It appears that the #Occupy groups are very effective breeding ground for domestic terrorists.
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Comments »WATCH: Lion Tries to Eat Zebra-Striped Toddler at Zoo
Buffett Trails S&P 500 for Third Straight Year
Hyper Traders Have Transformed our Markets into a Fragmented Web of Chaos
This Sunday marks the second anniversary of the May 6th Flash Crash of 2010. As we all trade in this extremely low-volume trading environment, it is fitting that we recap where we stand today.
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Comments »You’ll Be Afraid Of Older Generations After You See These Charts
Is the solution to just kick them down the stairs?
Read the article and see the charts here.
Comments »Gold Standard for All, From Nuts to Paul Krugman
Is the economic mainstream right to marginalize you as a nutcase for advocating a return to the gold standard?
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Comments »CHART: This Is The State Of Global Deleveraging
From Swiss investment bank Pictet: Europe’s ugly divergence vs the great U.S. deleveraging.
See the chart and some analysis here.
Comments »The Most Important Economic Story Nobody is Talking About
The inflation hawks may be growing in ranks on the board of the FOMC and Bernanke is increasingly looking more isolated…
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Comments »Why Dig For Gold? Mom Finds Meteorite Worth 20K
Who knew that hunting for meteorites was such big business?
Meteorites landed in California’s Gold Country several days ago, creating a modern day gold rush.
“I’ve been out here my third day now,” said Robert Clark of Grass Valley. “Found one piece, one gram.”
Gold is so 1840s out here. Meteorites are the new treasure.
“I was really excited for this much,” said Rick Nelson of Grass Valley, who found some gold. “I was more excited for my wife’s find. She found a meteor.”
A couple thousand or so people from as far as Australia and Canada have descended to the area, practically doubling the population of Lotus.
Geologists, treasure hunters and scientists all took a look at Brenda’s find.
“As I opened my hand, there was a huge gasp,” she said.
Scientists have told her what she had in her hands could be 4 to 6 billion years old.
Read the article here.
Comments »China’s Stocks Rise Most in Two Weeks on Manufacturing, Fee Cut
An expansion in manufacturing and news of the fee cut for stock trading sent the Shanghai composite up almost 2%.
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Comments »China to Lower Stock Trading Fees by 25%
The move was announced as part of a reform package for the Chinese security markets.
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Comments »An $AAPL CEO-in-waiting Sells 95% of His Company Shares
The head of iPhone and iPad software sold 64,151 shares Friday worth $38.7 million
Read the details of the sale here.
Comments »Why the New York Times’s Paul Krugman Is Clueless about the European Economic Crisis
Nile Gardiner presents the facts concerning the real implementation of austerity measures (not much) in Europe.
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Comments »Trading What You See
The Stock Sage presents a good example of how to trade what you see, applied to recent $AAPL action.
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Comments »Blankfein’s Gay Rights Support Shows Wall Street’s Obama Dilemma
What will Blankfein pick? Lighter regulation and lower taxes or progressive social issues?
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Comments »Lower Gas Prices: This Summer’s Coming Blockbuster?
Read Bespoke’s take on current and future gas prices here.
Comments »HUGH HENDRY: My Greatest Fear Is That Europe Will Confiscate My Assets
Ron Paul: Our Central Bankers are Intellectually Bankrupt
Paul explains, “The financial crisis has fully exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of the world’s central bankers.”
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Comments »Obama’s Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street
Here is the money quote:
“You call some people on Wall Street up, and they’re undecided,” one Obama bundler said. “They’re ‘waiting for clarity’ — that’s the term they use. Or they say the administration ‘hasn’t led sufficiently’ on an issue.”
And why are they undecided?
For the next hour, the donors relayed to Messina what their friends had been saying. They felt unfairly demonized for being wealthy. They felt scapegoated for the recession. It was a few weeks into the Occupy Wall Street movement, with mass protests against the 1 percent springing up all around the country, and they blamed the president and his party for the public’s nasty mood. The administration, some suggested, had created a hostile environment for job creators.
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