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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Asset bubble anxiety… Negative interest rates for Europe? … Taper on the table at next FOMC meetings… Portugal’s bailout exit maybe not as clean as Ireland’s… Era of mounting FX reserves (ie weak currency) over in China? … Read more
Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: JPMorgan’s $13b settlement dissected… Shorts see big opportunities after big down years… Secular stagnation, world Japanification, liquidity traps, bubbles, and changes in corporate behavior… Bloomberg News restructuring tilts away from news chief Matt Winkler, toward selling terminals … Read more
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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Yellen sails through first day of questions, posturing, and foolishness… Merkel’s conservative partners want a process for countries to ‘temporarily’ exit euro… Blodget’s PR offensive as Business Insider surpasses CNBC’s Web reach… Buffett runs out of ideas … Read more
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Leave a CommentToday’s most shared: Buyer’s remorse for man who implemented massive QE purchases… China news upbeat as iron market firms, Alibaba sets records, car sales rise… When someone says ‘financial innovation’, hold onto your wallet… President Elizabeth Warren to the rescue? … Read more
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