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What The Heck Is Wrong with Big Tech?

by Wolf Richter • Aug 2, 2014 • 10 Comments

Tech companies are on a white-hot acquisition binge, swallowing anything that isn’t nailed down. But layoffs have started soaring. And it’s getting worse.

Germany U-Turns, Torpedoes Corporate Sovereignty Charter in Trade Agreements With US and Canada, Resistance Grows

by Don Quijones • Aug 1, 2014 • 1 Comment

Germany has learned a lesson: it’s being hounded by a foreign corporation over its nuclear energy policy

This Market Is a Titanic in Search of an Iceberg

by Bill Bonner • Aug 1, 2014 • Comments Off on This Market Is a Titanic in Search of an Iceberg

What was that sound? Did you feel a little bump?
Nah… don’t worry about it. Go back to your cabin and have a good sleep.

An Insufferable Beer Crisis Hits California

by Wolf Richter • Jul 31, 2014 • 9 Comments

American craft brewers are kicking butt as the world watches with rapt attention. But #1 craft-beer state California has a problem: no water, no beer.

“Reverse Bailout”: Private Banks to Argentina’s Rescue?

by Bianca Fernet • Jul 30, 2014 • 4 Comments

Deus Ex Machina. But why the heck would the banks want to bail out Argentina? And at what price?

Yen-Dollar Trading in Tokyo Totally Collapses

by Wolf Richter • Jul 30, 2014 • 1 Comment

Japan, under the regime of Abenomics, has, let’s say, some issues.

Where Money Goes to Die: How Fracking Blows Up Balance Sheets of Oil and Gas Companies

by Wolf Richter • Jul 30, 2014 • 10 Comments

It always starts with a toxic mix.

Argentina Default: Is Paul Singer Playing Both Sides?

by Bianca Fernet • Jul 30, 2014 • Comments Off on Argentina Default: Is Paul Singer Playing Both Sides?

Life is rarely win-win. Unless….

Big Trouble in Catalonia, As Godfather of Independence Movement Confesses to Tax Evasion

by Don Quijones • Jul 29, 2014 • Comments Off on Big Trouble in Catalonia, As Godfather of Independence Movement Confesses to Tax Evasion

Just 103 days remain before Catalonia’s scheduled and already explosive referendum on independence from Spain, and now this.

Here’s the Chart that Shows Why the Housing Market Is Sick

by Wolf Richter • Jul 29, 2014 • Comments Off on Here’s the Chart that Shows Why the Housing Market Is Sick

Homeownership hit the skids when homes became a highly leveraged asset class, flipped and laddered by speculators, rather than lived in by normal folks.

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