Financial

Welcome to the Grand illusion Come on in and see what’s happening Pay the price, get your tickets for the show If you think your life is complete confusion Because …

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After the Monday blog went out, activist investment guru Carl Icahn warned that earnings at many companies are the result of low borrowing costs rather than better operations. He thinks there will …

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After less that two years of modest but positive growth, real estate loans in the US banking system have recently gone into the red again. Lower demand and banks’ unease …

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Reports like the recent one from SNL Financial – Branch Networks Continue to Shrink really get my goat. As I travel the increasingly vacant highways of Montgomery County, PA I’m keenly …

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It is not often that I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing two Sense on Cents instant classics in the course of just a few days but today I …

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Thanks to some overnght levitation (and in spite of major outflows from foreigner from the US as seen in the TIC data), US equities have opened this morning to new …

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Are stocks in a bubble? Doomsayers will argue that yes, stocks are at crazy high levels and this is another Fed-blown bubble. But Joshua Brown argues that only some stocks are …

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The incredible rally in equities in 2013 has begun to stir concern among many that the stock market is now in a bubble. We have entered the euphoric stage of …

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A Peek at a New Peak Both the DJIA and the S&P 500 made new closing highs today. Market Shadows’ Virtual Value Portfolio was not to be outdone. We also …

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In Costa Rica, publicly-owned banks have been available for so long and work so well that people take for granted that any country that knows how to run an economy …

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