Class Warfare Scorecard
Courtesy of guest author, MIKE WHITNEY According to a new report by the BEA, personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased by $69 billion (7 percent), while personal income rose by only $38...
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QE2: An "Alice In Wonderland" Policy
QE2 has, in practice, been an "Alice in Wonderland" policy. This disorients the markets to the point that a declared "buyer at any price" (the Fed) is able to buy more cheaply because of fears that...
View ArticleZombie Banking And The Effectiveness Of QE2
What’s the biggest zombie business in the US private sector economy? Banking! The financial sector makes its money by shuffling money around and lending people rope so they can hang themselves. Of...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why Treasury Yields Aren't Rising
The end of the Federal Reserve 's highly controversial second round of quantitative easing, or "QE2," was supposed to bring about higher interest rates. But on Wednesday, the yield on the 10-year...
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The 25 Best Hedge Funds Of Q2 2011
Insider Monkey tracks 300+ hedge funds and several other prominent investors. We believe investors can beat the index funds by imitating the best hedge funds’ stock picks. One of the ways of...
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10 Worst Performing Star Hedge Fund Managers
Insider Monkey tracks 300+ hedge funds and several other prominent investors. We believe investors can beat the index funds by imitating best hedge funds’ stock picks and avoiding worst hedge funds’...
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Traders Speculating (Praying) That Bernanke Will Announce New Stimulus Scheme...
It has been a year since Ben Bernanke threw his last big bone to Wall Street: The announcement at last year's Jackson Hole schmooze-fest that the Fed had a number of options at its disposal to...
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In Retrospect, It Was Easy To See QE2 Was 'No Game-Changer'
Figuring out how well the second round of quantitative easing would work wasn’t difficult, at least for one prominent economist. Paul Ashworth, senior US economist at Capital Economics, had the...
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Republican Leaders Warn Bernanke Against QE3
Top Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress warned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke against pursuing another round of quantitative easing after tomorrow's meeting of the Federal Open...
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Republicans Silent On 'Operation Twist'
Original post: It's been over an hour since the Federal Reserve announced "Operation Twist" to keep long-term interest rates down and we've received just one statement from a politician on the FOMC...
View ArticleTHE DOWNLOAD: What Is Apple's Future Without Steve Jobs?
The passing of tech innovator Steve Jobs is dominating the news today. What will Apple and its products look like without Jobs' vision and guidance? The big economic movements in Europe continue as...
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SocGen: Gold Could Surge Over 500%
Societe Generale is "enthusiastic on gold" -- so much so that in their latest cross-asset strategy report, they call "buy gold ahead of QE3" their number one strategy, saying it's "the perfect asset...
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BofA: Stock Prices Are NOT Too High For QE3
Many analysts and commentators have argued that investors, having already bought up the stock market because they expect QE3 or some other new monetary policy, have made it less likely for the Fed to...
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