by Tyler Durden There was a time, long ago, when the dollar was a flight to safety instrument. Those days are gone. DXY barely budging as the overnight session begins, while silver has already put $34 in the dust. Last: $34.26 and parabolic. April Crude lieterally flying off the shelves. All those who thought the 4 pm price was a misprint and shorted…...

by Tyler Durden Today, appearing on Meet The Press, in addition to Susan Rice, Dick Durbin, Lindsey Graham, Jennifer Granholm, Harold Ford, and Ed Gillespie was CNBC’s uber contrarian voice, Rick Santelli. The topic: reigning in government spending, a topic which will be with America until its last bond issuance, sometime in the next 5 years....

Courtesy of Jesse’s Cafe Americain It all comes back to the credibility trap, much more intractable than a liquidity trap. The US government cannot perform effective change without admitting the corruption and placing the powerful status quo at risk. So this malaise and period of selective recovery will continue until there is a another, more...

by Tyler Durden US: Markets modestly negative again this morning. Reports came out yesterday cited that the Fed ordered U.S. banks to undergo stress tests with unemployment rate at 11% in recession-like conditions. CPI released yesterday increased 0.4% MoM v 0.3%E, lightening expectations of deflation. The move contributed to inflation concerns...

This particular technical formation has been around for years and continues to produce good profits for traders who can spot it, and better yet, take advantage of it. In this new short video, I’m going to share the market, the pattern, and a price projection where we think this market is headed based on our Trade Triangle technology. I hope that...

By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD There have been numerous reports of bullion shortages in many parts around the world, along with rising premiums. And the two explanations – we’re running out of gold! and, it’s just a manufacturing bottleneck – are at odds with one another. So, who’s right? First, the data. The following has been reported since New...

There are some very dangerous stock scams running right now – both online and through the mail. In fact, there’s a good chance some of your “stock losses” over the years that you thought were due to “bad luck” or “poor timing” – were really because certain professional con-men took you to the cleaners. It’s...

Courtesy of Joshua M Brown, The Reformed Broker iConomics is a word I’ve created to capture the state of doing business in a world that Apple ($AAPL) owns and the rest of us just live in. Regular readers know that I am a fairly astute observer of market trends and themes.  While lots of ink has been spilled about Apple’s ascendancy, no one...

From Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone: H/T Zero Hedge Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his...

Hi Traders, Last week, I alerted you to the release of the step-by-step Forex Profit Multiplier program that’s totally taken the Forex trading community by storm. Well, its developer, Bill Poulos, just announced that: He’s pulling it OFF THE MARKET on Thursday (TOMORROW) at 11:59pm Eastern (New York time). That gives you...

By Jeff Clark, BIG GOLD The numbers for silver demand are starting to make some market-watchers nervous. The U.S. Mint sold over 6.4 million silver Eagles in January, more than any other month since the coin’s introduction in 1986. China’s net imports of silver quadrupled in 2010, to 122.6 million ounces, roughly 13.7% of global production. Meanwhile,...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT Why is Silver (NYSE:SLV) continuing to outperform Gold (NYSE:GLD)? The Silver/Gold ratio tends to lead or follow the stock market. Risk assets are outperforming. Silver is outperforming Gold as a risk asset. It is not outperforming for monetary reasons. That occurs when both Gold and Silver advance but Silver outperforms Gold....

You’ve probably heard that penny stock, or “micro cap,” investing is one of the best ways to make big money fast. It is — but only if you know how to separate the few great micro cap stocks from the mass of worthless wannabees and scam companies that plague the market. The good news is, millionaire trader Tim Sykes has just released...

by Karl Denninger This is amusing – it was only a small part of the de-construction of the louts in the CNBS “GoebbelsRoom”, with, as usual, Rick Santelli ripping these clowns to pieces.  Roubini piled on too; CNBS made the mistake of having him in-studio at the time that LIESman started with the usual pumping garbage – and...

By Phil of Phil’s Stock World Should we be concerned? As Doug Short points out in his EEM chart (click to enlarge) from our Chart School, while Egypt may be “fixed,” emerging markets are not. We had a pretty ridiculous discussion in Member Chatlast week on whether we should take our quick 300% profits on our EDZ hedges or...