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Washington's Blog (633 Links)
Created by MyPropsMonkey 209 days ago in News. Views: 137. Link Views: 2,384
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“The Chief Executive [of Giant Dark Pool Said] the Amount of Money Devoted to High-frequency Trading Could ‘QUINTUPLE Between this Year and Next’"
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 14 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 8
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In a must-read essay, Senator Ted Kaufman reveals that - despite all of the talk coming out of Washington - high-frequency trading is set to explode: We've gone from an era dominated by a duopoly of the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq to a highly [More...]
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Senator Sanders Introduces Bill to Break Up the Too Big to Fails
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 14 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 5
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As Reuters notes: An independent U.S. senator on Friday introduced a bill that would give the government the power to identify and break up financial firms that are "too big to fail," an idea that is catching on. "If an institution is [More...]
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Can Technical Indicators Still Work When High Frequency Trading Dominates the Market?
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 11 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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In July, I pointed out that high-frequency trading is distorting the market, and that - at least on some days - many more high-frequency trades occur than trades by human investors. Friday, I quoted Senator Ted Kaufman: The chief executive of one of [More...]
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Too Big to Fail and the 1,000 Pound Man
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 21 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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In September 2008, I wrote: In the 1974 comedy Blazing Saddles, Cleavon Little plays the new sheriff in an old Western town. The sheriff is African-American, and when he rides into town for the first time, the [racist] townspeople pull out their guns [More...]
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China Invented Every Single Major Form of Currency - Metal Coins, Paper Money and Fiat Currency - And Seized Gold 750 Years Before FDR
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 69 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 33
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You may know a lot about China's Remnimbi Yuan. But there is a lot about the history of Chinese currency that you likely don't know. China Created the First Metal Coins After trading for many years in shells (3000 to 4500 years ago), and then in [More...]
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Worse Than the Great Depression?
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 197 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 51
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The following experts think the economic crisis could be worse than the Great Depression: Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Nobel prize winning economist Joseph StiglitzEconomics scholar and former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic MishkinEconomics [More...]
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"If You Want Total Security, Go to Prison"
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 177 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 11
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President and General Dwight Eisenhower said: If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. Do we want our entire country to be turned into a giant prison? Or [More...]
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China, Russia and Iran Now OFFICIALLY Talk of Dumping Dollar
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 34 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 8
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After the Independent reported that Middle Eastern oil producers, plus China, Japan and France have all agreed to start trading oil using a basket of currencies - instead of the dollar - starting in 9 years, spokesmen for those governments denied [More...]
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Obama: More Debt Could Push U.S. Into Double-Dip Recession | Biden: "Socialism For The Rich And Capitalism For The Poor" | Holder: Prosecute Fraud
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 3
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President Obama, Vice President Biden and Attorney General Holder have all made some very hard-hitting statements over the last two days. Obama told Fox news that the United States' climbing national debt could drag the country into a double-dip [More...]
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Inverse Relationship Between Dollar and Gold
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 17 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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I think gold will do well long-term. And see this. But as I have previously argued, I think gold is surging right now largely due to weakness in the dollar. See this and this. Jon Nadler agrees, writing: Gold is not in a bull market. The dollar [More...]
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Torture, Iraq and 9/11
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 209 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 187
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5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam". He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions [More...]
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Military Spending is INCREASING Unemployment and REDUCING GDP
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 9 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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I have written extensively on the fact that unemployment will continue rising in America for some time, which will make a real, sustainable recovery very difficult. The heads of two Federal Reserve banks are now saying the same thing: Janet Yellen, [More...]
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Chanos Shorts China
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 4 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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Famed short trader Jim Chanos thinks that China's economy has real problems and is overvalued. He's therefore shorting China. As Politico writes. Now, Chanos says he has found another “trust me” story: China. And he is moving to short the entire [More...]
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Health Organizations Checking Top Virus Scientist's Claim that Swine Flu May Have Escaped From Lab
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 192 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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Adrian Gibbs isn't a wild-eyed youth. He was one of the researchers whose worked was instrumental in the creation of the flu drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, and he has written or co-authored more than 250 scientific publications on viruses during his 39-year [More...]
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Million Baby Crawl
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 30 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 15
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I was asked to post this and - because I've got kids myself - will do so as a public service announcement. For more information, click here. Print this post
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Unions and Consumer Groups Support Bill to Audit the Fed: Call Congress To Support The Effort
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 2 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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A number of unions and consumer groups have signed a letter endorsing Ron Paul and Alan Grayson's call to audit the Federal Reserve. Here's their letter: House Financial Services Committee 2129 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. [More...]
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Barrick Confirms that We Have Peak Gold
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 9 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 5
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As I pointed out in September, there are strong arguments that we have "peak gold" - in other words, that the relatively easy-to-reach gold supplies are gone, and so supplies are getting more and more expensive to locate and extract. Now, the [More...]
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What is a Flattening Yield Curve, and What Does It Mean?
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 50 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 9
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If you don't know what a flattening yield curve means, watch this handy graphic from CNN. Many websites - such as Bloomberg - provide charts showing the current yield curve. CNN provided an overview of flattening yield curves in a 2005 article: The [More...]
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The Fed Talking About Reducing Leverage Is Like A Crack Cocaine Dealer Handing Out "Just Say No" Stickers
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 3 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 2
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The New York Federal published a report in July entitled "The Shadow Banking System: Implications for Financial Regulation". One of the main conclusions of the report is that leverage undermines financial instability: Securitization was [More...]
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"Happy Talk" Can NOT Improve the Economy
Posted by MyPropsMonkey 192 days ago (georgewashington2.blogspot.com).  Views: 4
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Many people believe that if there is enough "happy talk" about the economy, and enough people believe the economy is improving, it will improve. Are they right? Well, it is true that consumers and small investors drive a large portion of [More...]
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