Frontrunning: August 2

• U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets (Wired)
• Analysis - FX intervention may be a losing game (Reuters)
• Big investors fear inflation (WSJ)
• Time to Buy Dollars as Euro Economies Reach Limits of Austerity (Bloomberg)
• Japan Limits Forex Trades of ‘Mrs Watanabes’ (FT) perhaps the record vol in FX seen over the past 2 months will finally decline, although nobody is holding their breath
• Bernanke recouped personal losses in 2009 (Reuters)
• Talk On High-Speed Trading Hacks Pulled From Security Conference (Forbes)
• Just because generating profits based on "optimistic projections" about debt writedowns is a guaranteed way to generate value, HSBC and BNP profits "beat" forecast after bad debts tumble (Reuters)
• For good economic forecasts try flipping a coin (Bloomberg)
• Lending to Businesses Must Come Before Bonuses, Banks Are Warned (Guardian)
• Japan July New Vehicle Sales Slow To +15.0% Y/Y; June +20.6% (iMarketNews) as Spain's Car Sales drop 24% in July (Xinhua)
• Bernanke Faces US Growth Mysteries (FT)
• Rising Wages Rattle China's Small Manufacturers (WSJ)
• More on the huge debt roll issue that nobody cares about - Banks on Europe's Edge Face $122 Billion Refinancing Bill (Bloomberg)
• China Manufacturing Faces `Slowdown, Not a Meltdown' (Bloomberg)
• Goldman defends collateral calls to AIG (Reuters)

Comments

[Spitzer]

Time to sell bonds while dry throat Gross is buying them.

[Pamela Anderson]

Short USD/JPY

[anynonmous]

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets  

which begs the question why does ZH require commenters to register?

and then there is the world of tracking

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870397700457539317343221906...

but at least ZH doesn't show up on this site

http://www.privacychoice.org/site/

e.g. type in cnbc.com, etc

[GIANTKILR]

If I remember right, ZH has the same password structure requirements (ie: number & capital letter) as the USAJobs web site.....coincidence?

[anynonmous]

.....coincidence?

I think not, to wit:  Project Mayhem now resides at a CIA black site

[defender]

Thus proving that even the CIA want this farce to end.

[ATTILA THE WIMP]

All roads lead to London

Michael Hayden is the Director of the CIA and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The Council on Foreign Relations is a clone of the London-headquartered Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). Richard Haass is the President of the CFR and the guy who does all the day-to-day donkey work at the CFR and he is a Bilderberger and he was a Rhodes Scholar who was trained at Oxford.

[funnyking]

Hallo, it is only my impression or the dollar is simply melting. Only Gold have to meet the party.

[GIANTKILR]

Bernanke recouped personal losses in 2009 (Reuters)

This is why they will never let the system crash; to many rich, powerful people would lose a lot of wealth!

[VK]

Crashes are not a choice. It will happen when enough momentum is generated and then it simply becomes unstoppable.

[Oh regional Indian]

When big investors "Say" they fear inflation, it MUST mean they actually fear deflation.

They are historically on the right side of the bet, which in true casinoesque fashion, is always played with loaded dice.

China rattled. China is really getting rattled. Three gorges is full to the brim and leaking.

It'll always be the outlier that generates the biggest impact. That is why they are outliers. 

And we're living the "tail".

ORI

http://aadivaahan.wordpress.com

[Spitzer]

I agree, dry throat is probably selling treasurys.

[DosZap]

No, they meant what it says..........

Capital Inflows.

Remember that word.

This will be the catalyst that starts Hyper Inflation, everone n their dogs are expecting Deflation.....Shazzzzzzzzzzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam.

[Gobsmacked]

the WSJ headline is wrong. It should read "Big Investors Fear Deflation". (no sarcasm)