CIA Economist Warns of Stock Market CrashPosted by: : Shayne HeffernanPosted on: January 10, 2015CIA Economist Warns of Stock Market CrashMount Weather is a national security stronghold located near the Blue Ridge Mountains.Its maze of underground bunkers is known as “Area B.”My colleagues have given Mount Weather the code name “High Point Special Facility.”This is where Congressional leadership was transported […]
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadEpisode 47: My news sources are very simple.– Firstly, I avoid visual media of any kind (ie no broadcast, cable or internet TV).– To find the truth, I triangulate between the New York Times & the Wall Street Journal.– Investor’s Business Daily is a good reference for current stock market trends.– The Financial Times, […]
To invoke the memory of a familiar 80′s E.F. Hutton ad, when Douglas Merrill of ZestFinance speaks of finance, we should listen. (You might want to listen merely because he was previously CIO and VP of engineering at Google.) Midway through 2013, the Los Angeles-based startup received Series C financing to the tune of $20 million.Zest for Lending – And […]
By: Nancy Zambell of Street AuthorityA “follow-up” market crash could be coming.I don’t mean to scare you, but it’s only a matter of time…The past two happened like clockwork — seven years apart. One happened just before 2001, after the dot-com burst. The other came with a vengeance in 2008, right after the housing collapse.It’s getting close to another seven […]
By Rachel Goldfarb, originally published on Next New DealClick here to subscribe to Roosevelt First, our weekday morning email featuring the Daily Digest.Stiglitz: I’m ‘very uncomfortable’ with current stock levels (CNBC)Roosevelt Institute Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz emphasizes the difference between a strong stock market and overall economic strength, reports Antonia Matthews.Roosevelt Take: William Lazonick looks at the link between the […]
It’s exactly a year since Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA and GCHQ surveillance began to reach the public domain. As a result, we now know quite a lot about the ways the NSA and its overseas franchises have mastered “big data” technology to hoover up our metadata and monitor our clickstreams (which means, by the way, that there’s no such […]
A FEW years ago a group of American educators got together to talk about a common problem. School systems were being swamped by data—like every other sector of the economy. And like other industries, they had no idea how to respond. But unlike businesses, most schools aren’t competitors. So they looked at how they could team up to solve their […]
They just said the word bullshit live, as it were, on air.For British media, that’s like, pretty unheard of it isn’t it? The Economist always has had balls though I suppose, and exists in its own special space where it can say what the hell it likes I guess. And of course this is a casual blog and not the […]
by Stuart BurnsGlobal equity markets have slumped, risk capital has been repatriated to the U.S. and commodity prices have retrenched. Is 2014 going to be a reverse of 2013, when the S&P 500 rose by 30% and Japan’s Nikkei by 57%, while metal prices fell in the first quarter and then languished rangebound for the rest? Since January, more than […]
Asian stocks slip, yen rises in holiday-hit trade
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| E-mail to friend REUTERS: Asian stocks slipped on Friday, as fears about the impact of the Federal Reserve’s stimulus withdrawal on emerging markets offset […]
