FED´S U-TURN ON ASSETS FACES A YEAR-END TEST / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Fed’s U-Turn on Assets Faces a Year-End Test To halt money-market volatility the Fed flooded markets with cash—and it accumulated assets. ...

FOOTBALL NEEDS AN INDUSTRY STRATEGY / THE FINANCIAL TIMES OP EDITORIAL

Football needs an industrial strategy Proposals for a European super league would simply redistribute value upwards Robin Harding © J...

GOLDMAN SACHS AND JPMORGAN TWEAK REPO OPERATIONS TO LIMIT BASEL IMPACT / THE FINANCIAL TIMES

Goldman and JPMorgan tweak repo operations to limit Basel impact Banks crucial to short-term lending market find fresh ways to trade it ...

IF HISTORY REPEATS, GOLD IS HEADED TO $8,000 / SEEKING ALPHA

If History Repeats, Gold Is Headed To $8,000 by: Jason Hamlin Summary - Gold is in a well-defined uptrend channel with higher lows ...

CHINA´S EVER-GROWING BANK BAILOUT / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

China’s Ever-Growing Bank Bailout How to spend $14 billion without even trying By Nathaniel Taplin China is bailing out a larg...

IS IT TIME FOR SILVER STOCKS TO BLAST HIGHER / DOLLAR COLLAPSE

Is It Time for Silver Stocks To Blast Higher? by John Rubino     Excerpted from Katusa Research : These days, silverbugs have ...

TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: PESSIMISM V PROGRESS / THE ECONOMIST

Technology and society Pessimism v progress Contemporary worries about the impact of technology are part of a historical pattern F...

IN SEARCH OF NATIONALISM: U.K. PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON HAS A CHANCE TO SHOW THIS IS NOT AN OXYMORON / THE FINANCIAL TIMES OP EDITORIAL

In search of liberal nationalism UK prime minister Boris Johnson has a chance to show this is not an oxymoron Gideon Rachman © James ...

THE UNSPOKEN MISSION OF THE LEBANESE ARMY / GEOPOLITICAL FUTURES

The Unspoken Mission of the Lebanese Army By: Hilal Khashan   Since its founding in 1945, the mission of the Lebanese Armed Force...

TIME TO SELL THE NEWS? / DOLLAR COLLAPSE

Time To Sell The News? by John Rubino Global stock (and bond and real estate) markets have been on a tear this year, apparently in ant...