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Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else

Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else It was intriguing that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was apparently recorded in some fashion. The BBC reported that “A Turkish security source has confirmed to BBC Arabic the existence of an audio and a video recording. What […]

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Leon Cooperman: “The Whole Structure Of The Market Is Broken”

Leon Cooperman: “The Whole Structure Of The Market Is Broken”  In a wide-ranging interview on CNBC, Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, explained that he doe snot see the market as ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’ currently but warns that traditional value-manager-driven strategies face difficulties because ” all these quantitative trading systems are destroying the […]

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Zero-Down Subprime Mortgages Are Back, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Zero-Down Subprime Mortgages Are Back, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Ten years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, banks are once again taking bets on the same type of loans that nearly collapsed the economy amid a flurry of emergency bailouts and unprecedented consolidations. Bank of America has backed a $10 billion program from Boston-based brokerage […]

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Weekly Commentary: Contemporary Finance’s Defect

Weekly Commentary: Contemporary Finance’s Defect October 3 – CNBC (Jeff Cox): “Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the central bank has a ways to go yet before it gets interest rates to where they are neither restrictive nor accommodative. In a question and answer session Wednesday with Judy Woodruff of PBS, Powell said the Fed […]

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They Want You To Do As They Say, Not As They Do

THEY WANT YOU TO DO AS THEY SAY, NOT AS THEY DO “Facts are threatening to those invested in fraud.” ― DaShanne Stokes Insiders at US companies unloaded $5.7 billion of their company stock this month, the highest in any September over the past decade, according to TrimTabs Investment Research.  Insiders, which include corporate officers […]

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Heroes & Whores

HEROES & WHORES “Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but there is also the underlying human element that must be considered. Numbers can’t lie, but the people who create those numbers can and do. As so many people have learned, […]

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Why WTI Could Crash In The Coming Weeks

Why WTI Could Crash In The Coming Weeks West Texas Intermediate could drop to US$65 a barrel later this year on the back of extra maintenance work at U.S. refineries, Tom Kloza from the Oil Price Information Service has warned. Speaking on CNBC, Kloza said this maintenance season was the last chance for many refineries […]

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Investor’s Warning: ‘I’m Nervous. We’re Getting Closer To A MELTDOWN Scenario’

Investor’s Warning: ‘I’m Nervous. We’re Getting Closer To A MELTDOWN Scenario’ According to investor David Tice, who made a name for himself in running the Prudent Bear Fund before selling it to Federated Investors in 2008, the current market is dangerous.  Tice was quoted as saying he’s “nervous” because “we’re getting closer to a meltdown scenario.” […]

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David Stockman Warns “Daredevil” Market Is “Way Over-Priced For Reality”

David Stockman Warns “Daredevil” Market Is “Way Over-Priced For Reality” David Stockman is not backing away from his ultimate bearish position, warning viewers of CNBC that “there are some huge surprises lurking out there” because “we’ve had eight years of monetary expansion that is just off the charts of history.” He is certainly not wrong […]

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Don’t Worry “Everything Bad is Priced In”

Don’t Worry “Everything Bad is Priced In” The stock market has turned the corner. Everythig bad is priced in. Here’s the joke of the day: Stock Market Turns the Corner as Most Risks are Already Priced In. “By now, investors priced in all the bad things they could price in: concerns about trade wars, geopolitics, […]

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Blankfein: “Central Banks All Around The World Are Buying All The Risky Assets”

Blankfein: “Central Banks All Around The World Are Buying All The Risky Assets” We can finally put to rest any financial, economic, ideological or simply philosophical debates why stocks have risen over 300% since the March 2009 post-crisis lows of 666, and we have Lloyd Blankfein’s underperformance mea culpa to thank for putting it so […]

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Peter Schiff: There’s A BIG Problem With The Economy, ‘Americans Are BROKE’

Peter Schiff: There’s A BIG Problem With The Economy, ‘Americans Are BROKE’ Financial analyst Peter Schiff says there’s a big problem with the economy even though the mainstream media is reporting that rising interest rates are a good thing.  The problem, however, is that Americans are broke, and those interest rates could have a major […]

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The Everything Bubble—Waiting For The Pin

The Everything Bubble—Waiting For The Pin Yesterday we noted that financial markets have become completely uncoupled from reality and that the recent feeble bounces between the 20-day and 50-day chart points were essentially the rigor mortis of a dead bull. As it happened, we were able to share those sentiments with what remains of CNBC’s audience of carbon-based […]

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Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity”

Ron Paul Fears “Huge” Correction In Stocks, Warns “It’s Going To Be A Calamity” “I think we have a greater distortion and a financial danger sitting out there bigger than ever before,” warned former presidential candidate Ron Paul in an ominous interview with CNBC this week. While markets briefly got nervous over Trump’s tariffs last […]

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Bob Shiller Warns World’s “Priciest Stock Market” Could “Absolutely Turn Suddenly”

Bob Shiller Warns World’s “Priciest Stock Market” Could “Absolutely Turn Suddenly” Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller told CNBC Tuesday that a market correction could come at any time and without warning… “People ask ‘well what will trigger [a market correction]?’ But it doesn’t need a trigger, it’s the dynamics of bubbles inherently makes them come […]

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