America’s Role as Consumer of Last Resort Goes Missing – Bloomberg 12-01-13

Salient to Investors: The smallest US current-account deficit since 1999 shows the US is a lesser supporter of global growth than in the past. Exploration and production are adding to growth, reducing spending on imported energy, cheaper fuel and raw materials are boosting manufacturing, making the US more of a

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Former Reagan Budget Head David Stockman: Fed Has Created Gargantuan Global Bubble – MoneyNews 11-27-13

Salient to Investors: David Stockman said: QE is brewing asset bubbles around the world, exporting its lunatic policy worldwide Central banks all over the world have been massively expanding their balance sheets, and as a result of that there are bubbles in everything in the world, asset values are exaggerated

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Pimco’s El-Erian Sees Global Growth at About 3% in 2014 – Bloomberg 11-26-13

Salient to Investors: Mohamed El-Erian at Pimco said: The global economy will expand 2.75 percent to 3.25 percent in 2014. The big question is less the next 12 months and more what comes after, given we are being sustained by experimental, untested policies. The US and Japan have outperformed other

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Agriculture: The World Is Facing A Crisis – Jim Rogers On The Markets 11-26-13

Salient to Investors: Jim Rogers said more people in America study public relations than study agriculture which is why we have low inventories and are running out of farmers. The world is facing a crisis. Read the full article at http://jimrogersonthemarkets.blogspot.com/2013/11/agriculture-world-is-facing-crisis.html Click here to receive free and immediate email alerts of the

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Treasuries Cheap Versus Peers in Blankfein’s ‘Brightest Spot’ – Bloomberg 11-06-13

Salient to Investors: Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs said the US is the brightest spot in the global economy: US recovery is shallow but established. Blankfein said globally we will muddle through. Will Tseng at Mirae Asset Global Investments said US growth is moderate, but better than Europe or Japan. 

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Biggest Danish Pension Fund Girds for End to Crisis Stimulus – Bloomberg 10-30-13

Salient to Investors: ATP, Denmark’s biggest pension fund said: Unprecedented stimulus from the biggest central banks has supported prices in “risky” markets, including equities, so investors need to brace themselves for potential disruptions when normalization of monetary policy comes, as recent investor reaction to the Fed’s warning of tapering showed

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Central Banks Drop Tightening Talk as Easy Money Goes On – Bloomberg 10-23-13

Salient to Investors: Continued stimulus on cooling global growth led by weakening in developing nations amid stagnant inflation and job growth in much of the industrial world risks inflating asset bubbles central bankers will have to face later. Talk of unsustainable home-price increases is spreading from Germany to New Zealand,

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