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Shadow Government Statistics Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting
If you repeat something completely inane enough times, do people, even economic writers, believe it?
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ViaMat, a Swiss logistics company that has been safeguarding precious metals since 1945, is literally the gold standard in secure storage.
Major new laws like FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) and a growing acceptance by major governments of a digital currency, like Bitcoin, are simply setting the stage. (Stage setting for...)...
Austrians are more and more noticed in the mainstream. You don't get much more mainstream than Paul Krugman; he has written a short blog post(HT EPJ) critical of Austrians and their supposedly creative use of the term "inflation." Referencing aNoah S
It was nearly five years ago when Zero Hedge first wrote: "This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied" ...
The 2008 Wall Street meltdown is long forgotten, having been washed away by a tsunami of central bank liquidity.
Depending on blowing the next bubble to temporarily prop up the economy is the height of foolhardy shortsightedness.
It was nearly five years ago when Zero Hedge first wrote: "This Is The Government: Your Legal Right To Redeem Your Money Market Account Has Been Denied" in which we predicted as part of the ongoing herding of investors away from every other asset cla
When the Senate passed legislation last year allowing states broader latitude to collect sales on online purchases, the proposal was immediately cast aside in the House — and there is has remained, stuck on a shelf. Until now.
BREAKING: SEC Appears Ready to Approve Rules That Would Allow Money Market Funds to Limit Investor Withdrawals in Times of Market Stress.
Here's What We Know About The Secretive, Elon Musk-Backed Firm Creating Functional Artificial Intelligence
The BATS Exchange, the Kansas City-based stock market, has announced the departure of President William O'Brien, effectively immediately.
In the most recent newsletter, I discussed this year's rise in the markets and the fact that all of the gains have occurred during some of the historically weakest months of the year. I also noted a few interesting facts:
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Citigroup currency strategist Steven Englander notes that the market is in a fragile position, and that there are two events coming up that could derail things:
The mortgage debt overhang was the result of financial deregulation and securitization, which created a massive housing bubble. When it inevitably burst, housing prices plummeted, but mortgages did not. The resources of the once-great middle class we
Today, as human society progresses onward, Coinmap broke 5,000 global business listings, South African payment processor Payfast enabled their 30,000 merchants to accept Bitcoin, and the NY Dept. of Financial Services made financial privacy a crime,
After running last week's article (They're Coming for Your Accounts), we received a number of questions about how to actually protect oneself. So, this week I'd like to address that subject.
If you're waiting to sell your house because you think prices will continue to rise, don't.
For the last few years, the 'scariest' chart for Europeans has been the unending surge in youth unemployment.
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US Treasury Admits Collateral Problem In Bond Market; Considers Issuing Ultra Long-Dated Bonds
There is a glaring divergence between the performance of US equities and high-yield credit's spread over investment-grade credit.
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Two years of uninterrupted gains in U.S. stocks are sowing anxiety among financial professionals, with three in five saying the market is on the verge of a bubble or already in one, the Bloomberg Global Poll found.
Microsoft will slash up to 18,000 jobs by the end of the year. That's 14 percent of the company's workforce, and it amounts to the largest round of layoffs in the nearly 40 year history of the software kingpin.
More Americans than ever live in multigenerational households, and the number of millennials who live with their parents is rising sharply, according to a study released Thursday.