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Gold Takes Out $1000/oz, China Alarmed by US$ Printing, CIC Looks To US Real Estate, FHA: Another Taxpayer Assault?

Gold changes hands above $1000/ounce this week as China continues to sound the alarm regarding US$ weakness… China alarmed by US money printing – Daily Telegraph Daily Telegraph reports The US Federal Reserve’s policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, […]

David Einhorn Calling Ratings Firms’ Bluff

David Einhorn is not afraid to call a bluff when he sees it.  The President of Greenlight Capital has built a reputation within hedge fund circles as a fiercely independent, critical-thinking manager with a knack for making bearish bets on established, generally well-respected companies.  No stranger to the public eye, previously publicized campaigns against the likes of Allied Capital and […]

Capital Raising Methods & Hedge Fund Capital Introduction in Focus on Evan Rapoport’s Blog

Evan Rapoport, Co-Founder of HedgeCo Networks, has been blogging up a storm over at his Capital Introduction Blog. Borrowing from years of experience raising capital for hedge funds and other institutions, Evan takes a very direct and knowledgeable approach to navigating through the often tricky waters surrounding marketing your hedge fund. Hedge Fund Third Party Marketing and Marketers First, the […]

August Hedge Fund Report

Most hedge funds recorded gains averaging close to or over 2% during August, with European managers (2.6%) delivering the best gains, on average, according to preliminary reporting from Eurekahedge. North American and Latin American funds ended the month with gains averaging 1.8% and 2.1%. Asian managers, on the other hand, underperformed most others, with Japan-specific funds up 0.7% and their […]

US$ Decline, T-Bond Prices Decline / Rates Up, CRB Index Down, Precious Metals Higher

By viewing the five charts above, (UUP = US$, TLT = Treasury bonds, CRB = Commodities, GLD = Gold) you have just witnessed a graphical demonstration of the beginning of the stagflation trade. Those of you who read this blog regularly know we have been warning of the inevitable rise of hyper-inflation at a time when a jobless recovery will […]

Fund of Hedge Funds Industry Shrinks But Still Strong

 HedgeFund Intelligence’s Press Release from today states that the fund of funds industry shrank by $95 billion in the first half of 2009 but still manages $735 billion.  This represents a decline of 11.4 percent in assets under management (AUM).  Firms with more than $1 billion in AUM manage a combined $613 billion.  According to HedgeFund Intelligence, 18 fund of […]

Swedish Riksbank Takes Unprecedented Step, FOMC Minutes, Gold Bullish

This story is a must read and read carefully. The unprecedented actions of the Swedish Riksbank may be the precursor to a whole new phase of the quantitative easing shell game. And make no mistake about it, a true shell game is going on with the worlds fiat money supply. The central bankers are moving ever greater amounts of consistently […]

Despite Case Schiller, Housing’s Darkest Days Still Lie Ahead

Early last week, real estate circles were sent abuzz by the release of the Standard and Poor’s/Case Schiller national home price index, which revealed that average home prices in the nation’s 20 largest markets experienced a 3% jump in valuations during the second quarter.  It marked the first quarterly increase in 3 years for the index, leading some prognosticators to […]

Investment Bank Programmers on the Most Wanted List

  By now, I think most people have heard about the ex-Goldman software programmer who was arrested in July for allegedly stealing some of Goldman’s high-frequency trading software code. I am not a criminologist or legal expert, nor am I a software expert that could tell you if accidentally sending small pieces of the code while sending other software to […]