Fed Keeps Buying Bonds, But Sees Economic Risks Easing
Yahoo! Finance | 19 June 2013
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday said risks to the outlook for the U.S. economy and job market…
Bond Investors Head for the Hills
Yahoo! Finance | 19 June 2013
Signs of a stronger U.S. economy are rippling through the bond markets…
Did Bain and 9 Wall Street Firms Conspire to Slash Stock Prices of Companies They Raided?
The Washington Spectator | 03 May 2013
Private equity is poised to embark on a new era of leveraged buyouts…
World Economic Group Calls for Global Exchange of Tax Information to Fight Evasion
The Washington Post | 17 June 2013
A top world economic group has called for the creation of a global system…
3-D Printing Set to Be This Generation’s ‘Moon Shot’ Moment
CNBC | 18 June 2013
Wisconsin Precision Casting makes metal parts that go into larger objects…
Duke Grad Student Secretly Lived In a Van to Escape Loan Debt
Yahoo! Finance | 10 June 2013
By the time Ken Ilgunas was wrapping up his last year of undergraduate studies…
Gas Prices, Consumption, And Why The Average American Is Being Left Behind
Zero Hedge | 08 June 2013
The summer driving season is upon us…
The Virtual Economy: Potential, Perplexities and Promises United States Institute of Peace
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network | 13 June 2013
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Entitlement America And The High Cost Of “Free”
Zero Hedge | 16 June 2013
Almost three years ago we first highlighted the real math behind the surging entitlement class…
ECRI Recession Watch: New Update
Advisor Perspectives | 14 June 2013
The Weekly Leading Index (WLI) of the Economic Cycle Research Institute…
Detroit’s Creditors Are Asked to Accept Pennies on the Dollar
The New York Times | 14 June 2013
The emergency manager who was sent to reverse the fortunes of this financially troubled city…
GAO Blames Loan-Loss Rule for Small Bank Failures
Reuters | 13 June 2013
The failure of more than 400 community banks through the financial crisis…
IMF Urges Repeal of ‘Ill-Designed’ U.S. Fiscal Cuts
Reuters | 14 June 2013
The International Monetary Fund urged the United States on Friday…
What Abenomics Tells Us About the Great Bond Market Asset Bubble
The Telegraph | 10 June 2013
Japan is going for broke with Shinzo Abe’s “three arrows” plan…
How Will the Next Few Years be Characterized? Inflation, Deflation or Both?
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Venezuela on the Brink of Hyperinflation
EconoMonitor | 14 June 2013
The Central Bank of Venezuela recently reported an inflation rate…
Treasury Sales By Foreigners Hit Record High In April
Zero Hedge | 14 June 2013
The monthly TIC (foreign capital flows) data gets less respect than it should…
US Budget Deficit Widens $139 Billion in May
Fox News | 12 June 2013
The government reported Wednesday that the U.S. budget deficit widened in May by $139 billion…
Italian Showdown with Germany Over Euro Looms Closer
The Telegraph | 12 June 2013
Something snapped in the Italian psyche last week after the European Central Bank…
Global Tumult Grips Markets
The Wall Street Journal | 11 June 2013
The tectonic plates of the world economy are shifting…
CBO: Debt-Limit Boost Can Wait Until Possibly November
The Hill | 11 June 2013
Congress will have until October or even November before the nation is in danger of defaulting on its debt…
Staffing, Succession Emerge as Top CPA Firm Concerns
Journal of Accountancy | 11 June 2013
Succession planning and staffing joined new client acquisition and dealing with the complexities of rapidly changing tax regulations…
Analysis: Asia’s Ticking Time Bonds; Time to Cut and Run?
Reuters | 12 June 2013
Efforts to make the global financial system safer could be making Asia more – not less – vulnerable…
GM Boosts Exports of China-Built Cars to Supply Emerging Markets
Reuters | 03 June 2013
General Motors Co, the biggest foreign automaker be sales in China…
Emerging Markets Will Soon Make up 50% of World Economy
CBCNews | 10 June 2013
The global economy is recovering but won’t take place in the same way it has in the past…
U.S. Bond Funds Suffer Second-Most Redemptions Since 1992
Bloomberg | 07 June 2013
U.S. bond funds suffered their second-worst withdrawals last week…
Short Interest Surges in EM Bond ETF
Yahoo! Finance | 10 June 2013
Talk that the Federal Reserve will begin winding down its $85 billion-per-month asset-buying activities…
Advising Clients Regarding Erroneous Tax Return Positions: Part I
AICPA | 01 June 2013
Tax practitioners occasionally uncover or otherwise become aware of errors…
Beware of Sideways Markets
Institutional Investor | 28 May 2013
In early May I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Value Investing Congress…
Nashville Symphony Facing Foreclosure, Performance Center Set to be Auctioned on June 28
The Republic | 06 June 2013
Foreclosure proceedings have been initiated against the Nashville Symphony…
JPMorgan ‘Afraid’ of Emerging Selloff Impact on Banks
Bloomberg | 07 June 2013
The emerging market selloff sparked by speculation the Federal Reserve…
EU Slaps Levies on Chinese Solar Panel Imports
USA Today | 04 June 2013
The European Union announced Tuesday that it is imposing anti-dumping levies…
Gold Going to More of a Sound Money System – Catherine Austin Fitts
USAWatchdog | 05 June 2013
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder of The Solari Report, points out the world is buying physical gold…
AIG & GM Complete Their Comebacks With Addition to S&P Indexes
Yahoo! Finance | 04 June 2013
After nearly five years since their original index exile…
Brazil Scraps Foreign Investment Tax as Real Hits Four-Year Low
Bloomberg | 04 June 2013
Brazil will eliminate its foreign investment tax on fixed income…
Where the U.S. Economy Is Still No. 1
Yahoo! Finance | 04 June 2013
There’s a familiar litany of problems with the American economy…
Pension Bonds Rejected as Water Deal Aids Allentown: Muni Credit
Bloomberg | 19 May 2013
Allentown, Pennsylvania, is leasing its water and sewer systems instead of borrowing to fund pension payments…
The Best ‘Inferior’ Companies in the Market
CNBC | 21 May 2013
Most people generally don’t associate terms like “inferiority” or “inefficiency” with innovation…
Sallie Mae Split Marks Bet on Much-Abused Private Student Loans
Bloomberg | 31 May 2013
Sallie Mae (SLM), the largest U.S. education-finance company, is making a bet on the future of private student debt…
Madoff and the “Aggressively Clueless” SEC
Reader Supported News | 02 June 2013
More and more embarrassing stories of keep leaking out of the SEC…
The Real Reason Millennials Don’t Buy Cars and Homes
Yahoo! Finance | 31 May 2013
They’re narcissistic. Apathetic. Pampered. And addicted to their four-inch screens…
Gundlach: Gibson, Gas and Governments (Part 2)
The Street | 28 May 2013
I recently sat down with DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach to discuss his thoughts on what the central banks are doing…
New BoE Chief Carney Will Devalue Sterling, Pimco Warns
The Telegraph | 29 May 2013
Growth in Britain is going to remain “challenged” for the next three to five years…
Monetary Rapture: The Incredible Disappearing Gold Inventories – Ocean Receding
Jesse’s Café Américain | 23 May 2013
Gold is flowing from weaker hands to stronger hands, from speculators to central banks and wealthy investors…
FDIC to Reserve Oil, Gas & Mineral Rights
Smith & Associates Title Service Inc. | 02 April 2013
The FDIC announced last week that it will implement a program to reserve oil, gas and mineral rights…
Disappearing Subsidiaries: The Cases of Google and Oracle
Social Science Research Network | 06 March 2013
From 2009 to 2010, 98 percent of Google’s and 99 percent of Oracle’s subsidiaries disappeared…
Goldman Sachs Research Disputes ‘Too Big to Fail’ Bank Subsidy
Yahoo! Finance | 22 May 2013
Bond investors don’t perceive the six biggest U.S. banks as “too big to fail”…
Harvard Management president/CEO’s Pay Jumps 52% in 2011
Pensions & Investments | 16 May 2013
Jane Mendillo, president and CEO of Harvard Management Co…
A Conversation with Economic Provocateur Catherine Austin Fitts
CODEpdx | 06 May 2013
Catherine Austin Fitts has been to the halls of power and has the battle scars to prove it…
Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
The Daily Bell | 21 May 2013
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events…
Money Has to Serve, Not to Rule – Pope
Times of Malta | 16 May 2013
Pope Francis issued a strong call for world financial reform on Thursday…
Lower Energy and Food Costs Fuel Big Drop in Wholesale Prices
Los Angeles Times | 15 May 2013
Big drops in the cost of food and energy pushed wholesale prices down 0.7% in April…
U.S. Oil Production to Shock Global Energy Markets: IEA Report
Yahoo! Finance | 14 May 2013
The boom in North American energy (primarily related to shale in the US and oil sands in Canada) is one of the biggest stories in the global economy…
Chinese Creating New Auto Niche Within Detroit
The New York Times | 12 May 2013
Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit…
Regulations and Enforcement High on List of In-House Counsel Woes
Compliance Week | 10 May 2013
An unstable economy and the growing volume of global regulations are the biggest business threats…
U.S. Posts Widest Monthly Surplus Since 2008 on Revenue
Bloomberg | 10 May 2013
The U.S. posted its widest budget surplus in five years in April as an improving economy swelled tax revenue…
IPOs Set to Raise Most Cash Since Crisis
The Wall Street Journal | 12 May 2013
U.S. companies are on track to raise the most money through initial public offerings since before the financial crisis…
Currencies – Wild Volatility In More Than The Yen
The Canadian Technician | 10 May 2013
This chart of the currencies that make up the $USD has been shown before…
Economists: Fed Will Taper Bond Purchases This Year
The Wall Street Journal | 10 May 2013
More than half of the 49 economists who participated in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey believe…
Bill Gross: Bull Market in Bonds Is Over
The Wall Street Journal | 10 May 2013
Bill Gross said the three-decade bull run in bonds ended last week…
Argentina’s Deadbeat Special: Buy a 4% Bond or Go to Jail
Bloomberg | 10 May 2013
President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wants tax evaders…
As Stocks Rise, Frustrated Investors Vent About Ben Bernanke
Yahoo! Finance | 10 May 2013
Earlier this week, a bunch of high-profile investors presented ideas at the Ira Sohn Investment Conference…
ROSENBERG: The Fed Is Trying Like Crazy, But Nothing It’s Doing Can Save The Economy
Business Insider | 05 May 2013
David Rosenberg, the veteran Wall Street economist and bearish strategist at Gluskin Sheff…
Report to the House Committee on Ways and Means on Present Law and Suggestions for Reform Submitted to the Tax Reform Working Groups
The Joint Committee on Taxation | 06 May 2013
On February 13, 2013, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp…
Financial Empire and the Global Debtors’ Prison
Information Clearing House | 08 May 2013
Let there be no doubt about it: we live in the era of Financial Empire…
Marketplace Fairness Act: What Does the Internet Sales Tax Bill Mean For You?
The Guardian | 08 May 2013
For years retailers have complained that their online rivals in the US have an unfair tax advantage…
China Names Yuan Convertibility Plan Among This Year’s Goals
Bloomberg | 07 May 2013
China signaled it will propose plans this year to allow freer flows of its currency…
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Business Insider | 05 May 2013
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Financial Perspectives | 06 May 2013
Updating a post I did last year on the nation’s wealth gap, I thought the article published by the Washington Post last week was a worthy sequel…
Property and Casualty Insurers – Bond Quality Tumbles to Record Low
Weiss Ratings | 01 May 2013
Two numbers sum up the emerging crisis facing property and casualty (P&C) insurers: record low net yield on invested assets and a record high level of junk bonds…span style=”font-size: 12px; color: gray;”
Caribbean Bank Accounts are Next IRS Target
USA Today | 30 April 2013
Opening a new front in the U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion…
Investing: The Option They Never Told You About
The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia | 29 April 2013
Maximum security, maximum return. Who doesn’t want that?
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Rolling Stone | 25 April 2013
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati…
Argentines Fear Major Devaluation of the Peso and Dollar Sets New Record at 9.34
Merco Press | 27 April 2013
Fears of a devaluation of the Argentine Peso has intensified the demand…
AR-15s Flying Off Shelves Amid Gun Control Fears
Yahoo! Finance | 25 April 2013
At the GunRunners Gun Show outside Atlanta, the line stretches out the door and around the corner…
Jon Corzine Sued by MF Global Trustee
CNN | 23 April 2013
Jon Corzine and two lieutenants at MF Global were sued Tuesday over the collapse of the commodity trading firm in 2011…
Lots of Cash, Few Alternatives
The Wall Street Journal | 22 April 2013
It was an exodus that didn’t happen…
Europe Should See a Strong 2H, Helping to Alleviate Global Growth Concerns
Financial Sense | 19 April 2013
One of the concerns of late is the weakness in commodities and what that portends in terms of global growth going forward…
SEC Money-Market Fund Proposal Two Months Away, Gallagher Says
Bloomberg | 09 April 2013
New rules to reduce risk in money- market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months…
John Hussman: The Endgame Is Forced Liquidation
Guru Focus | 22 April 2013
The May 2000 Big Money Poll was published with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 10733.91…
Data Shift to Lift US Economy by 3%
CNBC | 22 April 2013
The U.S. economy will officially become 3 percent bigger in July as part of…
Three Fed Presidents Say Disinflation May Prompt Easing
Bloomberg | 18 April 2013
Three regional Federal Reserve bank presidents said a further decline in U.S. inflation…
G20 Backs Off Austerity Drive, Rejects Hard Debt Cut Targets
Reuters | 19 April 2013
Finance leaders of the G20 economies on Friday edged away from a long-running drive…
G-20 Pushes for Measures to End Tax Evasion
The New York Times | 19 April 2013
The Group of 20 countries called on Friday for a coordinated effort to stop international tax evasion…
