The Hidden Truth Behind ETF Inflows

Submitted by Tim Price of Sovereign Man blog, These are certainly days of miracle and wonder. Well, of absurd and extraordinary financial experimentation, at any rate.  Last week, for example, saw the Bank of Japan abandon any last pretense of restraint and topple headfirst into a gigantic pile of monetary cocaine. 

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Five full years on from the financial crisis, stock markets have regained lost ground and are within striking distance of new record highs. Yet, it’s only NOW, after all the gains from the bottom have been made, that the investing crowd is starting to put money back into stocks.

By Morningstar: By Samuel Lee

Today, we are fortunate to have Luciana Juvenal and Ivan Petrella, as guest contributors. In this post, they respond to Wednesday's guest contribution by Lutz Kilian, entitled Oil Price Spike Exacerbated by Wall Street Speculation?. Disentangling the main drivers of oil prices is a critical first step for allocating resources and designing good policy.

Despite another whistleblower detailing the National Security Agency's alleged practice of collecting and analyzing virtually all U.S.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s electronics network was attacked by hackers in mid-January but no classified data was compromised, the agency said in a letter to employees. The attack “resulted in the unauthorized disclosure of employee and contractor Personally Identifiable Information,” the Energy Department said in the letter, which was received by employees at its headquarters in Washington late on Friday and obtained by Reuters on Monday.

Via James E. Miller of the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, Reprinted from the Middletown Press and Journal

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