Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The Official Annotated MarketBeat Eurozone Default Calendar

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From MarketBeat: Eurozone Timeline: What’s Going to Be Ruining Your October? Key euro-zone events on the horizon include Greek debt talk...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

General Motors Boss Tells Ford to Pull Ad Denigrating Bailout (GM; F)

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From the Detroit News via Reason's Hit&Run blog: Detroit News business columnist Dan Howes reports that the Obama administration...

"China's Coming Solyndra Crisis"

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Smart thinking to even look at the finances in this light. I thought the total volume of loans was bigger. From Mercom Capital via Forbes:...

It's Not Over Until..."German turmoil over EU bail-outs as top judge calls for referendum"

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I ain't heard no Große Mädchen singen.* From Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph: Germany's top judge has issued a blunt war...

"Harvard and Stanford Nearly Make Up Financial Crisis Losses" (CalPERS still playing catch up)

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All three had "long only" commodities portfolios based on the GSCI but CalPERS really believed the fast talking Goldman salesman a...

Odyssey Marine Exploration Looks to Recover 240 Tons of Silver in Largest-ever Marine Salvage Find (OMEX)

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From ABC News: Ship Sunk by Nazis May Yield $240 Million in Silver, Biggest Take Ever A ship sunk by a Nazi torpedo during WWII may yiel...

Iran Within Six Months of Nuclear Weapon

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Are you saying that Mohamed Mustafa El Baradei, wannabe President of Egypt and former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Ag...

So Molycorp's President Bought a Bit of Stock (MCP)

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Except for the buying reported August 4, 2010, which were part of the July 28, 2010 IPO ($14) this is the insider buy since the company came...

Jim Rogers Talks Commodities: "Gold Could be Down For Months. Buy Agriculture" (GLD; DBA; MOO)

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From India's Economic Times: Gold price correction will last for several months; buy on dips: Jim Rogers In an interview with ET N...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Climateer Line of the Day: "Non, je ne regrette rien" Edition

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Things you won't read anywhere else today: ...Field Day continues to be the hands down best source of naked agricultural photos mainl...

The Federal Debt: What Does The Average U.S. Citizen Owe (and to whom)

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As I type I have a Malaysian guy standing over my shoulder asking me to cough up the forty bucks. A wonderful infographic from MBA Online ...

The Biggest Driver Of U.S. Government Revenues

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I like Political Calculations and have been remiss in linking to his thinking. From PC: What's the biggest single factor that determi...

"Clean Energy, China-Style: Sex, Cash and Stolen Technology" (AMSC)

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For those who say we should emulate the Chinese approach to clean energy I say Damn Straight! Sinovel was the largest customer of American ...

"...Are Infrastructure Jobs Being Shipped to China?"

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Between their Solyndra coverage and the Bringing America Back series ABC is doing some real journalism. From ABC News: Rebuilding Amer...

"A Nation Sized Battery"

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Back in June 2010 we linked to the only analyst I know of covering the lead-acid battery space in: "The Lead Acid Battery Sector Is St...

Mind the Gap: Treasury ETF Has a Lot of Air Under It (TLT)

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The ishares barclays 20 year treasury bond etf  is trading down 60 cents at $120.23. It could fall a lot further. From Slope of Hope : ...

What's Going On Between Bloomberg and Rochdale's Dick Bove?

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I'd swear Rochdale told Bove to shut up. From FT Alphaville: Bove vs Bloomberg Does Rochdale Research’s Richard X. Bove have a sligh...

Repost:Euro: Quick Recovery From Opening Gap Down Even As China Says Again It Won't Bail Out Europe (EUR/USD)

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A couple readers have said they couldn't see half this post in their reader so here goes. Original post: As we said in last Monday...

Chasing high corn prices, U.S. farmers skip rotations

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It is time to get rid of the ethanol mandates, before we destroy some of the best farmland in the world. From Reuters: Farmer Brian Schau...

The Relationship Between the VIX and Commodity Prices

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We look at dozens of correlations and anti-correlations per week but this was one we missed. When dealing with this kind of stuff keep the ...