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Gold Daily And Silver Weekly Charts - The Mother Of Madness - Bart Through The Revolving Door
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Jesse's Cafe Americain
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:49 AM EDT
Gold continues to come in to the Comex warehouses to buttress them for the April delivery which proceeds. If
ETFs For Those Seeking Greater Tax Freedom
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Gary Gordon
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:38 AM EDT
A leading non-partisan tax policy researcher, The Tax Foundation, estimates that your first 111 days belong to the U.S. government. When the estimate includes the effect of federal borrowing, the date moves to May 6.
India’s Nuclear Energy Future At Risk In Elections
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OilPrice
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Monday, April 14, 2014 7:24 PM EDT
On Monday, April 7, the world’s largest democratic elections began in what will likely be the world’s most populous country within the next ten years. Between April 7 and May 12, 815 million Indian voters will cast their votes at 930,000 different polling stations. The future of nuclear energy in India is partly at stake.
Daily Market Commentary: Russell 2000 Finds Support At 200-day MA
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Declan Fallon
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Monday, April 14, 2014 7:16 PM EDT
It was a wide range day, but bulls were able to regain some of the mid-afternoon weakness by the close. Intraday weakness for the Russell 2000 found support at the 200-day MA, although the finishing close did not necessarily end bullish.
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Guardian, Washington Post Win Pulitzer For Proving Millions Of Conspiracy Theorists Right
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Tyler Durden
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Monday, April 14, 2014 7:10 PM EDT
After years of being mocked by the establishment and the majority of the herd, today millions of "conspiracy theorists" can pat themselves on the back because this Pulitzer's for you. Well, technically it is for the Guardian and WaPo, since these were the media outlets that Edward Snowden picked to release his trove of whistleblowing treasures.
Sears Just Doesn't Look Like It Wants Our Business Anymore
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Annalisa Christina Kraft
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Monday, April 14, 2014 7:02 PM EDT
Most mall anchor stores are struggling. Sears Holdings' sales in particular have declined for years. It has consistently lost customers to Kohl's and J.C. Penney and its younger customers have begun to prefer Macy's.
Surprise! CBO Estimates Lower Expense For Obamacare
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Angry Bear
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Monday, April 14, 2014 7:01 PM EDT
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have updated their estimates of the budgetary effects of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that relate to health insurance coverage. Relative to their previous projections made in February 2014, CBO and JCT now estimate that the ACA’s coverage provisions will result in lower net costs to the federal government.
Social Media Breadth Following Market Down
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Blair Jensen
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Monday, April 14, 2014 6:51 PM EDT
Breadth from Twitter (TWTR) is following the market down, but not as rapidly might be expected. The number of stocks in the bullish list is at the lowest point this year, however the number of stocks in the bearish list isn’t rising rapidly. Many traders on Twitter believe the momentum stocks are due for a bounce which is causing fewer bearish tweets.
Depositor Discipline Of Risk-Taking By U.S. Banks
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Global Economic Intersection
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Monday, April 14, 2014 1:58 PM EDT
The recent financial crisis caused the largest rise in the number of bank failures since the unprecedented banking crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s. This post examines how depositors responded to the amplified risks of bank failure over the last three decades.
Yield Spreads Today
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Gary Tanashian
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Monday, April 14, 2014 1:55 PM EDT
Yield spreads are flattening today, with both the 10 and the 2 up but the 2 up more. Today’s implication (again, let’s not take any single day outside of its bounds) is a lurch to risk ‘ON’ as money comes out of short-term T bonds faster than long term T bonds.
US Pays Half Of Gazprom's Overdue Invoice With $1 Billion Ukraine Loan Guarantee
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Tyler Durden
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Monday, April 14, 2014 1:49 PM EDT
With Ukraine no longer paying for Russian gaz, and with Gazprom making it clear Kiev has to a) first pay the overdue $2+ billion in invoice and then b) prepay some $5 billion in gas until the end of the year of Europe gets it, it was only a matter of time before the US Treasury stepped in and paid off part or all of Gazprom's demands.
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ALEC: Destroying The American Economy, One State At A Time
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Angry Bear
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Monday, April 14, 2014 1:40 PM EDT
The American Legislative Exchange Council — which authors ultra-conservative legislation and promulgates it to state legislatures nationwide — has a little index measure of states’ “competitiveness,” which supposedly results in greater prosperity for those states that rank highly.
Market Commentary: Small Cap Up 1%, DOW Up Triple Digits, Markets Look Frail
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Global Economic Intersection
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Monday, April 14, 2014 1:12 PM EDT
As suspected the averages turned around from the morning lows and started melting back upwards, but not so high as to make us rush out and buy with abandon. The red flags of caution still wave briskly in the market winds.
The Greek Bond Sale Stunt
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Acting Man
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Monday, April 14, 2014 12:59 PM EDT
Last week the Greek government celebrated its return to the bond market, selling 3 billion euros in five-year bonds at a yield of 4.95 percent. Reportedly there was great demand for the issue, which should be no surprise given the current propensity of investors to buy all sorts of junk debt as long as it yields more than just a smidgen.
Forecasting GDP: A Look Аt Тhe WSJ Economists' Collective Crystal Ball
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Doug Short
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Monday, April 14, 2014 12:44 PM EDT
One of the big economic numbers this month will be the Q1 Advance Estimate for GDP, due out on April 30th. With this morning's first glimpse of March Retail Sales now in hand, let's take a look at Q1 GDP forecasts from the latest Wall street Journal survey of economists conducted earlier this month.