Month: May 2011

What if… China Stops Buying U.S. Treasuries ?

A quick answer.. It would be bad, really bad. But is this something that is going to happen or just another one of those urban financial legends that pop up time to time?   Probably the latter. It has all the makings of a great story about a global financial...

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Spearman Indicator – Flashing a Sell Signal

One of the newer oscillators on the Bloomberg platform, the Spearman Indicator has done a fairly good job at showing potential points to buy or sell. Here we are looking at the S&P 500 index. The chart below shows that the indicator has flashed a sell signal recently and it...

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Sunday Fun: Hodgeman on Osama bin Laden Conspiracy

John Hodgman wants to fix America’s relationship with Pakistan by admitting that Bin Laden isn’t dead.

There is plenty of chatter about the strange way the entire thing went down. Who knows… How about we look to the resident expert?

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TDI Podcast 213: John Perkins, Economic Hitmen and Hoodwinked

Guest(s): John Perkins, Author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman and other fascinating books along with John C. Dvorak are here to discuss the areas related to oil and big capitalism. There are several areas that we consider that could have been part of a grand scheme to utilize the...

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Links and Reading for May 21st

Some of the more interesting and important items for May 21st :

A Downgrade by Fitch Leads to a Decline in Greek Bonds – NYTimes.com – Greek bonds led declines among euro area nations on Friday on concern a restructuring of its debt would reignite Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.
Russell 2000...

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