Money & Markets – Week of 03.30.14

Amazing Graphic Shows Chicago’s Middle Class Disappear Before Your Eyes
CBS Chicago | 03 April 2014
The graphic that you are about to see is sobering, perhaps depressing, and you can’t take your eyes off it…

M&S Planning Overseas Expansion
BBC News | 02 April 2014
Marks and Spencer has announced plans to open 250 stores abroad and increase international profits by 40% over the next three years…

Kauffman Policy Digest Makes the Case for Welcoming Immigrant Entrepreneurs to U.S. with a ‘Startup Visa’
Kauffman Foundation | 27 March 2014
Despite their vast contributions to job creation and economy, immigrants face obstacles to starting innovative companies in U.S…

Moral Blindness Syndrome (MBS) – When Money and Confidence Dies It Will Be Televised
Jesse’s Cafe Americain | 02 April 2014
It is interesting to see the reaction that Michael Lewis has made with his new book, Flash Boys…

High Tax States Are Losing Billions
The Fiscal Times | 17 March 2014
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month…

FBI Investigates High-Speed Trading Companies To Check If They Used Insider Information Unavailable To Other Investors
International Business Times | 01 April 2014
The FBI is investigating whether high-frequency-trading firms are involved in using insider information…

Bubbleberg News LP: Why We Are Plagued With Drivel Masquerading As Financial Reporting
David Stockman’s Contra Corner | 31 March 2014
One of the evils of massive over-financialization is that it enables Wall Street to scalp vast “rents” from the Main Street economy…

US Stock Market is Rigged by High-Speed Traders, says Michael Lewis
The Guardian | 31 March 2014
Author of The Big Short says in his latest book that high-frequency trading is costing other investors billions of dollars…

Michael Shuman: The Benefits of Deploying Investment Capital Locally Vs Wall Street
Peak Prosperity | 23 March 2014
The Federal Reserve and other central planners have worked overtime to lead the world back to “recovery”…

Biggest ETF Flow From U.S. Debt Since ’10 on Growth Optimism
Bloomberg | 31 March 2014
Investors of exchange-traded funds that buy U.S. government debt are signaling confidence…

Franklin Boosted Ukraine Bet to $6 Billion as Selloff Began
Bloomberg | 04 December 2013
Franklin Resources Inc.’s biggest funds ramped up their bet on Ukraine by more than $1.4 billion…

Hospitals Plot the End of Insurance Companies
Yahoo! Finance | 27 March 2014
The problems with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act…