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With the story of the day undoubtedly Yellen’s first (bungled) press conference, it was easy to forget that the second coming of the Cold War is raging in the Ukraine. For those curious what they may have missed, here is a summary of the major events that took place in the troubled country this afternoon. […]
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Submitted by Tim Staermose of Sovereign Man blog [8], Forget tapering. Forget Ukraine. The largest single risk to the world economy and financial markets right now is China. What’s going on in China reminds me a lot of what I witnessed firsthand when I lived in South Korea in the 1990s, before that economy’s crash in 1998. […]
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By George Friedman The fall of the Ukrainian government and its replacement with one that appears to be oriented toward the West represents a major defeat for the Russian Federation. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia accepted the reality that the former Eastern European satellite states would be absorbed into the Western economic and political systems. Moscow […]
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Something hilarious, and at the same time pathetic, happened earlier today: at precisely 9 am the US Treasury released its delayed Treasury International Capital data (which was supposed to be released yesterday but was delayed because it snowed) which disclosed all the latest foreign Treasury holdings for the month of January. Among the key numbers […]
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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: We are led to believe that by installing a certificate, or by other common security practices, we are safe. The following shows that this may not be the case, especially considering the vulnerabilities of HTTPS protocol, the commonly accepted ‘safe’ way to browse: In this day and age of well-known NSA spying, everyone keeps […]
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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: China now facing similar problems as the US, with market bubbles in many sectors. Ghost cities, a drop in exports, and a bond bubble, are putting pressure on the previously high growth economy. Americans usually concerned with the possibility of China dumping US Treasuries as some kind of economic warfare. But if China’s economy […]
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