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Insider Trading By Two Friends Ahead Of Impending Acquisition
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Global Economic Intersection
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Friday, April 4, 2014 3:59 AM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two friends with insider trading on confidential information from an investment banker about an impending transaction between engineering and construction companies.
Transamerica Financial Advisors Improperly Calculating Advisory Fees And Overcharging Clients
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Global Economic Intersection
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Thursday, April 3, 2014 11:19 AM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based financial services firm for improperly calculating advisory fees and overcharging clients. Transamerica failed to process every aggregation request by clients and also had conflicting policies on whether representatives were required to pass on to clients the savings from breakpoint discounts.
Office Of Outgoing JPMorgan Asia CEO Raided By Hong Kong's Commission Against Corruption
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Tyler Durden
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Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:09 AM EDT
It just hasn't been JPMorgan's year. The bank which has been on a steady downward slope when it comes to paying billions in quarterly "non-recurring, one-time" legal settlements and charges, has just had its latest incident.
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A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year
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Michael Snyder
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Monday, March 24, 2014 4:57 PM EDT
Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes and will hand over more than four trillion dollars to federal, state and local governments. Americans will fork over nearly 30 percent of what they earn to pay their income taxes, but that is only a small part of the story.
Guest Post: Oil Limits And The Economy - One Story; Not Two
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Tyler Durden
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Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
While the press treats economic problems and oil-related problems as separate stories, they are in fact very closely connected, related to the fact that we are reaching limits in many different directions simultaneously.
The Student Loan Bubble
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James Quinn
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:13 PM EDT
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)
The Bitter Medicine Of Quantitative Easing
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Sober Look
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 6:57 PM EDT
Since this is not a "controlled" experiment in which we can compare a patient taking experimental medication with the one taking a placebo, there is no way to tell if the therapy had worked.
Ignorance, Sometimes Better Than Bliss
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Dr. Paul Price
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Monday, March 10, 2014 6:54 PM EDT
Wall Street has many ways to screw customers.
Read on to see how some muni bond buyers were turned in patsies.
International Banks Under Pressure
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Sober Look
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Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:30 PM EDT
The paper is the first to raise the possibility that the five banks overseeing the century-old rate -- Barclays Plc, Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of Nova Scotia, HSBC Holdings Plc and Societe Generale SA -- may have been actively working together to manipulate the benchmark.
Outside The Box: World Money Analyst Update On Russia
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Casey Research
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Saturday, February 22, 2014 4:50 PM EDT
Medium term, the Russian market remains the most undervalued. The average P/E is about 4.5, significantly below other emerging markets and way below the multiple on shares in the developed markets...
Will The U.S. Follow The U.K. Into Power Shortages?
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OilPrice
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 10:16 PM EDT
As Britain endeavors to build new nuclear power plants to avert an electric crisis in 20 years -- with the retirement of nearly all the nation's installed capacity, as it falls prey to age -- the question arises whether the United States is destined for the same crisis.
Is China "trading" Treasuries?
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Sober Look
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:08 PM EDT
China reduced its holdings of treasuries in December by the largest amount since 2011, raising some eyebrows among economists and debt investors.
Is Advertising On Facebook "A Waste Of Money?"
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Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:10 AM EDT
An experiment proves legitimate Facebook advertising yields identical results to paying for likes via fraudulent click-farms. So why would Facebook encourage the sale of fake likes? It generates significant revenue from these illegitimate likes.
In this video: META
Another JPMorgan Banker Dies, 37 Year Old Executive Director Of Program Trading
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Tyler Durden
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:43 AM EDT
Ordinarily we would ignore the news of another banker's death - after all these sad events happen all the time - if it wasn't for several contextual aspects of this most recent passage.
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