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Hedge funds gain 1.27% in January / Best month for event-driven funds

Event-driven funds were the best performers globally with a gain of 3.54% in January. This is the strategy’s best performing month in the history of the HedgeFund Intelligence database, which began collecting data in 1998.

7Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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“Trading Commodities Bankruptcies”

I just watched “Trading Places” for the first time in a long time yesterday, and couldn’t resist…

31Jan2012 | | 2 comments | Continued
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The “Sovereign Debt Standard”

Sovereign debt is thought to be safe because, as we all know, nations always pay their debts. While individual nations go bankrupt from time to time, we maintain our faith in sovereign debt because the majority of nations don’t. But what happens if several nations go bankrupt in a very short span of time?

16Nov2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Failed Mayfield “Terrorist” Case Raises Disturbing Questions for al-Awlaki Assassination

Some would-be critics of the US’s recent assassination of alleged terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki might be mollified by the government’s “just-trust-us” assertion that it has fingerprint evidence linking al-Awlaki to acts of terrorism. This article should give pause to any such persons.

3Oct2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Does Anyone Else Find This Disturbing? (Money Supply Spiking)

The US money supply started spiking when you weren’t looking. So what does it mean?

23Sep2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Punditry Aside, Market Crash Is Continued Liquidity Panic

this isn’t a “normal” trading market; it isn’t responding to the “big news” events in a common-sense way (much beloved by omnipresent j-school financial writers), if at all. It is only responding to what is happening with liquidity. And that is clearly draining out. Will we get the same Fed reaction (QE) we got in 2008? Most likely.

8Aug2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Fiscal Suicide, Part II: A Swirling Motion

Medicare cuts (or lack thereof), government-sourced personal income, emergency loans to the states, and more. Russ discusses how it is hard to see how we’ll get by without some of this being renewed — and none of it is factored into the deficit projections.

19Jul2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Fiscal Suicide; The Point of No Return

The bottom line here is that the gravy train of no accountability, no consequences spending is over.

19Jul2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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The False-Flag Attacks on ‘Speculators’

The media attacks on “speculators” continue unabated. The goal: to demonize commodities-investors in the eyes of the deluded masses, to punish then with malicious regulatory actions (like that perpetrated by the CME Group in both the silver and oil markets), and ultimately to try to bully these people into letting go of their (safe) commodities – and returning to banker-paper, where the bankers can then continue their relentless stealing-through-money-printing.

14Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Perpetual Inflation: The Stealth Source of Our Economic Problems

The most serious flaw in most analyses of the financial crisis the failure to correctly see the various causes put forth as the outcome of a single fundamental factor: the Federal Reserve and its permanent and perpetual policy of inflation.

22May2011 | | 3 comments | Continued
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