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• Optimists Expect Mild Inflation in a Decent Recovery

  
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  The Daily Reckoning Early this week, the world’s largest central bank, the Federal Reserve, announced plans to exit its monetary stimulus efforts. It unveiled a new tool – reverse repos – to help speed the work. The term, “unintended consequences” was probably invented to describe such tools. Give the ...
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• Global Warming Getting Bad Press

  
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  The Daily Reckoning They lit the Christmas tree at Trafalgar Square last night. A taxi driver ripped us off coming across town… Remember the world’s tallest office tower, in Dubai? Economist Andrew Lawrence came up with the Skyscraper’s Index. Apparently, the buildings go up in bubble economies. Then, the ...
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• We’re Not Threatened by Inflation but by Depression

  
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  The Daily Reckoning So, central bankers are beginning to wonder if the US can pull off “another Volcker.” Even Paul Volcker himself, who is still alive, doubts it. Today, too many people owe too much money and too many political favors. Put up rates to 18% today? Unthinkable. Cut 10% off government spending? ...
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• FDIC Auctioning Loans from Failed Banks

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 450
  By Chris Carey, Bailout Sleuth The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. , which holds billions of dollars in assets from failed banks, is selling nearly $182 million in loans through three separate auctions.   The auctions listed on the FDIC’s Loan Sales Announcements web page represent a wide range ...
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• Merrill Vs (Ex-)Merrill: Rosenberg Takes On David Bianco’s Unending Bullish Misperception Misconceptions

  
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  Zero Hedge The focus of Rosie’s morning note has to do with debunking the latest misconception pushed by Barron’s , which in all honesty is merely paraphrasing one of Rosie’s own successors at Merrill Lynch – David Bianco, whose most recent fluff piece “ Harvesting the Truth ” (presented ...
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• Deep Deflationary Thoughts From Van Hoisington Of Wasatch Funds

  
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  Zero Hedge Q3 Commentary from Van Hoisington of Wasatch Funds   Attachment Size Hoisington Q3.pdf 214.47 KB More articles from Zero Hedge….
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• Most Recent Insider Selling to Buying Ratio: 82:1

  
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  Zero Hedge You would think that insiders would finally change their tune after almost a year of straight line gains in the market. Think again. The most recent insider trading data from finviz indicates that insider sellling outpaces buying by a ratio of 82! In the most recent data set, $11.6 ...
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• Dollar Strength And Potential Depth Thereof

  
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  Zero Hedge Submitted by Nic Lenoir At ICAP In FX the story everybody is watching since Friday is the USD, and where will its strength stop, as it is bringing with it equity weakness in the face of a strong employment report and a sharp correction in the commodity space. Against the EURUSD if we ...
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• Good morning, worker drones: This Week In Mayhem

  
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  Zero Hedge Good morning, worker drones:  This Week In Mayhem by Project Mayhem Gold takes a hit to the chin, Nobel ‘Peace Prize’ winner Obama escalates in Afghanistan, doctored jobs report causes mayhem in sentient AI,  ECB to discuss Greece default,  Yahoo threatens Cryptome over leaked ...
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• When You See The Flash……

  
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  By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker This is rather humorous, really…. Bankers are furious that two defaulting Saudi conglomerates that owe $20 billion (£12.2 billion) appear to be favouring local banks over foreign creditors. State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland, HSBC and Standard Chartered are all ...
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• The Scale of Paulson’s Gold Purchases

  
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  John Paulson (unrelated to Hank, ex-US Treasury Secretary), US hedge fund manager, shot to fame by capitalizing in spectacular fashion on the credit crisis by, among others, betting against a number of financial institutions. In the process, he raked in some $20 billion. He more recently developed an affinity for ...
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• Ghana Association of Bankers announces new exchange rate

  
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  The following are the average inter-bank exchange rate of the dollar and derived rates for the major currencies against the cedi as issued by the Ghana Association of Bankers on Monday, December 7, 2009.CURRENCY GHANA [...]
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• Indian company in Ethiopia for bio-fuel production

  
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  By Groum AbateAddis Ababa, Dec 7 (IANS) Indian renewable energy company Praj has signed an agreement with Ethiopia’s Eco Energy, a bio-fuel producing company, for providing consultancy in cultivating thousands of hectares for generating bio-fuels.The growing increase in international oil prices caused the Ethiopian ...
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• US Taxpayers again forced into giving huge profits to the Middle East -

  
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  “Kuwait Investment Authority sells stake in Citigroup for £2.4bn after just two years Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund has sold its stake in Citigroup for $4.1bn (£2.4bn) just two years after it invested in the US’s largest bank. By Ben Harrington Published: 7:39PM GMT 06 Dec 2009 The KIA made its $3bn ...
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• Guest Post: Japanification

  
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  Zero Hedge Some Asset Behavior when Government Resists the Natural Order of the Universe , Submitted by JM   Attachment Size Japanification.pdf 87.58 KB More articles from Zero Hedge….
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• The Next Shoes To Drop In Commerial Real Estate – Part 1

  
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  Zero Hedge Everyone is now well aware of the plight of Stuy Town, which has become a set fixture on the front page of the daily press, and is expected to default on its underlying borrowings within a few months at the most. What will happen to the controlling equity, and the tenants at the ...
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• Sunday Morning in Byzantium

  
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  Zero Hedge Is this simply an entirely different video than the BBC seems to be reporting on , or are British politics even more full of nuance and nonsense than we have hithertofore given them (substantial) credit for?  See, it sounds to us like the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, ...
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• The Dumbest, Richest Investor Around

  
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  Zero Hedge The US Taxpayer has long been the dumbest, richest investor around.   You know the kind – a little overweight, with cheery disposition, not understanding how he’s been “over-served” when in slurred speech he thanks the bar tender for the sales receipt on which he signs his ...
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• Dubai is Just a Bit Misunderstood, That’s All

  
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  Zero Hedge We are likely to see quite a lot of mileage out of this particular bit of clip art.  True, we have managed to relegate the “Dubai crash” to the dustbin of over hyped crises, but Dubai does not seem particularly disposed to accept that as her ultimate destiny.  The Nakheel bond is but a ...
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• Weekend Round-Up For 12/5

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 450
  By Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker So much to say, so little time…… Let’s start with Dubai because, as I like to say, there is never only one There’s three pieces to this little ditty; the first is sovereign immunity writ large : For international bondholders, the recovery of their investments ...
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