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Jim Trippon: In an interesting twist on the theme of how reliable China’s official economic data is, the issue has seen a couple of dueling analysts take up opposing views. In a recent Bloomberg article, Shen Jianguang of Mizuho was quoted as saying that the recent GDP numbers Read more…
Larry D. Spears: Of all the investment vehicles out there, few offer greater potential than penny stocks. Yet penny stocks are not for the faint of heart. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Back-and-forth trading was the dominant theme yesterday as investors digested Ben Bernanke’s testimony before congress along with quarterly corporate performance results. Selling pressures kicked off the day as anticipation surrounding Read more…
Jeff Nielson: On the same morning we hear that ¼ of Wall Street executives think that fraud is a necessarypart of “doing business” in the financial sector, we hear of a second “MF Global”. The U.S.’s so-called regulators are now reporting that somewhere Read more…
Michael Snyder: We always knew that the financial markets were rigged, but this is getting ridiculous. It is now being alleged that 20 major banks have been systematically fixing global interest rates for years. Barclays has already been fined Read more…
Jeff Nielson: There is more outrageous news out concerning the Western banking cabal, the crime syndicate otherwise known as our financial sector. The news was not that these banksters have openly admitted that they willingly/gleefully participated Read more…
Diane Alter: Late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury wasn’t referring to investors when he said, “you’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down,” but he might as well have been referring to the upcoming fiscal cliff in 2013. Read more…
Joseph L. Shaefer: If I am doing right by our clients, subscribers, and online readers, it is my responsibility to advise what in my opinion should be avoided, as well as that which should be considered. Read more…
Peter Krauth: Something’s afoot in the world of high stakes finance. The Basel Committee for Bank Supervision (BCBS) is about to decide something crucial to bankers, sovereign nations, and gold investors alike. Read more…
Diane Alter: Moody’s ratings agency issued five U.S. bank downgrades Thursday and a total of 15 cuts for global institutions, but markets shook off the news. Read more…
Shah Gilani: The markets are rallying, again. Will this time be different? Or is this just another head fake? The truth is the current rally is not surprising given what’s coming out of the G20 meeting, what’s likely to come out of the Fed’s Open Market Read more…
Michael Snyder: The summer of 2012 is shaping up to be very similar to the summer of 2008. Things look incredibly bleak for the global economy right now. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Another month, another bad jobs report. For the month of May, the U.S. economy only added 69,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%. Read more…
Sara Nunnally: It is clear the U.S. economy is “too big to fail.” But what happens when that is the only option? You won’t like the answer. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Debt is a “soft” form of slavery. In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn’t mean that there are not millions upon millions Read more…
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