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from ZeroHedge by Tyler Durden Submitted by Mark J Grant, author of Out of the Box, (744 words, 1 image, estimated 2:59 mins reading time)

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From yanisvaroufakis.eu In preparation for a radio interview on ABC Radio National, I was asked the following questions on the situation on the ground in Greece. Thought I should share my answers with you. Will keep you posted re. the actual interview. With the bailout have come deep austerity...

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from naked capitalism by Yves Smith  Even though we were keen about how voter repudiation of austerity in the Italian elections last week was throwing a wrench in the Troika’s austerity plans, we also warned, based on the example of Greece, that they’d try to neutralize the results. That...

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from ZeroHedge by Reggie Middleton The following is a guest post by a very bright individual whom I’ve had the pleasure of building with on several occasions, Mr. Mordechai Grun. This is what he’s had to say on the topic of Europe, with ample commentary from me along the...

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by AP News BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police arrested five Tibetans, mostly Buddhist monks, whom they allege worked at the behest of foreign forces to persuade three people to set themselves on fire in anti-Beijing protests. The arrests are the latest in an intensified crackdown on...

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di Giovanni Sada (944 words, 1 image, estimated 3:47 mins reading time)

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from Business by Michael Schuman I’ve come to dislike bankers as much as the next guy. How can anyone with a sense of justice and fair play not be angry at them? First they tank the global economy with their risky shenanigans, then they take taxpayer money in costly bailouts, then they...

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(Reuters) – The European parliament and EU states could agree on Wednesday to impose caps on bankers’ bonuses, a measure that would channel public fury at financial sector greed, but which opponents say marks a reckless overreach by Brussels into private pay deals. Negotiations to...

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from Business Insider by Henry Blodget One of the few remaining hopes of the Apple bulls is that Apple will soon introduce a dazzling new smartwatch–the iWatch–that will instantly create a whole new must-have gadget category that Apple will dominate. After all,...

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by Martin Sibileau of A View from the Trenches blog, “…The genius of central bankers was not to forbid gold but to morph it into another fiat currency, by adding a credit multiplier to it. …”   (1275 words, 3 images, estimated 5:06 mins reading time)

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from ECB Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Institutional Money Congress 2013, Frankfurt am Main, 27 February 2013 Ladies and Gentlemen [1], Introduction Thank you for inviting me to share some thoughts with you on what has been achieved and what remains to...

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from TheMoneyIllusion by ssumner Everything you need to know about our current economic mess is contained in the recent Bernanke testimony before Congress.  Not his answers, which were mostly sensible, but the questions.  From the WSJ blog: Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.) asks...

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from Freakonomics by Dave Berri   (Photo: pop culture geek) The “best” picture of 2012 was Argo. At least that’s the film that won the Oscar for best picture.  According to the Oscars, the decision to give this award to Argo was made by the nearly 6,000 voting members of...

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from (title unknown) by Tyler Durden In the aftermath of yesterday’s hung parliament Italian vote, we said that at least in retrospect, JPM had made it very clear that should the current outcome materialize then at least according to the house of Morgan, one should sell Italian...

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from youtube   Shirley Bassey sings Goldfinger at the Oscars 2013 Permanent link to this post (12 words, estimated 3 secs reading time)

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from (title unknown) by Monetary Metals If there is a credible rumor that the Fed is planning to further extend its “Quantitative Easing”, how would you expect the monetary metals to react? Typically, the gold price would rise and the silver price would rise even more.  The...

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from (title unknown) by Tyler Durden From the youngest to the oldest nominee for best actress (Quvenzhane Wallis – 9 and Emmanuelle Riva – 85) to the relative money gambled on the outcomes, we thought it only appropriate to provide some education and information as this...