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Monthly Archives: December 2011

Recent Tweets

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December 31, 2011
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  I’m going to try as an experiment publishing my tweets at my blog.  They highlight significant articles that I have read.  Let me know if you want me to do this regularly.  Alternatively, you can get my tweets via RSS or email,as I described here. Anyway, here are the tweets: China’s Top 10 Business Stories in 2011 http://bit.ly/rRN3S0 Patrick Chovanec, professor in China gives his perspectives on a tough year $$   Job Creation Is...
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Robert Shiller “Fed Has Run Out of Ammo, Double Dip Possible”

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December 31, 2011
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Yale Economist Robert Shiller warns a double-dip recession could still happen in the U.S. for 2012 and warns the Fed has no more ammo to prevent any downturn from happening.  Full video and text below: 2012 could be a make or break here for the US economy joining me now out of talk about the potential scenarios is Yale economics professor Robert — Welcome professor — Now back in September when you visit is...
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2012: End of the World?

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December 30, 2011
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2012 believers believe that cataclysmic or transformative events will occur in the year 2012. Skeptics, however, do not believe anything significant will happen.   via 'Get ValueWalk's Daily Edition By Email and Never Miss Our Top Stories'
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CHART OF THE DAY: Here’s How Every Asset Class Performed In 2011

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December 30, 2011
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From Reuters chart guru Scott Barber, here’s a quick look at how the world’s major financial asset classes performed this year: Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/asset-class-2011-2011-12#ixzz1hizfVr1Q 'Get ValueWalk's Daily Edition By Email and Never Miss Our Top Stories'
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China Shifts Foreign Investment Focus

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December 30, 2011
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China has reshuffled a list of key sectors where it wants to attract foreign investment, downgrading traditional industries like autos and putting more emphasis in emerging fields such as new energy sources. The changes reflect a broader shift in the country’s economic strategy, as leaders seek to shift away from a dependence on heavy manufacturing and toward higher-tech and more environmentally friendly industries. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planning agency,...
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The Future of Computer Trading in Financial Markets

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December 30, 2011
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Must read (objective) report on the dangers of automated securities exchange. This report identifies impersonal efficiency as a driver of market automation during the past four decades, and speculates about the future problems it might pose. The ideology of impersonal efficiency is rooted in a mistrust of financial intermediaries such as floor brokers and specialists. Impersonal efficiency has guided the development of market automation towards transparency and impersonality, at the expense of human trading floors. The result has...
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Financial Crises and Narcissism

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December 30, 2011
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As we approach the end of 2011 there is much to consider. The capitalist world is suffering a series of financial crises. Many nations are hopelessly in debt, including the United States; currencies are losing value; businesses are going under or struggling; the European financial system is crumbling before our eyes, and many experts think the worst is yet to come. The politicians in Europe and America have not faced up to the crisis....
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Occupy Wall Street: Who Are The Occupiers – What Are They Thinking – How Are They Funded?

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December 30, 2011
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Who are the occupiers and what are they thinking? How are they funded? All answers in the infographic shared below:   via 'Get ValueWalk's Daily Edition By Email and Never Miss Our Top Stories'
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Friday Humor: Unspinning The “€100 Bill” Or How The European Bailout REALLY ‘Works’

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December 30, 2011
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By now everyone has heard the parable explaining how the entire European bailout, courtesy of near-infinite fractional reserve banking, can be taken care of using one €100 bill. Or so the yet again flawed economist thinking went. Unfortunately, this was just a parable, and a massively flawed one at that. As the below interaction between a ZH reader and his broker elucidates, here is what this idealized story would look like in the real world, that...
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Online Shopping in the Arab World [INFOGRAPHIC]

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December 30, 2011
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An Infographic exploring Arab internet users behavior and attitudes towards online shopping and online payment.   via 'Get ValueWalk's Daily Edition By Email and Never Miss Our Top Stories'
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Growth in U.S. May Accelerate Even as Europe Shrinks

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December 30, 2011
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Rising confidence, fewer firings and gains in holiday sales show the U.S. economy is picking up, defying a slowdown in Europe and much of the rest of the world. The divergence will become even starker in 2012 as the world’s largest economy accelerates, the 17-member euro area sinks into a recession and growth in emerging markets cools, according to economists likeMaury Harris of UBS Securities LLC and Barclays Capital Inc.’s Dean Maki. “There is a sense of decoupling,” said Harris,...
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