Money & Markets – Week of 4.21.13

AR-15s Flying Off Shelves Amid Gun Control Fears
Yahoo! Finance | 25 April 2013
At the GunRunners Gun Show outside Atlanta, the line stretches out the door and around the corner…

Jon Corzine Sued by MF Global Trustee
CNN | 23 April 2013
Jon Corzine and two lieutenants at MF Global were sued Tuesday over the collapse of the commodity trading firm in 2011…

Lots of Cash, Few Alternatives
The Wall Street Journal | 22 April 2013
It was an exodus that didn’t happen…

Europe Should See a Strong 2H, Helping to Alleviate Global Growth Concerns
Financial Sense | 19 April 2013
One of the concerns of late is the weakness in commodities and what that portends in terms of global growth going forward…

SEC Money-Market Fund Proposal Two Months Away, Gallagher Says
Bloomberg | 09 April 2013
New rules to reduce risk in money- market mutual funds will be proposed in the next two months…

John Hussman: The Endgame Is Forced Liquidation
Guru Focus | 22 April 2013
The May 2000 Big Money Poll was published with the Dow Jones Industrial Average at 10733.91…

Data Shift to Lift US Economy by 3%
CNBC | 22 April 2013
The U.S. economy will officially become 3 percent bigger in July as part of…

Three Fed Presidents Say Disinflation May Prompt Easing
Bloomberg | 18 April 2013
Three regional Federal Reserve bank presidents said a further decline in U.S. inflation…

G20 Backs Off Austerity Drive, Rejects Hard Debt Cut Targets
Reuters | 19 April 2013
Finance leaders of the G20 economies on Friday edged away from a long-running drive…

G-20 Pushes for Measures to End Tax Evasion
The New York Times | 19 April 2013
The Group of 20 countries called on Friday for a coordinated effort to stop international tax evasion…