Month: August 2013

BREAKING: Russia and China Walk Out of UN Security Council meeting on Syria – ITS ON!

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BREAKING: #Russia and #China have reportedly withdrawn from the Security Council meeting. Confirmed: #Russia and #China have officially withdrawn from security council meeting on #Syria ITS ON https://twitter.com/ana_cherine Sky News Arabia: Russian and Chinese representatives withdraw from UN Security Council on Syrian crisis https://twitter.com/NOW_eng Interfax News Wire » Russia News REPRESENTATIVES OF RUSSIA AND CHINA … Read more

72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents

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by Michael Snyder Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative … Read more

High Frequency Trading: A Trilogy of Angst

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by LV On May 6th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped almost 1000 points in a matter of minutes and just as quickly recovered most of the losses.  This unprecedented event set in motion a series of conversations among public officials and traders.  All of the conversations shared the elemental human reaction of high anxiety.  … Read more

Triumph of the Plutocrats

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by LV By definition, a plutocracy is government by the wealthy.  The only thing worse than an outright plutocracy is a stealth plutocracy.  The anger and hopelessness so many Americans feel stems from the fact that we are effectively being ruled by a plutocracy in the form of the Federal Reserve.  The Federal Reserve Board … Read more

The Market Is Cornered

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by LV According to The Free Dictionary, the term “cornering the market” means “purchasing a security or commodity in such volume as to achieve control over its price”.  The cornering entity can manipulate prices to its advantage and can trigger a sell off if it dumps those assets on the market.  The dictionary further states … Read more

Flash Trash Talk

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by LV The SEC and CTFC have pinpointed the trades that began the flash crash on May 6th and issued a report.  Instead of calming the fears of investors, the report should increase their anxiety, assuming they are paying attention.  A single mutual fund, who tried to hedge its positions in a relatively short time … Read more

Greed Rules

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by LV First, there was the well-chronicled sub-prime mortgage-backed security disaster where investors, taxpayers and savers ultimately paid the price for the excesses of the wise guys on the Street.  Next, there was the flash crash, which was a preview of things to come. Government regulators failed to do their jobs and they failed miserably.  … Read more

The Bane of Technical Market Analysis

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by LV Technical market analysis is based strictly on market action (i.e. price movement and volume) as opposed to fundamental market analysis, which concerns itself with the factors that drive the market to change.  Technical analysis assumes that price movements are a reflection of everything that is known to the market that could have an … Read more

LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA

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Wolf Richter http://www.testosteronepit.com http://www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter “A Special Surveillance Chip”   According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows 8, the touch-screen enabled, super-duper, but sales-challenged Microsoft operating system is outright dangerous for data security. It allows Microsoft to control the computer remotely … Read more