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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In One Powerful Paragraph, Richard Koo Explains How The Fed Is Causing Bubbles – Business Insider 11-27-13

Salient to Investors: Richard Koo at Nomura said: Mini-bubbles can occur during a balance sheet recession, like this one. Not yet seeing a big bubble, but concerned about mini bubbles. In a monetary policy-driven market, money created by an accommodative central bank typically spreads throughout the economy and lifts markets. During

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Goldman Sees S&P 500 Falling 10% Next Year Before Rally to 1,900 – Bloomberg 11-26-13

Salient to Investors: David Kostin at Goldman Sachs said: The S&P 500 will fall 10 percent in the next 12 months before rebounding to end 2014 at 1,900, end 2015 at 2,100 and end 2016 at 2,200. The overall market should rise because the US economy will be getting better.

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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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Ken Fisher Warns: RIA World Gone in 10 Years – ThinkAdvisor 11-21-13

Salient to Investors: Ken Fisher at Fisher Investments said: Ending QE would be the most bullish thing we can do because it is not a stimulus – it flattens the yield curve and slows things down. We are doing well despite QE, not because of it. Historically, a steeper yield

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Ex-Soros Adviser’s Dalton China Fund Returns 25% This Year – Bloomberg 11-24-13

Salient to Investors: Tony Hsu at the Dalton Greater China Fund focuses on entrepreneur-led companies and against state-controlled enterprises. Hsu likes Hong Kong-listed property developers with prime assets in the largest Chinese cities yet trading at large discounts to their NAV, because first-tier cities will be major beneficiaries of the

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