Saving the Euro
By Axel Merk via QFinance Portfolio manager Axel Merk discusses potential solutions to leadership problems in the eurozone. The management of the eurozone debt crisis is dysfunctional. In our assessment, to save the Euro...
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The Untouchable Dimon: How JPM Derivatives Prop Up U.S. Debt
By Ellen Brown When Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase Bank, appeared before the Senate Banking Committee on June 13, he was wearing cufflinks bearing the presidential seal. “Was Dimon trying to send any particular message...
Read MoreJPM’s London Whale Unwind: Rumors and Facts
By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Believing ‘people familiar with the matter’, extending rumors of large trades, and extrapolating DTCC (the CDS data repository) data has apparently caused a number of mainstream media...
Read MoreChina Growth in Debate
By Michael Pettis Perceptions have certainly changed a lot in the last few months. As recently as three years ago there were so few analysts who were skeptical about the sustainability of Chinese growth that we rarely disagreed...
Read More3 Charts Your Stockbroker Won’t Want You To See
By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge While every long-only manager and jobbing stockbroker is hard at work twisting the simple logic of ‘but, but Central Banks will print and save the world’ into a much more appetizing...
Read More“Germany is a Credit Risk” Says Bill Gross
By Mike “Mish” Shedlock Bill Gross echoes my statements that Germany is poised for a big hit either by a piecemeal breakup of the eurozone, by Germany indefinitely ponying up more money to keep the eurozone intact,...
Read MoreDon’t Exit the Commodities Just Yet
By Frank Holmes When it comes to investing, wise managers are like good drivers, constantly evaluating the environment, looking for signs to step on the gas or slow down. A positive signal received recently came from Goldman...
Read MoreEstimating Recession Risk
By James Picerno of The Capital Speculator There are two basic ways to wrestle with recession risk. One is to forecast it, the other is to develop a high-confidence assessment of whether it’s stepping on the business...
Read MoreForget Election, Greece and Europe Are Still Doomed
By Michael Snyder The election results from Greece are in and the pro-bailout forces have won, but just barely. It is being projected that the pro-bailout New Democracy party will have about 130 seats in the 300 seat parliament,...
Read MoreLatin America: Riding the Global Financial Waves
By Gustavo Adler and Camilo E. Tovar (via iMFDirect) (Version in Espa?ol) Latin America has a long history of accidents that have occurred while navigating turbulent financial international waters. With risks looming over the...
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