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    01/13/2016 - 12:23
    John Hathaway, respected authority on the gold market and senior portfolio manager with Tocqueville Asset Management has written an excellent research paper on the fundamentals driving...
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    01/13/2016 - 14:32
    After all, in yesterday’s oil trading there were over 600,000 contracts trading hands on the Globex exchange Tuesday with over 1 million in estimated total volume at settlement.

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Obama Explains Why 'The Greatest Corporate Power Grab In History' Is "The Right Thing For America"

so important. It’s a trade deal that helps working families get ahead. At a time when 95 percent ... agreement also includes the highest labor standards of any trade deal in history. Provisions protecting ... commitments are enforceable -- meaning we can hold other countries accountable through trade sanctions if they ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/10/2015 - 09:25 - 216 comments - 0 attachments

Guest Post: "American Capitalism" No Longer Serves Society

ever-expanding government that can do nothing well. So, the world isn't perfect. So, the world isn't perfect. The world doesn't operate according to idealistic ideologies, which is why ... without capital (e.g. via barter or trade); capitalism employs debt financing, inventory holding or long ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/30/2015 - 22:25 - 162 comments - 0 attachments

Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As "Corporate Secrecy" Wins Again

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been finalized . As WSJ reports , the U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic accord Monday to lower trade barriers to goods and services ... to challenge China’s influence in the region (likely forcing their hand into separate trade ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 10/05/2015 - 16:46 - 185 comments - 0 attachments

Obama's Former Chief Economist Calls For An End To US Dollar Reserve Status

budget and trade deficits and inflating financial bubbles. To get the American economy on track, the ... In 2013, America’s trade deficit was about $475 billion. Its deficit with China alone was $318 ... managed trade, the United States is a willing participant through its efforts to keep the dollar as the ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 09/08/2014 - 21:51 - 434 comments - 0 attachments

Turkey's Erdogan Praises "Hitler's Germany" As Example Of Effective Government

of our major trading partners, to stay quiet, but we also say that our patience is limited.” ... http://awdnews.com/top-news/we-can-occupy-russia-in-seven-days I want a perfect world. One I want a perfect world. One without (you) jews. ... not only European land trade but international sea route trade. When Churchill headed the Royal ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/01/2016 - 12:01 - 140 comments - 0 attachments

The Eye Of The Hurricane Passes: Full List Of European Known Knowns As The New Quarter Begins

stocks are being halted due to rapid moves lower, the LTRO stigma trade is at 2012 wides, in short ... the economy which was never structural, so Europe had a relatively quiet quarter in terms of newsflow. ... dramatic turnaround over this quarter. However, in our view, it would be wrong to extrapolate an end to ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 04/01/2012 - 08:22 - 29 comments - 0 attachments

US Trade Deficit Soars In December As Strong Dollar Hurts Exports, Downward Q4 GDP Revisions Imminent

the annualized Q4 GDP print, which came in at nearly half the previous quarter run rate, or 2.6%, is about to tumble by another ~0.5% following the just released trade data for December which saw a 17.1% surge in the US trade deficit from $39 billion (revised to $39.8 billion) to a whopping $46.6 billion in ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 02/05/2015 - 08:51 - 47 comments - 0 attachments

Weimar Greece - The Effects Of A Currency Collapse

protective tariffs, not to protect specific industries, but to prevent excessive trade deficits. Sooner ... with trade Aint nothing wrong with trade its the coin thats busted. An energy backed coin controled ... could become a flood as countries pare down their US reserves no longer needed for international trade ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/07/2015 - 21:00 - 71 comments - 0 attachments

Global Trade Is "In The Doldrums", BofAML Says

into the second quarter.” Here’s more: Global trade of goods and ... We’ve spent a considerable amount of time discussing trends in global trade lately, touching on slumping metals demand and collapsing exports in China, sharp decreases in dry bulk trade, a prolonged ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/15/2015 - 16:45 - 17 comments - 0 attachments

SkyNet Is Almost Sentient: HFTs To Start Trading Bitcoin

their trade away from public venues (and dark pools) and as such are always looking for new, untapped ... for big profits in trading bitcoin . Translation: unprecedented volatility, which essentially crushed ... traders. Call it algos trading algos. Amusingly, the WSJ says that "their involvement could help ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 04/06/2015 - 10:36 - 121 comments - 0 attachments

Virtu's Second Attempt At Going Public Reveals Why FX Trading Is Now Impossible

1,485 trading days." It wasn't just Virtu's trading perfection, it was the fact that ... question on everyone's lips: which asset class was responsible for Virtu's trading perfection for yet ... responsible for Virtu's trading perfection for yet another year.  It wasn't stocks because adding across the ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 04/06/2015 - 08:54 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

An Angry Trader Rages: "There Is Nothing Normal About It"

sheets and where trillions in government bonds trade at negative rates. One attempt to capture the ... monetary policy events, i.e., buy the dip opportunities. France’s CAC-40 sold off the two trading days ... ;-) Quarter mil an hour to smile Quarter mil an hour to smile and say "we don't really have a ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/30/2015 - 08:20 - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Apple Tumbles To ETFlash Crash Levels, Saved (For Now) By Another Tim Cook Hail Mary Announcement

Apple's shares broke below $100 in pre-market trading as analyst downgrades and further ... not the entire truth.. and the market is trading back to levels it first crossed in August 2014 ... problem for 2-3 quarters at which unless there has been a dramatic improvement in the end-demand picture, ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/06/2016 - 09:10 - 44 comments - 0 attachments

Nomi Prins: Crony Capitalism & Corruption - An Entirely Rigged Political-Financial System

information, is a fallacy. Transparency in trading across global financial markets is a fallacy. Not only are ... on high frequency trading seems to have struck some sort of a national chord. Yet what he writes ... What's that Nomi? I was too busy staring at your tits. Sure, but in a perfect Sure, but in a ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/16/2015 - 19:30 - 100 comments - 0 attachments

Forget China: This Extremely "Developed" Country Just Suffered Its Biggest Money Outflow Ever

capital and the current account: a measure of national accounts that spans everything from trade to ... gate charges. Finally, the country is expected to post its 12th straight merchandise trade deficit ... system." Speaking of Retards... you seem a perfect avatar of one.  FACT:  The French that ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/02/2015 - 22:44 - 315 comments - 0 attachments

What Keeps Wall Street Up At Night (Quarterly Edition)

(Precious Metals, Sovereigns, Trading Strategies, Volatility, Wall of Worry) Two quarters ago it was the muni implosion, last quarter it was sovereigns blowing up (again). Now, it's oil, and ... "buy the dip" opportunity). Every quarter the prevailing investing and spec opinion focuses on ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/01/2011 - 16:16 - 164 comments - 0 attachments

A Shocked Wall Street Reacts To China's "Surprising" Devaluation

reserve currency fame, the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trade System, a part of the PBOC, made it very clear ... Expect at least a 15% reduction in Trade-Weighted terms in the coming weeks and months, especially if the ... Perfect impression of Mr. Perfect impression of Mr. Yellen driving the US financial market bus ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/06/2016 - 08:03 - 41 comments - 0 attachments

Bernie Sanders 'Reveals' The Real Cause Of Terrorism... Climate Change

perfectly good piece about climate change derailed and "punched up" by current events? The rhetoric as ... Bernie is the perfect Bernie is the perfect candidate.  Nothing he says makes sense so that you cannot ... No beleiver in carbon trading No beleiver in carbon trading propaganda climate change bull shit ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/15/2015 - 11:48 - 146 comments - 0 attachments

In No State Can A Minimum Wage Worker Afford A One Bedroom Apartment

have risen nationally for 23 straight quarters. As of the third quarter of 2014, rents were 15.2% ... renters in nine of the 11 cities between 2006 and 2013. In the fourth quarter of 2014, the ... apartment as seen on tv. they want the most expensive car, phone, clothes, quarters, etc. etc. to infinity ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 05/22/2015 - 18:30 - 187 comments - 0 attachments

GOP Debate Post-Mortem: "Chaos" Trump, "Full Vagina" Fiorina, & "Thug-Life" Cruz

hammer the shitty trade deals and maybe think outside the box a bit trying to jump start the economy / ... all to the poor and homeless of the world. One could hire third graders for quarters that better know ... shitty trade Yes... the shitty trade deals. We have folks that want to work for .20 an hour make our ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/15/2015 - 23:06 - 296 comments - 0 attachments

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