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GIH: New York now taking steps against “HFT” High Frequency Trading. If so called “High Frequency Trading” is not the best that capitalism can offer – than what is? On the surface, they are attacking firms that have a so called ‘preferred’ access to information. But trading by nature is information warfare. Do the policies […]
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GIH: Corporate insider activity is always a good indicator of market sentiment; now insiders are most bearish in 24 years. The implication is that they have a pulse on the market, their own internal operations, and high quality information from their partners. Just last week Goldman noted that February was “the busiest month in the buyback desk’s […]
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GIH: The SEC is dealing with a new generation of digital ‘boiler rooms’ – email lists & forums that present misleading information to lure investors. “AwesomePennyStocks” was apparently one of the largest such newsletters, promoting otherwise worthless companies many times dumping their own shares as the price rise. Sadly, many clients don’t bother to do […]
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GIH: Shocking information has come forth that government officials responsible for cybersecurity initiatives do not have basic knowledge about the internet, such as what an “ISP” is. How can those who know nothing about a topic regulate or execute it? One of the world’s leading cyberwarfare experts has warned of the damaging lack of government […]
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GIH: Can income inequality actually be a major factor, if not the primary cause, of complete civilization collapse? It can, according to a NASA funded study. While many see the struggle of haves and have nots as ethical, or somehow sociological, actually it can be about survival for our species. In a similar way how […]
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GIH: As more information comes out about various spy agencies and their cyber divisions, it seems that those such as the NSA pose a larger threat to internet security than the hackers they are supposedly protecting us from. The following information should make any user of the internet, be it a business or individual or […]
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GIH: The ex-Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says that ‘overconfidence’ created the financial crisis. As any Fed Chair, has he become victim of his own Fedspeak training? Isn’t confidence good for markets, and fear is bad? Don’t we worry the investors will have ‘fears’ and depart markets, and spend significant efforts to restore their confidence? From […]
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GIH: Is the Ukrainian revolution a Slavic version of the occupy movement? Now that a new government has been installed, documents are surfacing showing that the former president (claiming to be the current president but in another country..Russia) squandered away billions, hiding in various offshore banks and building a lavish lifestyle for himself and his […]
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GIH: Click fraud is nothing new, but Facebook seems to be taking it to an entirely new level, according to this account of a small business operator who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for fake profile likes, with no accounting of where his money went. Now being a public company, this cannot be written […]
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GIH: Alarming information has been brought forth as part of an ongoing disclosure regarding activities of NSA and other intelligence agencies. The following should be alarming for anyone using the internet – especially businesses, governments, and other organizations. What SEO managers and forum administrators have suspected for years, government agent ‘shills’ are infecting the internet […]
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