Money & Markets – Week of 10.18.15

Greece’s Creditors Demand Further Reforms
EurActiv | 23 October 2015
Modest incomes have been protected…

FINRA’s Proposal to Halt Elder Fraud: Stop Withdrawals
AAII | 22 October 2015
Hold on the dispersal of funds for up to…

China Plans 2020 Deadline for Dismantling Capital Controls
Bloomberg | 22 October 2015
Markets will be…

Turn Off Your Chief Economist: GDP Growth Doesn’t Predict Stock Returns
Alpha Architect | 22 October 2015
Why they shouldn’t cling to macroeconomic…

Puerto Rico Bonds Drop to August Low on Bankruptcy Proposal
Bloomberg | 22 October 2015
Unconstitutionally and shouldn’t be…

The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites
Of Two Minds | 22 October 2015
Elites splinter in profound…

Everything’s Deflating And Nobody Seems To Notice
The Automatic Earth | 22 October 2015
Hardly a soul recognizes…

Killing Off Community Banks: Intended Consequence of Dodd-Frank?
Counterpunch | 22 October 2015
Have been replaced by…

Money has been Rushing Out of US Stocks for 10 years
Business Insider | 22 October 2015
Largest across not only…

Iceland does what the US won’t: 26 top bankers sent to prison for role in financial crisis
Raw Story | 21 October 2015
Wise enough not to follow the traditional …

Real Median Household Income in the United States
St. Louis Fed | 21 October 2015
Annual, Not Seasonally Adjusted…

UK Rolls Out Lavish Welcome for Xi Jinping’s Watershed Visit after US Flop
RT | 20 October 2015
Many other countries for infrastructure…

It’s Official: BRICs Bloc Examining
Giza Death Star | 02 July 2015
Significant…

Hillary Clinton on Social Security Expansion: Words are Wind. A Cold Wind.
Naked Capitalism | 21 October 2015
Parse the words of Clinton’s very…

Still Backstopping the Banks With Public Money
Jesse’s Cafe Americain | 21 October 2015
You are a den of vipers and…

Collapse Of The Western Financial System Looms As A “Strategic” Russian Default Is Possible
Zero Hedge | 19 October 2015
Absolutely key…

US, EU Open Free-trade Talks in Miami
| 19 October 2015
850 million people and account for…

Obama Administration Hits Back at Student Debtors Seeking Relief
Bloomberg | 14 October 2015
Government is becoming student borrowers’ worst…

Britain and China to Hail ‘golden’ Ties during Xi Visit
Reuters | 13 October 2015
‘Golden Time’ is dawning but it…

Why Americans Don’t Trust the Fed
WSJ | 16 October 2015
Sen. Rand Paul took direct aim at the Fed’s…

Vanguard Adds China A Shares to Emerging Fund Amid MSCI Debate
Bloomberg | 03 June 2015
Initial weighting of mainland…

China Launches Its International Financial
Giza Death Star | 13 October 2015
Designed to be a deliberate…

S&P 500 Ekes Out Gain as Consumer Shares Overshadow Energy Slide
Bloomberg | 19 October 2015
Services sector offset weaker…

Real Economics
Undernews | 18 October 2015
Bernie Sanders More than half of…

China to Help 70 Mln Out of Poverty by 2020
CNTV | 17 October 2015
Poverty Alleviation and Development office says…

The Last Days of Drexel Burnham
Forbes | 16 October 2015 & 21 May 1990
Bosses, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and…

Six Cash-strapped Republican White House Hopefuls Face Tipping Point
Reuters | 16 October 2015
Tipping points…

No Social Security Raises Even if Medicare Soars
NY Times | 16 October 2015
Medicare needs additional money to…

Sixty Five Million Americans on Social Security Will Not Get a Cost of living Increase in 2016
Daily Mail | 15 October 2015
Fails to reflect the actual…

Rupert Murdoch Fends Off Shareholder Revolt at News Corp AGM
Sydney Morning Herald | 15 October 2015
Dual class capital

Can The Oil Industry Really Handle This Much Debt?
Oil Price | 13 October 2015
Verge of bankruptcy are…

CalPERS Aims to Lower Investment Risks
Sacbee | 12 October 2015
Discount rate triggers adjustments to…

Deutsche Bank’s Balance Sheet Is Toxic Waste
Investment Research Dynamics | 09 October 2015
Devised to promote the idea that the economy is…

Calpers Carried-Interest Data May Hold `Shock Value’ for Public
Bloomberg | 07 October 2015
Wants to tax carried interest as…

IRS Announces Key Milestone in FATCA Implementation
IRS | 02 October 2015
U.S. begins reciprocal automatic exchange of…

RSA under fire: Inside the Latest Battle over Alabama’s Pension Powerhouse
AL | 24 September 2015
Below the national average of…

Lobbyist Secretly Taped Revealing All of the Right-wing’s Dirty Tactics to Energy Execs
Daily Kos | 04 November 2014
Presentation can be found…

Gauging the strength of Chinese innovation
McKinsey | 01 October 2015
Innovation opportunities could contribute…