Triumph of the Plutocrats

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 …

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The Market Is Cornered

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 …

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Flash Trash Talk

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.  …

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Greed Rules

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 …

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The Bane of Technical Market Analysis

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 …

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

Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com 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 …

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Global Currency Reset In Process: The Fed Can't Exit Easy Monetary Policy As USD Comes Under Attack, China and Russia Suggesting A New Bretton Woods, One Quadrillion Dollars of Derivatives Time Bomb Is Set To Explode

Is The Dollar Under Attack? The confused looks on traders faces is the “Taper-On” reaction in stocks (after celeberating last night’s false Chinese trade data) as the USD loses steam. Critically, the USD weakness (more usually associated with Taper-off (print-moar-on) …

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BREAKING: Russia Mobilizes 160,000 Troops After US Officials Confirm Israel Took Out Russian Missiles At Latakia Arsenal in Syria, The Most Ambitious Since 1991 Military Exercises In The Far East

Unnamed U.S. officials tell CNN that Israel struck Russian-made missiles in Latakia, Syria last Friday. A series of explosions last week at a critical Syrian port was the result of airstrikes by Israeli warplanes, multiple U.S. officials told CNN on …

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