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The Oil Rout's First Megadeal: Baker Hughes Folds, Sells To Halliburton For...
While it was already leaked in the past week that oil service giant Halliburton would seek to purchase Baker Hughes, or, if the smaller oilservice company did not accept the proposed terms, make a...
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Meet The Extreme Super Rich: A List Of The 80 People Who Own As Much As The...
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to make it clear that the definition of oligarch, a term I use a lot, does not center solely around...
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Gold Price Moves Since QE3 Have Been A Warning To Mainstream Economists, Not...
Submitted by Jeffrey Snider via Alhambra Investment Partners,A little over two years ago, in the middle of April 2013, there was a gold crash that came seemingly out of nowhere. Worse, for gold...
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How Urban Homeowners Rigged The Housing Market And Killed GDP Growth
Submitted by Daniel Drew via Dark-Bid.com,Homeownership has been one of the most significant issues in recent financial history. It first came to the forefront in 2002, when President George W. Bush...
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A Wall Street Crash Course: How To Sell $1 For $100
Submitted by Daniel Drew via Dark-Bid.com,On Wall Street, a vital skill is the ability to sell something that you know is completely worthless. Goldman Sachs did it when it sold ABACUS 2007-AC1 to...
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A Homeless Harvard Graduate In The Schizophrenic Job Market
Submitted by Daniel Drew via Dark-Bid.com,The BLS continues to perpetuate the distraction officially known as the "unemployment rate" to hide the grim reality portrayed by the labor force participation...
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4 Mainstream Media Articles Mocking Gold That Should Make You Think
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,For those of you who have been reading my stuff since all the way back to my Wall Street years at Sanford Bernstein, thanks for staying along for...
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Hedge Fund Horrors: First Einhorn Has Worst Month Since 2008, Now Paulson...
Although hindsight is always 20/20, one could be forgiven for questioning the wisdom of making concentrated bullish bets on both Puerto Rico and the Greek banking sector, but that’s exactly what John...
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Is John Paulson The Biggest Loser From Today's Blown Monsanto-Syngenta Deal
Earlier today, one of the most hyped M&A deals currently on the block was unexpectedly yanked, when seed giant Monsanto announced that it would drop its $46 billion takeover bid for Swiss...
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Icahn Reveals Latest "No Brainer" Idea: Urges AIG To Split, Sees 66% Share...
It has been a while since Icahn, who is still looking for a $200+ print on AAPL stock courtesy of corporate buybacks, issued a "no brainer" investment alert. He did that moments ago, when he revealed a...
View ArticleFrontrunning: October 29
Fed puts December rate hike firmly on the agenda (Reuters)Charting the Markets: A More Hawkish Fed Rattles Investors (BBG)China to modernize and improve fiscal and tax systems (Reuters)Deutsche Bank to...
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Today's Biggest Loser (& Winner) - Wal-Mart Heirs' Fortunes Revealed
If you think you're having a bad day (amid the post-payrolls turmoil), consider "America's richest woman" Christy Walton - the widow of Wal-Mart's John Walton. According to newly-released documents,...
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John Paulson Slammed (Again) After Citron Goes After Mallinckrodt Next, Stock...
It has not been a good year for former Bear trader "right person at the right time" with his subprime short, John Paulson who after getting slammed on Valeant, if not quite as badly as Ackman, moments...
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Why 'The Regime' Hates Gold
Submitted by Doug Casey via InternationalMan.com,A meme is now circulating that gold is the investment equivalent of a pet rock, and that the smart investor should sell gold, and buy stocks. That’s a...
View ArticleWhy the Black Hole of Deflation Is Swallowing the Entire World … Even After...
Deflation Threatens to Swallow the WorldMany high-powered people and institutions say that deflation is threatening much of the world’s economy …China may export deflation to the rest of the...
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John Paulson Puts Up Personal Holdings To Secure Credit Line As AUM Plunges
Back in August we noted that John Paulson managed to get himself and his investors involved in two rather dubious "firsts" in 2015: Puerto Rico became the first US commonwealth in history to default,...
View ArticleCentral Banks Are Trojan Horses, Looting Their Host Nations
A Nobel prize winning economist, former chief economist and senior vice president of the World Bank, and chairman of the President’s council of economic advisers (Joseph Stiglitz) says that the...
View ArticleFrontrunning: February 12
Yellen's dilemma: A downturn with no easy response (Reuters)Clinton, Sanders clash over Obama as they vie for minority votes (Reuters)Risk Grows of Markets Sparking Recession (WSJ)Global Stock Rout...
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Why A Hedge Fund Manager Who Made A Killing From Subprime Is Buying Bitcoin
Long before "The Big Short's" Michael Burry was a household name for his insight into the upcoming subprime crisis of 2006-2007, there were many others among them John Paulson, Kyle Bass, and Corriente...
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Trump Is "Loser" In 18 Of 21 Funds, But Individual Stock Picking Record Is...
Donald Trump “has a good brain and he’s said a lot of things,” which is why he often “speaks with himself” when he needs advice.Be that as it may, Trump has apparently chosen to give his “good brain” a...
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