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Replace Your Home Office With A Cellphone: Deadbeat Carrier Creative Destruction In The Ongoing Mobile Computing Wars
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 05/23/2013 10:22 -0400The Mobile Computing Wars! There'll be a few big winners, and some horrendously damaged losers brought about mostly by undue greed and price gouging in lieu of creativity and innovation!
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Four Signs That We're Back In Dangerous Bubble Territory
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/22/2013 15:41 -0400- Bank of Japan
- Bond
- Central Banks
- Chris Martenson
- Consumer Confidence
- default
- Equity Markets
- ETC
- European Central Bank
- Fail
- Fisher
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Greece
- Gross Domestic Product
- Housing Bubble
- Housing Prices
- Irrational Exuberance
- Japan
- Krugman
- Market Crash
- Nikkei
- Paul Krugman
- Price Action
- Purchasing Power
- Reality
- recovery
- Sovereign Debt
- The Economist
- Unemployment
- Yen
As the global equity and bond markets grind ever higher, abundant signs exist that we are once again living through an asset bubble – or rather a whole series of bubbles in a variety of markets. This makes this period quite interesting, but also quite dangerous. This can be summarized in one sentence: How could this be happening again so soon?
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BoJ Ignores Worst April Trade Deficit Ever - Suggests "Economy Has Started Picking Up"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/21/2013 23:43 -0400
Surging nominal imports and a miss for exports just about sums up perfectly just how the reality of Abenomics is crushing the real economy as the market goes from strength to strength on the hope that recovery is just around the corner. For the 28th month in a row Japan trade deficit has dropped YoY and its 12-month average is now at its worst ever. Energy costs are driving up imports (and adjusted for the devaluation in the JPY, the data is simply horrendous. Of course, there are green shoots - CPI is not deflating as fast as it was... and 'some' inflation expectations are rising (though as we noted here that is simply due to the tax expectations). Contrary to expectations held by some in the bond market, the BOJ did not comment on the sharp fluctuation in JGB yields since April as a result of monetary relaxation - on the basis, we assume, that if they don't mention it, it never happened. The result post a nothing-burger of 'more uncertainty' from the BoJ, the Nikkei keeps screaming higher, JPY rallied then fell back, and JGBs are sliding higher in yield.
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Beware These Unseen “Friction” Costs!!
Submitted by Capitalist Exploits on 05/21/2013 18:16 -0400Brokers, placement agents, middle men, promoters, consultants, financial intermediaries…call them whatever you wish. They have existed in the financial space since man invented a way to exchange one thing of value for another.
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Guest Post: Centralization And Sociopathology
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/21/2013 12:31 -0400
Concentrated power and wealth are intrinsically sociopathological by their very nature. We have long spoken of the dangers inherent to centralization of power and the extreme concentrations of wealth centralization inevitably creates. There is another danger of centralization: sociopaths/psychopaths excel in organizations that centralize power, and their ability to flatter, browbeat and manipulate others greases their climb to the top. In effect, centralization is tailor-made for sociopaths gaining power. Nothing infuriates a sociopath or a sociopathological organization more than the exposure of their sociopathology, and so those in power will stop at nothing to silence, discredit, criminalize or eliminate the heroic whistleblower.
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Guest Post: Another Episode In The History Of Failed Manipulations
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/20/2013 19:40 -0400
In August of 2011, Argentina’s government slowly began to implement a series of actions destined to curtail the right of citizens to access US dollars (foreign exchange in general). The goal was and is to force savings into pesos, as pesos are after the taxable asset in a country that cannot access capital markets and fully monetizes its deficits. From that moment onward physical US dollars started to trade at a premium. First-hand experience on the ground in Patagonia confirm the irreversible damage caused by interventionist policies: Widespread poverty, abandoned infrastructure, scarcity of consumer goods, unseen unemployment and criminality, and the madness of hedging against inflation with the purchase of new cars. The streets of any forgotten small town in Patagonia are filled with brand new 4×4 vehicles that would be the envy of many in North America. We can now see that the sustainability of the manipulation in a segmented/broken foreign exchange market causes a negative carry, which would create a quasi-fiscal deficit in Argentina (i.e. the deficit of the Banco Central), fully opening the gates to hyperinflation.
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CBO - US Economy Set to Soar On Obamacare?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 05/18/2013 08:02 -0400My guess is that in 2-3 years most folks in the country are going to hate Obamacare, but it it will be impossible to get rid of by then.
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Wal-Mart Warns of a Slowdown
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 05/17/2013 13:26 -0400So much for the “recovery” theory. If you look at the real economy, things are getting worse and worse. When even Wal-Mart reports that people are spending less (remember that corporate email that February sales were a “disaster”?) you KNOW things are bad.
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Guest Post: Tune In, Turn On, Opt Out
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2013 12:14 -0400
What happens to everyone in the ruling Elites and those desperately trying to join the ruling Elites when the debt-serfs stop paying and the tax donkeys drift away to lower-cost, lower-income lifestyles? If you think Tune In, Turn On, Opt Out sounds ludicrous, check back in four years (2017) and eight years (2021) and see how many of your fellow debt-serfs and tax donkeys have quietly abandoned the bloated cost-structure, debt and derangement of the Neofeudal Debtocracy's twisted consumerist dream.
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Guest Post: The Trick To Suppressing Revolution: Keeping Debt/Tax Serfdom Bearable
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2013 21:49 -0400
Parasites must balance their drive to maximize what they extract from their host with the risk of losing everything by killing their host. This is the dilemma of the parasitic partnership of the central state and financial Elites everywhere: to extract the maximum possible in debt payments and taxes without sparking rebellion and revolution. The 30 million whose labor funds the parasitic status quo don't have to rebel; they simply have to stop going to work, stop starting enterprises, stop being productive. They just have to tire of being the host, tire of being debt-serfs, tire of being tax donkeys. The trick to suppressing revolution is to keep debt-tax serfdom bearable. The parasitic Elites are keeping the host going, but at a high cost in resiliency. Let's see how long the host lasts once a crisis hits.
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Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part II (Mechanics)
Submitted by Gold Standard Institute on 05/16/2013 00:47 -0400In this part, we discuss stocks vs. flows, how prices are formed in a market, a broad concept of arbitrage, spreads, and how money comes into and goes out of existence.
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Guest Post: Lions And Tigers And Terrorists, Oh My!
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/15/2013 21:33 -0400
The debate over what actions actually constitute “terrorism,” we believe, will become one of the defining ideological battles of our era. Terrorism is not a word often used by common people to describe aberrant behaviors or dastardly deeds; however, it is used by governments around the world to label and marginalize political enemies. That is to say, it is the government that normally decides who is a “terrorist” and who is a mere “criminal,” the assertion being that one is clearly far worse than the other. The more naïve subsections of our society will accept unConstitutional methods against the “radicalized” out of fear and conditioning, without realizing that the machinations of bureaucracy being used against those they hate could just as easily be used against them in the future.
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McDonald's Could do a Better Job!
Submitted by Capitalist Exploits on 05/15/2013 17:54 -0400| The United Nations is a corrupt, bureaucratic nightmare and should be abolished. Free market capitalism already does more of the UN mandate than the UN ever has or will. |
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No BaNK DePoSiTS WiLL Be SPaReD FRoM CoNFiSCaTioN
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 05/15/2013 08:40 -0400It will come as a shock to all of you to know that such daylight robbery is perfectly legal and this has been so for hundreds of years.
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Why Policy Has Failed
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/12/2013 13:04 -0400
Put down the Sunday newspaper; grab a pot of coffee; and call 'mom' and tell her she has to read this. Doug Rudisch has written a far-reaching summary of the true state of the world and 'why policy has failed'. Simply put, there is no faith in the system; real underlying faith and trust in the system, as opposed to the confidence born from economic steroid injections or entitlements. There also is a subtle but important distinction between faith and trust versus confidence. Faith and trust are longer term and more powerful concepts.There is more going on than a temporary lull in animal spirits that current fiscal and monetary policy will cure. If that was the case, it would be working already... We have ended up with a system where the worst of the risk takers have the ability to take the most risk and are currently taking it at extreme levels. We wish we could be more prescriptive and offer more solutions for the problems. But in order to solve a problem, you must first realize you have one. With respect to the Fed, we don’t think the U.S. realizes it has a problem.
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