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We’re In Milton Friedman’s World

Celebrating what would be Friedman’s 100th birthday, a Forbes contributor discusses some of Friedman’s most important contributions, many of which are no longer controversial and have instead become conventional wisdom.

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Stocks Perform Better if Women Are on Company Boards

Companies with women on their boards performed better in challenging markets than those with all-male boards in a study suggesting that mixing genders may temper risky investment moves and increase return on equity.

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ALERT: @STOCKSAGE1 IS BACK IN PRISON!

The Florida justice system released him. However, the good folks over at iBankCoin have apprehended and detained him, for the greater good, for all of mankind.

Indeud.

Bail has been set for $10,000.

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The Real Crash is Dead Ahead as 2008 is Forgotten

This bubble will sink like a mafia stiletto deep into the “heart of the monetary systems” worldwide, proving something Nassim Taleb said about Bernanke when Obama reappointed him in 2009: “He doesn’t even know he doesn’t understand how things work,” that his methods make “homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.”

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Ravicher: Is VirnetX Really A “Fairytale”? $VHC

At the end of last week VirnetX (VHC) dropped roughly 20% after the publication of an article titled, VirnetX: Do You Believe In Fairytales? Part 1, in which an anonymous author discussed the company’s prospects for asserting its patents relating to securing real-time communications over the Internet against Apple (AAPL), Cisco (CSCO) and other tech firms. Without debating the legitimacy and reliability of anonymous sources, here I provide my comments on some of the substantive points made in the article, including the probative value of VirnetX’s past settlement with Microsoft and more recent settlements with Aastra and Mitel to future expectations, as well as the arguments that, regarding VirnetX’s current patent actions, “VirnetX may lose,” “VirnetX may win, but be awarded a comparatively small amount of damages,” and “VirnetX may win a substantial award, but it will be subject to appeal.”

INTRODUCTION

VHC currently has three lawsuits in Federal Court (all in Texas) and one action at the International Trade Commission asserting its patents. ITC cases are different from Federal Court cases in that the ITC can only offer a patent holder the remedy of forbidding the importation of infringing articles, not any monetary compensation for past infringement. Federal Courts, on the other hand, offer patent holders the ability to recover monetary damages for past infringement and receive an injunction against any future infringement.

Amongst its four current patent infringement actions, VirnetX is asserting seven different patents, as summarized in the table below. In the first current Federal Court case filed in August 2010, VirnetX is asserting six patents against Aastra, Apple, Cisco and NEC. In the second current Federal Court case filed in January 2011, VirnetX is asserting three of those same patents against Mitel Networks, Siemens Enterprise Communications, and Avaya. In the third current Federal Court case and the ITC action, both of which were initiated in November 2011, VirnetX is asserting one additional patent against just Apple.

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Markets Sell Off a Bit Before the Clam Statement

U.S. equities gave back a little ground before tomorrow’s fed statement.

Traders expect the market to rally tomorrow  into the clam statement and will really determine direction on Thursday after we get data and comments out of Europe on growth and resolving the debt crisis.

Despite a volatile month the markets finished up 1%. Gold also had a 1% gain for the month. The best performing sectors were telecom and industrial.

DOW down 64

NASDAQ down 6

S&P down 6

Today’s action

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SEC Asks Congress for More Power to Create More Disclosure on Muni Bonds

“WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday urged Congress to give the agency the power to improve disclosure standards and require audited financial statements for the $3.7 trillion municipal securities market as part of an effort to help retail investors in the market.

The SEC advocated the changes in a report it released on the municipal securities market. State and municipal governments issue bonds to finance the building and maintaining of U.S. infrastructure.”

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Cargill CEO: Food Prices to Soar $75 a Person Amid Drought

“A crippling drought affecting much of the nation will send food prices rising by $75 per person this year compared to last, said Gregory Page, CEO of U.S. food giant Cargill.

The drought has well over half of the country in its grip and has decimated crop yields, corn especially.

Eventually, less corn will mean higher prices at the grocery store, as many foods are made from corn, which is also a key additive in feed for beef, pork and poultry producers.”

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FHFS Will Not Forgive Principal for Delinquent Mortgages Despite Incentives Offered by The Treasury

Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac won’t forgive principal on delinquent mortgages they guarantee even as the U.S. Treasury Department is offering incentive payments for writedowns, the companies’ regulator said today.”

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Rumors Swirl Over Apple Splitting Their Stock

“Here are your Apple rumors and AAPL news items for today:

Apple to Double Its Shares: A Bernstein Research analyst says that Apple(NASDAQ:AAPLmay be planning a stock split,Forbes notes. The split could make it easier for Apple to be included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is weighted by share price and contains only two companies with shares north of $100, Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and IBM (NYSE:IBM). Apple stock has split — on a 2-for-1 share basis – three times in the past, in 1987, 2000 and 2005.”

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Wall Street Now Almost Certain Fed and ECB Will Act

“Markets now overwhelmingly expect significant action from the U.S. and European central banks, according to the latest CNBC Fed Survey.

In the survey of market participants, 89 percent said they believe the European Central Bank will purchase more sovereign debt and 78 percent said they expect the Federal Reserve to undertake additional quantitative easing.”

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$ZNGA Having a Bad Day as They Receive Insider Trading Lawsuits

“Zynga’s stock has crated to around $3 from an IPO price of $10.

Or, more importantly, it’s now under $3, down from $12 when Zynga had a secondary offering of shares in April earlier this year.

During that secondary offering, insiders like Mark Pincus and a number of investors cashed out, selling about $516 million in stock.

Then Zynga had a disastrous second quarter where it reduced its full-year guidance, sending the stock tumbling.”

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Bill Gross Says The Best Days For Making Money in Stocks are Behind Us

“The latest monthly note from PIMCO’s Bill Gross is pretty great.

This time, instead of talking about overindebted governments, and about how all sovereign bond investors are victims of financial repression, he takes dead aim at the stock market, and argues that future returns can’t possibly be as good as they used to be.

Why?”

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Market Update

U.S. equities continued chopping around the flat line similar to what we had yesterday. The markets are waiting for the fed to give their statement, and to see what develops in Europe.

The markets in the U.S. are ignoring a setback in Europe where Merkel’s coalition are rejecting a permanent euro rescue fund. European markets were down, but not bloody given the news.

U.S. equities are flat with the NASDAQ higher by a bit. Oil is down, the euro is up, and gold is up slightly.

UBS is tanking due to horrible earnings from $Fuckbook; incidently $FB has hit a fresh 52 week low.

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