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From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Wednesday, April 13, 2010 What Will the World Look Like in 100 Years? China is in serious trouble. That is the conclusion of Dr. George Friedman, president of STRATFOR, a geopolitical strategy consulting firm. While it has had a great 30 year run,...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT Over the past few weeks Gold has traded at or near record highs. It has yet to embark on a sustained breakout but that is not because Gold is a crowded trade. In recent months money has moved into equities, Oil and Silver. As a result, some hot money and speculative money has moved out of Gold, leaving the market in...

by Karl Denninger Hmmmm, what did the cat drag in today? U.S. regulators notified a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) executive whose unit packaged mortgage- linked investments that he may be sued for his role in selling the securities as the housing crisis worsened in 2007. Oops. The issue apparently revolves around the 2007 “Squared”...

by Tyler Durden Another month, and another confirmation that the US export segment is non-existent. In February the US posted a $45.8 billion trade deficit compared to $47 billion in January, but worse than expectations of $44 billion. Importing our way to prosperity and #Winning_the_Future continues. Comparing the Chinese reported trade surplus...

From the desk of John Thomas The Mad Hedge Fund Trader Tuesday, April 12, 2010 Lunch With Robert Reich. The other day had me sharing a cold, congealed chicken salad for lunch with Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich, at San Francisco’s posh Fairmont Hotel. We covered a wide range of market...

Fallond Picks The loss in quality of stock breakouts combined with the slow rollover in markets has left the broader rally vulnerable to a more substantial decline. However, there is still the issue of 20-day and 50-day MAs as support, so buyers have a logical place to step in and defend. The Russell 2000 closed below 836 and triggered a ‘sell’...

“I’ve been hanging onto nothing when nothing could be worse” Heaven When We’re Home The Wailin’ Jennys As an options trader, I continue to be impressed by the wide variety of choices available to modify a trade that is not quite going the way I initially predicted. This approach may be a bit unfamiliar to the trader whose experience has been...

Seriously. The portion of PIMCO’s $236 billion Total Return Fund held in U.S. government debt, including U.S. Treasuries, was -3 percent of total assets in the fund as of March, down from zero in February, the firm’s website showed. If you didn’t watch my video from Sunday on this, you need to.  Gross is betting that we will not...

Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds- H/T Zero Hedge The Fed’s Most Dangerous Game: Checkmate The Fed can only choose the least-worst option now: either destroy the real economy by sinking the dollar below support and unleashing the Inflation Monster, or abandon the “risk trade” stock market rally. The Fed’s...

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Tim Iacono It looks like the silver price just won’t be stopped, earlier today surging by more than a dollar and breaching the $42 an ounce mark to “a fresh 31-year high”, a phrase that may finally be replaced with simply “a record high” in another week or two based on the 1980 high for the silver price of about $48 an ounce and its current...

Tim Iacono Well, truth be told, Fed Chief Ben Bernanke is now so far behind the inflation curve that he’ll have to ask directions to find it, a point that became clear to me when I updated the model portfolio at Iacono Research for the next installment of the newsletter this weekend – it’s now up 8.1 percent for the year and that includes a pretty...

By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT We obviously have been too cautious on Silver. The metal has been on a tear and has shown no weakness in the past few weeks. Our upside targets were $37 and $39. A clean break of $39, which seems imminent will send the market to $45 and possibly $50. Monday was the start of a parabolic move. First Majestic Silver,...