CAN TWO SENATORS END "TOO BIG TO FAIL" ? / JOHN MAULDIN'S OUTSIDE THE BOX NEWSLETTER

Can Two Senators End “Too Big To Fail’? John Mauldin May 20, 2013 I am often on a panel or at dinner with Barry Ritholtz (The Big Pic...

HARNESSING THE REMITTANCE BOOM / PROJECT SYNDICATE

Harnessing the Remittance Boom Kanayo F. Nwanze 18 May 2013 ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – a...

THE FLAWED ORIGINS OF EXPANSIONARY AUSTERITY / PROJECT SYNDICATE

The Flawed Origins of Expansionary Austerity Jeffrey Frankel 20 May 2013 CAMBRIDGE – Several of my Harvard University colleagues have...

WE SHOULD LISTEN TO WHAT GOLD IS REALLY TELLING US / THE FINANCIAL TIMES MARKETS INSIGHT

MARKETS INSIGHT May 20, 2013 9:41 am We should listen to what gold is really telling us Like Apple, valuation has become divorced fro...

AMERICA BY PROXY ? / PROJECT SYNDICATE

America by Proxy? Dominique Moisi 20 May 2013 PARIS – The demise of the Roman Empire resulted from a combination of strategic overrea...

IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE BUT I'M A EUROFANATIC / THE FINANCIAÑ TIMES COMMENT & ANALYSIS

May 19, 2013 7:49 pm It doesn’t make much sense but I’m a eurofanatic By Wolfgang Münchau It is better to make the case for the EU on...

DEMISE OF SWISS BANKING SECRECY HERALDS NEW ERA / THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Last updated: May 19, 2013 9:39 pm Demise of Swiss banking secrecy heralds new era By James Shotter in Zurich Over the past five yea...

JAPAN DISCOVERS QE HAS RISKS / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW & OUTLOOK

REVIEW & OUTLOOK May 19, 2013, 12:47 p.m. ET Japan Discovers QE Has Risks A debate breaks out over the 'bubbly' stock mar...

BOND RALLY END UNLIKELY TO BE REMINISCENT OF 1994 / MONEY NEWS

Pimco's Gross: Bond Rally End Unlikely to Be Reminiscent of 1994 Thursday, 16 May 2013 03:00 PM Pacific Investment Management Co.’...

GOLD : A LITTLE LOWER, AND THEN A RALLY / SEEKING ALPHA

Gold: A Little Lower, And Then A Rally May 19 2013, 07:02 Many have been quite surprised by the demand for gold in India of late. In...

LE GRAND JERRY LEWIS / THE NEW YORK TIMES OP EDITORIAL

May 18, 2013 Le Grand Jerry Lewis By  AGNÈS C. POIRIER CANNES, France — EVERY year the organizers of the Cannes...

WHERE IS THE GOLD COMING FROM ? / SPROTT ASSET MANAGEMENT

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 Eric Sprott and David Franklin Where is the gold coming from? We have tried to balance supply and demand figur...

FINANCIAL EUPHORIA / PRUDENTBEAR.COM

Financial Euphoria DOUG NOLAND May 18, 2013 Tepper stokes the melt-up. “I am definitely bullish. The budget deficit is shrinking mass...

HEROIC SPAIN IS DAMMED IF IT DOES, AND DAMMED IF IT DOESN'T / THE TELEGRAPH

Heroic Spain is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't My colleague Jeremy Warner has set off a storm in the Spanish press and s...

LEARNING ABOUT GROWTH FROM AUSTERITY / PROJECT SYNDICATE

Learning About Growth from Austerity Michael Spence 18 May 2013 MILAN – In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogof...