Financial

Pawning Our Future with EZCORP By Paul Price of Market Shadows Market Shadows sold 5 contracts of the June 21, 2104 $12.50 strike price puts on pawnshop operator EZCORP (EZPW) this …

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The Lonely Bull You can’t win if you don’t play. Bearish forecasters point out that small investors have been net buyers of equity mutual funds over the past few months. …

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As discussed back in September (see post), the ECB may be forced to take further action in an attempt to reignite the area’s recovery. The central bank’s consolidated balance sheet …

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Contributors Lee Adler and Russ Winter discuss how the forces of a perfect storm are gathering in the U.S. economy  

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One of the men that won the Nobel Prize for economics this year says that “bubbles look like this” and that he is “most worried about the boom in the …

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Black Friday is the day when millions of average Americans wait outside retail stores in the middle of the night in the freezing cold to spend more money that they …

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By Paul Price of Market Shadows Market Shadows’ Virtual Value Portfolio completed the holiday-shortened trading week with a gain of $848 or plus 0.63%. During the four weeks ended today, November 29, 2013, …

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When it comes to reckless money creation, it turns out that China is the king.  Over the past five years, Chinese bank assets have grown from about 9 trillion dollars …

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$82 billion. What does that figure represent? The subsidy (aka competitive advantage) that accrues to our major banking institutions from favorable borrowing rates given their status as ‘too big to …

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“Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.  “Control food and you control the people.” Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with …

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