Feeding the Beast (8/26) (via Market Shadows) Here’s this week’s MarketShadows August 26 2012: Feeding the Beast Excerpt: The rally on Friday was triggered by a letter released by Ben Bernanke to US Rep. Darrell Issa, which was also leaked to the WSJ: “Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a letter responding to questions posed by …
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Market Shadows Newsletter: It’s my party, and I’ll leave if I want to (via Market Shadows) Read the latest MarketShadows August 12 2012 Excerpt: Trading volume this week dried up. Retail investors are realizing that the markets are manipulated and retail traders are learning that it’s difficult to compete against the High Frequency Trading Machines. Zero …
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Financial Markets, Politics, and the New Reality (via Market Shadows) Financial Markets, Politics, and the New Reality Courtesy of John Mauldin at Thoughts from the Frontline If you’ve been following my newsletter, you’re familiar by now with my friend George Friedman and the geopolitical analysis company he founded, Stratfor. And if you’ve read any of …
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19 Warnings About A Coming Global Financial Catastrophe (via http://dailydopenews.com) Reported By Michael Snyder The American Dream Global leaders have tried just about everything that they can think of, but the coming global financial catastrophe continues to march steadily toward us. We have seen “stimulus packages”, quantitative easing, bond buying, interest rate cuts, emergency… …
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What’s Causing Market Volatility and What Can We Do? I read an interesting short article this morning on Seeking Alpha in which Todd Campbell discussed the rising stock market volatility that has been happening since the 1970s. The article entitled “Volatility Across the Decades: It’s No Wonder We’re Edgy” (click here to view) included the …
On Gold As An Inflation Hedge “A recurring theme gold [(GLD)(IAU)] speculators use to justify their positions, is that gold, over time, works as an inflation hedge. This argument has severe problems. Over the very long term, gold can indeed act as an inflation hedge. But as with any other asset, it matters greatly at …
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Organizational Behavior and Financial Markets By Holly A. Bell In March I published an article in the journal Insights to a Changing World titled, “Efficient Financial Markets as Organizations: A Metaphoric Analysis”. The purpose of the article was to explore efficient financial markets from the perspective of organizational behavior. The purpose was not to establish …
