By Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge The primarily sovereign credit crunch in Europe, which has resulted in part due to the ECB’s disastrous, and since reversed decision just like in 2008, to hike rates early in the year, only to...
Read MoreBased on current GHG emission reporting guidelines, the transportation sector directly accounted for about 28% of total U.S. GHG emissions in 2006, making it the second largest source of GHG (Greenhouse gas) emissions, behind...
Read MoreBy Prieur du Plessis Legendary hedge fund manager Doug Kass of Seabreeze Partners is a familiar and respected name on this blog. I therefore thought readers might be interested in his surprise list for 2012. The full article...
Read MoreBy Willem Weytjens Are Bonds about to plunge? And if so (or if not), what are the implications for stocks and precious metals?Let’s have a look at TLT, which is the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund.Back in...
Read MoreBy Tyler Durden of ZeroHedge Yesterday, the fine folks of Tradition Analytics were kind enough to explain (once again) just how it is that the Fed has boxed itself into a corner, where in order to maintain the already outlierish...
Read MoreBy Central Bank News The year of 2011 was an interesting and eventful year in monetary policy. As the chart below shows, the GDP weighted average interest rate of central banks crept up in the first half of the year as commodity...
Read MoreBy EconMatters The recent massive demand for ECB’s LTRO (Long Term Refinancing Operation)–nearly 490 billion euro in three-year 1% loans from 523 banks–only confirmed the suspicion of some market participants...
Read MoreBy Doug Short The December 2011 Consumer Price Index for Urban Consumers (CPI-U) released today puts the November year-over-year inflation rate at 3.39%, which is below the 3.96% average since the end of World War II.The Bureau...
Read MoreBy Charles Rotblut This year was supposed to be better. Among the four years of the presidential term, the third has historically been the best-performing one for stocks. Yet, the total return for the S&P 500, which includes...
Read MoreBy Frank Holmes Republicans have ridden the candidate carousel over the past few months but eventually one GOP contender will emerge to face President Obama in the much anticipated 2012 Presidential Election. As political...
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