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• QB Asset Management Rips Apart Roubinis "Spam Is More Valuable Than Gold" Thesis

  
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  QB Asset Management provides their rebuttal of Roubinis earlier piece claiming that gold is due for a violent and forceful correction, which was discussed earlier on Zero Hedge .     h/t Gold Bug Attachment Size QBAssetManagement-12-14-2009.pdf ...
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• Does Dropping Money Velocity Mean The Rally Will Reverse?

  
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  A frequent theme on Zero Hedge is the structural limitation imposed on corporate revenue and profitability absent an overall increase in the currency in circulation, or said otherwise, in the "velocity" of money. If banks do not lend out the money, and the money does not somehow find its way to companies top lines, ...
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• Some Questions For Goldmans Lucas van Praag And David Viniar

  
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  Earlier today the general public got one of its first public disclosures of what Goldman believes its prop trading operation contributes to the firms top and bottom line. For those uninitiated with banker lingo, prop trading is basically the profit that Goldman makes by transacting exclusively as a hedge fund: this ...
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• Steve Liesman Responds To Zero Hedge, Says Things Arent Good "By A Long Shot"

  
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  Steve Liesman responds to the earlier post about Emergency Unemployment Compensation . Presented without commentary. Quick comment: I was wrong about what the programis called. Rick is right: Its emergency unemployment claims. Ivereported on this number several times before (even making the samepoint that its been ...
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• Sorry, The Upper Class Will Not Pull The US Economy Out Of The Depression

  
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  Several months ago Zero Hedge did an exhaustive study of relative contributions to GDP by consumer class decile: the conclusion was that even though it accounts for a mere 10% of US population, the ultra rich are responsible for over 40% of consumption in the US (yes David Bianco, that ever critical 70% of GDP, get ...
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• Bear Market Rally Working: Consumer Wealth Up 5% To $53.4 Trillion, Courtesy Of $2.3 Trillion In Market "Gains" As Deleveraging Continues

  
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  According to the latest Flow of Funds report , household net worth increased by $2.7 trillion, of which 85% was the result of an increase in "Equity Shares at Market Value." With the mortgage piggy bank shut down for years, the only capital appreciation recourse for Americans has become the uber-manipulated stock ...
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• Emergency Jobless Insurance Claims Surge By Most Ever In Prior Week

  
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  This is a guest post by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge . The number you won’t hear mentioned anywhere in the Mainstream Media: 327,729 . That is how many people shifted to Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs in the last week alone, hitting an all time record high of 4.2 million! So as everyone is ...
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• Goldman and Guns? Yeah, Not So Much.

  
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  So remember that Bloomberg story about how Goldmanites were arming themselves to resist a popular uprising ?  You know, the one that some people took (incorrectly) to mean that some sort of secret connection enabled Goldman employees to get concealed carry permits in New York City when almost no one else could?  We ...
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• Sovereign CDS Update - Bloodbath

  
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  Gold mania has now moved to sovereign CDS, where the top 5 names are flying again. Biggest movers are the usual suspects: Dubai, Greece and Latvia. As Zero Hedge has been saying since it hit about 22 bps, CDS on the United States will soon likely see a replay of 2008 action. As of today it traded at 36, 2.5 bps wider. ...
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• Visualizing The Insider Selling Spree: Bob Toll Takes First Prize... As Does Bill Gates

  
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  It seems like yesterday that Bob Toll was propounding the benefits of stimulus packages for housing and the ever improving status of new home sales (solidly grounded in the same sands as Dubai is now sinking into). Yet while we at Zero Hedge have enjoyed taking repeated stabs at Mr. Tolls seemingly endless selling ...
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• SECs Schapiro Responds To Sen. Kaufman, Promises To Curb HFT Market Manipulation

  
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  The funny part: "I can assure you the Commission takes very seriously credible allegations of market manipulation and, through its examinations and investigations, is actively enforcing the securities laws on an ongoing basis." Its funny cause its not true. We may, however, change our mind when the SEC ...
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• Another Topping Sign: Moodys Loan Upgrades Outpace Downgrades For First Time In Over Year

  
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  Unemployment may or may not be a lagging indicator (it sure wont be once BLS emails are "hacked" by enterprising Russians) but the Moodys loan upgrade/downgrade ratio is about the surest countertop indicator available anywhere. And now that Upgrades have surpassed Downgrades for the first time in ages, watch out ...
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• Platos Beard Dulls Occams Razor

  
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  This morning is sovereign morning here on Zero Hedge.  Having looked into Dubai the United Kingdom, and Moodys non-assessment assessment of the Aaa gang, we explore the popular notion that treating with deep skepticism the economic pronouncements released by the sovereigns of developed, "western" economies (or their ...
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• Dubai and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

  
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  Not to be left out of the party, Morgan Stanley yesterday issued "A Closer Look at Dubais Debt."  True, they figure that GREs (government-related entities) are saddled with about 116% of Dubais GDP in debt, true, if the government shifted implicit support to explicit support for these entities interest expense could ...
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• Moodys Absolutely Does Not Fail to Issue Timely Non-Downgrade Downgrade on United States and United Kingdom Debt

  
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  The passage of time, in addition to being subject to dilation through the effects of e.g., relative velocity, also suffers numerous perceptual contortions depending on the observers particular state of mind. For the purposes of day to day affairs, most humans not at relative velocities to their immediate surroundings ...
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• The Transaction Tax Harmful Harmful to Investors

  
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  This is a guest post by Marla Singer at Zero Hedge . I thank the Chairman for the floor and beg the continued indulgence of this House as I endeavor to disabuse some of its members of a rather dubious notion.  Namely that a tax on securities transactions, effectively a revival of the infamous “Tobin Tax,” (in ...
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• If Its "Too Good To Be True" ... Gundlach Found Out The Rest The Pink Slip Way: His Last Report At TCW

  
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  Zero Hedge has come across what could well be Jeff Gundlachs swan song as TCW. While we are still investigating the curious circumstances surrounding Gundlachs unceremonious firing, and subsequent departure of his closest lieutenants, we leave readers with this last masterpiece from the mortgage bond expert while ...
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• Merrill RateLabs Stocking Stuffers

  
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  Merrill is convinced inflation is a-coming. As such, here are RateLabs proposed top trades, some of which are rather esoteric, others which make intuitive sense (of course, assuming one agrees that inflation trumps deflation: a bold assumption keeping in mind the endless consumer credit collapse). Some of the ideas: ...
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• Bloomberg Finally Discloses NYB Insider Trading Action, Schapiro Must Still Resign

  
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  A report by Bloomberg finally recaps the flagrantly obvious insider trading in NYB stocks and options, presented first here on Zero Hedge . From Bloomberg : More than 13,000 bullish calls traded on Dec. 4, including7,501 that changed hands in eight transactions during a five-minute period starting at 3:19 ...
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• Bob Ivrys Eulogy For Mark Pittman

  
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  Bob Ivry’s eulogy for Mark Pittman 12/5/09 Can you believe it? It’s hard to believe. Impossible to believe.  Of all the people in the world. Mark Pittman. For those of you who dont know me, Im Bob Ivry. I worked closely with Mark at Bloomberg News the past three years. And Im here to proclaim to all of you ...
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