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Ken Rogoff: "Policymakers Should Be Cautious Seeing Gold's Drop As A Vote Of Confidence"
Authored by Kenneth Rogoff, originally posted at Project Syndicate, In principle, holding gold is a form of insurance…
July 9, 2013
A Bubble So Big We Can't Even See It
Authored by Steve Keen via Real-World Economics Review, Before the current turmoil began, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's…
July 8, 2013
A Roadmap for Rates
A Roadmap for Rates July 02 2013 Uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s timeline for tapering quantitative easing has…
July 3, 2013
The Economy and Bond Market Radar (July 1, 2013)
The Economy and Bond Market Radar (July 1, 2013) After a dramatic sell-off in the bond markets last…
July 2, 2013
Eric Sprott: Investment Outlook (June 2013)
Have we lost control yet? Eric Sprott and Etienne Bordeleau, Sprott Asset Management Recent comments by the Federal…
June 28, 2013
Guest Post: Why the Status Quo is Doomed
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, The wheels have come off the endless growth via expanding debt…
June 28, 2013
Albert Edwards: "Marc Faber Is Right. QE99 Here We Come"
The bloodbath in the bond markets has led some 'greatly rotating' commentators to see this as the end…
June 28, 2013
The Banker Who Was God
The Banker Who Was God (via Market Shadows) The Banker Who Was God From this week’s Market Shadows…
June 26, 2013
Will Carney Light Fireworks at Bank of England?
by Darren Williams, AllianceBernstein On July 1, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn…
June 25, 2013
The Trouble with Tapering (Minerd)
The Trouble with Tapering Rising interest rates are beginning to put pressure on the recovery in the housing…
June 21, 2013
Key ETF Performance and Fed Day Doldrums (Bespoke)
by Bespoke Investment Group Fed days have historically been good days for the market, but the last two…
June 20, 2013
"Hey Mr. Market, That QE Monkey On Your Back Has You By The Throat"
Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, Mr. Market has one little problem: the Fed monkey on his…
June 20, 2013
Managing Equity Risk: Some Rules for the Road
by Kurt Feuerman, AllianceBernstein Under the surface of May’s strong equity returns were major shifts in sector leadership,…
June 19, 2013
Tail-Risk Parity: The Quest for a Crash-Proof Portfolio
by Ashwin Alankar (pictured) and Michael DePalma, AllianceBernstein By any name—Black Swan, three-standard-deviation event or negative tail event—the…
June 19, 2013
Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering Talk
Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering Talk (via Market Shadows) Mr. Market’s Temper Tantrum Over Fed Tapering…
June 11, 2013