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Short Summary before New Year's Celebration

December 31, 2013
It is difficult to read much into the price action today as activity appears to be dominated by a few last minute orders. Whatever muted signal there may be is drowned by the noise.  Nevertheless, there are a few things to note before heading off to celebrate the end of what has an exceptionally good year for equity investors, especially in the hi…
Short Summary before New Year's Celebration Short Summary before New Year's Celebration Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 31, 2013 Rating: 5
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Great Graphic: Neural Networks in Men and Women

December 30, 2013
This Great Graphic is a neural map of a typical brain. It was posted in The Guardian earlier this month.  The first one is representative of men and the second is representative of women. Over a 1000 brains were scanned in a study at the University of Pennsylvania.

The findings show that the male brain is wired strongly between the back and front.…
Great Graphic: Neural Networks in Men and Women Great Graphic: Neural Networks in Men and Women Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 30, 2013 Rating: 5
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A Few Last 2013 Developments

December 30, 2013
In the last full trading session of the year, the US dollar is little changed against the major currencies and a bit softer against many of the freely accessible emerging market currencies. 
Asian equities mostly firmed, with the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index gained a little less than 0.5%, while the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is little changed as its consolid…
A Few Last 2013 Developments A Few Last 2013 Developments Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 30, 2013 Rating: 5
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Cool Video: Tragedy of the Commons Discussed

December 29, 2013
This Cool Video is offers an interesting presentation about the governance issue associated with shared resources. It is related to the more famous Prisoners' Dilemma, pitting cooperation against competition for the individual and group. Traditionally, the tragedy of the commons is often told to justify neo-liberal solutions. This video on …
Cool Video: Tragedy of the Commons Discussed Cool Video: Tragedy of the Commons Discussed Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 29, 2013 Rating: 5
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Currency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Dollar Weakness is Really Euro and Sterling Strength Currency Positioning and Technical Outlook: Dollar Weakness is Really Euro and Sterling Strength Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 28, 2013 Rating: 5
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Cool Video: Claymation Illustration of Chinese Banking System

December 27, 2013
This Cool Video is from the Wall Street Journal. In a little more than than 2 minutes, Ken Brown explains the basic imbalances caused by Chinese insular banking system and why it generates too much infra-structure investment and favors large state-owned businesses over smaller businesses and consumption. While the discussion and animation is enga…
Cool Video: Claymation Illustration of Chinese Banking System Cool Video: Claymation Illustration of Chinese Banking System Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 27, 2013 Rating: 5
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Why, Abe?

December 26, 2013
Shinzo Abe is a smart man and savvy politician.  He has the rare honor of being Japan's prime minister twice.  He is celebrating his first year of his second (non-consecutive) term in office.  In fact, it is on that very anniversary that he chose to visit the Yasukuni Shrine.  
The shrine itself dates back to the late 19th century and honors 2.…
Why, Abe? Why, Abe? Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 26, 2013 Rating: 5
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Three Developments to Note

December 25, 2013
There have been three developments to note in the first half of the week, while much of the world has been on holiday.
First, on December 24, the People's Bank of China bowed to the run-up in short-term money market rates and conducted an open market operation that injected CNY29 bln (~ $4.8 bln). This was the first such operation since the st…
Three Developments to Note Three Developments to Note Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 25, 2013 Rating: 5
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2014 Outlook: Annus Not-So-Horribilis

December 24, 2013
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US: The broad characteristics of the investment climate are unlikely to change very much in the first part of next year.The largest policy change is the  beginning of the long awaited slowing of the Federal Reserve’s long-term asset purchases.The process will likely be gradual and may take the better part of 2014 to come to a complete stop…
2014 Outlook: Annus Not-So-Horribilis 2014 Outlook: Annus Not-So-Horribilis Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 24, 2013 Rating: 5
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Cool Video: Mysterious Pink

December 24, 2013
In this Cool Video, MinutePhysics explains why there is no pink light. They do it in a highly entertaining fashion in a little more than 60 seconds.  Yet, as other scientists argue, all our colors are a sensations of the brain.  Color is not a function of light or reflections of light, but it is our brains making sense of the some of the differen…
Cool Video: Mysterious Pink Cool Video: Mysterious Pink Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 24, 2013 Rating: 5
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Global Governance in a Non-G-Zero World

December 24, 2013
There is an intellectual fashion that has been inspired by the past decade in which there has been some convergence between the GDP per capita of emerging markets and those of the developed countries.  After diverging from 1950 to around 2000,  the out-performance of emerging markets over the past decade has nearly unwound growing disparity of sec…
Global Governance in a Non-G-Zero World Global Governance in a Non-G-Zero World Reviewed by Marc Chandler on December 24, 2013 Rating: 5
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