Are there any Safe Haven Plays in times of Crash or Crisis?
(TheHippo) “The reality of the matter and one that I have believed in is that during crisis there is NO SAFE HAVEN! It is a figment of your imagination and the collective mind of the market. As a...
View Article$GRPN Groupon IPO up 50% what a steal! Of foolish investor capital, that is…
(TheMarketTicker) “Like paper coupons a Groupon has a ‘use by’ date. They’re attempting to leverage social media to ‘widely distribute’ the Groupons to consumers, and for this they get a piece of the...
View ArticleDo you know the Counterparty Credit Risk of your ETFs and ETNs?
(GlobeInvestor) “ETNs expose investors to the risk of losing all or most of their principal. That’s because ETNs are set up as unsecured, long-term debt obligations of the issuer, Ms. Pelant explains....
View ArticleCON-fidence is for CON-Men
(Interloper) “Mr. Achuthan has been arguably the most accurate economic forecaster over the past five years and perhaps more importantly, is apparently using new analytical techniques and indicators –...
View ArticleJon Stewart on Jon Corzine and MF Global, “The Walking Debt”
(JonStewart) “Politician Jon Corzine saw Lehman Brothers as a cautionary tale; financial firm honcho Jon Corzine saw it as a dare.” I don’t always agree with Jon Stewart, but he’s pretty much got it...
View ArticleMartin Armstrong on the Sovereign Debt Crisis
(MartinArmstrong) “Politicians everywhere are sitting on their hands because they believe that if they do nothing and maintain the status quo mixed with austerity to save the bankers somehow we will...
View ArticleCongressional Insider Trading Scam – our Rule of Law doesn’t apply to the 1%...
CBS News’ Steve Kroft reports that members of Congress can legally trade stock based on non-public information from Capitol Hill. We’ve already discussed this type of corruption in the past, and it’s...
View ArticleThe entire system has been utterly destroyed by the MF Global collapse
(Barnhardt.biz) “I could no longer tell my clients that their monies and positions were safe in the futures and options markets – because they are not. And this goes not just for my clients, but for...
View ArticleMF Global Proves Sanctity of Segregated Funds is Just a Myth
Interview with Trends Research founder Gerald Celente, who had his own six figure gold investment account completely looted by MF Global‘s chapter 11 trustees, and he is fighting to get it back. Also...
View ArticleDEA Shuts Down 88 Year Old Man’s Water Purification Business as Drug...
(SacBee) “Eighty-eight-year-old retired metallurgist Bob Wallace is a self-described tinkerer, but he hardly thinks of himself as the Thomas Edison of the illegal drug world. He has nothing to hide....
View ArticleWhere do Billionaires Park Their Cash and Assets?
(BloombergMarketsMagazine) “Cash generates minuscule returns. Commodities, especially gold, can soar or tumble in an instant. In these perplexing times, Bloomberg Markets magazine in its January issue...
View ArticleStocks Declaring First-Time Dividends Strongly Outperform Market
(DynamicDividend) “If the data I’ve collected over the last six months is any indication, a very strong case can be made for the initiation of a dividend as a signal that a stock is about to generate...
View ArticleIdentifying Questionable Downgrades on Stocks
(TheReformedBroker) “When stalking a growth stock awaiting better entries or looking for new growth stock ideas, one of the best things you can do is get a hold of Wall Street’s Upgrades and Downgrades...
View ArticleBernanke says no QE3? So why didn’t markets tank??
(Robert Sinn) “When the economic data and financial markets soften the Fed strikes a more dovish tone, and as we saw yesterday when things improve the Fed Chairman does not mention the idea of...
View ArticleAlleged Robber Calls Victim For A Date
How crazy is this?! … (CBS) “A 26-year-old man from Carrick was ordered held for trial today on a robbery charge. The suspect, John Jardini, is in the Allegheny County Jail. Police say it’s one of the...
View ArticleInvestment Survival Guide: Staying Out of the Murder Holes
(Josh Brown / RegisteredRep) “There are some stock market land mines that will invariably destroy anyone foolish enough to stand on them for an extended period of time. .. Until you’ve been blown up by...
View ArticleGaining a Trading Edge by Thinking a Few Steps Ahead
In late 2011, once the market bounced off its early October lows, there was increasing chatter over how it’s probably too early for a real full-blown European debt crisis at that point in time, and how...
View ArticleStop Wasting Time on Crappy People
“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because...
View ArticleDr. Michael Burry UCLA Speech – Predict the obvious, get raided and audited
Dr. Michael Burry saw the mortgage crisis coming from miles away. He was featured in Michael Lewis’ “The Big Short”, along with others who also saw the debacle coming. This year, Dr. Burry was keynote...
View ArticleBig Brother Watching EVERYTHING about YOU from 50 Meters Away
As amazing as it is frightening, especially where personal privacy is concerned (not to mention false imprisonment)… (Gizmodo) “Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...
View ArticleMF Global, now PFG, suicide notes, how many more roaches to go…
“I have committed fraud. For this I feel constant and intense guilt. .. Through a scheme of using false bank statements I have been able to embezzle millions of dollars from customer accounts at...
View Article$GJN – STRATS – Banks find another way to Screw the Public
(NYTimes) $GJN, “The security in question was extraordinarily complex in its name and its details, but simple in its selling points. It was marketed in $25 units, a popular price point for debtlike...
View ArticleRussia’s Pussy Riot shows Czar Putin will go after anyone
(TheGuardian) “The feminist collective hit the headlines when three members were arrested after an anti-Putin protest. Now they face up to seven years in jail, a prospect that has shocked and...
View ArticleHow to choose the best political candidate
For those who still can’t comprehend the meaning of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS OF DEBT (let alone $4 TRILLION in a single year), this excellent video by Tony Robbins may help simplify it for you. And moving...
View ArticleFrom GoDaddy to NameSilo and LOVING IT!
We’ve used GoDaddy for years and it was fine for the basic domain hosting we needed. However, searching for a working discount coupon every year or so for each domain type (one discount code for .com...
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