Financial

I’ve been searching in the past few years for the best book to explain the 2008 Crisis, but I have yet to find it. John Lanchester’s novel Capital presents the 2007 and …

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In spite of a number of positive economic indicators out of the Eurozone (see example), credit growth remains the area’s Achilles’ heel. The latest private sector loan growth aggregate from the …

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The top of today’s reading list reports on the rise of online education and the impact on traditional colleges, and the tenth article discusses how the stretch for yield has …

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While the taper is apparently priced in, someone forgot to tell Emerging Market FX markets again as from India to Indonesia and from Thailand to the Philippines, currencies are tumbling …

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“Those among the rich who are not, in the rigorous sense, damned, can understand poverty, because they are poor themselves, after a fashion; they cannot understand destitution.  Capable of giving …

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For generating the greatest “wealth effect” and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe …

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The best scoring small caps from one year ago (1/3/2013) have outperformed the R2K by 948 bps over the past year, with no turnover.  The best performers have been RAD …

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The Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report was released this morning for last week. The 339,000 new claims number was a 2,000 decline from the previous week’s 341,000, an upward revision …

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With over 60% of those surveyed by Investors Intelligence now bullish, positive sentiment (or crowding, depending on your perspective) has risen once again and now to levels that are practically the …

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Syria’s opposition has condemned the signing last week of Syria’s first-ever offshore oil exploration deal, with Russia, claiming oil blocks are being swapped for weapons to attack rebel forces. Syria …

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