Vacuous Blabber Association Meets In Brisbane
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Acting-Man
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Monday, November 17, 2014 4:27 PM EDT
The G-20 met in Brisbane again this weekend for a shrimp-fest at reportedly considerable cost to tax payers (it cost more than $400 million and shut down an entire city for the best part of a week).
Between Keynes And Von Hayek - Checks And Balances
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Vivian Lewis
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Sunday, November 16, 2014 9:25 AM EDT
More follows from Singapore, China, and Hong Kong, and other places like Mexico, Britain, The Netherlands, S. Africa, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and Finland.
In this article: AGU, MXE, NOK, PT, RBS, SLB, URZ, ATONY, MXCHF, NPSNY, YNDX, BABA, OIBR, ABGB, EMQQ
Dear Numpty
Article By:
Vivian Lewis
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Friday, November 14, 2014 6:30 AM EDT
What is astonishing about the way banks cheated their clients by colluding to fix exchange rates to extract higher sums is not only that they did this to what they called “Numpty's”, but when they did this.
Angelos Damaskos: Five Juniors That Insulate Investors From Today's Low Oil Prices
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The Energy Report
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 5:39 PM EDT
Angelos Damaskos argues that current prices are dismal news for the majors, shale oil producers and the oil sands.
Great Graphic: World Poverty In 2000 Was About US Level On Eve Of Civil War
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Marc Chandler
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:27 AM EDT
Poverty is partly a historical creation. There have always been poor people, but in other epochs the Church would provide sustenance and shelter. During feudalism, the lord could not simply kick out the serfs.
ECB Joins Balance Sheet Expansion Parade
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Global Economic Intersection
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014 4:06 PM EDT
The fact that the 24 members of the European Central Bank's (ECB) governing council - including Germany - agree that further unconventional measures should be deployed if necessary to boost inflation, was clearly the main news in global monetary policy last week.
What Stocks Say About The State Of The Global Economy, In Two Charts
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Tyler Durden
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Monday, November 10, 2014 6:02 AM EDT
The following two charts cut right through the headline propaganda and show all there is to know about the state of the global economy.
Weekend Report Best & Worst
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E.B. Capital Markets
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Monday, November 10, 2014 3:29 AM EDT
he top scoring sector across our universe is utilities. Industrial goods, healthcare, and financials also score above average. Services and consumer goods score in line. In services, concentrate on large cap, rather than small cap.
War Fears
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Vivian Lewis
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Sunday, November 9, 2014 6:45 PM EDT
Russian tanks, planes, and troops are reportedly crossing the border with eastern Ukraine after the referendum there which violated the terms of the truce between Ukraine and Russia.
In this article: AGU, CCJ, GSK, KUBTY, NOK, SAN, VE, URZ, DGRLY, HKMPY, PPEHF, INFY, TEVA, FBASF, ABGB
Plains All American To Buy 50% Of BridgeTex In Permian
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Zacks Investment Research
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Friday, November 7, 2014 4:48 AM EDT
Pipeline operator Plains All American Pipeline announced that it has entered into a firm agreement to acquire the 50% interest that Occidental Petroleum holds in BridgeTex Pipeline for $1.075 billion.
Smart Or Lucky?
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Vivian Lewis
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Friday, November 7, 2014 3:49 AM EDT
Festivities for the 25th anniversary of “Die Wallfall”, the fall of the Berlin Wall between the old Communist East Germany and the rest of the world were rather subdued because the now free German railroad workers went on strike. Strikes were illegal in the old German “Workers' Paradise”.