Money & Markets – Week of 09.27.15

The Stock Market Hasn’t Made this Much Sense in 4 Years
Business Insider | 02 October 2015
Good news for patient investors who are…

US Judge Rules No Copyright in Happy Birthday To You
Lexology | 01 October 2015
Registered them for copyright in…

Transaero, Russia’s Biggest Private Airline Files for Bankruptcy
RT | 01 October 2015
All the negotiators have…

Europe’s Biggest Bank Dares To Ask: Is The Fed Preparing For A “Controlled Demolition” Of The Market
Zero Hedge | 09 September 2015
Liquidity in the broadest sense tends…

TPP Stuck On Rifts over Drugs, Dairy
The Australian | 02 October 2015
Eight-year patent protection to increasingly…

Tillis: Tobacco Carve-Out Could Kill TPP in the Senate
Roll Call WGDB | 01 October 2015
Unlike any provision in past…

The Unexpected Upshot of John Boehner’s Ouster: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is in Danger
Salon | 29 September 2015
Only after that does the…

Memo to Reporters Covering Atlanta TPP Negotiations and Ministerial- PDF
Citizen | 25 September 2015
Administration Desperate for…

TPP Vote Calendar – PDF
Citizen | 02 October 2015
Congressional vote can only be held…

5 Car Companies that (apparently) don’t Cheat
Yahoo | 01 October 2015
Does every automaker cheat or…

Shifting tides: Global economic scenarios for 2015–25
McKinsey | 01 September 2015
Potential to shift the global economy from one long-term outcome to…

Questions about Leak at Federal Reserve Escalate to Insider-Trading Probe
Market Watch | 30 September 2015
Federal prosecutors in…

The US Economy is Telling 2 Stories, and the Good Story is Way Better than the Bad Story
Business Insider | 30 September 2015
Sums up the diverging fortunes of…

Panic Is Spreading, Part 1: Surge in Junk Bond Defaults Imminent
Dollar Collapse | 29 September 2015
Government response will have to be either…or…

ECB Will Boost QE By 120% To €2.4 Trillion, S&P Predicts
Zero Hedge | 30 September 2015
Likely until mid-…

CrossTalk: Exiting Recession: Video
The Saker | 29 September 2015
Good for Russia…

Think Students Can’t Declare Bankruptcy? Think Again
Yes Magazine | 23 September 2015
the judges ruled in the debtors’ favor…

Yet Another Subsidy for the Big Banks
Prospect | 19 August 2015
Rate on all reserves…$3 trillion…

Rarely Enforced SEC Rules may give Green Light to Earnings Manipulation
Market Watch | 29 September 2015
Company nor the SEC ever publicly explained why…

High-yield Bond ETF Slumps to 4-Year Lows: Video
CNBC | 29 September 2015
High-yield corporate…

The Collapse of Saudi Arabia is Inevitable
Information Clearing House | 28 September 2015
Inflection point to watch out for is…

“IMF to Cut Global GDP View on EM Slowdown: Report
Market Watch | 28 September 2015
3.3% this year is not…

Yellen Announces Possible Decrease In Liquidity; Suffers Bout of Dehydration
Notes from Underground | 27 September 2015
Battle at the FOMC meeting was…

The TPP and the US Auto Industry
Daily Kos | 27 September 2015
US domestic job loss is astounding…

How Sweden’s Negative Interest-rates Experiment has Turned Economics on its Head
GATA | 27 September 2015
This has come as a…

Meet the Woman Who Turned a School Bus into a Mobile Financial Literacy Hub
Yahoo Finance | 25 September 2015
Where does the bus…