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The Fed and “Plunge Protection Team”: Are They Manipulating Stocks? Rumors are, the U.S. government “is propping up the stock market.” October 29, 2010 By Elliott Wave International Out of thousands of questions recently submitted to us at Elliott Wave Int...

AAII Bullish Sentiment Hits a Two Year High According to the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII), bullish sentiment this week rose to 51.23%, which is the highest reading since May 2008. ...

Surely, this can’t be right?…this simply cannot be possible.  Can it?. by www.zerohedge.com As if there was any doubt before which way the arrow of control, and particularly causality, points in America’s financial system, the following stunner [1]just released from Bloomberg con...

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Here is an excellent summary of the diabolical mess that has been created in the United States via the ‘QEI’ intervention.  With QEII likely only days away this is an excellent and timely article by Colin Twiggs of www.incrediblecharts.com The S-word By Colin Twiggs, October 23, 2010 0...

by Vedran Vuk on Wed, 20 Oct 2010 The financial media are obsessed with name-brand investing, especially at the worst moments. Here’s the standard logic: company XYZ has had a terrible turn of events. Hence, the stock price has been beaten down to a pulp. The big name is so cheap that it must be...

October Curse vs. Objective Analysis: The Choice Is Yours October 12, 2010 By Elliott Wave International Over the weekend, I went shopping for Halloween decorations. In the store, one of the clerks was wearing a white T-shirt with a puff-paint rendering of the Dow Jo...

Here is an article by Sy Harding .  Of particular interest is the correlation in spread between bullish and bearish sentiment in the AII survey with respect to previous major highs and now. This is usually a reliable indicator – and I believe it will be again here – whether or not the n...

by Jim Quinn of The Burning Platform Is America On A Burning Platform? David Walker, the former Comptroller of the United States from 1998 until 2008, has been warning politicians, the media, and the American public for over a decade that we are off course and headed for disaster. In August 2007, b...

Adapted from www.charting stocks.com A few select quotes during the Great Depression era, years of 1929 to 1931. Notice the “Expert” opinions which convey optimism, the bank bailouts, government assurances, and the deliberate attempt by the main stream media to manufacture consent for bailing o...

By www.zerohedge.com In his latest letter Van Hoisington cuts through the bullshit and asks the number one question (rhetorically): why are bank excess reserves (aka the ugly, liability side of Quantitative Easing) still so high. He answers: “Either the banks: 1) are not in a position to p...

By www.zerohedge.com The ratio between VIX (implied vol as determined by 1 month out SPX options) and VXV (3 month Implied Vol) has just dropped to the lowest it has been since the end of 2006. After hitting a post-Lehman high of just under 1.3, VIX/VXV has plunged to 0.7917, a steep drop of 0.0...

By www.zerohedge.com Sorry kids, we just report the news… as ugly as they may be. After last week saw an insider selling to buying ratio of 1,411 to 1, this week the ratio has nearly doubled, hitting a ridiculous 2,341 to 1. And while Wall Street’s liars and CNBC’s clowns will hav...

From www.zerohedge.com The BLS, as part of the NFP report, has issued its preliminary estimate of the benchmark revision, which confirms that the BLS is really just BS. According to the report, for the period ended March 2010, the BLS has overestimated jobs by 366,000 (0.3%), or just over 30K jo...