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Ukraine Won't Pay Russia For Gas, Has Billions In Obligations Due; Europe Promises Aid Money It Doesn't Have
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Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 10:04 AM EDT
About an hour ago, the head of Russia's top natural gas producer Gazprom said on Wednesday that Ukraine had informed the company it could not pay for February gas deliveries in full, further adding to tensions between Moscow and Kiev.
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February 2014 ADP Job Growth At 139,000
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Steven Hansen
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 9:04 AM EDT
ADP reported February 2014 non-farm private jobs growth at 139,000 – again weaker than previous months – with a significant reduction in last months jobs gain.
Anticipating The January Employment Report
Article By:
Doug Short
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 8:56 AM EDT
The most important economic news this week is Friday's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
White House Releases 2015 Budget Proposal
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John Lounsbury
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:41 AM EDT
Econintersect: The administration released the president's proposed 2015 budget on Tuesday (04 March 2014). It calls for a net increase in spending, although there are almost as many ares being cut as being increased.
Emerging Markets Still Face The "Same Ugly Arithmetic"
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Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:11 AM EDT
While Emerging Market debt has recovered somewhat from the January turmoil, EM FX remains under significant pressure, and as Michael Pettis notes in a recent note, any rebound will face the same ugly arithmetic.
Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
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Michael Snyder
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 5:01 AM EDT
The Obama administration and the hotheads in Congress are threatening to hit Russia with "economic sanctions" for moving troops into Crimea.
Insider Trading At The SEC??
Article By:
Larry Doyle
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:45 AM EDT
The abbreviated definition of insider trading is: “the buying or selling of a security by someone who has access to material, nonpublic information about the security.”
Education Organization Protests Lack Of School Choice Scholarships
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John Lounsbury
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 4:03 AM EDT
Econintersect: The Center for Education Reform has issued a statement protesting the omission of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships program from the 2015 Obama Budget Proposal.
Bernanke Finally Reveals, In One Word, Why The Financial System Crashed
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Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 3:58 AM EDT
Now that Ben Bernanke is no longer the head of the Fed, he can finally tell the truth about what caused the financial crash.
Letting Qantas Go Bankrupt Would Be Good For Australia
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Bronte Capital
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:24 PM EDT
When I was in my twenties I worked for the Government of Australia and I watched the privatisation of Qantas fairly closely.
In those days the Finance Department swallowed the Qantas lobbying totally. What was good for Qantas was good for Australia.
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Deficit Projections Out To 2024
Article By:
Larry Doyle
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:07 PM EDT
The Wall Street Journal addresses that widening gap between how the administration and the CBO view future deficits in writing:
Obama's $3.9 Trillion Budget Predicts Fastest GDP Growth Since 2005
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Tyler Durden
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:42 PM EDT
Having destroyed any credibility that this budget could possibly have yesterday, President Obama has outdone himself with the predictions in this $3.9 trillion budget...
Ukraine-Putin Dust Has Settled - Now What?
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Ernie Varitimos
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:38 PM EDT
The US market is in a bullish mode and has had a muted reaction to the Ukraine/Russia crisis. Here's what we can now expect...
Geographic And Strategic Importance Of Crimea
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Larry Doyle
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:37 AM EDT
With all eyes in the markets, if not the world, focused on the ongoing crisis developing in the Ukraine and its southern peninsula known as Crimea, let’s navigate and gain a greater understanding as to the geographic, economic, and political importance of this region.
January 2014 CoreLogic Home Prices Up 12.0% Year-Over-Year, Rate Of Growth Improved
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Steven Hansen
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 9:44 AM EDT
Econintersect: CoreLogic's Home Price Index (HPI) shows that home prices in the USA in January 2014 are up 12.0% year-over-year (reported up 0.9% month-over-month). The year-over-year growth rate was up from the 11.0% reported last month.
Incomes/Spending Rise On Weather And Gov't Benefits
Article By:
Lance Roberts
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Monday, March 3, 2014 6:31 PM EDT
The personal consumption and expenditure (PCE) data for January surprised to the upside by printing a 0.4% surge in expenditures and a 0.3% increase in incomes. The immediate assumption is that the consumer is healthy and the economy is growing but the "devil is in the details" as usual.