From Business Insider Marc Faber, Publisher, Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, spoke to ET Now on a range of issues including the current market scenario, emerging markets, Fed’s policies and US bond markets, among others. Excerpts: You are known as Mr Contrarian in India. You always like to advise t...

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/26/2010 Last week we pointed out that Jefferies group, one of the last few remaining non-BHC broker-dealers, has just experienced its single most disastrous drop in trading volumes, as its principal trading revenues plunged by 80% QoQ. This is merely confirmatio...

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/21/2010 11:56 -0500 One of the scarier conclusions arising from the work of the market forensic specialists at Nanex is that with a surge in empty order packets and quote stuffing one can essentially recreate the flash crash “on demand.” We have pointed...

Article from Pragmatic Capitalist Eric King posted this interesting chart showing mutual fund cash levels.   According to King mutual fund cash level has declined to its lowest levels ever: “The percentage of liquid assets (aka mutual cash levels) was 3.4% in July.  This is the lowest percent...

From www.mybudget360.com The official announcement that the recession is over underscores the massive disconnect between Wall Street and the rest of America.  Wealth inequality in America is at levels last seen right before the Great Depression ravaged our economy.  Yet the inequality has grown ...

From www.mybudget360.com Home sales follow very seasonal patterns.  Yet much of this natural mechanism was stunted by banks delaying foreclosures and the government artificially stimulating home sales.  Now that much of the stimulus has been exhausted, it is clear that home prices are correcting...

From www.mybudget360.com One of the more ominous statistics coming from this recession is that student loan debt has now surpassed total credit card debt in the United States.  The reason for this is based on the deep impact of the recession.  Credit card debt peak at $975 billion back in Septem...

From www.businessinsider.com David Rosenberg has outlined, in his latest letter, the 13 reasons with this so-called recovery is actually a depression. Rosenberg sums it up like this: This is what a depression is all about — an economy that 33 months after a recession begins, with zero polic...

From www.mybudget360.com It was interesting to see the spin regarding the FDIC quarterly report this week.  The report was largely a reflection of the way we now categorize profits in the banking system.  Banks made a nice amount of profit through trading securities (on bailout leverage) while a...