Frontrunning: April 1

• Typical headline these days: Euro weakens, Greek bonds slump on funding concern; stocks gain (Bloomberg)
• LBO capital raising plummets 81% from peak in 2008 (Bloomberg)
• Times gropes at hope with talk of job surge (Post)
• The man who knew all about Repo 105 even as our own Fed was retarded, RBA's Glen Stevens hikes discount rate to 4.25% to cool his overextracting economy - watch for the AUD carry trade (Bloomberg)
• A Florida doctor has told patients who voted for Barack Obama that they should seek care elsewhere (RCM)
• California's $500-billion pension time bomb (LA Times)
• Mighty America's 5 stages of rapid decline (MarketWatch)
• Tanker rates seen sinking 35% amid refinery cutbacks (Bloomberg)
• The adventures of G-man (Alhambra)
• UK market truce ends May 7 (WSJ)
• Treasury yield rise slowed as currency reserves grow (Bloomberg)
• Goldman says to sell bonds (you just have to sort through the reverse psychology): ‘Unloved’ junk debt may be best bond investment (Bloomberg)
• The other side to the "Collateral Murder" debate (Weekly Standard)
• Traders beat street CEOs in pay (WSJ)
• Academics ready to crush old economic theories with a new reality (TimesOnline)

Comments

[Mad Max]

CBS Marketwatch is putting out some surprisingly gloomy stories given their position and affiliation.  Not to say they aren't on point, but are they slipping past the censors, desperate for ratings, or being used to start numbing the public?

[Alexandra Hamilton]

Frontrunning April 1? I must be ahead of time then...

[Miles Kendig]

Academics ready to crush old economic theories with a new reality

It should read; "Academics refuse to acknowledge that state power will always "interfere" in markets, especially when state power is controlled by market power". 

[Mr Lennon Hendrix]

April Fools!  Gold is totally overvalued, so is silver.  Buy some USTs.  Buy some "MA" GAGA CDs.  Watch Idull.  Have fun!  Because everyone has a GREEN CHUTE, RIGHT?

[mark456]

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