Contributing Editors' Blog Entries

smartknowledgeu's picture

The Lies of Nouriel Roubini and Gold

European Central Bank Eurozone Futures market Global Economy Gold Bugs Greece Hyperinflation India Italy KIM Monetary Policy Nouriel Nouriel Roubini Portugal Quantitative Easing recovery SmartKnowledgeU Sovereigns Unemployment In November, NYU Professor Nouriel Roubini stated, “gold at $1,500 is utter nonsense.” In less than two years, gold was above $1,900. This week, the mad professor is back with his swiss-cheese logic and anti-gold rants.


Pivotfarm's picture

You Bankers!

Bond China Commodity Futures Trading Commission Fat Cats International Monetary Fund Joseph Stiglitz LIBOR Market Crash Market Manipulation United Kingdom There are times when some people bite their own nose of just to spite their face. According to a report that has just been published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the people working in the financial sector in 120 different countries in the world think in the overriding majority of cases that they are paid far too much for what they do. Were they serious?


Capitalist Exploits's picture

How Traffic Jams Can Lead us to Profit

ETC Rising incomes and increasing levels of disposable income can be seen visibly in the increased traffic congestion in South East Asia. This is one way to play it.


williambanzai7's picture

OK FoLKS, IT'S TiMe To PLaY BiLDeRBeRG SQuaReD 2013!

It's a big club, and you ain't in it...--George Carlin


testosteronepit's picture

Japanese Prime Minister Speaks, Stocks Dive In Sympathy

Bank of Japan China Consumer Prices Dallas Fed Fisher Japan Mexico Nikkei Purchasing Power Richard Fisher Unemployment Not exactly a ringing endorsement of his hodgepodge of old ideas and new contradictions.


Phoenix Capital Research's picture

Stocks Are On the Edge of a Cliff

BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics Gross Domestic Product Housing Market Obamacare If we take out this trendline, stocks could easily go to 1,450. And if things get really ugly we could even see a Crash (though that would likely come later in the Autumn based on historic patterns).


GoldCore's picture

India Should Monetise 20,000 Metric Tonnes Of Gold

British Pound Capital Markets India International Monetary Fund Meltdown Money Supply Real Interest Rates Twitter World Gold Council India should monetise their huge gold stockpiles of over 20,000 metric tonnes according to the World Gold Council (WGC) as reported by Bloomberg this morning. “In the long term gold could be monetized as a financial asset," Aram Shishmanian, the CEO of the WGC said in India overnight. The World Gold Council has approached the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to work with it so that bullion could be used as a financial asset, rather than just a physical asset. 


Pivotfarm's picture

2013: Stock Market Crash!

Bond Charles Nenner China Corruption Federal Reserve Foreclosures Gundlach Housing Market Hyperinflation International Monetary Fund Joseph Stiglitz Market Crash Sovereign Debt Stress Test Unemployment If we are to believe what they said, then this is the year. 2013! It’s going to happen.. The stock-market is ready to crash yet again this year and this time it’s going to be a big one. Let’s take a look at what was said, when, why and by whom.


Pivotfarm's picture

The IMF: Magnanimous

Bond China Consumer Confidence European Central Bank Eurozone Greece Gross Domestic Product Hyperinflation International Monetary Fund Joseph Stiglitz National Debt Unemployment It never ceases to amaze that we vote people into positions. Those people that we have voted in elect in turn (or just go ahead and appoint without an election, making it all look very transparent) other people who are not as important but who will have the possibility of choosing (apparently in an “open, merit-based, and transparent manner”) someone who will be more important than they are, but less important than the first person that is in the voting/appointment chain. 


williambanzai7's picture

2013...

national security Obama Administration Verizon “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking [2013].” --George Orwell, 1984


Pivotfarm's picture

Cameron, Tax Havens and the G8

Bond China France Germany Gross Domestic Product Hyperinflation International Monetary Fund Ireland Joseph Stiglitz Transparency United Kingdom The UK Prime Minister, David Cameron has convened a meeting with ministers from overseas territories (Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands) in London it has been announced.


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