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• Senator Sanders To Place "Hold" On Bernanke Reconfirmation, Chairman Will Need 60 Senate Votes To Override

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  Tomorrows Bernanke reconfirmation hearing just got more interesting, courtesy of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders who has stated he will put a "hold" on the Bernanke confirmation process, meaning the Senate will need to amass 60 votes in order to override and proceed with the confirmation process. Yet as the NYT notes: ...
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• Throw Helicopter Ben under the bus

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  The President has reached his decision on Afghanistan, and given his speech. There’s nothing much that can be done about this military escalation issue right now. It may make you feel better to gripe, kvetch, and moan on the tubez about the Afghanistan policy, but there are two big events coming up in the next 48 ...
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• Stocks mostly rise as Fed sees improving economy

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  NEW YORK -- The stock market struggled but held its ground Wednesday as an upbeat assessment of the economy from the Federal Reserve offset drops in bank and energy stocks.
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• Guest Post: On Allocation

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  Submitted by The Contrary Investor On Allocation… A while back in on our subscriber site, we penned a discussion trying to put the whole “mountain of money” thesis into perspective.  The bottom line is that there is less than meets the eye, especially as that applies to households and corporations. Simply ...
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• Higgs hits back at Bernanke on Fed audit

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 564
  This is a few days old, but it is so worth your time if you missed it. Robert Higgs dresses down Bernanke’s arguments against the Ron Paul audit effort in classic Higgs fashion. And about this “economic and financial stability in the United States” that a Fed audit would threaten: Is Bernanke thinking about ...
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• Dallas Fed: Commercial Real Estate ‘Historically Low’

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 547
  Today’s the day for the Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book , a survey of the state of the economy that they do eight times a year. In general, there’s cautious optimism with plenty of signs of slight improvement. But factor, in addition to slow progress on bringing back jobs, came through loud and clear as a ...
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• Fed survey finds recovery gaining momentum

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  WASHINGTON -- The economic recovery gained traction in late fall as shoppers spent a bit more and factories bumped up production. That assessment Wednesday by the Federal Reserve marked its most upbeat view since the economy tumbled into recession two years ago.
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• Fed’s Beige Book Says Economic Conditions Improving

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 641
  In its latest beige book report, published two weeks before officials meet to set monetary policy, the Federal Reserve said the country’s general economic conditions continued to improve in late October and early November with little upward pressure on wages and finished goods, but a weak...
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• Like Sands Through the Hourglass, So Are the Days of Our Lives: Todays Episode - Mystery of the Iraqi Gold Purchase

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  by Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt Perhaps you might not expect to find much interesting in data published by the Central Bank of Iraq .  In fact, it is a treasure trove of interesting mysteries right smack in the middle of the nexus between international economic relations and nation building.  For example: ...
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• Richmond Feds Lacker Joins Philadelphias Plossner In Fed "Excess Liquidity" Dissent Panel

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  Yesterday it was Philly Feds Plossner , today it is Richmond Feds Jeff Lacker who joins the chorus demanding an end to Bernankes insane monetary policy of drowning the market with unprecedented liquidity which is not getting to consumers but merely propping Amazon stock at a bubblelicious 100x P/E. In a speech before ...
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• Euro Companies Face $1.5 Trillion Funding Shortfall in 2010

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 472
  Ambrose Evan Pritchard  reports S&P says European companies face $1.5 trillion funding shortfall next year “This is definitely a threat on the horizon,” said Blaise Ganguin, the agency’s European credit chief. Some 75 companies large enough to be rated face likely default in 2010 as the slow-burn ...
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• USDJPY heading toward convergence as the market awaits the Feds Beige book

  
  Forex News and Commentary by FXDD — Authority: 454
  The USDJPY has maintained the topside gains but is coming toward a point where a move away should be forthcoming.  The 100 bar moving average on the 5 minute chart comes in at the 87.21 level. The 200 bar MA comes in at the 87.15 level. There is topside trendline resistance at the 87.33 level and trendline support at ...
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• Fed must not dither on timing exit, Lacker says

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. central bankers should not let pockets of weakness distract them from fighting inflation as the economy recovers, Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Jeffrey Lacker said on Wednesday.
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• Stock Market Investing: The Dubai Implications, Investment Strategy: Generational Move Unfolding For Gold and Silver Prices

  
  Hedge Fund Blogs From HedgeCo.Net — Authority: 471
  NEW YORK ( CNNMoney .com) — The news that the sovereign wealth fund of Dubai requested a postponement of billions of dollars of debt this week could pose a big problem for U.S. banks… … Bove said the underlying problem is that there is a lot of uncertainty floating around. For example, there’s little ...
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• Before You Appoint Ben, Audit Ben

  
  http://www.ourfuture.org/blog — Authority: 658
  In the above video, Robert Borosage lists the questions Senators must get answers from Ben Bernanke on if he is to earn re-appointment to chair the Federal Reserve. Below is a related action campaign emailed to Campaign for Americas Future supporters earlier today. Tomorrow, the Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke ...
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• Fed takes first steps to mop up flood of dollars

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 577
  Quietly, without much fanfare, the U.S. Federal Reserve is taking the first steps to mop up some of the ocean of greenbacks it has pumped into the global economy. The success or failure of its efforts will have a lot to say about the future of inflation and of gold prices. According to the New York Times , the Fed ...
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• ‘Tis the season for … Vampire Squids

  
  Bernanke Panky News — Authority: 144
  Surely, Goldman isnt entirely responsible for the housing and credit market mess as some of the protesters allege, but theres no question about the fact that they were there the whole way making record profits. Moreover, their close ties to the U.S. government and simply recovering faster than any other Wall Street ...
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• The Corporatocracy: A New Economic System for the Connected Banking Sector and Political Elites. Providing the new Serfdom Massive Debt Servitude.

  
  Bernanke Panky News — Authority: 144
  " The true evil of the corporatocracy is that it has preached a religion that believed for many decades that producing goods was second to paper pushing and believed in praying at the altar of debt "
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• The Real Elephant in the Room

  
  Bernanke Panky News — Authority: 144
  "In order for the ratio of debt to GDP to stabilize, GDP must grow faster than the growth in debt. This has not happened in the last 30 years. A good portion of GDP growth since 1982 came from the increase in debt, which means GDP growth will on average be lower, without the debt steroids of the past 25 years. Slower ...
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  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 561
  
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