Paying In A Broken World

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Submitted by Tom Chatham via Project Chesapeake,
It is a common reaction to ask, how much is that, when we see something we want or need. The question is answered with some monetary figure that people will recognize and use to determine if they can aff…

XOM

by williambanzai7 | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

The World Map Of Hubris & Humiliation

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

The journey from hubris to humiliation in EM has taken roughly 5 years. As BofAML notes, despite muted asset returns, 2015 has seen the emergence of two big trends: the risk of a bubble in US health care & technology; and the crash in EM/Resources/…

Ron Paul: "All Wars Are Paid For Through Debasing The Currency"

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,

And at some point, all empires crumble on their own excess, stretched to the breaking point by over-extending a military industrial complex with sophisticated equipment, hundreds of bases in as many countries,…

Moving Averages: July Month-End Update

by dshort.com - Advisor Perspectives | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Valid until the market close on July 31, 2015 The S&P 500 closed July with a monthly gain of 1.98%. All three S&P 500 MAs and three of the five Ivy Portfolio ETF MAs are signaling “Invested”. In the table, monthly closes that are within 2% of a sig…

S&P 500 Snapshot: Down for the Day, But Up for the Week and Month

by dshort.com - Advisor Perspectives | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

The S&P 500 ended the day with a modest -0.22% decline, but it gained 1.17% for the week and 1.97% for month. Perhaps the most significant economic news of the week was the rear-view look at the economy via the Advance Estimate of Q2 GDP, which came…

Goldman Warns "The Global Economy Is Going Round In (Smaller & Smaller) Circles"

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Amid the collapse in commodities, crashing Chinese stocks, the weakest US wage growth in US history, and a data-dependent Fed; Goldman Sachs fears the new normal is 'shorter-and-faster' business cycles with no persistence primed by monetary pol…

The IMF Experts Flunk, Again

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Submitted by Steve Hanke via The Cato Institute,
My Globe Asia column in May was titled “Greece: Down and Probably Out.” Well, it’s out. Yes, Greece descended from drama to farce rapidly.
If all goes according to plan, the left-wing G…

Amy Winehouse, Back To Black (Acoustic)

by Barry Ritholtz | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Amy Winehouse died 4 years ago last week (July 23, 2011). She was a singular talent:  

Forbes Best Colleges: The Secret To Financial Aid Is In Your House

by Troy Onink | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

If a college counts your family’s home equity against your child for financial aid eligibility purposes it can easily mean paying $50,000 – $100,000 more for a degree than it will from an equally great college that doesn’t count home equity as heavily,…

Al-Qaeda Attacks CIA-Trained Syrian "Freedom Fighters"; Commander Captured

by Tyler Durden | Jul 31, 2015 | Financial-Blogs

Attempts to make sense of the prolonged, bloody conflict in Syria which threatens Turkey’s southern border and long ago spilled over into Iraq, are everywhere and always complicated by the constantly shifting alliances among the various groups fighti…