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Nearly four years after Zero Hedge first suggested an HFT tax should punish algos that “churned” quotes and blasted empty bids and offers to stimulate “momentum ignition [12]” strategies, and generally corrupt market structure in a way that lead to both the flash crash, the BATS IPO farce, the FaceBook IPO debacle and the Nasdaq 3 […]
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The Buffets and the Gates of the US will be shedding a few tears this week as the United States and Switzerland have reached an agreement that brings the status of the latter as a tax haven for Americans (or will they?). No more hiding their cash away in Swiss banks. No more tax avoidance […]
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Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog, We assume the existing hyper-structures of our centralized state-cartel economies will deliver us jobs, happiness, wealth, health and financial security. They will not. Correspondent Simon H.’s insightful essay is not just a critique of our current centralized economies but an outline of a community-based alternative economy that offers freedom […]
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Lessons from online learning Will traditional university lectures one day be a thing of the past? Every time a new medium comes along, visionaries proclaim that education is about to be revolutionised. They did it when the cinema started more than 100 years ago. Then they said that radio would change everything. And TV. And […]
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Citizens of India have been watching, in stunned amazement, as over the past month the local currency has lost an unprecedented 15% of its value, with a record plunge taking place just last night [5]. And, as so often happens, the population habituated to a government “acting in its best interests” is asking itself – how could we […]
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Earlier we showed one indicator of the US investor’s (should they exist anymore) loss of interest [4] in the Federal-Reserve-sponsored equity market – i.e. CNBC ratings at 20-year lows. In the interest of being more fair-and-balanced we present anther perspective… US equity trading volume in August of 2013 is the lowest on average in 16 years… and all-time highs, middle-east war, taper, […]
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It has been a while since Albert Edwards updated the world on his macro and market thoughts. He finally does so today with a tour de force on the crash in the emerging markets, which for him exposes the “idiocy of one of the key investment themes since the 2008 Great Recession – namely that […]
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By Ronald L. Ray Hungary is making history of the first order. Not since the 1930s in Germany has a major European country dared to escape from the clutches of the Rothschild-controlled international banking cartels. This is stupendous news that should encourage nationalist patriots worldwide to increase the fight for freedom from financial tyranny. Already in 2011, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán promised to […]
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By: DeepCaster_LLC “Our estimates of prospective risk are surging… “At present, we have what might best be characterized as a broken speculative peak, in that market internals (particularly interest-sensitive groups), breadth and leadership have broken down uniformly following an extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndrome. “If you recall, the market also recovered to new highs in October […]
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As we pointed out first, the Nasdaq outage can be directly and indirectly traced to action in Apple stock from mere minutes (when it suddenly dropped to under $500) to just over an hour before the Tape C halt was announced. And while the plunge below $500 may have been the proximal cause for the lock […]
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