2011–2014

2014 619

December 2014

1. 31 DecWorst Currency in 2014? (One You Might Actually Use)
2. 30 DecOil-Bust Contagion Hits Hedge Funds, Supplier Layoffs Begin
3. 29 DecLast Time Inflated Home Prices Strangled Sales Like This, the Housing Market Crashed
4. 29 DecBP To Bypass Sanctions, Buy In On Siberian Oilfield
5. 29 DecElegantly Soaring Dollar to Hit “Air Pocket” in 2015, Slated for Long-Term Decline
6. 27 DecHow Asset Manager BlackRock Gave Me the Willies About 2015
7. 26 DecOPEC May Cull Weaker Members
8. 25 DecLEAKED: Secret Negotiations to Let Big Brother Go Global
9. 24 DecFight Breaks Out Over Your Absolutely-No-Privacy-Ever Car
10. 24 DecGlobal Monetary Power Shifts from Dollar, China Stakes Claim, Rescues Currencies of Argentina and Russia
11. 23 DecFirst Oil, now US Natural Gas Plunges off the Chart, “Negative Igniter” for New Debt Crisis
12. 23 DecThe Greater Abomination: Washington’s Lies About TARP’s “Success” Are Worse Than The Original Bailouts
13. 22 DecGold “Terrifies” the International Monetary System
14. 21 DecOil Price Crash Triggered by the Fed? Amazing Chart
15. 21 DecSpain Takes a Giant Step Backward, Towards Its Dark Past
16. 20 DecSo-Called ‘Dumb Money’ Flees Junk Debt. The Market Quakes
17. 19 DecBloody Hell: Argentina’s Import Controls Cause Tampon Shortage
18. 19 DecGlobal Automakers Get Blasted in Russia by Ruble Crash
19. 18 DecAlready Crummy US Economy Takes a Sudden Hit
20. 18 DecHousing Bubble 2: California November Home Sales Plunge to Multiyear Lows, Prices Soar
21. 17 DecRuble Spirals Elegantly out of Control as Functional Currency
22. 16 DecGreat Unwind of Oil-and-Gas Junk Bonds to Defund Fracking?
23. 16 DecAir Fares Resist Plunging Oil Prices
24. 15 DecThis Is Why the Oil-Price Crash Will Maul the US Economy
25. 15 DecFrance Cut by Fitch, Kicked by Bundesbank, Jilted by Logic, Has Newfangled Solution: Sunday Shopping. And Blows it
26. 15 DecSpanish Judge Exposes Too-Big-to-Fail Bank Robbery
27. 14 DecWhat the Heck Just Transpired in the Global Markets?
28. 14 DecBloodletting in the American Oil Patch Has Only Just Begun
29. 13 DecRussia’s Proposed Interbank System Threatens Global Economy
30. 12 DecGoogle Strikes Back Against Spanish Newspaper Cartel
31. 12 DecWhen the Market Moves Fast, Stuff Blows Up
32. 12 DecThe Sharks Are Already in the Water
33. 12 DecOil Bust Contagion Hits Wall Street, Banks Sit on Losses
34. 11 DecBlackout, When it Finally Rains in San Francisco
35. 11 DecEurozone Comes Back to Reality With a Crash
36. 10 DecAvoid This “Hideously Expensive” Market
37. 10 DecRetailer’s Subprime Explodes, Shares Crash 40%, Junk Bonds Fall into “Price Discovery”
38. 9 DecThis Chart Shows Which Countries Get Mauled the Worst by the Oil Bust
39. 9 Dec“Yes, it Was a Brutal Week for the Oil & Gas Loan Sector”
40. 8 DecTreasury Warns Congress (and Investors): This Financial Creature Could Sink the System
41. 8 DecNorway May Need to Build Post-Oil Economy Pronto
42. 7 DecOil and Gas Bloodbath Spreads to Junk Bonds, Leveraged Loans. Defaults Next
43. 6 DecCanada’s LNG Export Dreams Go to Heck
44. 5 DecS&P Wakes Up, Cuts Italy to One Notch Above Junk, Economy Sinks into Terrific Mess
45. 5 DecHow Financial Engineering Wreaks Havoc on the Price of Oil
46. 4 DecSo the Japanese Government Bond Market Is Dead. And the Yen?
47. 4 DecDreadful Chart of Russian Ruble vs Probability of Default
48. 3 DecCorporate Bond Bubble Comes Unglued at the Bottom, Investors Begin to Bleed
49. 3 DecMexico on the Verge of a New Tequila Crisis?
50. 2 DecUS Debt Jumps $181 billion in Two Months, hits $18 Trillion
51. 2 DecOil War Pushes Venezuela Over Brink, Probability of Default Soars to 84%
52. 2 DecWeren’t Lower Gas Prices Supposed to Boost Holiday Shopping?
53. 1 DecSaudi Arabia Declares Oil War on US Fracking, hits Railroads, Tank-Car Makers, Canada, Russia; Sinks Venezuela

November 2014

1. 30 NovCheniere’s Big Gamble With Other People’s Money
2. 29 NovFor Tesla, Other EV Makers: It’s All in the Battery, and that’s a Problem
3. 29 NovRuble Freefall: And the Ugliest Currencies Are?
4. 29 NovThat Hot US-EU Trade Deal? Destroys 600,000 EU Jobs – Study
5. 28 NovBMW Smacks Down Elon Musk’s Tesla Collaboration Hype
6. 27 NovOPEC Refuses to Cut Production, Oil Plunges off the Chart
7. 27 NovJunk Bond Carnage, One Company at a Time
8. 26 NovJust in Time for Winter: Utilities Face Coal Shortages Due To Rail Congestion
9. 26 NovCalifornia Housing Market Cracks in Two, Top End Goes Crazy
10. 25 NovThe Smiling Face of Austerity: More Welfare for Rich Landowners in the EU
11. 24 NovComedians Clarke & Dawe Spoof G-20 Mantra of ‘Growth’
12. 24 NovGlobal Business Outlook: “Darkest Picture since Financial Crisis.” US Deterioration “of Greatest Concern”
13. 24 Nov‎The Velocity of Dirty Money: What the Grubby 100-Peso Notes Say About Inflation in Argentina
14. 23 NovMexico on the Brink – But of What?
15. 22 NovThe Global Financial System Comes Unglued
16. 22 NovCan Russia Survive An Oil Price War?
17. 21 NovThis Is a Sign the Startup Bubble Is Totally Maxed Out: It Resorts to (um, Sexy) Junk Mail to Disrupt
18. 21 NovSpectacular Fall From Grace For Former Brazilian Oil Tycoon
19. 20 NovSoaring Dollar, Plunging Oil, Crummy Global Growth
20. 20 NovThe Wrath of Draghi: Biggest German Banks Impose “Negative Interest Rates”
21. 20 NovThe Next Auto Subprime Bust
22. 20 NovRussia-China Gas Deals Could Kill American LNG Exports
23. 19 NovIt’s Official: Party Now, Apocalypse Later
24. 19 NovChina’s Central Bank Makes Even the Heroic Fed Look Like a Bunch of Amateurs
25. 18 NovFracking Wastewater Injected into Clean Aquifers in Parched California
26. 18 NovMedia “Shocked” by Japan’s GDP Fiasco?
27. 18 Nov“$1.6 Trillion in Defaults Coming,” Legend Says
28. 17 NovChicago’s Per-Capita Pension Debt, Visualized (Gulp!)
29. 17 NovWarren Buffett Is Dumping Stocks out the Backdoor
30. 16 NovThe NAFTA Connection: The Role of “Free” Trade in Mexico’s Tragic Travails
31. 16 NovFiddling the Figures
32. 15 Nov“We Deserve a Better Banking System”
33. 14 NovItaly’s Crazy New Economy from Hell
34. 13 NovHow Low Can the Price of Oil Plunge?
35. 13 NovHere’s What Central Bankers Will Do Next
36. 12 NovWhy the Pentagon Dreads the “Sale” of IBM’s Chip Business
37. 12 NovOil Trains on the East Coast: “It’s Getting Crazy”
38. 11 NovSaudi Arabia Aims at US Fracking Industry, Hits Its Own Foot
39. 11 NovHow to Commit Financial Suicide
40. 11 NovHard to Make Money in Single-Family Landlording
41. 11 NovThe Major Threat to Some of the Largest Oil Producers
42. 10 NovThis Chart Shows How The Biggest Problem in the Jobs ‘Recovery’ Keeps Getting Worse (by the Atlanta Fed!)
43. 9 NovRetail Investors’ Mad Rush into Short Volatility, and How They’ll Get Crushed
44. 9 NovLuxembourg Takes the Heat, but the World’s Worst Tax Haven – the City of London – Remains Unscathed
45. 8 NovIt’s Official: Spain is Unraveling
46. 7 NovTo PE firms with this Great Model for Making a Killing: Good Luck!
47. 7 NovLayoffs Explode In America’s Big Old Tech Companies
48. 6 NovThe 10 Housing Markets in America where Cash Totally Rules
49. 6 NovThe Big Unwind: After Messing up the Housing Market, the “Smart Money” Bails Out
50. 6 NovThese “Safe” Oil Stocks Have More Room to Fall
51. 5 NovWhat the Heck is the Deal in Macau?
52. 4 NovOil Price Collapse Ricochets Around the World, Hits US Drillers, the Ruble … and Russia’s Probability of Default
53. 4 NovNo “Yellen Put?” You Gotta be Kidding…
54. 3 NovHow Verizon Wireless Spies on You
55. 3 NovEuropean Harmony? Merkel Hands Cameron an Ultimatum and for First Time Ever Sees Britain’s Exit from the EU
56. 2 NovWho’s Tripping up the Designs of the Global Corporatocracy?

October 2014

1. 31 OctBank of Japandemonium Resorts to “Monetary Shamanism,” and all Heck Breaks Loose
2. 31 OctThat Shrinking Slice of a Barely Growing Pie: Why the Glorious Economy of Ours Feels so Crummy
3. 30 OctThe Wrath of Draghi: First German Bank Hits Savers with ‘Negative Interest Rates’
4. 29 OctFed Issues Surreptitious Payments to Bank Welfare Queens At Taxpayer Expense
5. 29 OctWhat Is Total’s Fate in Russia Now?
6. 29 OctThe American Dream Going Bust – in One Chart
7. 28 OctRussia Wins the Currency War, Even if it Doesn’t Want to
8. 28 OctNew Home Prices Plunge the Worst EVER (in One Ugly Chart)
9. 28 OctFracking, a ‘False Premise’ that manufactures ‘False Promises’
10. 27 OctPump and Dump: How to Rig the Entire IPO Market Without Raising ANY Money
11. 26 OctWhat the Swiss Gold Referendum Means for Central Banks
12. 26 OctThe Mother of all Jobs in the EU
13. 25 OctLow Coal Prices Are Tearing into Corporate Balance Sheets
14. 24 OctThis is the Most Self-Explanatory, Ridiculously Clear Chart About Amazon I’ve Ever Seen
15. 24 OctWhat Unilever just Said About Consumers Around the World: “It’s Really Tough out There”
16. 24 OctEnd of the Financial Engineering Market?
17. 23 OctAmazon, the Leading Indicator?
18. 23 OctThe High Price of Free Money: Now US Bankers Fear Financial, Social, or Political ‘Instability’
19. 23 OctHow Wall Street Is Killing Big Oil
20. 22 OctAmerican Crude Oil Exports Spike
21. 22 OctSpain’s Divide and Unconquer of Catalonia
22. 22 OctDaimler Closes Tesla Hedge, Dumps Shares, Grabs Cash, Runs
23. 22 OctDrowning In Oil Again
24. 21 OctLEAKED: What Happens to Germany if Russia Turns off the Gas
25. 21 Oct“We, the Savvy Italians….”
26. 20 OctWhat NCR just Said about the American Retail Quagmire
27. 20 OctPoor Ron Paul…
28. 20 OctUS Utilities Face Fuel Shortages As Winter Approaches
29. 20 OctWhy Moody’s Cut Russia to Two Notches above Junk
30. 19 OctGMO Purveyors Monsanto & Co. Open New Fronts in Food War
31. 18 OctMore QE? These Charts Show the Pauperization of Workers in the UK and America since 2008
32. 17 OctRoll Out the Fire Hoses (Here Comes QE4)
33. 17 Oct‘This Market is Driven by Psychology and Momentum,’ which ‘Works Really Painfully on the Way Down’
34. 16 OctOil Price Crash Could Push Venezuela Over The Edge
35. 16 OctIf the US Deficit is ‘only’ $483 Billion, why does the Government Have to Borrow $1.1 Trillion to Fill the Hole?
36. 16 Oct“House Price Inflation” in Canada
37. 15 OctToxic Mix Blows up: Oil Price Collapse & Junk Bond Insanity
38. 14 OctHidden Agenda Behind Free Trade Deals: “Everyone but China”
39. 14 OctWhy the Market Swoon May Become “Disorderly”
40. 14 OctRise of the Crypto Wars Entangles Apple and Google
41. 13 OctDebris from Subprime Auto Loans to Ricochet across Main Street
42. 12 OctWhat the Heck just Happened in Global Stock Markets?
43. 12 OctOil Bear Market to Eviscerate the American Fracking Boom?
44. 11 OctVoters Kept out of Loop by Design
45. 10 OctFinland Downgraded, Prime Minister Busy Eating his Euro-Crisis Words that AAA-rated Countries Should ‘Dictate the Rules’
46. 10 OctLook at the Economy, Fight the Illusion of Normality, Feel the Weirdness.
47. 10 OctHow Greed Destroyed Spain’s Oldest Savings Bank
48. 9 OctLast Time It Was This Crazy, the Stock Market Crashed
49. 9 OctDow at 8,000
50. 8 OctThe Calm Before the Storm in the Gold Market
51. 8 OctThe Structural Jobs Fiasco No One Knows How to Deal with
52. 7 OctHilarious Video by Australian Comedians Clarke & Dawe on Budget Deficits, the Dollar, and the US Economy
53. 7 Oct“There’s no Reason to Panic” about German Miracle Economy
54. 7 OctThis Chart Shows How Plunging German Factory Orders Sink the Economy
55. 6 OctCredit Bubble Begins to Exact its Pound of Flesh: GT Advanced Tech Soars, Crashes, and Burns
56. 6 OctAdd This “Messed Up” Emerging Market to Your Watch List
57. 5 OctShrinking Deficit? Ha! US Government Debt Jumps by $1.1 Trillion in Fiscal Year
58. 5 OctHow Mexico Reengineers Reality to Lure Foreign Investors
59. 3 OctIPO Mania Collapses in Germany
60. 3 OctCatalonia’s Choice: Chaotic Divorce or Loveless Marriage
61. 2 OctUS Home Prices Are Rolling Over (in one Chart)
62. 2 OctThe US Dollar Is Going to Break Down
63. 2 Oct“But Analysts Say There’s No Reason to Panic”
64. 1 OctThis Chart Shows How You Get Screwed in the Stock Market
65. 1 OctDebt Serf Ireland Gets Paid To Borrow Even More
66. 1 OctIs Canada Next? Housing Bubble Threatens ‘Financial Stability’
67. 1 OctThe People Who Brought You healthcare.gov Put Medicare Billing Records Online

September 2014

1. 30 SepEU Targets Russian Energy Influence
2. 30 SepJunk Bond Bubble Cracks, Destroys Stocks One at a Time
3. 29 SepPalace Revolt in Eurozone’s Largest Bank
4. 29 SepEven Treated Fracking Wastewater Still Too Toxic
5. 29 SepSmall Investors Flash Warning Sign
6. 28 SepMiracle Man (Who Invented Off-Balance-Sheet Financial Engineering that’s still Sinking Companies Today)
7. 27 SepNot Even a Dead-Cat Bounce: Russia Sanctions, Whiff of Reality Sink ‘Economic Expectations’ in Germany
8. 26 SepHouse Flipping Has “Jumped the Shark”
9. 26 SepBofA Merrill Lynch: the Four “Canaries in the Coalmine” Died
10. 25 Sep“Slimlandia”: Mexico in the Grip of Oligarchs
11. 25 SepLast Time this Happened in the Housing Market
12. 25 SepListen to the Slowing US Economy, Hear Echoes of Japan
13. 24 SepThe Crash of Corn, a Contrarian Opportunity?
14. 24 SepStandard & Poor’s Warns on Germany Triggering the Next Debt Crisis, Investors Would Lose their Shirts
15. 24 SepSting of Betrayal: George Soros and Cristina Kirchner
16. 23 SepAfter Mucking up Housing Market, Investors Flee
17. 23 SepWhat Are Corporate Insiders Seeing that Makes them Dump their Shares Like This?
18. 23 SepDropping Prices, Supply Glut Sends Oil Into Storage At Sea
19. 22 SepThey Do Ring A Bell At The Top: Alibaba Proves Wall Street Is Off Its Rocker
20. 22 SepFitch Warns on What Happens to the US as Dollar’s ‘Pre-Eminent Reserve Currency Status’ Erodes
21. 21 SepEU Caves to Powerful, Scandal-Infested Finance Paradise, the City Of London
22. 19 SepOK, I Get It. Things Are Coming Unglued
23. 19 SepIceland Officials Fret Growing Bubble Threatens Entire Pension System
24. 19 SepShining a (Hilarious) Light on Argentina’s Black Economy
25. 18 SepThings Worse than Slow Growth Await the US Economy
26. 18 SepMiraculous Impact of Abenomics on Trade, in One Chart
27. 18 SepFed: Forget “Escape Velocity,” Not Gonna Happen, Ever
28. 17 SepThe Party Has Gotten out of Hand Thanks to the Fed’s Free Booze. Time to Look for the Car Keys
29. 17 SepCEOs Darken Outlook, Slash Hiring and Cap-Ex Plans – Hope Now Focused on Share Buybacks (which just Plunged)
30. 17 SepHow Hospitals and Health Insurers Collude at Your Expense
31. 16 SepOops, New Sanctions Against Russia Hit Exxon
32. 16 Sep‘Excessive Amounts of Capital’ Doom Startup Bubble
33. 16 SepRun, Scotland, Run
34. 15 SepWhy China’s Insatiable Appetite For Coal Has Likely Peaked
35. 15 SepRussian Hot Money Dodges Sanctions, Gushes into Hong Kong, Hits Resistance
36. 14 SepWhy the Markets’ Sudden Love for Mexico?
37. 13 SepCalifornia Home Sales Dive, Prices Hit Wall, Millennials Blamed
38. 12 SepDropping Oil Prices Put These Countries at Risk
39. 12 SepHow the Government Deceives us on Inflation, as Rents and Housing Costs Soar
40. 11 SepWhat’s Draining American Wallets? (In One Interactive Chart)
41. 11 SepAlgos Saved the Day, but What if They Turn Bearish?
42. 11 SepLuxury Homes Are Hot, Rest of Housing Market Gets Hosed
43. 10 SepRavenous Costs and Dubious Benefits of a College Degree
44. 10 Sep‘Smart Money’ Unloads, Sits on Cash, Waits for Stocks to Swoon
45. 9 SepTo Avert Sudden Market Collapse, the Fed Tries to Spook Utterly Unspookable Markets
46. 9 SepWhat Happened to the Price of a Gallon of Gas?
47. 8 SepSTILL 1.4 Million Fewer Full-Time Jobs than in 2008
48. 8 SepThe Wrath of Abenomics Crushes Japanese Consumers, Eviscerates Economy
49. 8 SepYou Must Have a Job to Get a Job
50. 7 SepFear, Loathing and Paranoia in an All-Exclusive Society
51. 6 SepBut Who the Heck Is Going to Buy all these ‘Overpriced’ Homes?
52. 5 SepObama’s Oil Boom – Global Warming Be Damned
53. 5 Sep‘We Came up with a Plan to Capitalize’ on Cash Fleeing China
54. 5 SepBig Tech Teeters, May Sack Most People since 2009
55. 4 SepFracking in China Collides with “Extremely High” Water Stress
56. 4 SepStartup CEO (Unwittingly) Explains Biggest Problem in America’s Unemployment Crisis
57. 3 SepMinsky Moment for Markets Driven by “Relentless Bids”
58. 3 SepCoal Crisis in India Hits ‘Critical’
59. 3 SepSubprime Blows up on Retailer, CEO Warns on ALL Subprime, Hits Auto Sales
60. 2 SepHawaii: Fiscal “Sinkhole State”
61. 2 SepConsumer Spending in August Drops below a Year Ago – Gallup
62. 2 SepThe Sky Is Falling on Chinese Corporations
63. 1 SepMexican Judge Departs From Script, Turns Monsanto’s Mexican Dream Into Legal Nightmare

August 2014

1. 30 AugHome-Flipping Collapses in San Francisco, Losses Spread
2. 29 Aug“Money”: a Virtual Digital Particle Created by Keystrokes
3. 29 AugWhat the Heck Just Happened at the San Francisco Apple Store?
4. 28 AugNew Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety
5. 28 AugPump and Dump: How to Rig the Entire IPO Market with just $20 Million
6. 27 AugThe Committee to Blow Up the World!
7. 27 AugRussia Sanctions Hit German Consumers, “Economic Expectations Completely Collapse”
8. 26 AugEconomist: Stocks No Longer Risky, Will Go Up ‘Steadily’
9. 26 AugComcast Data Breach of Unlisted Phone Numbers Threatens Customers
10. 26 AugThe World’s Most Dangerous Dams
11. 25 AugDrowning in Unsold New Homes?
12. 25 AugArgentine Peso Collapses on Top of Rogue Regime
13. 23 AugSpain’s Silent Reconquest of Mexico
14. 22 AugThe Home-Flipping Bubble Implodes
15. 22 AugThis Is what Happens when otherwise Competent, Diligent, Hard-Nosed Bureaucrats Fail to Read my Stuff
16. 21 AugTrading Alert: It’s Time to Sell Stocks
17. 21 AugThis Economy Is Ruined For Everyone
18. 21 AugMoney Manager’s Warning: ‘The Bull Move Has Lasted So Long Nobody Can See Its End’
19. 21 AugHewlett-Packard Reports a Miracle
20. 20 AugThis Chart Is a True Picture of What’s Dragging on the American Economy
21. 19 AugFukushima Animals Show Mutations, Genetic Damage, Population Declines
22. 19 AugFannie Mae Sledgehammers Housing Forecasts
23. 18 AugForeigners Dump Record Amount of US Securities, But Who the Heck Is Still Buying?
24. 17 AugJapan’s Fiscal Demise: A Cautionary Tale For Our Times
25. 17 AugThe Lawsuit That Could Legalize Pay-To-Play For Pension Funds
26. 16 AugTEPCO Wants to Dump Radioactive Water into the Pacific
27. 16 AugThe Minimum-Bribe Act of 2014
28. 16 AugWhy Oil Prices That “Should” Be Going Higher Are Going Lower
29. 15 AugFrance’s Housing Construction “Recovery” From Hell
30. 15 AugNato-Member Turkey Threatens Western-Owned Banks, Shifts East, Cozies up to Russia
31. 14 AugTime to Invest in Marijuana?
32. 14 AugAs Global Demand For Oil Drops, Worries Rise for Debt-Heavy Oil Companies
33. 14 AugChilling Echoes of Past, as Spain Cranks Up Political Repression
34. 13 AugAbenomics Goes to Heck, in one Chart
35. 13 AugTesla, Fairest Welfare Queen of all, Cracks the Whip
36. 13 AugTime to Take Cover: Goldman Offers a Synthetic Structured Security Called FIGSCO
37. 12 AugYoung Italian Prime Minister Dares (!) to Defy Troika
38. 12 AugProducer Prices Spike in Japan
39. 12 AugSmall Investors Just Proved Why Fed’s ‘Wealth Effect’ Is Bogus
40. 11 AugFinancial Bomb Blows up, Margin Calls Hit Hedge Funds
41. 11 AugThe Wall Street Hype Machine Suddenly Breaks Down
42. 10 AugEnron-ization of Water: Wall Street’s Pending Resource Grab
43. 10 AugReader Speaks Up: I Tried to Sell My Junk Bond
44. 10 AugTEPCO Reveals More Lies about Fukushima Meltdowns
45. 9 AugHow Government Masks the Plight of Spain’s Lost Generation
46. 8 AugWhich Country Is Hit Hardest By Russian Food Sanctions?
47. 8 AugJunk-Bond Turmoil just Preliminary, “The Real Panic Will Come With…”
48. 8 AugThe Old Continent’s Road to Ruin (Through Moscow)
49. 7 AugAuto Loans: Once a Boon for America, Now Malignant
50. 7 Aug‘Faith’ in Markets Collapses Among Professional Investors
51. 7 AugHow Many Miles Can You Drive On An Hour’s Wages? 100 Years In One Chart
52. 6 AugItaly’s Economic ‘Recovery’ from Hell in One Chart
53. 6 AugGoal of Booming ‘Internet of Things’: Monitoring, Sensing, Remote Control – Factory Workers First, You Next
54. 6 AugFed’s Fisher: End of ZIRP moved ‘further forward’
55. 5 AugReader Speaks up: Environmental Harm from Fracking
56. 5 AugStock Hype On a Wing and a Prayer
57. 4 Aug“It’s Going to Be Messy” In the Bond Market (And Stocks Won’t Be Spared)
58. 4 AugRussia Sanctions Exact Their Pound of Flesh – from Germany
59. 4 AugTo Launch Fracking in the UK, Property Owners get shafted
60. 3 AugA Toxic Mix for Auto Sales in America
61. 2 AugWhat The Heck Is Wrong with Big Tech?
62. 1 AugGermany U-Turns, Torpedoes Corporate Sovereignty Charter in Trade Agreements With US and Canada, Resistance Grows
63. 1 AugThis Market Is a Titanic in Search of an Iceberg

July 2014

1. 31 JulThe Fate of the Stock Market Rests with One Stock
2. 31 JulAn Insufferable Beer Crisis Hits California
3. 30 Jul“Reverse Bailout”: Private Banks to Argentina’s Rescue?
4. 30 JulYen-Dollar Trading in Tokyo Totally Collapses
5. 30 JulWhere Money Goes to Die: How Fracking Blows Up Balance Sheets of Oil and Gas Companies
6. 30 JulArgentina Default: Is Paul Singer Playing Both Sides?
7. 29 JulBig Trouble in Catalonia, As Godfather of Independence Movement Confesses to Tax Evasion
8. 29 JulHere’s the Chart that Shows Why the Housing Market Is Sick
9. 29 JulSanction Spiral Successful: German Exports to Russia Plunge
10. 29 JulInvestment Bank Discovers the “Redistributive Effects” of QE
11. 28 JulScary Thought: Busiest IPO Week since Aug 2000 (Days before the Real Crash)
12. 28 JulHere’s What Wall Street Bulls Were Saying In December 2007: Read And Take Cover!
13. 27 JulHow Bad Can The Junk-Bond Sell-Off Get? So Bad It’ll Take Down Stocks
14. 27 JulThe Absurdity of Celebrating ‘Successes’ of Bailed-Out Banks
15. 26 JulFrance’s Relentlessly Deteriorating Unemployment Fiasco
16. 26 JulWhose Oil Will Quench China’s Thirst?
17. 25 JulBut Wait, There Are A Few Differences Between Amazon and the US Postal Service
18. 24 JulThe Flame-Out Of Abenomics, in One Crucial Chart
19. 24 Jul‘To Protect the Press,’ Spain Tries to Muffle the Internet
20. 24 JulWhat Drives Miami’s Condo Bubble 2? Foreign Buyers
21. 23 JulDavid Stockman: Why The Market Is Heading For A Fall
22. 23 JulSign of Top? Banana Republic Trots out ‘Startup Guy’ Look
23. 22 JulTime to Profit From the Junk-Bond Market Insanity
24. 22 JulBehind the Curtains: How The Corporatocracy Is Driving the US-EU Trade Agenda
25. 22 JulChinese Government Frets Out Loud About Property Bubble Taking Down the Economy
26. 22 JulHow the Surge of Hot Money Pushes San Francisco to the Brink
27. 21 JulEuropean Banks Begin to Sweat As ECB Promises Scalps
28. 21 JulHave Institutional Investors Gone Completely Nuts?
29. 20 JulUBS Warns Everything Is Overpriced, Prepares For Sell-Off
30. 19 JulBig Brother To Get Bigger in Mexico
31. 18 JulOminous Signs in Consumer Sentiment
32. 17 JulChinese Construction Company Threatens To Default, Debt Dominoes Are Lined Up
33. 17 JulHype Officially Over: Spain Not The “New Germany”
34. 16 JulHas America’s Economy Entered the “Coffin Corner”?
35. 16 JulCanada’s Magnificent Housing Bubble at Risk, Fitch Says
36. 16 JulMicrosoft Layoffs: Insane M&A Frenzy Leads To Next Jobs Crisis
37. 15 JulNew Wave of Washington Consensus in Latin America
38. 15 JulYellen Warns Investors
39. 15 JulIs Canada Next? (A Very Ugly Chart)
40. 14 JulGoPro Tanks: Who Knew What?
41. 14 JulWho Will Be Assigned To Eat The Losses ‘Hidden’ On China’s Balance Sheets?
42. 13 Jul‘Politics and Mafia Are Same Thing’ – Jailed Spanish Politician
43. 12 JulRideshare Companies Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar Are Not What You Think They Are, and I’ll Tell You Why
44. 11 JulGallup Slams Lid On Hopes For US Economy
45. 11 JulThe Wall Street ‘Escape Velocity’ Scam: GDP Forecasts Fizzles Again
46. 11 JulForeign Buyers Splurge On US Homes, Drive Up Prices
47. 11 JulWhy Are TBTF Banks So Happy With The EU Banking Union?
48. 11 JulCheap Natural Gas Triggers Big Industrial Expansion Plans
49. 10 JulJapan Inc.’s Orders for Equipment and Machinery Totally Collapse
50. 10 JulMortgage Bankers: ‘Unsustainable Housing Bubble Is Inflating’
51. 9 JulIPO Hype-Miracle Gets Crushed by Reality
52. 9 JulSaber-Rattling Between Japan, China, and RUSSIA of all things Hits Record
53. 9 JulSenior Bankers Warn: ‘It’s Crazy, It’s a Boom, It’s a Gold Rush’
54. 8 JulGotham City Takes Down Spanish Joker
55. 8 JulBond Investors May Soon Head for Exits
56. 8 Jul“If This Ends Badly, How Will Such Reports Be Read In Hindsight. Mad?”
57. 8 JulThis Chart Truly Depicts What’s Wrong With the ‘Recovery’ in America
58. 7 JulWhatever You Do With A Tesla, Don’t Wrap It Around a Lamppost
59. 7 JulA Dark Alliance: European Union Joins Forces With Wall Street
60. 7 JulGerman Miracle Economy Trips, Good Weather Gets Blamed
61. 7 JulNo Politician Is Allowed to Oppose Banks For Long, Not Even the French President
62. 6 JulMexico’s New Age of Hope, Or a Repeat of Past Tragedies?
63. 6 JulEU Regulator To Banks: Don’t ‘Buy, Hold, or Sell’ Virtual Currencies, Stick to ‘Fiat Currencies’
64. 5 JulWhat The Heck Happened To TESTOSTERONE PIT?
65. 4 JulThe Natural Gas Debacle
66. 4 JulThis Chart Shows the True Picture of the Jobs Crisis In America
67. 4 JulHow The US Government Deliberately Understates Inflation
68. 3 Jul‘It’s Like We Have Developed An Inability To Even See Risks’
69. 2 JulHow Wall Street Manipulates The Buy-to-Rent Housing Racket
70. 1 JulDoctor’s Perspective: Facebook’s Own “Monster Study”
71. 1 JulEconomic Growth in America’s “Two-Tiered Society”

June 2014

1. 30 JunUBS: The Secret Reason The Fed Is ‘Tolerating’ Bubbles
2. 29 JunMini Tax Havens: How Europe’s 1% Gets to Pay Only 1%
3. 27 JunLast Time Lenders Did This, They Triggered The Financial Crisis
4. 26 JunGoogle Glass Hacked, Can Record Everything You Stare At
5. 26 Jun‘Steal Less, Invest More’ Advised At Ukrainian Energy Forum
6. 26 JunFederal Regulator Details Crazy Risk-Taking By Banks, Blames Fed
7. 25 JunJust How Crazy Is The Biggest Credit Bubble in History? See The Doomed Muni Tobacco Bonds In Your Conservative Bond Fund
8. 24 JunInvestment Bank: The End Of US Economic Growth
9. 23 JunIMF Frets About Giant Sucking Sound of Hot Money, Wants to Take Over Global Monetary Policy
10. 23 JunThe Crony Capitalist Corruption At GM
11. 22 JunThe Global Corporatocracy Is Nearing Completion
12. 21 JunTESTOSTERONE PIT (My Soul) Gets A New Name
13. 21 JunCanary In A Handbag: Why Coach Hit The Skids
14. 20 JunLast Time Corporate America Did This, The Stock Market Crashed
15. 19 JunThe Fed Rules, Metrics and Ratios Are Just for Decoration
16. 19 JunIn Search Of Russia’s Lost Fracking Boom
17. 19 JunArgentina’s Impending Default: Fancy Footwork is a Bad Idea
18. 18 JunIt’s Official: Despite Media Hype, Eurozone STILL in Recession
19. 17 JunHousing Hit the Wall of Wall Street in May
20. 16 JunThis Debt Is Explosive, And it Sits on the Shelf Everywhere, Waiting to go off
21. 16 JunWhat Iraq’s Disintegration Means for Oil Markets
22. 15 JunSex, Drugs and Dodgy Accounting: Spain’s New Growth Strategy
23. 14 JunPutin: “We Have to Think About How to Take this Money”
24. 14 JunBuying Health Insurance: A Pig in a Poke
25. 13 JunThe untimely end of San Francisco’s Tech and Housing Bubbles
26. 12 JunJapan Inc.’s Worst Quarterly Outlook Since The 2011 Earthquake
27. 12 JunAre Oil Traders Missing the Gravity of Mosul’s Fall to Insurgents?
28. 11 JunPublic Pension Plans: Boom and Bubble Forever Or Bust
29. 11 JunThe Art of Deception in Advertising
30. 10 JunFed’s Bullard: ‘The Bubble Was Developing Under Our Noses’
31. 9 JunLast Time this happened, The Financial Crisis Broke Out
32. 8 JunSpain’s Musical Thrones: Desperate Move by a Desperate Regime
33. 7 JunSelling Your European Stocks Before Everyone Sees This Chart?
34. 6 JunEven The Record Stock-Market Bullishness Is Fake
35. 5 JunGiant Sucking Sound: Russian Money Yanked From US Banks
36. 4 JunReal Economy Bites Housing Bubble 2
37. 4 JunThe Questionable Staying Power Of The US Fracking Boom
38. 3 JunDang, The Wine Bubble Implodes (It’s China’s Fault)
39. 3 JunArgentina Kowtows To “Paris Club” on Debt, Thinks It Won
40. 2 JunQE, Bailouts, And Families Struggling to Buy Food
41. 2 JunThe Big Losers in the California Shale-Oil Fiasco
42. 1 JunWreckonomics: Troika Accelerates Demolition of Spain’s Economy

May 2014

1. 31 MayThe Big Hoax Of The Wall Street Hype Machine
2. 31 MayHere Comes QE In Financial Drag: Draghi’s New Monetization Ploy
3. 30 MayThe Wrath of Abenomics: Sales Collapse, Inflation Soars
4. 30 MayThe Fracking Shakeout
5. 29 MayWhy The Promise Of American LNG Exports Is Gassy Hype
6. 28 MayHousing Bubble 2 Already Collapsing for the 99%
7. 28 MayExxon, BP Defy Obama; Extend Partnership with Russia
8. 26 MayWinner Accuses French Government of “Massive” Election Fraud
9. 25 MayFor Love Nor Money: The Bank That Nobody Wants To Buy
10. 23 MayWorld Trade Suddenly Slumps (Just Forget ‘Escape Velocity’)
11. 23 MayChina’s Oil Giant At Center Of Corruption Probe
12. 23 MayCloud Wars: Now Even the CIA Slams IBM’s Technology
13. 22 MayThis Happened Twice Before, And Each Time Stocks Crashed
14. 21 MayChina Bans Windows 8 From Government Computers After Leaked Warning By Germany About Backdoor To NSA
15. 21 MayArgentina Fesses Up: Price of Milk Doesn’t Lie, But Politicians Do
16. 21 MayStephen Colbert Brilliant Takedown of Amazon’s Ridiculous Photography Patent (Video)
17. 20 MayAirbus CEO Calls For Currency War, Shoots Himself in Foot
18. 19 MayWhy Fast-Food Workers Are An Endangered Species
19. 19 MayThis Chart Is The Fate of Housing In America As Student Loans Bankrupt A Whole Generation
20. 18 May‘Austerity’ in Spain: Corrupt Corporations Behind Bankrupt Private Toll Roads Get Bailed Out
21. 17 MayBlackRock: Russian Bond Market “Freezing Up”
22. 16 MayThe Hazardous Hunt For Carry – Why The EM Rebound Isn’t Real
23. 15 MayRussia Dumping US Treasuries? But Why the Heck in Belgium?
24. 15 MayWhy China Will Implode: It’s A Monumental Building Aberration, Not An Economy
25. 14 MayFrance Thumbs Nose at Obama Over Sanctions: Will Deliver Two Warships to Russia
26. 13 MayLike So 2000: Wall Street Pumps Crashed Internet Stocks
27. 13 MayThe Sheer Insanity of What You Pay For Medical Services
28. 13 MayRussian Bank Lures German Savers As Russians Yank Out Money
29. 13 MayThe Growing Catastrophe Known as Abenomics
30. 12 MayThe Brutal, Beneath-the-Surface, Slo-Mo Crash of Stocks
31. 12 MayEU’s Case against Gazprom over “Extortionary” Prices Cracks Russian Influence
32. 11 MaySpanish Judge Crosses Line by Sending Bank CEO to Jail
33. 9 MayWhen $1.2 Trillion In Foreign Bank Funds In The US Dissipate
34. 9 MayUS on Self-Imposed Sidelines in South China Sea Standoff
35. 8 MayScorched-Earth Monetary Policy in the US, And What Happened in New Zealand
36. 7 MayExplosive Hidden Leverage Threatens To Blow Up the Markets
37. 6 MayBrazil’s Troubled Petrobras Becomes Hot Political Potato
38. 6 MayBanks And Hedge Funds Make Curious Deal On New Structured Toxic-Waste Securities
39. 5 MayBiggest Credit Bubble in History Cracks, Trips Up The Smart Money
40. 4 MayBeijing’s Efforts To Slow Credit Bubble Will End in Catastrophic Fail
41. 3 MayMutiny of the Lab Rats: Europeans Grow Weary of EU Experiment
42. 2 MayThe Last Two Times This Happened, The Stock Market Crashed
43. 1 MayThe “Low-flation” Myth: Inflation That Is Seen And Not Seen
44. 1 MayHousing in Six Cities in the West

April 2014

1. 30 AprThis chart is a hair-raising picture of Canadian home prices that makes the torrid excesses of the US housing bubble look banal
2. 29 AprPutin Parties With German Ex-Chancellor, Sanctions Be Damned
3. 28 AprLEAKED: Draghi’s Sudden Switcheroo On QE
4. 28 AprWho Is Getting Crushed in This Bull Market?
5. 26 AprLiars, Damned Liars, and Spanish Banks
6. 25 AprJapanese Doomsday Machine Socks It To The Middle Class (But Shorting JGBs Remains A Terrible Idea)
7. 25 AprWall Street’s “Escape Velocity” Hoax
8. 25 AprThis Chart Is A True Picture of The Bank Credit Bubble In America, Now Bigger Than The Last One (Which Blew Up)
9. 24 AprBiggest Credit Bubble in History Runs Out Of Time
10. 24 AprDoctor’s Perspective: Perils and Pitfalls of Corporatized Medicine
11. 23 AprRichest 200 Moguls Made $13.9 Billion Today
12. 22 AprThe Very Brief Phenomenon Of The Gold Standard
13. 22 AprAmerica And Oil: This Chart Shows Why OPEC’s Knees Are Trembling
14. 21 AprExodus of Japan Inc. Slams China
15. 21 AprDraghi’s Bold Push For Creeping Defaults And Real Wage Cuts
16. 19 AprSeed Wars: Latin America Strikes Back Against Monsanto
17. 18 AprIPO Craze Peaks, Investors Scurry Out of the Way, VCs Fret
18. 18 Apr‘People Don’t Grasp Yet What European Unification Will Cost Them’
19. 17 AprHousing Bubble 2.0 Veers Elegantly
20. 16 AprWhat the Heck is Going on With US Treasuries In Belgium?
21. 15 Apr“Uncreative” Destruction: The Troika’s Hostile Takeover of Europe
22. 15 AprWhat Happens When ‘All Assets Have Become Too Expensive?’
23. 14 AprThis Chart Shows When the Smart Money Saw The Abenomics Fail
24. 12 Apr“It’s not a bubble,” Retail Investors Are Told As The Smart Money Bails Out
25. 11 AprRussia Loses Leverage with China on ‘Holy-Grail’ Gas Deal
26. 10 AprBiggest Credit Bubble in History Flashes Warning: ‘Seek Cover’
27. 10 AprPeople In Eastern Ukraine: We Don’t Want To Be Annexed By Russia!
28. 9 AprAmerica’s Structural Unemployment Crisis in Two Charts
29. 8 AprDOJ Extracts $5 Billion from Anadarko “for 85 years of poisoning the earth”
30. 8 AprHead of EU’s Newfangled Bank Regulator: Markets Are Dumb, Pumps Stocks Of Teetering Banks To Keep them From Toppling
31. 7 AprHot Air Hisses Out Of Housing Bubble 2.0: Even Two Middle-Class Incomes Aren’t Enough Anymore To Buy A Median Home
32. 6 AprAnother Day, Another Political Scandal In Spain’s ‘Mafia State’
33. 5 AprThis Chart Is A True Picture of How QE “Solved” The Unemployment Crisis In America
34. 4 Apr“Champion in value destruction”: Russian Businesses Suffocating Under Putin’s Political Agendas
35. 3 AprTurns Out, Even The Price of Beer Is Rigged
36. 2 Apr‘Hope-for-Growth Momentum Investing’
37. 2 AprTesla’s Sales Stall, Don’t Even Amount To A Rounding Error
38. 1 AprI Just Got PayPal’s New Absolutely-No-Privacy-Ever Policy
39. 1 AprBroke Argentina Socks It To Warrant Holders, Saves $3 Billion

March 2014

1. 31 MarStocks on Speed: Leverage Spikes, As Does Risk Of Crash (Look at that Insane Chart!)
2. 30 MarPeaceful Indignation Turns to Violent Rage in Rajoy’s Spain
3. 29 MarDollar Hegemony Under Attack By Export-Superpowers Germany and China
4. 28 MarA US-Saudi Move to Lower Oil Prices To Punish Russia?
5. 28 MarBoss, We Got a Situation in Natural Gas
6. 27 MarPaul “Contrafactual” Krugman: The Laureate of Keynesian Babble
7. 27 MarGerman Industry Goes To See Uncle Putin
8. 26 MarThe Risk of Stock-Market Vertigo
9. 25 MarTotal Abenomics Fail Slams Japan Where It Hurts Most
10. 24 MarRussian Economy Is Getting Hit, So Are Foreign Investors
11. 24 MarWhich Country Is Europe’s Biggest Narco State?
12. 23 MarJitters Mount Over Prospect of Catalonian Independence
13. 22 MarThis Chart Is A True Picture Of the Unemployment Crisis In America
14. 21 MarThe “Sanction Spiral” Elegantly Spirals Out of Control
15. 20 MarFinancial Industry Insider: Bubbles Are A Consensual Hallucination
16. 20 MarGoldman Goes Bonkers Over Tesla
17. 19 MarFrench Megabank: No “Drastic Crisis” in France, It Will Be “Slow And Over Time”
18. 18 MarWill The Last Bear Please Turn Out The Lights
19. 17 MarShell Oil: US Fracking “Revolution” A Money Loser
20. 17 MarBanker Farce: Spanish Bank CEO Launches Moral Crusade Against Political Corruption
21. 16 MarObama’s Fantasy: Using US Energy ‘Boom’ Against Russia
22. 15 MarKremlin: If The US Tries To Hurt Russia’s Economy, Russia Will Target The Dollar
23. 15 MarRussia Blocks Access to Major Independent News Sites And Blogs
24. 14 MarBay Area Home Sales Plunge To 2008 Levels, Prices Soar
25. 13 MarGerman Exporters Fire Warning Shot About Russia “Sanction-Spiral,” Banks At Risk
26. 12 MarCoffee – The Craziest Chart Of The Year Already
27. 11 MarRound Two of the Global Financial Sector’s Takeover of Spain
28. 11 MarWhat Caused The Glorious Jump In Household Wealth (In One Insanely Good Chart) And Who Will Blow It Up Again?
29. 10 MarFrom Now On, No Compromises Are Possible For Russia
30. 9 MarChristine Lagarde, The Most Powerful “Yes-Woman”
31. 8 MarThey Actually Don’t Have A Clue About Employment And Jobs, Not In California
32. 7 MarLoophole Makes Hilarious Mockery Of US Crude Oil Export Ban
33. 6 MarTearing Venezuelan Society Apart: A Personal Account
34. 6 MarShale Oil & Gas: Not a Revolution But a Retirement Party
35. 5 MarAid for the Ukraine “Will Be Stolen” – Former Ukrainian Minister of Economy
36. 5 MarObama’s Growth Forecast Bullish, Wall Street Exuberant, Corporate Insiders Freak-Out Bearish
37. 4 Mar“Targeted” Sanctions, A Triumph For Russian Isolationists
38. 3 MarNASDAQ 10,000 – Or Something
39. 3 MarPolitical Union In Europe: Governance Of, By, And For The Elite
40. 1 MarSmall Investors Exuberant, Margin Debt And Risk Of Crash Soar

February 2014

1. 28 FebThe Relentless, Systematic Tear-Down Of The Dollar Hegemony
2. 27 FebThe Smart Money Quietly Abandons The Housing Market
3. 26 FebBig Oil’s Favorite Subsidy, The Federal Liability Cap for Oil Spills
4. 26 FebCalifornia Housing Bubble: Now Even Teachers Can No Longer Afford To Buy A Home
5. 26 FebWalmart International: Lousy Economies ‘Everywhere We Operate’
6. 25 FebWithout Them, The Housing ‘Recovery’ Remains A Sham
7. 24 FebWhat A Hard Landing In China Might Look Like (If They’re Lucky) Via A Boeing 767
8. 23 FebCorporate Colonialism: Winners and Losers of Global ‘Free’ Trade
9. 22 Feb“Serious Dysfunctionality” On Wall Street: Facebook-WhatsApp And The Deals That “Marked The Top” Of The Last Two Bubbles
10. 21 FebRosy Dreams? Conundrum for American LNG Exporters
11. 21 FebThe Madness of Abenomics In One (Crazy) Chart
12. 20 FebHousing Bubble II: What’s Ruining Home Sales? Not The Weather!
13. 19 FebThe Young Subprime Debt-Slave Generation
14. 18 FebFed Lying About QE, Media Not Paying Attention
15. 16 FebThe Mind-Game Of “Fixing” Europe’s Big Zombie Banks
16. 15 FebObama Furiously Pushes Secret Trade Deal, Opposition Grows
17. 14 Feb“Foreclosure Rebound Pattern”: Foreclosures SUDDENLY Jump 57% in California (And Soar In Much Of The Country)
18. 13 FebNo Crisis? France’s Private Sector In Deeper Trouble Than In 2009
19. 12 FebCalifornia MUST Have Magnificent, Endless Bubbles in Housing, Stocks, And IPOs – Or Go Broke Again
20. 11 FebIPO Highflyer Hits Sidewalk After Smart Money Bails Out
21. 11 FebWhy My BS-O-Meter Redlined In The Minimum-Wage War
22. 10 FebStinking Corporate Revenues, Desperately Doctored Earnings-Per-Share
23. 10 FebA Month of Panic in Iraq (Where It’s STILL All About Oil)
24. 9 FebI’ve Hammered On Japan’s Fiscal Nightmare, Abenomics, TEPCO, And Debacles… But There’s More To Japan
25. 8 FebGerman High Court Blows Up Euro, Says ‘Oh Wait,’ Abdicates
26. 8 FebArgentina’s Tempestuous Tango At The Edge Of The Abyss
27. 7 FebEpic Droughts: Fracking, Water Supply In Mexican Standoff
28. 7 FebCracks In The Tech Bubble (That Doesn’t Exist)
29. 6 FebFed Flails About To Squash “Misleading” (Very Inconvenient) Unemployment Measure
30. 4 FebGiant Sucking Sound? Emerging-Markets Fiasco To Topple European Banks
31. 3 FebStocks Plunge: ‘And This Too Shall Pass,’ Or Something
32. 3 FebCrazy Abenomics Orgy In Japan Is Ending Already – Pounding Hangover Next
33. 2 FebWhat To Expect From Fed Chair Yellen In One Cartoon
34. 2 FebNew Model Of Governance in Bailout Europe: Silence, Lies, and Evasion
35. 1 FebNo Wonder German Workers Drag Down Retail Sales – And Much Of The Economy

January 2014

1. 31 JanThe Exquisitely Reengineered Frankenstein Housing Monster
2. 30 JanStocks on Speed: Margin Debt Spikes, So Does Risk Of Crash
3. 29 JanChaos Breaks Out In Natural Gas, Price Tripled Since April 2012
4. 29 JanIcahn’s “No-Brainer” Goes To Heck (Manipulation Works Only Most Of The Time)
5. 28 JanWe Are Sleepwalking Towards A Cashless Society
6. 28 JanWhy Japan’s Trade Fiasco Worries Me So Much
7. 27 JanBlack Money In France “At The Center Of Life For Politicians”
8. 27 JanArgentina’s Drunken Devaluation Just A Hiccup Before Throwing Up, Passing Out, Waking Up On Floor To Face Reality
9. 26 JanFrom “Glut” To Panic: Natural Gas Soars
10. 25 JanA Teeny-Weeny Bit Of Taper, And Look What Happened
11. 24 JanOutrageously Ballooning Costs Hit Major Oil Companies
12. 24 JanA Very Unfinished Recession, For Most Americans
13. 23 JanMore Oil Spilled in 2013 US Rail Incidents than Previous 37 Years Combined
14. 22 JanHousing Bubble 2.0 Hits Messy Resistance In California
15. 21 JanSpiffy Hotel Rooms For The 85 Richest Folks Who Own As Much As Poorest Half Of Humanity
16. 20 JanHow the BBC Over-Egged UK Retail Sales … And The World Soaked Up Every Word
17. 20 JanHow to Manipulate the Entire IPO Market With Just $250 Million
18. 20 JanAlready Toast? Mexico’s Energy Reform Buzz vs. Oil Theft, Corruption, And Organized Crime
19. 19 JanImpunity and Excess, Desperation and Violence: Two Worlds Collide in Spain
20. 18 JanCalifornia Water Crisis Meets (Already Iffy) Fracking Boom
21. 17 JanThe Suddenly Invisible And Silent President Of Argentina
22. 17 JanThe Corporate Malaise That The Stock Market Is Furiously Ignoring (for now) – Societe Generale’s Quant Research
23. 17 JanNatural Gas Squeeze? “Panic hasn’t ensued just yet”
24. 16 JanFracking Fluids to Blame for Rail Car Explosions
25. 16 JanThe Next Tire To Drop On The US Economy
26. 15 JanGerman Economy Wobbles Between Shrinkage And Stagnation, Stocks Soar
27. 15 JanIran, Russia Ruffle US Feathers With Oil Swap Deal
28. 15 JanHang On Tight: ‘Merger Monday,’ Which Died in 2008, Is Back
29. 14 JanThe Magic for Our Hapless Renters
30. 13 JanOffshore Fracking (And Dumping Chemicals Into Coastal Waters) Beyond The Public Eye
31. 13 JanLies, Damned Lies, and Banks: Deutsche Bank’s Whitewash Of “Senior Management”
32. 12 JanFinancial Tiki-Taka: Ugly Side of the ‘Beautiful Game’ in Spain
33. 12 JanBut Wait … The PC Industry Hopes That It Hasn’t Lost Hope Yet
34. 10 JanLousy Jobs Data: Five Years Of QE Fail, Yet Fig Leaf For Taper
35. 10 JanChina CLOBBERS The US In Auto Sales, Becomes GM’s Nirvana (Unless You Have To Breathe)
36. 9 JanPlagued By Indigestion, Fed Issues Asset-Bubble Warning
37. 9 JanBrazil’s Energy Sector Struggles With Its “Oil Revolution”
38. 8 JanThe Piranha of Portugal: Greatest Counterfeiter Ever (Or: Any Difference Between Keynesianism And Counterfeiting?)
39. 8 Jan“This Chart Is A True Representation Of The Employment Crisis In This Country”
40. 7 JanCorporate Earnings Goofiness Goes Hog Wild
41. 6 JanThe Most Despised Tax-And-Retreat French President Has ANOTHER Plan
42. 5 JanDeath By A Thousand Cuts: The Silent Assassination Of European Democracy
43. 5 JanBernanke’s Delirious Praise For His Handiwork, The Concentration Of Power At the Top Banks
44. 4 JanPlug Power, “Exhibit A” Why Most Hot IPOs Suck Long Term
45. 3 JanFizzing Optimism For Wild Financial Engineering In 2014
46. 1 JanSo This Isn’t Exactly A Rosy Outlook For 2014, Or Something

2013 401

December 2013

1. 31 DecCracks Forming In Housing Bubble II (But This Time It’s Different)
2. 30 DecLEAKED Confession: Cesspool Of Greek-German Corruption
3. 29 DecMake No Mistake About It: The Storm Has Hit in Turkey
4. 28 DecNext Shoe to Drop in Broke California’s Lopsided ‘Recovery’
5. 27 DecThe Japanese Feel The Heat From The Big Lie Of Abenomics
6. 26 DecWhat Happens Next, Now That The 10-year Treasury Yield Hit The Psycho-Sound Barrier Of 3%
7. 25 DecWhen Soaring Margin Debt, Sign of Investor Confidence, Turns Into A Nightmare On Steroids
8. 24 DecNo Money, No Problem, Bank of Japandemonium Takes Care Of It
9. 24 DecClean Energy Presents “Perfect Storm” for Utilities
10. 23 DecFinancial Engineering Wildest Since The 2007 Bubble
11. 22 DecEpic Duel In Spain Between The Politically Connected CEO Of A Collapsed Bank And A Judge
12. 21 DecThis Ends In A “Planned Economy” – Bundesbank President
13. 20 DecThe Natural Gas Glut Is, Like, So Over. Price Soars!
14. 19 DecThe Multi-Pronged Mortgage Debacle Next Year (So Long, “Housing Recovery”)
15. 18 DecSmart U.S. Oil Money Is on Rail
16. 18 DecJunk-Debt Time Bomb: Ticking Till The Fed’s Money Dries Up
17. 17 DecUS Judge Whacks At NSA: Pandemic Phone Spying on Americans ‘Almost Certainly’ Violates Constitution
18. 16 DecFear and Trembling In Muni Land
19. 15 DecUnleash the lawyers! Mounting Costs Of NSA Scandal To Bleed US Tech For Years
20. 13 DecMother Of All Currency Wars in One Chart: Dollar Vs. Swiss Franc
21. 11 DecWhere the Heck Do You Put Your Money When Tapering Starts?
22. 11 DecUkraine, Third-Highest Default Risk In The World, Squeezed By Russia, Makes Two Gas Deals To Save Its Hide
23. 9 DecPutin Liquidates State-Owned Media Groups, Tightens Stranglehold On Survivors (As Other Governments Watch Enviously)
24. 9 DecSilicon Valley Frenzy: Big Bucks, Big Data, and Spying
25. 8 DecMicrosoft Protests NSA Taps (I Hear The Crinkly Sounds Of A Bag Being Pulled Over My Head)
26. 6 DecGermany’s Complex Export Religion In One Chart
27. 6 DecWhy Bitcoin Is Such Dizzying Fun
28. 5 DecWhat the Hell Just Happened in Córdoba?
29. 5 DecHow Crazy Is The Auto Financing Frenzy?
30. 5 DecCurrency Controls: Argentina Cracks Down on Foreign Travel
31. 4 DecGrowing Expectations Of TBTF Bank Creditor Bailouts Tighten Their Tentacles Around Taxpayers
32. 3 DecRising Slag Heaps of Petcoke Stir Up Environmental Concerns
33. 2 DecStrung-out Consumers, Desperate Retailers, Crummy Sales
34. 2 DecUnemployment Crisis Hits Economic Wunderkind Austria

November 2013

1. 30 NovFreedom Or Subjugation? It’s (Not) Your Choice
2. 30 NovThis Inflation Is Supposed To Be GOOD For Japanese Workers?
3. 28 NovThe Rajoy Horror Picture Show Lumbers On
4. 28 NovHow Much Is My Private Data Worth? (Google Just Offered Me Money)
5. 27 NovYoung Woman in China Buy Maseratis
6. 25 NovThe Stock Bubble In Context (Will The Last Bear Please Turn Out The Lights?)
7. 25 NovFrench Megabank: “Germany Should Leave The Eurozone”
8. 24 NovSeems The NSA Spied On Me When I Lived In Belgium
9. 23 NovRising Costs A Silent Killer In US Oil Exploration And Production (But Where Are The Opportunities?)
10. 23 NovJapan Is Used To Natural Disasters, But This One Is Man-Made
11. 22 NovThe Makings of a Petro-State in North Dakota
12. 22 NovThe Most Despised Tax-And-Retreat French President Sinks Deeper Into Economic Quagmire
13. 21 NovPrince Alwaleed Warns, US Shale Revolution Threatens Saudi Economic Stability
14. 21 NovGagging Doubt: French Crackdown On French And American Bloggers Who Question Megabank Balance Sheets
15. 21 NovArgentine Stocks React to President Kirchner’s Latest Handiwork
16. 21 NovMexico: the Final Piece in North America’s Energy Renaissance
17. 20 NovUse Bitcoin As A Currency, Get Wiped Out (The Government Likes It That Way)
18. 19 NovTVA Coal Closures Signal of What’s to Come
19. 18 NovHere Is Proof (Provided By Japan Inc.) Why Abenomics Fails The Real Economy
20. 18 NovExtortion Over Minimum Wage In Germany: BMW, Daimler, VW Threaten to Offshore Production
21. 17 NovCatalan Politician Does Unthinkable, Threatens Spain’s Creditors
22. 16 NovThe IEA Finally Gets it Right
23. 16 NovMunicipal Bankruptcy? Why Not! And so The Floodgates Open
24. 15 NovOutcry as Canada Considers Nuclear Waste Facility on US Border
25. 15 NovNSA Spying Crushes US Tech Companies in Emerging Markets (“An Industry Phenomenon,” Says Cisco’s Chambers)
26. 14 NovEU Citizenship Goes On Sale, Price War Breaks Out
27. 13 NovDoes QE Boost Employment? (Somebody Should Send This To Yellen)
28. 13 Nov“Confessions” Of A Master Of Revolving Door Between Wall Street And The Fed
29. 12 NovThe Day The Bubble Became Official, And Everyone Was Happy
30. 12 NovGerman Industry Dreads Getting Slammed By The Costs Of Green Energy
31. 11 NovComing Soon: Corporate Tools To Hollow Out National Sovereignty
32. 11 NovWatching The Fed Marinate In Its Own Artfully Concocted Pickle
33. 10 NovSpain, No Country For Young Men
34. 9 NovWhat You Need to Know about the Latest Oil Trading Scandal
35. 9 NovAre You Overweight EU Equities For The Big Recovery Yet?
36. 7 NovHigh-End Food-Fraud Scandal Deliciously Spirals Out of Control, Whacks Japanese Consumer Confidence
37. 7 NovI Used To Be A Stock Trader
38. 7 NovOn The Surface, There’s Nothing Perturbing In The Challenger Job Cut Report
39. 6 NovBank of Japandemonium Killed And “Sacrificed” The JGB Market
40. 5 NovHuman Inability To Grasp Very Large Numbers Abused By Politicians And The Fed
41. 5 NovMoney Manager Nightmare: “How Can I Explain To My Clients That We Had A Third Crash In 15 years?”
42. 4 NovDon’t-Fight-The-Fed Confidence Turns To Worry That Fed Might Take Us Over A Cliff
43. 4 NovNobel Peace Prize, Asylum for Snowden: Germans Turn Up Heat
44. 3 NovThe Global Corporatocracy is Almost Fully Operational
45. 2 NovDancing Chickens And The Fed
46. 2 NovJapanese Banks Work with the Yakuza
47. 1 NovJapan’s Most Hated Outfit, TEPCO, Reports Fat Profit (From Taxpayer Bailout Money)

October 2013

1. 31 OctNSA’s “MUSCULAR” Secretly Breaks Into The Cloud Of US Tech Companies, Siphons Off Data, Fouls Up Revenues Overseas
2. 30 OctPoliticians Are All Jabbering About Creating Jobs (Doing What?)
3. 30 OctOMG, Those “Who Truly Rule The World”
4. 30 OctThe Smart Money Denies They’re The Smart Money As They Franticly Sell Their Crown Jewels Before The Bubble Blows Up
5. 29 OctA Devastating Problem Japan Does NOT Have: Unemployment
6. 29 OctPortrait of a Kleptocrat
7. 28 OctTwitter IPO A Dud? Yes, Says Survey of Financial Advisors (But You’ll Own It “Whether You Want It Or Not”)
8. 28 OctIs the Giant Siberian Oilfield to be Developed by Russia and China Radioactive?
9. 28 OctAmerican Boondoggle Meets Chinese Methods
10. 28 OctRule #1 in Argentina: Do NOT Talk About The “Blue Dollar”
11. 27 OctChina’s Back-Door Natural Gas Supply
12. 26 OctLast Hope For Holiday Shopping Frenzy: The Few Who Can Splurge
13. 24 OctHiding Inflation: People Get Bigger, Airline Seats Get Narrower
14. 24 OctWhat Will It Take To Blow Up The Entire Japanese Banking System? (Not Much, According To The Bank of Japan)
15. 23 OctUkraine & Turkey: The European Energy Coup
16. 23 OctFrance Clamors for Currency War, Bundesbank Warns Of Housing Bubble
17. 22 OctTexas Instruments CFO Admits: Stock Market Is Overpriced
18. 22 OctExponential Increase of US Gross National Debt 1972-2013 (Chart)
19. 22 OctAnother Canadian Oil Train Derailment Punctuates The Crude Transportation Debate
20. 21 OctWhy I’m So Worried About Japan’s Ballooning Trade Deficit
21. 21 OctAnother Heap Of Wall-Street Hype and BS
22. 20 OctDollar Destruction And Gold Over 47 Years – A Personal Story
23. 20 OctDavid Stockman: Blackstone Double Dip
24. 19 OctThis Is What Happens When A Spanish Judge Sends A Senior Banker to Jail
25. 18 OctDelirious Construction And Property Bubbles Prop Up China GDP (And Buy Social Stability For Now)
26. 18 OctStockholders Got Plundered In IBM’s Hocus-Pocus Machine
27. 17 OctNSA Revelations Kill IBM Hardware Sales in China
28. 16 OctAlcatel-Lucent “Could disappear,” Says CEO Michel Combes
29. 16 OctMany US Homes are Sold without Mineral Rights to the Land
30. 16 OctCorporate Disease: Workers Are A Cost Not A Productive Resource
31. 15 OctECB’s Draghi: Knowing Too Much About Our Big Banks Could Set Off A Panic
32. 14 OctNext Step In Dismantling The Dollar And US Credit Hegemony
33. 14 OctMulti-Trillion Dollar Question: How Much of Our Debt Is “Odious”?
34. 13 OctWhy The Wall Street Casino Lives On
35. 12 OctThe Multi-Billion Dollar Reason Argentina Can’t Be Venezuela, Yet
36. 12 OctEarnings Season Starts With A Bang, So To Speak
37. 11 Oct“Yellen Props Up Stocks” And Other Scary Data Points
38. 10 OctRepublicans Are Losing The Debt-Ceiling Publicity War
39. 10 OctCalifornia To Grapple “Indefinitely” With Nuclear Hangover
40. 10 OctUS Supreme Court Passes on Argentine Bonds Case
41. 9 OctFed: Hedge Funds, Banks Sell Crappiest Debt To Small Investors (Before Credit Bubble Blows Up)
42. 8 OctAmericans Despise Congress, Their Economic Confidence Plunges, And Now They Slash Spending
43. 7 OctWhich Law To Break If The Debt Ceiling Isn’t Raised?
44. 7 OctOktoberfest Dips Into Beer Recession
45. 7 OctAfter Snatching Olympics, Japan Suddenly Admits Fukushima Not “Under Control,” Begs For International Help
46. 6 OctDeconstructing Spain’s Lazarus-Like Economic Recovery
47. 6 OctDavid Stockman: Extended Stay And The Wall Street Meth Labs
48. 4 OctApple, After 2-Year Fight, Fails to Squash “Apfelkind” Café in Germany
49. 4 OctThe End Of Nuclear Energy In Japan?
50. 3 OctWall Street Brushes Off Debt-Ceiling, Republicans Beg To Differ, But Default Would be “Catastrophic,” And Nothing Is Priced In
51. 3 OctEnabled By ZIRP and QE, Bankers Continue Looting Instead of Building Capital
52. 2 OctHammered By Abenomics, Japanese Consumers Get Gloomier
53. 1 OctSupercars In The US, Japan, and China: How QE And Corruption Boosted Sales
54. 1 Oct“A Feeding Frenzy, A Mad Dash To Snap It Up” – House Flipper

September 2013

1. 30 SepS&P Threatens To Cut US Debt To Junk
2. 30 SepBubble Trouble: Record Junk Bond Issuance, A Barrage Of IPOs, “Out Of Whack” Valuations, And Grim Earnings Growth
3. 29 SepDavid Stockman: Monetary Central Planners And Financial Manias
4. 28 SepGreat Start in Germany: Three Days After Election Victory, Merkel’s Party Breaks Campaign Promise Of “No Tax Hikes”
5. 27 SepJ.C. Penney And Goldman: Lies, Scams, And Rip-Offs
6. 26 SepFirst Cracks (And Losses) In The Insane LBO Craze
7. 26 SepWal-Mart Shoppers Clobbered By Fed Policies, Warren Buffett And His Ilk Thank The Fed
8. 25 SepInvestors Of Japan’s Most Hated Corporation, TEPCO, To Be Bailed Out Forever
9. 24 SepAny “Government Is Evil To A Certain Extent” – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov About The Troubled Economy
10. 24 SepWhose Capital Will Get Destroyed? Wall Street Tries To Cash Out Of Newfangled “Asset Class”
11. 23 SepiPhone 5nSa
12. 22 SepMostly Cloudy With Occasional Drones In The Afternoon
13. 21 SepFear, Loathing, and Collective Amnesia in Crisis-Ridden Spain
14. 20 Sep“When Will China Be More Expensive Than The US?”
15. 20 SepWas The Fed Scared Of This Graph?
16. 20 SepTrade Is Supposed To Save Japan, According To The Gospel Of Abenomics, But In Reality…
17. 19 SepColorado’s Fracking Industry At Threat From The Floods?
18. 18 SepJust Replace The Whole Kit And Caboodle With Asset Bubbles
19. 18 SepThe Other Reason Why IBM Throws A Billion At Linux (With NSA- Designed Backdoor)
20. 17 SepHow the Arab Spring Shakes Up The Oil Markets
21. 16 SepRevenge of the Japanese Zombie Banks
22. 16 SepUS Stocks Blind To Crashing Earnings Estimates (For Now)
23. 15 SepDavid Stockman – Bernanke’s (Untough) Love Child: The $27 Billion Affair At The Hilton
24. 14 Sep“A difficult second half”: Fabulous Excuses By Clothing Retailers As Sales Fall Apart
25. 12 SepBofA-Merrill: “When Excess Liquidity Is Removed, It Will Get ‘CRASHy’”
26. 12 SepHousing Bubble In Full Bloom, Zany Price Increases, And Now A Sudden Slowdown
27. 11 SepDebt Zombie Verizon
28. 10 SepThree years in the hoosegow: China Tightens Stranglehold On “New Media”
29. 9 SepJapan’s Frantic Redo Of An Artificial Boom Followed By A Bust
30. 9 SepDavid Stockman: The Debt Zombies Kept On Coming
31. 7 Sep“We Don’t Feel Any Impact Of Abenomics Here”
32. 7 SepEurope Turns Blind Eye to US-UK Snooping Antics
33. 6 SepJobs Don’t Keep Up With Population Growth, But Unemployment Rate Drops Elegantly, Keeps Intact The Pretext For Fed “Taper”
34. 5 SepBonds Bleed: Largest Bubble In History Unwinds, But The “Great Rotation” Into Stocks Is Deceptive Wall Street Hype
35. 4 SepMassive Mission Creep In War On Syria (Already!)
36. 3 SepThe Big Shift: Chinese, Russians Replace People From (Formerly) Rich Countries As Big Spenders At Parisian Airports
37. 3 SepSpanish Government Caught Erasing Evidence in Corruption Case
38. 1 SepDavid Stockman: How KKR Stripped The Beds In America’s Largest Hospital Chain With Some Help From Bubbles Ben

August 2013

1. 30 AugBad Hair Day In Two Decades Of German Retail Sales Quagmire
2. 30 AugCanada Builds Pipelines To Export Oil To Asia (At Higher Prices) As US Stalls on Keystone XL
3. 30 AugAbenomics Wins: Budget And Inflation Both Jump (Over The Cliff)
4. 28 AugGerman Election Finally Gets Messy: “Euro Is More Than A Currency” And Greece “Shouldn’t Have Been Allowed In”
5. 28 AugDeluded Optimism in Corporate Earnings Growth (Now Shriveling)
6. 27 AugThe Undead Corporate Welfare Programs For Automakers
7. 27 AugThe Shale by Rail Revolution: A Lasting Phenomenon
8. 27 AugStocks: “Drastic Correlation Between Printing and Pumping” – And What It means When The Printing Ends
9. 26 AugGerman Gov. CONFIRMS: Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 with TPM 2.0, Fearing Control by ‘Third Parties’ (Such As NSA)
10. 25 AugDavid Stockman: How The Fed Helped Bushwhack TXU
11. 24 AugAn Inconvenient Truth: How Carbon Trading Is Enriching Polluters and Destroying the Environment
12. 24 AugThe New Housing Market “Recovery” – Fact V. Fiction
13. 23 Aug“Limited Freedom of Speech” For Japanese Bureaucrats To Cover Up The “Dire Fiscal Condition”
14. 23 AugA Very Profitable Part Of Banking Goes Totally To Heck
15. 22 AugLEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA
16. 21 AugWhen “QE Infinity” Turns Into A Pipedream: Hot Money Evaporates, Rout Follows – See Emerging Markets
17. 20 AugAbenomics Utter Fail: Japan’s Crazy Exploding Trade Deficit
18. 19 AugUS Tech Companies Raked Over The Coals In China
19. 18 AugDavid Stockman: The Texas Gas Bubble Massacre
20. 17 AugSpain’s “Government of Scoundrels” Stokes Diplomatic Row
21. 16 AugRetail Woes: They Shopped Till They Dropped
22. 16 AugCisco CEO Reports Record Sales And “Lumpy” Demand, Just Like In November 2007, A Month Before Stocks Began To Crash
23. 15 AugThis is What Mucks Up Housing, Costs Homeowners Dearly
24. 13 AugFed: We Can Avoid A Crash At The End Of QE If Everybody Believes That Everybody Believes In A Mirage….
25. 12 AugCracks In China’s Construction Bubble (But It’s Not Going To End)
26. 11 AugDavid Stockman: Hedge Funds, Haven Of Hit-And-Run Capital For The 1 Percent
27. 10 AugBreaking the Taboo of Drug Legalisation
28. 10 AugWhy I’m Deeply Worried About Japan – And Why Betting On The Collapse Of JGBs Is A Horrible Idea
29. 9 Aug“Yes We Scan” (Everything)
30. 8 AugTrouble In Junk Bond Lala-Land
31. 6 AugNSA Pricked The “Cloud” Bubble For US Tech Companies
32. 6 AugDavid Stockman: Hedge Funds, Prime Brokers, And The Whirligig of Wall Street Finance
33. 6 AugRoom For Hope? Fourth Largest Industry In France: It’s “Never Been This Catastrophic”
34. 5 AugIn Last 12 Months: Fed SOMA Up 27%, Housing Prices Up 13.5%, Stock Market Up 22%, Jobs Up 1.7%
35. 5 AugIn Honor Of The Shivering Huddled Executives Of Bear Stearns
36. 4 AugAttitudes Harden in Spain as Catalonian Independence Referendum Looms
37. 3 AugEven the CEO Of China’s Largest Appliance Manufacturer Gets Cold Feet
38. 2 AugSnowden Warns Americans: Fear The Military-Intelligence Complex
39. 1 AugThe Dark Side Of The Guys Who Run Japan Oozes To The Surface
40. 1 AugWall Street Engineers Newest Frankenstein’s Monster For Housing

July 2013

1. 31 JulThe Jobs Curse At Amazon (And Obama Stepped Into It)
2. 30 JulNSA Spying in Germany: Turning “A Parliamentary Democracy Into A Banana Republic”
3. 29 JulDavid Stockman: Hedge Funds And The Rule Of Rips And Wrecks
4. 27 JulThe Exquisite Art Of Marketing To Pauperized Consumers
5. 26 JulThe Worldwide Surveillance And Privacy War (Which You Already Lost)
6. 24 JulThe Systematic, Unrelenting Deterioration Of Japan’s Trade
7. 23 JulJapan Inc. Wins Big, Gloating Ensues
8. 23 JulGermany’s Government-Sponsored Export Machine Takes Aim At Greece, Argument Breaks Out
9. 21 JulDavid Stockman: Hedge Funds And The Regime Of Insider Trading
10. 20 Jul“Who Could Trust Such A Company?” – The Big Fat Lies About Radiation Exposure Of Workers At Fukushima
11. 18 JulVerdict Is In: “The Banking Lobby Is Simply Too Strong To Allow It To Happen”
12. 18 JulWhat Gloomy CEOs See That Giddy Retail Investors Don’t
13. 16 JulBig Pharma’s Lurid Tactics Under Fire In China – And In The US
14. 15 JulJust How Low Can Spain Go?
15. 13 JulDavid Stockman: Financial Engineering As The ATM Of The Prosperous Classes
16. 11 JulMother Of All Bubbles Pops, Mess Ensues
17. 9 JulAustrian Steelmaker Offshores Production To … Texas
18. 8 JulBlinded By Optimism, German Economy Now Below Stall Speed
19. 8 JulDavid Stockman: Bubble Finance Personified
20. 6 Jul(Broke) Italy “Would Love To” But Can’t Pay Its Bills This Year
21. 5 JulMarket Celebrates Egypt’s Coup, But It’s Not Over Yet
22. 4 JulDavid Stockman: The Greenspan Put And The Deformation Of M&A
23. 3 JulBeware, the Borderless Tax Man Cometh
24. 2 JulGoldman Sachs To The Fed: Taper But Don’t Tighten
25. 1 Jul‘Total Surveillance’ Officially Brushed Off In Germany

June 2013

1. 30 JunDavid Stockman – Deal Mania: The Rise Of ‘Chase and Crash’
2. 30 JunSurveillance Society: If You Drive, You Get Tracked
3. 29 JunEerie Abandoned Japanese Island Hashima On Google Street View
4. 28 JunThe Power Of The Financial Lobby: “For 25 Years, It’s Never Been The Right Moment” To Tighten
5. 27 JunDavid Stockman: How The Fed Got Cramer’d
6. 26 JunRetail Investor Nightmare: The Bond Fund Rout
7. 26 Jun3D Printing “A gimmick” with no “Real Commercial Value”
8. 26 JunThe Smart Money Sells “Everything That’s Not Nailed Down”
9. 25 JunThe Big Four Central Banks Muddy The Same Sea Of Liquidity, And Then There’s China
10. 25 JunPerfecting The Surveillance Society – One Payment At A Time
11. 24 JunDavid Stockman: When The Fed Capitulated To Financial Hoodlums
12. 23 JunFormer TBTF Bank Chief Receives Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card
13. 22 JunControlling The Implosion Of The Biggest Bond Bubble In History
14. 21 JunTech Companies And Their Love Affair With NSA and CIA
15. 20 JunOne Part Of Japan’s Abenomics Salvation Is Already A Fail
16. 19 JunCurrency War Rattles Brazil, Wakes Up the People
17. 17 JunBiggest Bond Bubble In History Is Turning Into Carnage
18. 17 Jun(Spanish) Banks Worse Than Pushers
19. 16 JunNuclear Lobby’s Latest Spin: It’s All Just “Fear” Of Radiation
20. 14 JunFrance Torpedoes American Movies, Shoots Itself In Foot
21. 13 JunBank Of Japan Machinations Crash Into Reality
22. 12 JunAkie Abe, Shinzo Abe’s Antinuclear Wife
23. 11 JunGermany Grapples (Again) With The Choice Between Its Constitution And The Euro
24. 11 JunThe ECB’s Forked-Tongue Policy To Save The Euro
25. 8 JunThe Unthinkable Happens: A Former TBTF Bank Chief Goes to Jail
26. 8 JunThe Day The Big Fat Junk-Bond Bubble Blew Up
27. 7 JunJobs Barely Keep Up With Population Growth
28. 6 JunFed’s Fisher Hilariously Slams Fiscal-Policy Chaos, Slugs QE, And Throws In Funny Video Spoof of Congress
29. 5 JunJapanese Hodgepodge Of Old Ideas And New Contradictions, Stocks Dive In Sympathy
30. 5 JunThe “Chinese Dream” Come True: Gobbling Up Assets Overseas
31. 2 JunMorgan Stanley’s Penny-Stock Shenanigans in Spain
32. 1 JunLobbying And GMO Giant Monsanto Buckles In Europe

May 2013

1. 30 MayIndustry Insider: Creative Destruction And Opportunity In The Bloodied Solar Industry
2. 30 MayNext Shoe To Drop: Shoddy Solar Panels From China
3. 29 MayUS Housing Bubble II: Euphoria And Other Shenanigans
4. 28 MayFrench Consumer Confidence Plunges To Financial-Crisis Low
5. 27 MayThe Financial Takeover of “Our” Newspapers
6. 25 MayBlack Market or Bust: The Stark Choice Facing Many of Spain’s Self-Employed
7. 25 MayIron-Fisted Bank Of Japan Is Losing Its Grip
8. 24 MayGovernment by Eurocrats: The EU Olive-Oil Dispenser Debacle
9. 22 MayRevealed: Apple’s “Offshore” Cash Isn’t Even Offshore
10. 22 MayArgentine Inflation: It’s Tough When All You Get Is Lies
11. 21 MayGermany Fires Shot In China-EU Trade War … At Brussels
12. 18 MayThe Quiet Triumph Of Oil And Gas In Obama’s Policies
13. 17 May‘ECB’s Desperation Is Taking On Epic Dimensions’
14. 16 MayGermany ‘Second Economic Miracle’ And Other Psychedelic Feats
15. 15 MayThe Hollowing Out Of Chinese Manufacturing
16. 14 MayJapan’s Vacant Houses: Visions of Detroit
17. 13 MayRussia’s Plan For The BRICS To Dismantle The Dollar System
18. 11 MayEvery President His Bubble – And Its Aftermath
19. 10 MayWhen Flight Safety Gets Outsourced To China
20. 9 MayThe EU’s Out-Of-Control Intelligence Services That Everyone Pretends Don’t Exist
21. 8 MayThe Next Big Thing: The Fear Of Climate Change
22. 6 May“The Mother Of All Shorts”
23. 5 MayStarving the World for Power and Profit: The Global Agribusiness Model
24. 4 MayThe Infallible Fed At Verge Of (Not) Admitting Failure
25. 3 MayClass-Action Lawsuits Come to France
26. 2 MayThe French Government’s Exquisite Bullying
27. 1 MayAbenomics Tries To Make Sure Japan Is Going Down Swinging

April 2013

1. 30 AprWall-Street Engineering Hones In On Apple’s “Offshore” Cash
2. 27 AprLuxembourg Is Not The Next Cyprus, Not Yet, But….
3. 25 AprThe Spanish Unemployment Powder Keg
4. 25 AprItaly’s Corrupt Political Machinery Lurches Forward
5. 24 AprGermany’s Trial Balloon Of A “Plan B”
6. 23 AprThe Worldwide Economy Is Fine, But The Sales Reps Are Lazy – Or Something
7. 20 AprLies, Damned Lies and the IMF’s Role as Bankster Enforcer
8. 20 Apr“But The Rising Star Is The USA”
9. 19 AprAftermath Of A Bubble And What Rises From The Ashes
10. 17 AprCyprus Today: A Personal Account
11. 17 AprThe New “Nazis” of Spain
12. 16 AprGoogle Spy Drones For Street View?
13. 14 AprEurope’s Stark Choice: Resignation or Revolution
14. 14 AprAustria’s Last Stand Against EU Assault On Bank Secrecy
15. 13 AprThe Gloriously Ballooning Bailout Bedlam Of Cyprus
16. 12 Apr“During The Last Crisis, We Had China,” Now We Have No One
17. 10 AprFrom Tax Hell to Tax Haven
18. 10 AprTotal Fiasco: Germans are the Poorest, Cypriots the Second Richest in The Eurozone
19. 9 AprThe Fed’s Fear Scale: Holdings of Cold Hard Cash At A Record
20. 7 AprSpain’s Descent Into Banana Republicanism
21. 6 AprMy Talk With An Endangered Species: An Entrepreneur In France
22. 5 AprSuddenly No Solution For 56 Million Gallons Of Highly Radioactive Toxic Waste Leaking Into The Ground
23. 5 AprNatural Gas “Glut” Is Officially VERY Over
24. 4 AprThe French Government Spirals Elegantly Into Self-Destruction
25. 3 AprA Line Of Demarcation Through The Eurozone Is Taking Shape
26. 1 AprDavid Stockman: “Money Printers And Wall Street Coddlers”

March 2013

1. 30 MarThe Tequila Crisis: The Prelude to Europe’s Economic Storm
2. 30 MarThe Winners Of the Amazing American Beer War
3. 29 MarWall-Street Craziness Is Back
4. 27 MarThe Stunning Differences in European Costs of Labor: Or Why “Competitiveness” Is A Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Strategy
5. 27 MarIntuit’s Long Hard Fight To Stick It To The Taxpayer
6. 26 MarCyprus And The Eurozone Bank Bailout Hypocrisy
7. 25 MarEconomic Lessons From A Mexican Taxi Driver
8. 24 MarCyprus Crisis: A Triumph For Russian Isolationists
9. 23 MarConfident In The Security Of Skype And Other Encrypted Services?
10. 22 MarA CEO Explains Why He Sold A German Soul To the Chinese
11. 21 MarWill the Real Clowns Please Stand Up?
12. 20 MarGrowth Industry In France: Hounding Companies For Back Taxes and Penalties
13. 19 MarHousing Bubble 2 Forms: But This Time It’s Different
14. 18 MarThe Fed’s Token Voice Of Reason: Megabanks Undermine Americans’ Faith In Democracy
15. 16 MarIMF: Eurozone Banks Are In Trouble, Trample Taxpayers and Democracy To Bail Them Out!
16. 15 MarAt The Confluence of Free Money, Pent-Up Demand, And Reality
17. 14 MarThe Reality Of Doing Business In Spain: A Personal Account
18. 14 MarPotential Cost Of A Nuclear Accident? So High It’s A Secret!
19. 13 MarIs The End Of The ‘Coercive Euro Association’ Taking Shape In Germany?
20. 12 MarTop American CEOs About Job Creation: Not Happening Here
21. 11 MarThe Ultimate Threat In The Euro Bailout and Austerity Racket: War
22. 9 MarA “Politically Explosive” Secret: Italians Are Over Twice As Wealthy As Germans
23. 8 Mar‘Regulatory Capture’ Emasculated The Regulators Of Megabanks
24. 7 MarThe Eurozone Rift: It Would Be Wrong “To Give In To Panic”
25. 6 MarDow Hits New High, 59% of Americans Feel A Recession
26. 5 MarFear of Nuremberg Trials For Corrupt Italian Politicians
27. 3 MarThe Great Backpedal: The World Has NOT Come To An End
28. 2 MarDark Rumblings Of A Coup D’État In Spain
29. 1 MarBroke Public Pension Funds And Exotic Boondoggles

February 2013

1. 28 FebThe Utter Fragility Of The Eurozone: Even Democracy Is A Threat
2. 27 FebA Taxpayer Revolt Against Bank Bailouts In the Eurozone
3. 26 FebH-P’s Big Investors Finally Can’t Take It Anymore
4. 25 FebLies, Damned Lies, And Banks: Deutsche Bank Caught Again
5. 23 FebWhat If Germany Gets Bogged Down Too? Or Has It Already?
6. 22 FebThe Fed Is Blowing A Dangerous Bank Deposit Bubble
7. 22 FebBy Midyear, Europe ‘Can No Longer Live With This Euro’
8. 21 FebBudget Hawks Till Something Gets Cut In Their Districts
9. 20 Feb‘They Tell The French Illusions and Lies.’
10. 19 FebWhat Ferrari’s Glorious Results Tell Us About The World
11. 17 FebFacebook, Coolest Cutest Corporate Welfare Queen Of Them All
12. 16 FebNow A Vast Political Espionage Scandal To Top Off The Sordid Corruption Scandal In Spain
13. 15 FebCyprus, ‘A Money Laundering Machine For Russian criminals’ – Amounts, Flows, and Mechanics
14. 14 FebSelf-Medicating With Watered-Down Bourbon: An Insidious Inflation
15. 13 FebDraconian Cash Controls Are Coming To France
16. 12 FebWall Street Takes Over Its Regulator
17. 11 FebWhat Do They Know That We Don’t?
18. 9 FebFrench Socialist Nightmare: ‘The State Cannot Do Everything’
19. 8 FebThe New Reality Of ‘Economic Recovery’ For American Workers
20. 7 FebFrench Workers Threaten To Blow Up Their Factory
21. 6 FebCollege Graduates Are The New Debt Slaves
22. 6 FebFrench Government Fears ‘Social Implosions Or Explosions’
23. 5 FebThe Confidence Crisis In Spain Sends Out Shock Waves
24. 2 FebThe Putrid Smell Suddenly Emanating From European Banks
25. 1 FebChevron Whacked By Record Fine so Small it Might Not Notice

January 2013

1. 31 JanLibya, An Energy Asset Security Nightmare
2. 31 Jan“The Politics of Removal”: Dressing Up French Unemployment
3. 30 JanThe Rise Of Coal In China: “Blackest Day” Still In The Future
4. 29 JanLEAKED: Mario Draghi And His Triumvirate Shut Up German Finance Minister To Keep Cyprus From Blowing Up The Eurozone
5. 28 JanCould 87% of the French Really Want A Strongman To Reestablish Order?
6. 26 JanCorporations Are Begging: We Need More Inflation!
7. 25 JanWhat the Japanese Trade Deficit Says About the Fraying Fabric In China And Europe
8. 24 JanA Year After Declaring War On The Banks
9. 23 JanIs The “Self-Promotion-And-Envy Spiral” Taking Down Facebook?
10. 21 JanMedicare, The Corporate Welfare Program
11. 20 JanGerman Spy Agency: Geopolitical Consequences Of US Oil Boom
12. 19 JanThe Currency Wars: Now US Automakers Are Squealing
13. 18 JanHow Big Is “BIG”
14. 17 JanThe Next Shoe To Drop In France
15. 16 JanParadigm Shift For The Healthcare Expense Monster
16. 15 JanA War To Reverse The French Government’s Descent Into Unpopularity Hell
17. 14 JanCEO of German Multinational: Costs Of Monetary Union Too High
18. 12 JanDeaths From All Causes: The Short (But Not Necessarily Happy) Life Of Americans
19. 11 JanHow Americans Stack Up In Dying From Violence, War, Suicide, And Accidents
20. 10 JanRussian “Black Money” Threatens To Boot Cyprus Out Of The Eurozone
21. 8 JanSecret French Plan In the European War Of The Automakers
22. 6 JanCorruption At “Decontaminating” Radioactive Towns In Japan
23. 5 JanArgentina’s Bonds, Defaults, and Vultures
24. 4 JanAs Cars Burn In France, The Industry Of Hope Booms

2012 315

December 2012

1. 29 DecBlowing Up: The Transfer Of French Nuclear Technology To China
2. 28 DecFrench Artists (Théâtre Royal de Luxe) Strike Out Against Evil American Empire (Coca-Cola)
3. 26 DecWhere The Heck Was The “Festive Spirit”?
4. 25 DecAussi Comedians Clark and Dawe on Santa Claus Getting Caught in a Bunch of Red Tape
5. 23 Dec“Trench Warfare” Or “Civil War” Over Confiscatory Taxes In France
6. 22 DecThe EU Bailout Oligarchy Issues A Report About Itself
7. 21 DecThe Biofuel Subsidy Scams
8. 20 DecJapan’s Export Debacle: Revenge In China, A Crash In Europe, Offshoring All Around
9. 19 DecA Revolt Against Corporate Welfare Programs For Multinationals In France
10. 18 DecJapan’s NO EXIT Strategy
11. 16 DecThe Price Of “Collective Trauma”: Greece At The Brink of Civil War
12. 15 DecThe Beef Industry’s Deadly Secret: “Blading” and “Needling”
13. 14 DecGermany’s Favorite Rabble-Rouser Economist Lashes Out
14. 13 DecSweden’s Euro Hostility Hits A Record
15. 12 DecSmall Business Apocalypse Or Political Vendetta?
16. 11 DecThe Socialist Heart Of France Spits Out Its First Victim
17. 9 DecIt’s Official: The Consumer (And The Economy) Is Alive and Dead
18. 7 DecThe Majestic US Debt, Visualized, Animated, With Rousing Music
19. 7 DecThe Alarming “Sense Of Pauperization” in France
20. 6 DecMaking Heroes of Those Who Slash Jobs
21. 5 DecSerial Government Defaults In The Eurozone
22. 4 Dec“Future Generations Have To Deal With The Financial Carnage”
23. 3 DecTen Big Fat Lies To Keep The Euro Dream Alive
24. 1 DecThe Relentless Eurocratic Power Grab

November 2012

1. 30 NovNationalizations Take Off In France
2. 29 NovUkraine Crushed in $1.1bn Fake Gas Deal
3. 29 NovCensored: Poverty Report in Germany
4. 28 NovFrom Horrid To Merely Dismal: Feeling Better About The New Reality
5. 27 NovUS Power Grid Vulnerable to Just About Everything
6. 27 Nov“The Euro Will Blow Up Europe Instead Of Bringing It Together”
7. 24 NovLehman Brothers Rears Its Ugly Head In Germany
8. 22 NovThe Worldwide Spectacle Of Banning San Francisco’s Naked Soul
9. 21 NovStimulating The Public Sector, Suffocating the Private Sector: A French Dichotomy
10. 20 NovSacrificing The Will Of The People On The Altar of The Euro
11. 17 NovPutin and Merkel Tango in Moscow, Gazprom Stirs Up Old Ghosts, But Deals Are Signed
12. 16 NovThe Curse Of The “Irreversible” Euro
13. 15 NovBundesbank Slaps Fed In The Face
14. 14 NovFor-Profit Colleges: A “Business Model” That Blew Up
15. 13 NovFrench Minister Whines: “Le French Bashing” Is Terrible
16. 12 NovUnintended Consequences Of Bailouts: Greece Gets Slammed
17. 10 NovGermany’s Fear And Desperation Leak Out
18. 9 NovMerkel Has A Dream
19. 8 NovAmerican Consumers Revolt Against Prescription Drugs
20. 7 NovThe Art Of Siphoning Off EU Money
21. 6 NovJapanese Prime Ministers Ugly Popularity Contest
22. 4 NovThe Bailout Of Russian “Black Money” In Cyprus
23. 3 NovNationalizing Companies Is Part Of The French DNA
24. 2 NovDesperate French Government Threatens To “Requisition” Vacant Buildings
25. 1 NovBleeding the Taxpayer: An Old Technology Dolled Up As New

October 2012

1. 30 OctJérôme Kerviel Gets Slammed, Megabank Always Wins: This Is How Justice Is Done
2. 26 OctCompetitiveness Cacophony: Attack On France’s Sacred Cow
3. 24 OctFrench Government Fires Off Protectionism, Hits Consumers
4. 23 OctThe Journey Of The Price Of Natural Gas From “Zero” to Dirt Cheap
5. 20 OctGerman Industrialist: Insolvency Procrastination And How To Confront The Coming Inflation
6. 19 OctNigeria’s Oil and Gas Fiasco
7. 17 OctFear of Impending Economic Collapse Or Just Manipulation?
8. 17 OctPolitical Violence Scares Japanese Investors, Acrimony Flows Instead Of Money, But It Doesn’t Stop Japan Inc.
9. 16 OctSpain Is Losing Its People, Catalonia Fights For Independence, And The EU Gets Pushed Into The Conflict
10. 13 OctWhat do Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho, Yasser Arafat, Barak Obama, And The EU Have In Common?
11. 12 OctFear Mongering And Hysteria About The Fiscal Cliff
12. 11 Oct“The Fed’s Sole Purpose: Keeping The Banks Afloat”
13. 11 OctGold, Molotov Cocktails, Rubber Bullets, And Teargas: A Rift In Greece
14. 10 OctMerkel Hides Behind The Troika Report, The Greeks Seethe, And The Drachma Advances
15. 9 OctPunishment Of The Spanish Political Class By The People
16. 6 OctThe Noose Tightens On Germany’s “Success Recipe”
17. 5 OctChinese Strawberries Sicken 11,200 German Children
18. 5 OctThe Incredibly Ballooning Bailout Of Cyprus
19. 4 OctA Capitalist Revolt in Socialist France
20. 3 OctUS National Debt: In A Year, I’ll Add Another Ugly Data Point
21. 2 OctCalifornia’s Ballyhooed Recovery? Oh Dude!
22. 2 OctWorse Than The Infamous Lehman September: France’s Private Sector Gets Kicked Off A Cliff

September 2012

1. 29 SepThe Pauperization Of Japan
2. 28 SepGreece, Tell Brussels “To Take A Hike” And Let The Troika Bail Out The ECB Instead
3. 26 SepThe Miraculous Decoupling Of Reality, For Now
4. 26 SepThe Eurozone Con Game Just Keeps Cracking
5. 24 SepJapanese Ministry of Finance To Bondholders: You’re Screwed!
6. 22 SepCatalonia Cries for Independence, Spain Might Break Apart, And Its Military Threatens To “Crush” The “Vultures”
7. 20 Sep“Forceful And Timely Action” To Nowhere
8. 20 SepMonetary Schizophrenia in Germany
9. 19 SepAmerican Consumers Put The Screws To Health-Care Expenses
10. 18 SepJapan’s Slow-Motion Tsunami
11. 16 SepArgentina: Not An Effective Capital Control, Import Control, Or Tax Measure – But An Effective People Control
12. 15 SepFrench Rebellion Against Unelected Bureaucrats: “European Coup D’Etat And Rape Of Democracy”
13. 14 SepQE, Zimbabwe, And The Surreptitious 30% Haircut Every Decade
14. 13 SepPower Grab: The Noose Tightens On National Sovereignty in Europe
15. 12 SepThe Pauperization Of America
16. 11 SepThe French Government Gets Whacked, Even The Left Is Angry, And Hollande Gets Slapped In The Face
17. 7 SepCalamity Economy Strikes Again, But Hope Is Back In Vogue
18. 7 SepBankrupt Cyprus And The Russian Connection
19. 6 SepMerkel and Clinton Go To China: One Makes Deals, The Other Gets Snubbed
20. 5 SepThe German Economy Tanks, The ECB Throws Gasoline On The Fire, And Eurozone Bailouts Enter Phantasy Land
21. 2 SepArgentina: When Life Gives You Lemons, Cry To The WTO
22. 1 SepRussia’s Gazprom Tightens Stranglehold On Europe, France Falls: Natural Gas War Gets Dirty

August 2012

1. 30 AugMonsters With Ominous Acronyms: From A Nation of Investors To A Nation of Fed Watchers
2. 30 AugThe “Pauperization of Europe”
3. 29 AugRadioactive Contamination On San Francisco’s Treasure Island: A Tale Of US Government Obfuscation & Willful Ignorance
4. 27 AugCounter Revolt In Germany: Gagging “Hardliners” As the Economy Tanks And Future Exports Drop Into The Red Zone
5. 26 AugTax Evasion In Switzerland By The Swiss Is “Officially Silenced To Death”
6. 25 AugLetting Greece Twist In The Wind
7. 24 AugCentral Banks, The Veil Of Secrecy, A Hotbed of Corruption, And Now Another One Got Ensnared
8. 22 AugAll Heck Breaks Loose on CNBC, TARP Gets Sanctified, Bank Bailouts Get Whitewashed, And The Fed Escapes Scot-Free
9. 22 AugEuro Optimism Surges, A Greek Tax Revolt Flares Up: It’s Decision Time, Again
10. 21 AugWindows 7 & Internet Explorer: Privacy Settings and Cleanup
11. 21 AugNatural Gas Is Pushing Coal Over The Cliff
12. 20 AugA Cacophony Of Discord, Default, And Visions Of Impossibility
13. 17 AugNuclear Radiation On San Francisco’s Treasure Island: We Don’t Need To Know, Apparently
14. 17 AugThe Greek Bailout Sham Is Getting Gummed Up
15. 16 AugNatural Gas And The Brutal Dethroning of King Coal
16. 15 AugGerman Bailout Rebellion: “We Have Euro-Anarchy”
17. 14 AugThe Political Euro Revolt Spreads To Austria: “Europe Can Only Function If Every Country Has Its Own Currency”
18. 12 AugThe Empire State Vixen Index And Other Befuddled Ironies
19. 11 AugIs The Greek Calamity Economy Headed For Revolt?
20. 10 AugRon Paul’s Legacy: A Complete Audit Of The Secretive Banking Cartel?
21. 9 AugGreece Prints Euros To Stay Afloat, The ECB Approves, The Bundesbank Nods, No One Wants To Get Blamed For Kicking Greece Out
22. 8 AugTop Euro Honcho Juncker: “Europeans are dwarfs”
23. 7 AugThe German Economy Caves, And Eurozone Bailouts Take On New Dimensions
24. 6 AugArgentina: The Big Shrink
25. 6 AugEscalation of the Extortion Racket: Now It’s ‘The Dissolution Of Europe’ Not Just the Eurozone
26. 4 AugThe Con Game Of Writing Up Assets: It’s Not Just The “London Whale”
27. 2 AugIs The Inexplicable American Consumer Rebelling?
28. 1 AugNo Functional Miracle Weapons To Fight The Debt Crisis

July 2012

1. 31 JulIs Germany Preparing for a Spanish Default?
2. 31 JulThe Coming Unholy Alliance in Natural Gas
3. 30 JulBeer, A Reflection Of The World Economy?
4. 27 JulWar Of The Central Banks?
5. 27 JulThe Ballooning Cyprus Fiasco
6. 25 JulForeign Money in US Elections: And There Is A Winner
7. 25 JulThe Extortion Racket Shifts to Spain
8. 24 JulBut Who The Heck Is Going To Do All The Bailing Out?
9. 24 JulSmashing The Can Instead Of Kicking It Down The Road
10. 20 Jul“Southern Europe Does Almost Nothing—Except Complain”
11. 19 JulEven Counterfeiters Are Giving Up On The Euro
12. 18 JulWielding The Corporate Tax Dodge Code Like A Cudgel
13. 18 JulThe Natural Gas Massacre And The Price Spike
14. 16 JulEuro Desperation: German Justices Already Buckled Under Political Pressure
15. 15 JulLibor Perp Walks, but No Perp Walks for Rate Manipulation by Central Banks
16. 15 JulBullish Hoopla in Housing Is Driven by Bogus Inventory Reports
17. 14 JulTroika Inspectors Paint “Awful Picture” of Greece, Merkel Draws A Line, German Industry and Voters Back Her: It’s Almost Over For Greece
18. 12 JulHumanERROR: By FRYING DUTCHMAN
19. 12 JulFastest Drive Through San Francisco Ever
20. 12 JulTwo Down-Under Comedians Explain QE
21. 12 JulClark & Dawe: The European Debt Crisis
22. 11 JulWill the Euro Survive This Year?
23. 11 JulThe German Constitutional Court Rules Against Euro Hysteria
24. 10 JulFrance, Germany, And The Reintroduction of the D-Mark
25. 8 JulThe Fine Wine Bubble Blows Up
26. 7 JulThe Euro Crash Refuses To Go On Vacation
27. 6 JulWhitewash versus Reality: “Disaster Made in Japan”
28. 4 JulThe “European Monster State”
29. 2 JulPiling Up: The Detritus of Failed Stimulus Policies

June 2012

1. 29 JunMerkel’s Big Blink?
2. 28 JunThe Long Memory of “The Sick Man of Europe”
3. 27 JunCyprus and the EU: Bitter Medicine
4. 27 JunThe EU Summit To Save the Euro Has Already Collapsed
5. 26 JunThe Worldwide QE Quagmire
6. 24 JunFishy Economic Data and the China Crash
7. 23 JunThe Extortion Racket Shifts To Italy
8. 22 Jun“You Can Lose Freedom Only Once”
9. 20 JunNatural Gas: Where Endless Money Went to Die
10. 19 JunFrançois Hollande on Collision Course with … France
11. 18 JunThe G-20 Farce to Save The Eurozone From Collapse
12. 17 JunWhite House Hypocrisy and Trade Sanctions Against China
13. 15 JunRelying on Fake German Strength
14. 14 JunGreece in Panic … um, Wait!
15. 13 JunItaly Trembling on the Brink
16. 13 JunManna for Bankrupt Cyprus
17. 12 JunGreece’s Scams, Extortion, and “Suicidal” Possibility
18. 11 JunChina: A Mixed Bag Turns Very Ugly
19. 10 Jun“The Euro Is Like a Knife in the Hands of a Child”
20. 9 JunBailout Rebellion Reawakens In Germany
21. 7 JunThe Big Lie
22. 6 JunArgentina: Everything but the Kitchen Sink
23. 6 JunA Central Banker Utters The Truth
24. 5 JunCapital Destruction in Natural Gas
25. 3 JunEverything is Getting Gummed up in Greece
26. 3 JunArgentina: Inflation all I ever wanted
27. 2 JunSqueezing The Fed From Both Sides
28. 1 JunGermany on the Verge: “Dispel This Fog,” begs Mario Draghi

May 2012

1. 31 MayThe Inexplicable American Consumer Hits A Wall
2. 30 MayBracing for a Euro Crash and Creating A Housing Bubble: The Swiss Caught in a Vice
3. 28 MayThe President of the Bundesbank Lashes Out
4. 26 MayGermany Walks Away From Greece
5. 24 MayThe Natural Gas Massacre Gets Bloodier
6. 23 May“Nuclear-free Japan:” Figment of the Imagination
7. 22 MayThe Confiscation Conundrum in Europe
8. 20 MayGanging Up On Germany at the G-8
9. 20 MayHorrific Moments of Greece’s Year 2011, in Video
10. 19 MayRumors, Denials, and Visions of Chaos in the Eurozone
11. 18 MayPrudent Fiscal Policy and Political Suicide
12. 17 MayThe Greek Extortion Racket In Its Final Spasm
13. 16 May“Confiscate, Secretly and Unobserved”
14. 15 MayBeloved Banana Republic of California
15. 13 MaySunday Photographer
16. 12 MayThe Endgame: “Greeks feel hopeless”
17. 11 MayGermany and France Kiss, Make Up, and Flip-Flop
18. 10 MayThe Japanese Are Dumping Their Gold
19. 8 MayJapan’s Sanctimonious Finance Minister
20. 8 MayBlowback from Sarkozy’s Election Finance Shenanigans
21. 7 MayCommunication Problem: Buying Ointment for Ji
22. 5 MayRon Paul Slugs At The Fed One More Time
23. 4 MayGreece: “We Are Their Greatest Fear”
24. 2 MayHavoc and Opportunity in Natural Gas
25. 2 May“The Great Train Robbery,” California Version
26. 1 MayCalamity Economy Rearing its Ugly Head Again?

April 2012

1. 30 AprIt’s in his DNA
2. 28 AprDavid and Société Générale: Jérôme Kerviel Fights Back
3. 27 AprCollapse of the EU a “Realistic Scenario”
4. 26 AprMad Cow: the Costs of Trying to Keep Costs Down
5. 24 AprImmigration and the Housing Quagmire
6. 24 AprWeighing A Strip Club Tax While Municipalities Hit the Wall
7. 23 AprAlmost Spilling Her Scotch
8. 22 Apr“Drachma Clauses” For Greece’s Exit from the Eurozone
9. 21 AprPushing The Euro To The Brink
10. 19 AprBut the PIIGS Get to Live Longer
11. 19 AprEscalation in Euro Rift: Bundesbank Gets Sued for Perfidy
12. 18 AprWhat On Earth Were They Thinking at GM?
13. 17 AprThe Big Rift Between Germany and France
14. 15 AprThose Scammers on Wall Street
15. 14 AprSuddenly A Nasty Fight over Subsidies for Nukes in Europe
16. 13 AprA Greek Impossibility: 2 Millions Missing Jobs
17. 12 AprA Grimy Dipstick into France’s Gritty Economic Realty
18. 10 AprRadiation: Once Again Ballyhooed As Safe … Until Oops!
19. 9 AprBig Brother Everywhere
20. 8 AprDeer Sashimi
21. 7 AprThe Real Reason For Deflation in Japan
22. 5 AprGreece: Even Corruption Is In A Deep Recession
23. 4 AprAn IMF Absurdity
24. 3 AprA New Beginning in Japan: Glimmers of False Hope?
25. 1 AprBluebelly Mousse
26. 1 AprNo More Viagra For Mario Monti And His Ilk

March 2012

1. 30 MarGreece: They’re Not Even Trying Anymore
2. 30 MarTaking Bosses Hostage: A Labor Negotiating Tactic In France
3. 29 MarThe Beer War on American Soil
4. 27 MarHuawei (or China) Slams into US National Security Concerns
5. 27 MarSarko Spam, “Muslim by Appearance,” and Self-Destruction
6. 26 MarGold Confiscation, Inflation, And Virtuous Central Bankers
7. 25 MarPoverty, Violence, and Crime
8. 24 MarLiquid (and Delicious) Economic Indicators
9. 23 MarNow They Have Another Speculative Bubble in China: Art
10. 22 MarThe Nightmare of the European Auto Industry
11. 20 MarMonuments instead of Education
12. 20 MarChina, the Number One Foreign Investor in Germany
13. 19 MarLoitering Inanely by a Sign I Can’t Read
14. 18 MarA Revolt, the Quiet Japanese Way
15. 16 MarInflation in the Cost of Corruption
16. 15 MarThe $10-Per-Gallon Gas Has Arrived, In Paris
17. 14 MarThe Natural Gas Massacre
18. 13 MarPlot Twist While French Businesses Are Dying
19. 12 MarThe Astounding Fuel Price Conundrum
20. 11 MarThe Bomb Incident
21. 11 MarMarch 11 Earthquake and Tsunami: A Personal Perspective
22. 10 Mar“A harder Default To Come”
23. 9 MarGreek Bonds, Dexia Trash, French Postal Service, & Profit
24. 8 MarFrance: How to Demolish a 75% Income Tax
25. 6 MarNext: Bankruptcy for a whole Generation
26. 6 MarCan’t Even Urinate in his own Yard Anymore
27. 5 MarNext Phase in Merkel’s Desperate and Risky Gamble
28. 4 MarGeisha in Kyoto
29. 3 MarEvaporating Japanese Pension Fund Assets
30. 2 MarDeep Trouble at the Core of the Eurozone
31. 1 MarFinal Spasm: Greco-Teutonic Tax Wrestling

February 2012

1. 28 FebCalifornia’s Search For The Missing Moolah
2. 28 FebGerman Unemployment Obfuscation
3. 27 Feb‘They should Revolt’
4. 26 FebNuclear Contamination As Seen By Japanese Humor
5. 26 FebGreece, “The Bottomless Barrel,” As Germans Say
6. 25 FebChina Tightened The Vise On Eurozone Bailout
7. 24 FebBelgians Get Cold Feet As Bailout Queen Dexia Drags Them Toward Abyss
8. 23 FebThe Corporate Tax-Dodge Code
9. 22 FebNow A Housing Bubble In Germany
10. 21 FebUnpopularity Contest at the Edge of the Japanese Abyss
11. 19 FebSuddenly, a Sharp Deterioration in the Job Market
12. 18 FebThat Giant Sucking Sound in California
13. 17 FebIronic EU Begging Expedition to China
14. 17 FebFrançois Hollande Versus the German Dictate
15. 15 FebFirewalls In Place, Markets ready: Greece Can Go To Heck
16. 14 FebThe White House & the Most Disparaged Profession, Again
17. 13 FebStewing At Ikebukuru Station
18. 11 FebGreece at the Point of no Return
19. 10 FebBait And Switch: California High-Speed Rail to Nowhere
20. 8 FebMerkel’s Desperate And Risky Gamble
21. 7 FebThe Endgame: Japan Inc. Seeks Salvation Overseas
22. 6 FebBurnt-Rice Tea
23. 4 FebNow Even Greek Politicians Are Taking Cover
24. 3 FebBroke California: Give Us The Facebook Manna Now
25. 2 FebA Forbidden Act
26. 2 FebFacebook: The Value of Information in the Information Age
27. 1 FebExodus from the Eurozone Debt Crisis

January 2012

1. 31 JanThe Fed’s Rain Dance at the Bottom of the Stairs
2. 29 JanCrazy American
3. 28 JanAbysmal news for Greek Bonds and Debt Swap Negotiations
4. 27 JanGermany Frets As Bailouts And Risks Balloon
5. 26 JanSurveys: CEOs Are Binging on False Hope
6. 25 JanPaying Lip Service To Saving The Eurozone
7. 24 JanThe Art Of Extortion: Now At The IMF
8. 23 JanConspicuous But Invisible
9. 21 JanFriday Night Economic Indices
10. 20 JanAustrian Central Bank: Bribery, Kickbacks, Money Laundering
11. 19 JanThe Costa Concordia Tragedy with Satellite Images
12. 19 JanManufacturing Supercars in America
13. 18 Jan‘The Old Europe’ Is ‘Not An Option For Germany’
14. 17 JanCrap, Sovereign Debt Downgrades Matter?
15. 15 JanLove Hotel
16. 15 JanUpdate: The Systemic Nature of Medicare Fraud
17. 14 JanThe Inexplicable American Consumer Takes A Breath
18. 13 JanGreece: Disagreement Everywhere, Rift in the Troika
19. 12 JanWhen The White House Touts Falling Wages
20. 11 JanGermany’s Export Debacle
21. 10 JanThe Systemic Nature of Medicare Fraud
22. 8 JanForeign Particle In A Tarry Liquid
23. 7 Jan“German Success Recipe” or Blip?
24. 6 JanGreece’s Extortion Racket Maxed Out
25. 5 JanCalifornia’s High-Speed Rail To Nowhere
26. 4 JanConstruction Spending And The Housing Quagmire
27. 2 JanTell-Tale Signs Of Official Exasperation

2011 132

December 2011

1. 31 DecMissing: 13.3 Billion Deutschmarks
2. 30 DecFrench CEO About Ratings Agencies: ‘We Have To Shoot All These Guys’
3. 29 DecThe US Auto Industry Drifts Off To China
4. 26 DecThe Endgame: Japan Makes Another Move
5. 24 DecCulture Shock
6. 23 DecCEO of Dexia: ‘Not A Bank But A Hedge Fund’
7. 21 DecThe Most Disparaged Profession
8. 21 DecThe Previously Unthinkable Becomes A Planned Event
9. 20 DecMainstream Media Discover Ron Paul
10. 19 DecPractically Naked
11. 17 DecPolitical Realities Threaten To Split The Eurozone
12. 15 DecMerde! Chinese Wines Did What to French Wines?
13. 14 DecThe Trade Debacle With China
14. 13 DecNoodle Guy Wins In Dispute Between Japan and Taiwan
15. 11 DecMy Weight In Stone
16. 11 DecGermany’s Last-Ditch Compromise, At A Price
17. 9 DecThe Shriveling Middle Class In California
18. 9 DecSarkozy: “The Risk That Europe Will Explode”
19. 8 DecThe Strenuously Hushed-Up Basic Flaw In The Tax Code
20. 6 DecThe Endgame: Japan Inc. Plays By Its Own Rules
21. 5 DecTokyo Tidbit: Superlative Supercar Pileup
22. 4 DecAfghanistan: “There Will Be Civil War”

November 2011

1. 30 NovIndefinite Detentions of Americans Without Trial
2. 30 NovJapanese Micro-Steps Toward The End Of An Era
3. 25 NovThe Consequences When Three Elements Collided
4. 23 NovWhen Bond Buyers Pull Out Their Calculators
5. 22 NovCutting The Deficit: They Won’t Because They Don’t Have To
6. 21 NovEuro Schizophrenia in Germany
7. 19 NovCancer-Causing X-Ray Security Scanners Are Banned
8. 18 NovEuropean Bailout Fund For Greek Money Laundering And Fraud
9. 16 NovFixing The Postal Service Debacle
10. 15 NovWhen The Truth About The US Economy Comes From China
11. 14 NovGermany Sees Greece’s ‘Worst-Worst-Case-Szenario’
12. 12 NovThe Eurozone Turns Down Chinese Money And Quid Pro Quo
13. 11 NovBailing out Zombies, Again
14. 10 NovThe Price of Hope in the Mayhem of Manufacturing
15. 9 NovYakuza Ineligible For Life Insurance
16. 8 NovGermany at Its Rubicon
17. 4 NovGreece’s Extortion Racket Jumps To The Next Level
18. 3 NovInflation High on the Hog For the Holidays
19. 2 NovRuinous Symbiosis Between Congress And The Fed
20. 1 NovEconomic Devil Is In The Details
21. 1 NovNo More Golf or Pizza for the Yakuza

October 2011

1. 29 OctAnother Eurozone Country Bites the Dust
2. 27 OctThe Inexplicable American Consumer Strikes Again
3. 26 OctA Dysfunctional System That Bankrupts A Generation
4. 26 OctObama’s Refi: Special Tax For People Who Can’t Do Math
5. 24 OctJust Say No, Germany … and Don’t Listen to Geithner
6. 23 OctTokyo Tidbit: Minister Calls Tsunami Victims ‘Idiots’
7. 22 OctRegulators Knew of Dexia’s Problems But Were Silenced
8. 21 OctThe GAO Audit of the Fed Doesn’t Call It ‘Corruption’….
9. 19 OctTough Day For Our Calamity Economy
10. 19 OctGerman-French Fight Breaks Out Over Frigates
11. 18 OctGermany and France Kiss and Make up, But it’s hard
12. 17 OctTokyo Tidbit: High Radiation, False Alarm, Real Danger
13. 14 OctGreece’s Extortion Game
14. 13 OctThe Brutal Trade Deficit
15. 12 OctFrance’s Fishy Denials as Mega-Banks Teeter
16. 11 OctWhere the Heck is Ron Paul? A Media Boycott Heats Up
17. 10 OctThe China Bubble Makes Contact with A Cactus
18. 10 OctWhen False Premises Become Economic Policy
19. 8 OctTokyo Tidbit: A Gruesome Bone Business
20. 6 OctGeithner: The Truth Could Cause Significant Damage
21. 6 OctEuro Tidbit: The Lies of ‘Stress Tests’
22. 5 OctGreece ‘Finds’ Treasure, Stays Solvent For Another Month
23. 4 OctThe Ugly World Of Auto Sales
24. 3 OctPrying Into the Brain
25. 2 OctJapan is Running Out Of Butter
26. 1 OctDeflation In Japan and its Chances in the US

September 2011

1. 29 SepReform Rebellion In Greece
2. 28 SepInflation As Solution: Hosing The Middle Class
3. 27 SepFrance Simmers In Its Own Juices, Germany Frets
4. 26 SepTokyo Tidbit: Pandemic Honesty At The Street Level
5. 24 SepObama to EU: Get Your S__t Together; Got An Election Next Year
6. 23 SepCubilose Business: Poisonous Blood Nests Still A Delicacy in China
7. 22 SepHow Long Can Japan Play The Endgame?
8. 19 SepCutting The Deficit: A Bipartisan Joke
9. 19 SepTokyo Tidbit: Oldest Nation Sets New Record
10. 16 SepBailout Rebellion in Germany Heats Up
11. 16 SepTokyo Tidbit: Still Doing That? But Not Only Japan
12. 15 SepSnapshot Of Our Calamity Economy
13. 14 SepDear Ben, Please Make Us Trillionaires
14. 12 SepChina Puts The Screws To BMW
15. 12 SepDon’t Try This At Home
16. 11 SepTokyo Tidbit: New Prime Minister Embarks on his Descent
17. 9 SepObama: Gut Social Security Now, Don’t Wait Till The Election
18. 9 SepGermany Special: Divorce, Remarry, Get Fired
19. 8 SepLet’s Just Raid Social Security
20. 7 SepBailout Rebellion In Germany
21. 4 SepTokyo Tidbit: Yakuza Undergarments
22. 2 SepIn the Bowels the Jobs Report: 15.4 Million Missing Jobs
23. 1 SepYakuza: ‘We Have To Evolve Our Business Model’
24. 1 SepTokyo Tidbit: Disaster Specials

August 2011

1. 31 AugThe inexplicable American Consumer
2. 27 AugDear Ben, Please Print us More Money
3. 26 AugTokyo Tidbit: Permit Required For Deadly Pitfall
4. 25 AugOh No, The Inventory Correction Is Confirmed
5. 24 Aug‘Let the Euro Die,’ Said the Woman Who Could Be the Next French President
6. 23 AugKnife Drawn, the Bundesbank Attacks the ECB, and German Industrialists Tremble
7. 22 AugSwiss Franc Wreaks Havoc In Switzerland
8. 19 AugOops, Inventory Correction
9. 18 AugFed’s Policies Slam Us Again
10. 15 AugNY Fed: Execs Are Drinking Their Own Kool-Aid
11. 12 AugChain Restaurants Are Conquering France
12. 11 AugImporting Fiasco
13. 11 AugTsunami Broke off Giant Icebergs in Antarctica
14. 10 AugGermany, Model Economy Du Jour
15. 9 AugRed-Hot Inflation Blows across the Pacific
16. 8 AugDowngrades Don’t Matter
17. 5 AugThe Bailout Continues
18. 4 AugUS Gross National Debt jumps $238 billion in one day, now above 100% of GDP
19. 4 AugHatchet Jobs
20. 3 AugYour Dollar—up to no Good
21. 2 AugUnholy Alliance
22. 2 AugDeutsche Bank Drives nails into Italian Coffin, Italy accuses Germans of egoisms, Germans React. It’s Ugly.
23. 1 AugWhy the decline in German beer consumption?
24. 1 AugPROST! Germany lost the beer war, And China won.

July 2011

1. 29 JulThe Landmine in the GDP Report
2. 29 JulWe Should Give them a Calculator
3. 27 JulNot What You’d Expect from a Topless Beach in France
4. 27 JulYour Dollar
5. 26 JulOur Chinese Bay Bridge
6. 25 JulLove Cherries
7. 25 JulA Modest Proposal
8. 23 JulExplosive Food
9. 20 JulDeadly Disconnect
10. 19 JulBeyond Silly Metrics
11. 18 JulNight of the Living Debt
12. 16 JulSummer in San Francisco
13. 16 JulThe M&A Typhoon
14. 15 JulTwin eggs!
15. 14 JulDebt-Ceiling Pissing Match Seen from a Safe Distance