Archive - 2013 - Blog entry
October 22nd
France Summons US Ambassador in Snowden Affair
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/22/2013 15:21 -0500It’s all for play isn’t it when the French Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls summons the US Ambassador?
Wallowing in Fed-Induced Stock Market Delirium, Even Texas Instruments Admits: Stocks Are Overpriced
Submitted by testosteronepit on 10/22/2013 14:14 -0500Stocks balloon, we’re incessantly told, because revenues and earnings rise. But what if they sag for years, and the stock still balloons?
The Legends Vote With Their Feet
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 10/22/2013 12:42 -0500These men are masters of the capital markets. They are voting with their feet and pulling their capital out of them.
You Break the Law Every Day ... Without Even Knowing It
Submitted by George Washington on 10/22/2013 11:08 -0500You May Think You Have Nothing to Hide ... But You Are Still Breaking Laws Which Government Spying Could Discover and Use Against You
October 21st
Even Quality Will Be Sold When Things Get Messy
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 10/21/2013 18:43 -0500
The macro picture for the world is dangerous. And high quality companies will not be spared the carnage if a market onslaught begins (which is looking increasingly likely).
US Still Living on Borrowed Time
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/21/2013 18:42 -0500Dreams usually come to an end when we get to the good part. The juiciest part of the American dream has ended too
The Cargo Problem
Submitted by Econophile on 10/21/2013 15:32 -0500Why are we so rich and the poor so poor? Econophile takes a look at Kenya as a laboratory of bad ideas and how to fix it.
U.S. National Debt Over $17 Trillion - Surges $328 Billion In A Single Day
Submitted by GoldCore on 10/21/2013 11:53 -0500If Obama’s budget projections prove accurate, the National Debt will top $20 trillion in 2016, the final year of his second term. That would mean the National Debt increased by 87%, or $9.34 trillion, during his two terms.
NSA Busted Conducting Industrial Espionage In France, Mexico, Brazil, China and All Around the World
Submitted by George Washington on 10/21/2013 11:46 -0500The Spying Has Been Going On For DECADES
October 20th
The Debt Ceiling Was Hit Back in May... So Why Did It Become a Crisis Five Months Later
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 10/20/2013 18:20 -0500
The only problem is that this entire “crisis” was a lie. The US actually hit its debt ceiling back in May 2013, a full five months ago.At that time neither the Treasury Department, nor the White House, nor Congress talked about this.
(In)Direct Slavery: We’re All Guilty
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/20/2013 13:38 -0500As we sit in our comfortable living rooms, loafing back into our sofas, munching on a bar of chocolate and slurping down the coffee whilst checking the smartphone for message most of us have little idea that the chocolate, the coffee and the smartphone were made by resorting to indirect slavery quite probably.
Investment Climate in Six Points
Submitted by Marc To Market on 10/20/2013 08:00 -0500Dispassionate discussion of some of the vexing issues.
October 19th
JaMMiN' WiTH BaNKSY(s)...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 10/19/2013 21:39 -0500Banzai7 helps Banksy with a Bloomberg Gulp of political relevance...
