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Jim Grant: The Fed Turned the Stock Market Into a 'Hall of Mirrors …

Jim Grant: The Fed Turned the Stock Market Into a ‘Hall of Mirrors’
The editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer on the recent turmoil.
Matt Welch & Jim Epstein | August 26, 2015
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“Confoundingly to me, people have come to be quite accepting of the value attached by fiat to these pieces of paper we call currency,” says Jim Grant, who’s the editor […]

China's economic woes extend far beyond its stock market …

China’s economic outlook is causing global jitters. Photograph: Rolex Dela Pena/EPA
The Chinese government’s heavy handed efforts to contain recent stock market volatility – the latest move prohibits short-selling and sales by major shareholders – have seriously damaged its credibility. But China’s policy failures should come as no surprise. Policymakers there are far from the first to mismanage financial markets, currencies, […]

European stock markets fall again as China worries bite | Business …

Germany’s Dax index and France’s CAC 40 fell 1.7% on Wednesday morning. Photograph: Corbis
European stocks resumed their falls on Wednesday as fears about the Chinese economy once again gripped investors and a late plunge in US stocks unnerved the market.The FTSE 100 fell by 102 points, or 1.68%, by the close of trading to 5,979 points, below the key 6,000 […]

Making Sense of the Stock Market Drops in Relation to Venture …

If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation.

It was a nerve racking morning.
My favorite Tweet of the morning came from Hunter Walk

And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous. And if that’s what […]

CNN: Stock Trading was HALTED 1,200 TIMES TODAY! Five-Minute …

CNN: Stock Trading was HALTED 1,200 TIMES TODAY! Five-Minute HALTS due to massive SELL orders!

In a utterly stunning admission, CNN is reporting that stock trading was actually halted 1,200 times today!They took a look at the emergency, 5-minute HALTS that exist and found that those were triggered 1,200 times today alone. . . . and that many of the orders […]

Two Mornings in August

I have to write about today… have to get something off my chest.August 1st, 2011

I remember the first month of live trading at my prop firm. We (myself plus 11 others) were all trainees pikering around with a few hundred shares, risking no more than $150 for the entire day. We spent our morning prep sessions going over stocks gapping […]

US stocks stage recovery despite collapse in global markets …

Collapse of US stocks due to ‘a confluence of negative attributes’. US stock markets staged a stunning recovery on Monday after plunging to dramatic lows earlier in the day as markets across the world went into meltdown over ongoing fears of a collapse in the Chinese economy.The Dow Jones Industrial average was down 200 points, or 1.2%, at 16,257 points […]

Bad news: Even after panic, stocks aren’t cheap

Bad news: Even after panic, stocks aren’t cheapMonday, August 24th, 2015 | Posted by Michael JonesThe most famous minder of valuations, Robert Shiller, said Friday morning on CNBC that “valuations are high, quite high by historical standards. It’s only been a few other episodes in U.S. history when they’ve been this high.”Shiller’s reference point for valuations is not the forward […]

The August stock slide, explained – Vox

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Bad Day at the Stock Market, Ellen Page vs. Ted Cruz, Dr. Dre Is …

Bad Day at the Stock Market, Ellen Page vs. Ted Cruz, Dr. Dre Is Sorry: P.M. Links
Robby Soave|Aug. 21, 2015 4:30 pm

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ABC News screenshotThe Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 500 points on Friday.
Actress Ellen Page, who came out as gay last year, ambushed Ted Cruz at the Iowa State Fair. They argued about gay issues.
Dr. Dre issued an apology for […]