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*** Thin Progress: The Myth Of The Jobless Recovery ***
*** FT Alphaville: China has ‘upped the ante’ in financial suppression, Dylan Grice says ***
*** FT Alphaville: Oxymoronic LME stocks ***
*** FT Alphaville: Sino-Forest: the case for the prosecution ***
*** FT Alphaville: Sino-Forest: the case for the defence ***
*** FT Alphaville: Nomura says not a lot of cash growing on Sino Forest’s trees ***
*** Financial Post: Muddy Waters Sino-Forest research ‘pile of crap’: Dundee ***
*** DealB%k: A Trader, an F.B.I. Witness, and Then a Suicide ***

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*** The Big Picture: ECRI Leading Indicators: Slowing Growth ***
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*** JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: Comex Silver Inventories Reach New Lows As a Forced Resolution Approaches ***

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*** The Big Picture: Greece’s last stand ***
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*** FT Alphaville: Goldman warns of significant China slowdown ***
*** The Atlantic: Chart of the Day: How Much Is the U.S. National Debt in Gold? ***
*** The Big Picture: Richards: “Gold is Not an Investment” ***
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*** The Big Picture: Washington Post: “Five Disciplines To Be A Great Investor” ***

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*** Macro Man: Dam Breach! ***
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*** FT Alphaville: Iceland’s second volcano e-raptures ***

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*** FT Alphaville: Competition time! LinkedIn valuation edition ***
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*** FT Alphaville: Japan’s ‘temporary’ recession? ***
*** FT BeyondBRICs: China sets new standard in gold ***
*** The Big Picture: First Day IPO Pops ***
*** The Big Picture: Understandings Earnings Estimates ***
*** Gawker: Jon Stewart Takes Down Ben Stein’s Defense of Dominique Strauss-Kahn ***

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*** FT Alphaville: Please wait 10 months for your aluminium. Thank you ***
*** FT Alphaville: The ‘Asia connection’ to the commodity rout ***
*** FT Alphaville: China’s trusts – still booming ***
*** The Big Picture: China’s Ghost Cities ***
*** The Big Picture: Sloppy Market? Blame the Financials ***
*** The Big Picture: Japan shows up in April IP ***
*** The Big Picture: Trading as a “Massive Multiplayer Experience” ***
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*** Econbrowser: F for Fail ***

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*** The Big Picture: How Microsoft Caused the DotCom Bubble and why their Skype ‘Hail Mary’ is irrelevant ***
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*** FT Alphaville: From Quito, to Kingston, to Athens? ***
*** FT Alphaville: Chinese commodity imports are falling ***
*** Streetwise Professor: No Margin For Error ***
*** The Source: Silver’s Modern Day Panic ***
*** The Atlantic: The World’s 26 Best Cities for Business, Life, and Innovation ***

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*** FT Alphaville: Roubini’s guide to a Greek debt restructuring ***
*** FT Alphaville: A proclamation from the Spanish Ministry of Public Works… ***
*** FT Alphaville: There’s no change for the US driver… ***
*** Zero Hedge: Reuters Special Report On What Caused The “Causeless” Crude Crash; Other Hedge Fund Casualties Identified ***
*** Zero Hedge: Sprott Launches Physical Silver Mutual Fund, Will Likely Soak Up Much Marginal Silver Inventory ***
*** The Slope Of Hope: How Long to Hold Silver? ***
*** Econompicdata: Secret Sauce Continues to Grip It and Rip It ***
*** Phil Pearlman: The Rise of the Market Participant Editor in Finance Media ***

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*** FT Alphaville: Kicking the Greek debt can further down the road ***
*** FT Alphaville: A (hard) Greek restructuring by the numbers ***
*** FT Alphaville: The underlying trend in UK house prices ***
*** Calculated Risk: Employment: A comment on the Birth/Death Model ***
*** Zero Hedge: Silverfinger – The True Story Of Nelson Bunker Hunt ***
*** The Aleph Blog: Why Amateurs Should Invest in Common Stocks ***

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*** The Big Picture: Things To Be Concerned About Regarding This Market ***
*** FT Alphaville: Cash is king ***
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*** self-evident: An intriguing potential problem with CDS ***

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*** Gavyn Davies: Anglo Saxon GDP not as weak as it appears ***
*** The Big Picture: When Will S&P500 Regain All Its 2007-09 Losses? ***
*** FT Alphaville: Volatile silver ***
*** JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: Gold Daily and Silver Weekly Charts – Fool Me Once Shame On You… ***
*** JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: CME Announces Third Margin Increase For Silver in a Week – Karma? Ain’t It a Bitch. ***
*** BeyondBRICs: Brazil’s misleading trade surplus ***

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*** Alphaville: El-Erian: Implications for global markets of Bin Laden’s death ***
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*** The Big Picture: The Destruction of Economic Facts ***
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*** JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: Portrait of Desperation ***
*** CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: Open Letter From Ted Butler to Custodian of SLV Silver ETF ***

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*** Econbrowser: Economy still growing and still disappointing ***
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*** Reuters: What’s on Ben’s mind? ***
*** FT Alphaville: Meanwhile in China… ***
*** FT Alphaville: And now for Chinese zinc shenanigans ***
*** FT Alphaville: Chinese bonded warehouses’ copper inventories still rising ***
*** FT Alphaville: Copper, the re-export factor ***
*** FT BeyondBRICs: China property: to burst, or not to burst? ***
*** Pragmatic Capitalism: DAVID ROSENBERG TURNS BULLISH…. ***
*** WSJ The Source: Is It Different This Time Round? ***
*** MarketWatch: Buy gold ***
*** The Economist: Daily chart: which countries hoard the most gold? ***
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*** FT Alphaville: Markets Live – Fed press conference special, featuring Gavyn Davies ***
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*** FT Alphaville: Putting the ‘stag’ in stagflation ***
*** FT Alphaville: On the scale of hidden copper stocks ***
*** JESSE’S CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN: Eisenbeis: What’s A Central Bank To Do Besides Printing Money (And Pursue A Hidden Agenda?) ***
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*** Silver Monthly: Bunker Hunt’s Attraction to Silver: A History of Cornering the Silver Market ***

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*** FT Alphaville: What to expect from Chairman Bernanke ***
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*** Reuters: China raises bar for polluters in restructuring plan ***
*** Calculated Risk: Timing: New Home Sales and Home Builder Reports ***

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