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Pater Tenebrarum is an independent analyst and economist/social theorist. He has been involved with financial markets in various capacities for 31 years and currently writes economic and market analyses for independent research organizations and a European hedge fund consultancy as well as being ...more
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Dr. Putin’s Diet Plan
Monday, August 18, 2014 7:45 AM EDT
The sanctions tit-for-tat between the EU and Russia that is making so many headlines is economically less important than it appears on the surface, at least in terms of its direct effects.
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Bulgaria’s Bank Run Saga, Continued
Friday, August 15, 2014 10:42 AM EDT
We have previously written about “Bulgaria's Strange Bank Run”, but is appears the saga is not quite over yet, so we are providing an update on the developments since then. Keep also the curious temporal synchronicity with the most recent developments in the South Stream saga in mind.
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Pipeline Antics
Friday, August 15, 2014 8:16 AM EDT
There may or may not be a connection between the wrangling over the South Stream pipeline and the strange case of bank runs in Bulgaria, but there is at least an odd synchronicity of these events in terms of their temporal sequence.
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What Is Driving Gold At The Moment?
Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:18 AM EDT
Recently gold has traded between roughly $1280 and $1320, whereby the former is a major technical support level, and the latter a minor level of resistance.
In this article: GDX, GDXJ, GLD, JNK, TLT, HUI
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How Can The State Bank Of India Pay Interest In Gold?
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 6:39 AM EDT
An article caught my eye this week. The Tirumala Tirupati Temple in India has deposited gold at the State Bank of India, and is getting paid interest on their deposit. There is something unique about this.The interest is paid in gold.
In this article: GLD
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In The Grip Of Tax Cut Obsession
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 6:32 AM EDT
As far as we can tell however, “general fund receipts” in Kansas seem to be in a quite persistent long term uptrend, which is only occasionally interrupted.
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Bini Smaghi Pleads For More Money Printing By The ECB
Monday, August 11, 2014 4:37 PM EDT
Bini Smaghi lists the ways in which a slowdown in monetary largesse across the pond might impact financial markets in Europe. There is nothing wrong with this analysis, in fact, a similar impact will likely also be felt in the US and elsewhere.
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Retail Investors About To Get Fleeced Again
Saturday, August 9, 2014 6:43 PM EDT
Not surprisingly, retail investors tend to be completely wrong in their positioning at major lows and major highs...
In this article: SPY, SPX
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Financial Markets At Critical Juncture – Could A Crash Eventually Happen?
Friday, August 8, 2014 5:43 PM EDT
Why have stocks and high yield debt recently declined? The standard excuses trotted out by the financial press make very little sense.
In this article: INDU
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More Economic Madness In Japan
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 8:09 AM EDT
We sometimes try to imagine how Shinzo Abe and his cadre of economic planners are coming up with their cunning plans.
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Euro Area Credit And Money Supply
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 12:07 PM EDT
We want to briefly update the most important credit and monetary data of the euro area, which we last briefly discussed in March.
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Argentina – Deadbeat State Goes On The Attack
Tuesday, August 5, 2014 11:03 AM EDT
In a way this is really the joke of the week. Argentina just announced that its financial market oversight authority launched an “investigation” into the so-called “holdouts”.
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Argentina – The Economic Backdrop To The Default
Monday, August 4, 2014 10:37 AM EDT
By now it is well known that Argentina has been declared in default by the major credit rating agencies.
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A Monument To Government Waste
Monday, August 4, 2014 7:14 AM EDT
It seems “healthcare.gov” is very likely the most expensive web site ever designed – and it is still not working.
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Risk Pops In To Say Hello
Friday, August 1, 2014 10:48 AM EDT
This is still applicable of course, and we can now state that the lead time was indeed approximately four weeks in this case. Apart from the past few days of trading, the market at first continued to levitate, teflon-like, unimpressed by any and all possibly worrisome data points.
In this article: PT, SPX, INDU
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A Dangerous Boom In Unsound Corporate Debt
Wednesday, July 30, 2014 4:29 PM EDT
Even in an economy hampered by monetary pumping, the relative prices of different stocks essentially tell us which economic activities have found favor in the marketplace.
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