By Larry Hicke (via Commodities-Now) (Guest Post) Rogue trading has become a mature business characterised by low levels of innovation and familiar patterns. The latest affair involving UBS trader Kweku Adoboli over the...
Read MoreBy Junk Analyst (Guest Post) With the debt limit political circus concluded, basically as I expected (with a last hour agreement that really accomplishes nothing substantive for you and me), the risks of investing are...
Read MoreBy Kurt Cobb (Guest Post) Last week authorities apprehended a trader for UBS, the huge, international Swiss bank, on suspicion that he lost $2 billion of the bank’s money in unauthorized trades. It’s...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown (Guest Post) North Dakota has had the nation’s lowest unemployment ever since the economy tanked. What’s its secret? In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The...
Read MoreBy Junk Analyst (Guest Post) In this debut column, I’d like to accomplish several goals. First, I’d like to point out what many of you probably already know, for the edification of those who don’t – about...
Read MoreBy Mike “Mish” Shedlock (Guest Post) In his latest Email update, Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets discusses the in more detail the likelihood of a Eurozone breakup. Until the label “End...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut (Guest Post) Stock price movements have become highly correlated, with correlations reaching levels not seen since 2008. This is not surprising given historical data and should end up being a temporary...
Read MoreBy EconMatters The ongoing news coverage of Solyndra, the ill-fated solar panel manufacturer which filed for bankruptcy on Sept. 6, and the circumstances surrounding its loan from the U.S. government make it seem like a...
Read MoreBy Lance Roberts of Streettalk Live (Guest Post) The idea that the economy has grown at roughly 5% since 1980 is a lie. In reality the economic growth of the U.S. has been declining rapidly over the past 30 years supported only...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown (Guest Post) “War! Good God, ya’ll. What is it good for? Absolutely nothin’!”So went the anti-Vietnam War protest song popularized by Edwin Starr in 1970 and revived by Bruce...
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