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If You Want Bank Transparency, Check Out The FDIC's Website
Last weekend with its team of accountants, lawyers, and Pinkerton guards well in tow the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shut down its 466th bank since the beginning of our Great...
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China Wouldn't Mind A Unified Korea — Just Not Yet
In considering the security situation in Northeast Asia, it's sometimes useful to imagine the region's players as schoolboys playing in a courtyard. North Korea, bellicose and unpredictable, misbehaves...
View ArticleETF Insider: Markets Pop, Apple Flops
The rally continued full steam ahead on Wall Street last week as upbeat earnings and encouraging data kept optimism levels elevated, giving investors few reasons to take profits off the table....
View ArticleCurrency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Interesting Contrarian Opportunities
It is difficult to talk about the US dollar's performance over the past couple of weeks. There has been a key divergence. The dollar has been trading higher against most currencies except the euro...
View ArticleCool Video: Potential in Action
This Cool Video found on YouTube. It is about nothing and everything. Inspiring. Read more posts on Marc to Market »Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this...
View ArticleOverbought and Oversold Markets – January 25
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price moves. The RSI moves between zero and 100 and is considered overbought with a reading above 70 and...
View ArticleTech More Than An “Alternate Virtual Universe” – P. Thiel
Peter Thiel, one of favorite billionaire, venture capitalist, and hedge fund managers, really nails the future and raison d’etre of technology, in our opinion. Recall his famous line, “We wanted...
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Vietnam Signs $9 Billion Oil Refinery Deal
Vietnam on Sunday inked a deal with firms from Japan and Kuwait to build an oil refinery complex worth nearly $9 billion as part of efforts to meet its growing energy needs.The Nghi Son refinery, which...
View ArticlePennsylvania's Fracking Boom Is Completely Different From North Dakota's...
Stories dot the media describing shale development as booms that have transformed the economies of North Dakota and Pennsylvania. That broad portrait gets badly wrong the impacts of shale development...
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Why ECRI's Weekly Recession Indicator Has Little Credibility
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) rose in the latest public data. It is now at 130.6 versus the previous week's 130.4. See the WLI chart in the Appendix...
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The Greek Government Is A Prisoner Of The Bureaucracy
I wrote some time ago that Greece had a choice between Disaster A: staying in the euro; and Disaster B: leaving the euro. I have recently come back from four days in Greece, meeting with lots of people...
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A New Federal Reserve Report Quantifies The Risks It's Taking In A Very Scary...
The Federal Reserve makes a ton of money on its $3T horde of government bonds. In 2012 the Fed earned a tidy $90B by borrowing short and lending long. That income number is the difference between...
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World Economic Forum Ends With Stark Warning Over Global Economy
The World Economic Forum's annual meeting broke up on Saturday night amid warnings that attendees were too relaxed and optimistic about the state of the global economy.Delegates left the congress...
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'Spot The Dog' Report Calls Out 153 Worst Investment And Pension Funds
Britain's worst investment and pension funds are named and shamed today in a "Spot the Dog" report published by financial advisers BestInvest.It identifies 153 funds with £23bn under management, that...
View ArticleETF Pop Quiz: Energy, EG Shares, and Emerging Market Bonds
After another week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Energy, EG Shares, and Emerging Market BondsAs always, all answers can be found using the suite...
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This USA Today Infographic Will Make Every Investor Cringe
This mass media headline should make any institutional investor cringe - as contrarian flags begin to go up.Source: USA Today (via the ISI Group)Please follow Money Game on Twitter and Facebook.Join...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Behavior of US Capital
This Great Graphic comes from the Economist's Buttonwood blog, which in turn, it got from Andrew Lapthorne, a Societe Generale economist. Together they tell an interesting story about the behavior of...
View Article3 ETFs To Watch This Week: XLI, XLY, GLD
Bullish momentum dominated Wall Street last week as major equity indexes rallied to multi-year highs. Better-than-expected earnings reports form DuPont (DD), Travelers (TRV), IBM (IBM) and Google...
View ArticleThe Master Meme
The gentlemen and ladies of the meme-o-sphere, where collective notions are birthed like sleet from clouds, have decided lately that the USA has entered a full-on broad-based bull market - a...
View ArticleGreat Graphic: Central Bank Balance Sheet Changes
This Great Graphic was posted on Sober Look, which got it from Credit Suisse. It shows the change in central bank balance sheets over the past six months. Going forward, the Bank of England has...
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