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• Look – a new book by Peter Schiff!!

  
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  Peter Schiff: The Real Crash http://marketplayground.com/2012/05/…he-real-crash/ I first came to national attention back in 2008 and 2009 when the housing and credit markets imploded. I became known as the guy that other market “experts” laughed at when I warned of trouble brewing in the seemingly ...
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• More Signs of Big Trouble in Big China as Loans Sharply Contract

  
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  Oops. More signs of big trouble in China as demand for credit substantially shrink. From Bloomberg , China’s biggest banks may fall short of loan targets for the first time in at least seven years as an economic slowdown crimps demand for credit, three bank officials with knowledge of the matter ...
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• The Daily Docket: Bankruptcy Claims Trading Slows

  
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  Distressed investors last month bought up the smallest amount of debt from ongoing bankruptcies in more than a year, new data show. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here . (Daily Bankruptcy Review and DBR Small Cap are daily newsletters with comprehensive coverage and analysis of emerging and in-progress ...
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• (FT) Gideon Rachman—Time to plan a velvet divorce for the euro

  
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  ...I do think that it would ultimately be better if the eurozone broke up. This might not involve a complete reversion to national currencies. A hard core of euro-users, centred on Germany, might survive. But the current euro will have to go. It is true that the transition from here to there will be painful and ...
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• David Rosenberg: "Despair Begets Hope"

  
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    Presenting the best weekly self-contrarian segment from everyones favorite Gluskin Sheff –based skeptic — David Rosenberg: DESPAIR BEGETS HOPE ... Over half of the 2012 price advance has been reversed in barely over a month as the broad market drifts down to its lowest level since February 2nd. The ...
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• (NY Times) Eduardo Porter—Leaving the Euro May Be Better Than the Alternative

  
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  Like the single market before, ...[the Euro] was conceived primarily as glue to bind Europe more closely together, tie Germany’s prosperity to that of its neighbors and prevent a third world war from the Continent, which had brought us two. A few engineering flaws wouldn’t be allowed to get in the way of such an ...
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• The only thing you need to see about today’s trading in Facebook

  
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  Forget that S&P 500 e-mini futures plunged to four-month lows at 1290; or Treasury yields crashed back to their record lows; or Gold and Silver’s surge today; or WTI’s plummet to almost a $90 handle; or Citi joining Morgan Stanley in the red year-to-date; or credit markets continuing into the red for the year; ...
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• (Telegraph) Europe admits Greece exit preparation

  
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  Brussels is preparing plans for Greece to quit the euro, a senior official has revealed, as analysts warned that the country’s exit would cost European taxpayers at least €225bn (£180bn). European Union trade commissioner Karel De Gucht said that both the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) ...
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• Tom Ferguson: Senate Banking Chair Calls Jamie Dimon to Testify -– But JP Morgan Chase is His Biggest Contributor!

  
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  By Tom Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Cross posted from Alternet Holding your breath about the fallout from J. P. Morgan Chase’s derivatives losses? Yesterday, if you believed Politico , you could exhale. ...
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• Clyde Prestowitz on the Eurozone Mess—Germany, It’s Time For You To Go

  
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  French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who held their first meeting yesterday, might want to consider that they have been attacking the problems of Greece, the euro, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and even France backwards. All the talk and all the effort has been aimed at keeping Greece and ...
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• Recovery Begins When Addiction Ends: An Open Letter to Jamie Dimon

  
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  By the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street Dear Jamie Dimon: We, the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, are staging an intervention on your behalf. Unlike many in the financial industry and press, we will not be deceived by attempts at misdirection and we are not ...
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• (Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson—The real lesson from JPMorgan

  
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  It’s a teachable moment, but what’s the right lesson? Already, the $2 billion-plus trading debacle at JPMorgan Chase has inspired a powerful storyline. Nothing has changed since the financial crisis, it’s said. Big banks remain out of control, gambling recklessly. If Jamie Dimon’s bank, reputed to be one of ...
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• Merkel tells Greece to back cuts or face euro exit

  
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  Greece may be forced to leave the euro if the country refuses to implement spending cuts agreed with the European Union, Angela Merkel warned. Raising the spectre of a Greek exit, the German chancellor said “solidarity for the euro” was threatened by the ongoing political crisis in Athens. Read it all .
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• (Telegraph) Roger Bootle—The final death throes of the euro?

  
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  The euro crisis is entering its final stages. Economic pain is now interacting with political resistance to produce intense financial pressure. I expect Greece to leave the euro – and perhaps very soon. It could happen voluntarily, but both the Greek people and Greek politicians are still clinging to the idea that ...
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• Michael Hudson: Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders

  
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  Yves here. Even though I agree with a good bit of Hudson’s post, I take exception to part of his argument, both in general and with Krugman. Hudson fails to distinguish between private sector debt (particularly consumer debt, whose overall level is negatively correlated with economic growth) and debt issued by a ...
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• Occupy the SEC to Jamie Dimon: We Told You So

  
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  By Occupy the SEC Jamie Dimon’s plan to enfeeble the Dodd-Frank reforms, specifically the Volcker rule, has blown up spectacularly. Apparently JPM was so confident that their interpretation of the hedging exemption would prevail, that they got ahead of themselves and operated as if this loophople were in ...
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• Understanding J.P. Morgan’s Loss, And Why More Might Be Coming

  
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  From ritholtz: The Wall Street Journal – J.P. Morgan’s $2 Billion Blunder Bank Admits Losses on Massive Trading Bet Gone Wrong; Dimon’s Mea CulpaA massive trading bet boomeranged on J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., leaving the bank with at least $2 billion in trading losses and its chief executive, James Dimon, ...
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• JP Morgan Loss Bomb Confirms That It’s Time to Kill VaR

  
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  One of the amusing bits of the hastily arranged JP Morgan conference call on its $2 billion and growing “hedge” losses and related first quarter earning release was the way the heretofore loud and proud bank was revealed to have feet of clay on the risk management front. Jamie Dimon said that the bank had ...
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• Philip Pilkington: Inflation-Targeting Experiment May Start in Japan… But at What Cost?

  
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  Yves here. Having worked in Japan, it is routine for the Western media to be out of the loop. So it is entirely plausible that there would be major policy moves under way in the island nation that had not been picked up by the press here. By Philip Pilkington, a writer and journalist based in Dublin, Ireland. You ...
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• Is Wells Fargo a Lehman in the Making?

  
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  Banking maven Chris Whalen has a must-read piece on the reckless real estate risk taking underway at Wells Fargo, the sanctimonious #4 bank. While I sometimes take issue with Chris on his readings on capital markets related businesses, he is solid on his knowledge of traditional banking and also has access to very ...
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