I wrote about Kashya Hildebrand’s inappropriate FX trades the other day. The story has some new legs today (Bloomberg). The wife of the president of the Swiss National Bank (SNB) has done the one thing she never should have. She talked. Any chance t…
“Top advisers see very slow growth in 2012.” That headline is screaming at Americans in “InvestmentNews: The Leading News Source for Financial Advisers” and most trusted.
Get it? Not just “sl…
Nov. 22, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST
Very slow growth 2012 then long bear to 2020
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — “Top advisers see very slow growth in 2012.” That headline is screaming at Americans in “Inve…
Now consider, against this background of continuing fragility, how people view the political scene. In neither the US nor the eurozone, does the politician supposedly in charge – Barack Obama, the US president, and Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancell…
Eric Cantor takes millions from hedge funds while defending their tax favored skimming. His wife is a former Goldman Sachs executive. He has a position in an ETF that is short Treasuries.
This man is the lowest kind of political scum.
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Somebody close to me got to see Pawlenty for a number of hours prior to a major presentation. Conclusion: He is remarkably stupid. I know this sounds like a partisan hack job, but it is intended only to be a politician hack job. He also spent some time…
Buenos Aires, Argentina – The colors are turning here in this capital city. Trees lining the Palermo streets, once a vibrant green, are lately tinged with auburn. Their leaves resist the fatal kisses of the cooling night air, before being taken u…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110419/pl_atlantic/70teapartiersdontwantcutmedicareeither36820
This is no great mystery. There’s a segment of the population that wants 1) zero taxes and 2) full govt programs for themselves (screw everybody else),…