Ken Griffin's Citadel Is Returning Money To Some Hedge Fund Clients
Despite the expert guidance of one Ben Bernanke, the world's once most levered hedge fund, Citadel, is reportedly returning money to some global hedge-fund clients.Bloomberg reports that Ken Griffin’s...
View ArticleDollar Ends Best Week Of The Year With A Whimper As Global Stocks Push All...
The dollar rally paused on Friday and looked poised to finish its best weekly gain of the year with a whimper, when in a repeat of the Thursday session the, Bloomberg dollar index first rose more than...
View ArticleGoogle And Facebook To The Moon... Or Peak Advertising?
By Chris at www.CapitalistExploits.atIn the late 90's and early 2000's, I spent a lot of time travelling through a host of the world's airports.This naturally meant spending an inordinate amount of...
View ArticleBernanke Proposes "Price-Level Targeting" Before Next Crisis, Admits There...
Having taken a four month hiatus from blogging, Citadel advisor and former Fed chair Ben Bernanke penned another article on his Brookings blog in which he discusses a familiar subject: that the Fed has...
View ArticleDARPA Asks HFT Traders How Hackers Will Crash The Market
Having been responsible for the biggest flash crashes in recent years, it is no surprise that when it comes to the market's growing structural vulnerabilities, high frequency traders have emerged as...
View ArticleSEC Hires JPM Banker As Its Most Important Markets Regulator; May Blow Up HFTs
Yes, it's another glaring case of "revolving door" cronyism between Wall Street and the SEC: on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced it had hired Brett Redfearn, a JPMorgan...
View ArticleFrontrunning: October 31
Mueller’s Moves Signal Broad Scope (WSJ)Spain awaits next move by ousted Catalan leader from Belgium (Reuters)China, South Korea agree to mend ties after THAAD standoff (Reuters)For Manafort,...
View ArticleFive Ways To Short Bitcoin
Looking to put bitcoin’s rise in context? How about this: Over the last five years, the world’s most valuable digital currency has risen an astonishing 11,000,000%. Furthermore, since Jan. 1, it has...
View ArticleExpect Desperate, Insane Behavior From Government In 2018 – Part 2
Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,The financial crisis of 2008/09 was the most significant event to happen in my lifetime. That event, coupled with the deeply unethical and corrupt...
View ArticleAn Angry Rudy Havenstein Lashes Out: "No, The Fed Is Not Populist"
Submitted by Rudy HavensteinAfter years of seeing terrible market news and commentary, I’m pretty jaded, but when I saw the recent Marketwatch op-ed, “Janet Yellen’s true legacy is her focus on...
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