Money & Markets – Week of 06.02.13

Advising Clients Regarding Erroneous Tax Return Positions: Part I
AICPA | 01 June 2013
Tax practitioners occasionally uncover or otherwise become aware of errors…

Beware of Sideways Markets
Institutional Investor | 28 May 2013
In early May I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Value Investing Congress…

Nashville Symphony Facing Foreclosure, Performance Center Set to be Auctioned on June 28
The Republic | 06 June 2013
Foreclosure proceedings have been initiated against the Nashville Symphony…

JPMorgan ‘Afraid’ of Emerging Selloff Impact on Banks
Bloomberg | 07 June 2013
The emerging market selloff sparked by speculation the Federal Reserve…

EU Slaps Levies on Chinese Solar Panel Imports
USA Today | 04 June 2013
The European Union announced Tuesday that it is imposing anti-dumping levies…

Gold Going to More of a Sound Money System – Catherine Austin Fitts
http://youtu.be/m-xjFkW2NuE
USAWatchdog | 05 June 2013
Catherine Austin Fitts, founder of The Solari Report, points out the world is buying physical gold…

AIG & GM Complete Their Comebacks With Addition to S&P Indexes
Yahoo! Finance | 04 June 2013
After nearly five years since their original index exile…

Brazil Scraps Foreign Investment Tax as Real Hits Four-Year Low
Bloomberg | 04 June 2013
Brazil will eliminate its foreign investment tax on fixed income…

Where the U.S. Economy Is Still No. 1
Yahoo! Finance | 04 June 2013
There’s a familiar litany of problems with the American economy…

Pension Bonds Rejected as Water Deal Aids Allentown: Muni Credit
Bloomberg | 19 May 2013
Allentown, Pennsylvania, is leasing its water and sewer systems instead of borrowing to fund pension payments…

The Best ‘Inferior’ Companies in the Market
CNBC | 21 May 2013
Most people generally don’t associate terms like “inferiority” or “inefficiency” with innovation…

Sallie Mae Split Marks Bet on Much-Abused Private Student Loans
Bloomberg | 31 May 2013
Sallie Mae (SLM), the largest U.S. education-finance company, is making a bet on the future of private student debt…

Madoff and the “Aggressively Clueless” SEC
Reader Supported News | 02 June 2013
More and more embarrassing stories of keep leaking out of the SEC…