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by confoundedinterest My Kuroda! Yes, The Bank of Japan’s Haruhiko Kuroda (the current governor) has greatly expanded the BOJ’s balance sheet of assets. Starting in 2012, Japan’s house price index has soared … Read more
via economicpolicyjournal: Google has agreed to pay $600 million to acquire a historic building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District — a hundred times what it was sold for in 1996, reports the Financial Times. Doug … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Steve Keen: You don’t get asset prices at these levels without soaring leverage … Thom Hartmann: The coming war with Iran is yet another US false flag … Read more
by Simon Black Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following: Chicago police run a … Read more
After years of heavy financial losses, The Salt Lake Tribune is pursuing federal approval to become a nonprofit operation sustained by donations large and small. Owner Paul Huntsman, who bought Utah’s … Read more
by Simon Black At the peak of its power in 1350 BC, thousands of years ago, ancient Egypt was like nothing ever seen before. The great Kingdom was thriving under an … Read more
by Charles Hugh-Smith Given that the economy is now totally and completely dependent on inflating asset bubbles, it makes no sense to invest for the long-term. Beneath the endlessly hyped … Read more
From Birch Gold Group This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest news involving precious metals and the overall economy. Stories include: Gold has been second-best performing asset since … Read more
by Jesse Colombo A very dangerous fallacy has taken the world of economics by storm over the last several years: the idea that there is very little inflation in the … Read more
by Frank Holmes, CEO, U.S. Global Investors Last week the world got its first look ever at a black hole, one of those cosmic bodies so supermassive and powerful that … Read more
by howtoreadspaghetti If you’ve seen The Big Short, he’s one of the investors that was shorting the housing market before the crash of 2007-2008. His hedge fund has stood … Read more
via reason: Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance spent nearly $250,000 over the past five years from a state asset forfeiture fund on fine dining, first-class airfare, and luxurious hotels, according to … Read more
…..the Fed is that easy monetary policy seems more effective in spurring asset values than it does in boosting prices of goods and services. The S&P 500 Index rose by … Read more
Authored by Andreas Steno Larsen via Nordea Bank, The short positioning in VIX is heavier than prior to the February and October sell-offs, which is why we are on alert … Read more
BY JOHN RUBINO Mike Maloney: Basel III, gold, and the next financial crisis … Rick Rule: These are the gold miners you should own … Max Keiser on the surge … Read more
