This Chart Shows How You Get Screwed in the Stock Market by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2014 • 8 Comments You no longer know if the quotes you see are real.
Debt Serf Ireland Gets Paid To Borrow Even More by David Stockman • Oct 1, 2014 • 3 Comments Bizzzaro world of maniacal central banking and crackpot financial engineering.
Is Canada Next? Housing Bubble Threatens ‘Financial Stability’ by Wolf Richter • Oct 1, 2014 • 15 Comments Bank of Canada: it’s so vast and weighed down with so much debt that a “sharp correction in house prices” could take down the financial system.
The People Who Brought You healthcare.gov Put Medicare Billing Records Online by Michael Gorback, M.D. • Sep 30, 2014 • 8 Comments With predictable consequences.
EU Targets Russian Energy Influence by Oilprice.com • Sep 30, 2014 • Comments Off on EU Targets Russian Energy Influence The EU has the grand task of preparing for energy shortages.
Junk Bond Bubble Cracks, Destroys Stocks One at a Time by Wolf Richter • Sep 30, 2014 • 5 Comments Party turns into bloodbath. Happening right now beneath the surface of the S&P 500.
Palace Revolt in Eurozone’s Largest Bank by Don Quijones • Sep 29, 2014 • 7 Comments Don Emilio Botín, undisputed Capo of Spanish banking, died. He’d transformed a regional bank into Grupo Santander, one of the world’s biggest baddest megabanks. Now the true owners are getting nervous.
Even Treated Fracking Wastewater Still Too Toxic by Oilprice.com • Sep 29, 2014 • Comments Off on Even Treated Fracking Wastewater Still Too Toxic What the heck are we going to do with the vast quantity of toxic, radioactive wastewater fracking produces?
Small Investors Flash Warning Sign by Wolf Richter • Sep 29, 2014 • 2 Comments They buy near the top and sell near the bottom, getting fleeced at each market swoon. With broader consequences.
Miracle Man (Who Invented Off-Balance-Sheet Financial Engineering that’s still Sinking Companies Today) by Contributor • Sep 28, 2014 • 4 Comments Ivar Kreuger was a financial genius. But his innovations sank his empire of monopolies, as they would Enron, Bear Stearns, Lehman….
