With unemployment stuck at record highs and loan delinquencies surging, it is hardly surprising that El Economista reports that more than two-thirds of Spaniards do not believe the "recovery" promised

QE, taxes, income disparity, and entitlements are four major means by which wealth is transferred from the poor and the middle class to the rich. The following simple chart explains it all...

For generating the greatest "wealth effect" and highest return of any global stock market in the world in 2013, the Caracas stock exchange, which closed the year at the ripe level of 2.7 million, is getting surprisingly little attention or love

The infamous Swirlogram shows that the last 3 months have seen the indicator in "slowdown" mode - which Goldman optimistically notes is on the border of 'expansion' also...and they see overall level of growth at solid levels.

With over 60% of those surveyed now bullish, positive sentiment has risen once again and now to levels that are practically the highest ever.

The late-day exuberance from New Year's Eve has been dismissed as JPY strength has dragged stocks to one-week lows this morning....

Anyone who thinks it is a fantasy that government will simply just confiscate 10% of everyone’s accounts in Europe better have another look at the fool they see in the mirror staring back at them.

All the pundits who preach an economic recovery in the US always fall strangely silent when asked to share their thoughts on the following chart...

A few days ago, Goldman pointed out an interesting observation: "if you were an index investor and weren’t long Jan 1st, you under-performed this year.

Millions of Americans have signed up for Obamacare. But do they realize they are not actually insured unless they pay?

2014 started off with a bang, literally, as we learned moments ago that Palestinian ambassador Jamal al-Jamal was killed in an explosion. But it is too early to tell what kind of ripple effects this may have on the world's markets.

With headlines crowing of gold's worst year since 1981 as a signal that the status quo is winning, Russia has been taking advantage of the price depreciation to stock up on gold.

When the Fed announced its expansion to its Fixed-Rate Reverse Repo facility, some wondered why. Today we got the answer...

This is what has happened so far on the last trading session of 2013.

Does Bitcoin have the elements of a viable alternative currency? From a libertarian and pragmatic perspective.

3 years after the earthquake and tsunami that caused the meltdown at Fukushima's nuclear facility, Northern Japanese homeless are willing to accept minimum wage (from Yakuza-based entities) for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.