    LifeStraw Personal Water Filter - $19.95 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: $10.00 from: Eartheasy.com   | dailyreckoning.com.au / By Greg Canavan / May 10th, 2013 Jeez this is getting boring. Stocks go up on QE/stimulus hopes. Then, when stocks have the rare down day, it’s on concerns QE/stimulus will end. What a farce this all is. QE will never end. It can’t. Only the pace of its twisted and corrupt [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 05/10/2013 15:21 -0400 The reason for yesterday’s late day swoon was a humorous tweet, which subsequently became a full-blown serious rumor, that the WSJ’s Hilsenrath would leak the first hint that the Fed is contemplating preannouncing the “tapering” of its $85 billion in monthly purchases. Naturally, this did [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 05/10/2013 12:34 -0400 Aside from being core long gold and oil on the basis of an ongoing global reflation effort by the myopic central bankers of the world; Eclectica’s Hugh Hendry is long consumer Staples (as he explains – for a conservative investor, there is little choice but [...] silverseek.com / By Ranting Andy / Friday, May 10th It looks like the Cartel has executed yet another “named storm” blitzkrieg attack on PAPER PMs; in this case, comically commenced with an anonymous “tweet” yesterday afternoon; yet again, regarding a potential “end to QE.” It was only ONE WEEK AGO when the Fed decidedly [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 05/10/2013 10:44 -0400 This is what happens when the world’s central bankers – incapable of seeing the bubbles forming in front of their own eyes – are let loose on global markets… Where ever you look, markets are in turmoil this morning with even the precious equity indices trading [...] gainspainscapital.com / By Graham Summers / May 10, 2013 Japan should serve as a lesson to central planners around the world. Japan’s stock market/ real estate bubble burst in the early ‘90s. Since that time Japan has launched NINE QE efforts equal to roughly 25% of its GDP. And GDP growth has worsened despite these [...] oftwominds.com / By Charles Hugh Smith / May 10, 2013 Giddy “buy the dip, the Fed’s got our back” participants tend to forget that major players profit from going short when all the other shorts have been terminated with extreme prejudice. A funny thing happened on the way to the next Bull market: the price-earnings [...] harveyorgan.blogspot.com / Thursday, May 9, 2013 Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen: Gold closed down $5.10 to $1468.80 (comex closing time). Silver fell by only 1 cents to $23.88 (comex closing time) In the access market at 8 pm gold and silver are the following : gold: $1456.30. silver: $23.67 The reason for the whack [...] truthingold.blogspot.com / By Dave in Denver / May 9, 2013 An “unsubstantiated” rumor spread through the markets around noon Denver time today that the Wall Street Journal’s mindless mouthpiece for the Fed, Jon Hilsenrath, was going to print an article reporting that the Fed was considering tapering down QE soon. For those of you [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 05/09/2013 16:21 -0400 After another five-day run of higher prices and lower volumes (and following yesterday’s 2013 high average trade size), all it took was a twitter-based rumor of the possibility of a pause in the Fed’s punchbowl for the S&P 500 futures to see their biggest intraday drop [...] zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 05/09/2013 15:05 -0400 S&P 500 futures are currently experiencing the largest intraday drop in May – seemingly set off by this which was largely a joke uttered about an hour ago… READ MORE Deutsche Bank: “We Fully Understand Why The Authorities Wouldn’t Want Free Markets To Operate Today”zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 9, 2013, 09:06 -0400 A brief stroke of brilliance from Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid: Our opinion is that the BoJ is the latest runner with this demand baton which may in turn actually force others into the race (ECB in the future?), or encourage others to carry on [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 9, 2013, 09:28 -0400 While Paul Singer, Kyle Bass, and Stan Druckenmiller got the headlines, there were in total 14 worthwhile speakers at yesterday’s Ira Sohn conference. Though many of the themes were unsurprising, it is nonetheless useful to compare your own views to those of these professional [...] zerohedge.com / By Mark J. Grant / May 9, 2013, 08:20 -0400 Via Mark J. Grant, author of Out of the Box, Sitting In The Middle Of The Desert It is rather like sitting in the middle of the desert. Nothing but sand. You can hope for rain and you can wander around aimlessly [...] kingworldnews.com / May 9, 2013 After the sharp advance in gold prices yesterday, today 43-year market veteran Jeffrey Saut told King World News the ECB is going to surprise the financial world with an announcement of additional QE. Saut, who is Chief Investment Strategist for $360 billion Raymond James, also spoke with [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 8, 2013, 13:23 -0400 Today’s star-studded Ira Sohn conference was led by two behemoths – Elliott’s Paulk Singer and Hayman’s Kyle Bass. We recently discussed in detail Paul Singer’s perspective on the “most dangerous” investing environment but today he summarized and added to those comments [...] blog.milesfranklin.com / By David Schectman / May 8, 2013 The Fed, using the mechanism of QE, is purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of shoddy assets from the TBTF banks. They are purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of US Treasuries in order to keep interest rates at artificially low rates. Their [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / May 8, 2013, 11:48 -0400 As if charts of endlessly grinding lower hourly earnings was not enough to show the increasingly desperate plight of the US worker, here is another nugget from the BLS, this time showing the annual change in real US wages, where we have conveniently highlighted [...] zerohedge.com / By Tyler Durden / 05/06/2013 16:53 For a while there, it seemed that even the densest of career economists who try to pass for stock pundits on financial comedy TV, were starting to get that without the Fed’s (and the ECB’s, and the BOE’s, and the BOJ’s) QE, the market would be much, [...] thedailybell.com / By Ron Paul / MONDAY, MAY 06, 2013 Last week at its regular policy-setting meeting, the Federal Reserve announced it would double down on the policies that have failed to produce anything but a stagnant economy. It was a disappointing, but not surprising, move. The Fed affirmed that it is prepared to increase [...] thedailybell.com / By Anthony Wile / May 5, 2013 The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Antal Fekete. Introduction: Professor Antal E. Fekete is an author, mathematician, monetary scientist and educator. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932, he graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in mathematics in 1955. He [...] Share of households with severe housing cost burden per state acting-man.com / By Pater Tenebrarum / May 6, 2013 Why short rather than long? Picture yourself in a poker game with these rules. The cards are dealt up and you do not have to bet until you see the last [...] testosteronepit.com / By Wolf Richter / May 3, 2013, 6:52PM “Labor market conditions are affected by a wide variety of factors outside a central bank’s control,” admitted Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker a few hours after the employment report bounced around the world. Yet for years, the Fed has proclaimed that the heroic motivation [...] mauldineconomics.com / By John Mauldin / May 3, 2013 Sell in May and go away? What about “risk off?” And ever more QE? Today’s letter is a quick note and a reprise of a popular letter from yesteryear (with a bit of new slant), as I am at my conference in Carlsbad. [...] silverdoctors.com / By The Doc / May 4, 2013 The US economy would have to undergo a major readjustment if QE ceased.Quantitative easing could even be replaced with outright money printing. One prominent hedge fund manager is already calling for it! Regardless of day to day moves in the dollar, the US currency has to [...] goldscents.blogspot.ca / By TOBY CONNOR / May 3, 2013, 6:43 AM The runaway move in the stock market that we have been watching over the last few months continues to stretch higher and longer. Let me emphasize again, these things always end badly. Usually in some kind of crash, or semi crash. [...] Technician Stan Weinstein: Still A Bullish Outlook For Stocks Also, Chris Puplava with a Macro look at the second half, Erik Townsend on Commodities, and Rob Bernard on Fixed Income BIG PICTURE, NEWSHOUR 4/May/2013 [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jim is pleased to welcome back technician Stan Weinstein, editor and publisher of [...] thedailybell.com / By Staff Report / May 3, 2013 Fed Open to Expanding QE as It Counters Talk of Tapering … Facing the risk of a fourth straight summertime slowdown, Federal Reserve officials raised the prospect of increasing the monthly pace of bond buying above $85 billion to guard= against any slump in growth [...] gainspainscapital.com / By Graham Summers / May 2, 2013 The Fed is now blaming Congress for the failures of its QE policies. This is to be expected, given that no one in the power elite ever accepts responsibility for their own failures. Congressional members blames each other (depending on which party they’re in), the [...] |
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