing The Silver Market
The CME raising margins for Silver Futures to such a degree that relative to market price, futures multiplier, and physical demand by consumers is just too high has basically killed the silver...
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Facebook's Business Model Is A Dead End
This week Facebook announced a new search engine internal to the ring-fenced world of Facebook. For example, you could search to see if your friends "like" a movie. Too bad users can't rely on the...
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