Monthly Archives: April 2013

AP Twitter attack highlights vulnerability of over-priced, over-traded markets

More evidence of the madness and mayhem of QE-inflated market prices, coupled with low participation and the wild west of unregulated Algo traders on leverage. Watching “Tweets” as the commentary suggests is nonsense, watch what? Watch market bids evaporate in … Continue reading

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The Retirement Gamble

Last night Frontline ran an important series that everyone should watch (link embedded below). I have discussed many of these exact issues in Juggling Dynamite and elsewhere over the past 10 years. I agree with Jack Bogle’s basic premise that … Continue reading

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Vapid “liquidity” vanishes in a heart beat

Commodities and bond yields have been trending lower all day in sympathy with contracting global growth, confirmed yet again by more weak data out of China and the Euro-zone overnight, see:  China’s factories crawl and Germany’s shrink.  There is every … Continue reading

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