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UFC Blew Goldmine Business Opportunity with Mega Super-Fight
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/24/2013 15:15 -0500This is one of the classic business and marketing failures of 2013.
Housing Market Setting Up for Another Crash
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/18/2013 06:25 -0500All that glitter is not gold.
Nick Saban: The First $10 Million Coach? (Now $7.5 Million Man)
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/14/2013 10:22 -0500All things considered it has been quite a nice year for Nick Saban with two salary raises in one calendar year without even winning the SEC.
Stock Buybacks at Market All-Time Highs: Poor Use of Corporation Capital
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/12/2013 14:48 -0500When I heard Kyle Bass discussing one of the reasons he was investing in Herbalife is because of possible future stock buybacks at all-time highs – I just shake my head as this isn`t going to end well folks!
401K Investors Should Move to Cash
Submitted by EconMatters on 12/07/2013 11:23 -0500Don`t fall in love with market exposure as even Wall Street Sharks get eaten alive in financial markets.
Is Janet Yellen Smarter Than Me?
Submitted by EconMatters on 11/30/2013 10:20 -0500There are a couple of disturbing points that came out of her take on bubbles and the rationale behind not tapering a mere 10 or 15 Billion dollars given the monthly commitment of 85 Billion in Fed Purchases every month.
U.S. Oil Supplies in Storage Set to Pass the 400 Million Threshold
Submitted by EconMatters on 11/29/2013 11:15 -0500Can the US hit the 9.5 million barrels per day passing the historical trend of 9 million barrels per day mark in 2014? And if so what does this mean for Global Oil prices?
U.S. To Reach Real Debt Limit in March (or June) 2014
Submitted by EconMatters on 11/21/2013 00:23 -0500CBO estimates that U.S. may be able to push the debt ceiling deadline to as late as June of next year, but OECD is already freaking out about the prospect of a U.S. debt ceiling bind....
U.S. Structural Jobs Paradigm
Submitted by EconMatters on 11/06/2013 17:34 -0500Think of Jobs Outsourcing or Offshoring as a vast wealth transfer from the richer nations to the poorer nations mainly on the backs of the ‘middle of the bell curve’ in terms of jobs.
Bubble That Everyone Admits is a Bubble
Submitted by EconMatters on 11/05/2013 19:27 -0500This is one of the few times where the benefactors or professionals who benefit from the bubbles, fully and openly acknowledge that stock prices and certain other asset classes are completely divorced from fundamental valuations.
Google vs Facebook Vying for Global Internet Dominance
Submitted by EconMatters on 10/05/2013 18:29 -0500While it is not surprising to see the apparent supreme dominance of Google and Facebook on the Web, the more important question is global data privacy and the related measures.
Tesla: Where Retail Investors Rushing in and Nest Eggs Cracking
Submitted by EconMatters on 09/28/2013 23:31 -0500Every year there seems to be a few momentum stocks defying logic, reality while bleeding all shorts getting in the way. This year, Tesla Motor is one such stock.
US Oil Imports Hit 13 Year Lows
Submitted by EconMatters on 07/21/2013 21:14 -0500The world can only build so much storage to store extra supply; at some point demand has to eat up this extra supply.
Ban Goldman Sachs from Playing in Commodity Markets
Submitted by EconMatters on 07/21/2013 13:45 -0500The bigger question is why it's taken 5 since after the financial crisis to realize these big banks are bad market participants?
President Obama Could Give Middle Class a Bailout with SPR Release
Submitted by EconMatters on 07/20/2013 10:42 -0500We bail everybody else out in this country, why not middle-class Americans via an SPR Release to counter high prices at the pump?
