Goldman’s Take On Yellen’s Dovish Deluge: “A Less Confident Take On Rate Normalization”
In recent weeks, Goldman Sachs has gained prominence by being the only bank left standing in its confidence that the Fed’s forecast of 2 rate hikes in 2016 is wrong,…
Read moreCBO Misses Its Obamacare Projection By 24 Million People
Submitted by Jeffrey Anderson WeeklyStandard.com, Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama’s centerpiece legislation would result in an average…
Read moreA Recipe For Radicalization?
The Amish pay tons of taxes, most of the same ones you pay… Self-employed Amish do not pay Social Security tax. Those employed by non- Amish employers do pay Social…
Read moreIs Trump Right About NATO?
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, I am “not isolationist, but I am ‘America First,’” Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. “I like the expression.” Of NATO,…
Read moreSell In March And Go Away? There’s Something About April During Election Years
We will be the first to admit that in the current centrally-planned world, where nothing but the words and deeds of central bankers matter, fundamentals, seasonals, technicals and charts are…
Read moreThe Doha Dilemma – Prolonging The Agony Deeper & Longer
Submitted by Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk via Bawerk.net, Another month, another flight to Hamad international airport for 17th April after initial agreement to hold ‘upstream horses’ in February 2016. While it’s…
Read more“When Hawks Die” – Yellen-nado Sends Bonds, Stocks, & Bullion Soaring
Bwuahahahaha…. [embedded content] Another day in the “markets… Silver & Gold the big winners post-Yellen – oops! As we have said before – there is one simple rule… [embedded content]…
Read moreTop Silicon Valley VC Laments: Startups Being Funded Are “Mostly Crap & Largely Worthless”
Palihapitiya’s firm, Social Capital, has backed numerous tech companies with valuations in the billions, such as Slack, Box, and SurveyMonkey. But that doesn’t mean that he is bullish on unicorn…
Read moreCrude Rises After Gasoline Draw, Crude Build
Following last week’s major surge in crude inventories, API reported a 2.6mm build (against expectations of a 3.1mm build) – 7th week in a row – which briefly jumped crude…
Read moreCrushed By The Record Oil Squeeze, This Is How Energy Bears Are Shorting Crude Now
The “short energy” trade worked great for a while and then, as we first warned in late January, just as everyone jumped onboard leading to record WTI (and oil and…
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