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Europe's Second Largest Bank Warns on UK Debt Crisis

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Any stories like the one below are almost laughable in the current belief system of "everything is too big to fail, and anything on Earth can be bailed out so just buy stocks".  But just keeping it in front of you - one day this sort of fundamental issue will matter again.  I will keep pushing out the United Kingdon ahead of Japan as the potential "big one" that hits first, since Japan's debt is mostly financed by their own population (who has a high savings rate).  So in theory their situation could go on a very long time since they require very little from foreigners to k

 
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Thrift, an Old-Time Virtue Making a Comeback

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For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here's why

The following is a guest post from Marotta Wealth Management.

 
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Australia Hikes Rates; How about the Carry Trade?

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Following up on my last post, I want to use this post to write about the long side of the carry trade- specifically the Australian Dollar.

 
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Good Stuff from Seth Klarman and Fred Hickey

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Alan Abelson's column in Barron's has this on Baupost's Seth Klarman:

 
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The Positive Relationship Between Short Term Rates and the Dollar Index

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I wanted to highlight a few quick recent charts of how the US Dollar Index positively correlates (moves in the same direction) with the 3-month Treasury Bill Discount Rate.

It’s not the most fascinating topic, but it’s definitely important to know of this relationship, so let’s take a look at a couple of recent charts.

First, a ‘zoomed in’ view of the recent action:

You can view this comparison in StockCharts with symbols:

$IRX for the 3-month T-Bill Discount Rate (short-term)

 
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The Four Stages of the Prospective Dollar Bull Market

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Since last November, the dollar has climbed steadily against a basket of currencies — most notably against the euro. And based on my analysis, I think it’s just the early stages of this trend.

In fact, for many of the reasons I’ve discussed in past Money and Markets columns, the weight of evidence suggests that we’ve likely seen the bottom in the dollar, with a multi-year bull market ahead.

That’s a high level view.

 
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The Simple Dollar Time Machine: March 13, 2010

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Many newer readers of The Simple Dollar haven’t been exposed to the hundreds of great articles in the archives of the site, so this is a weekly series that highlights the five best posts from one year ago this week, two years ago this week, and three years ago this week. I call it … the Time Machine.

 
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Financial Ramblings

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Tough and busy week on my end but it is finally the weekend and today I had an opportunity to get a lot of reading done around the Blogosphere finding a few good articles. The stock picks continue to do well and I will probably be doing a new pick on Monday so stay tuned!

 
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Janet Yellen A Cog In The Easy Money Wheel

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Daily Futures Commentary March 12, 2010

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Friday, March 12, 2010
Stocks Poised to Continue Rally; Demand for Risk Weakens Dollar
Retail Sales just came out bullish. Equity markets are soaring. Bonds are breaking. The Dollar is plunging. The market reads this report as good. The key will be to be able to

separate the report from the trade. The question is will U.S. investors chase equity market higher or wait for a pullback? Overall, however, it looks like a strong report.
U.S. equity markets are trading better overnight ahead of this morning’s Retail Sales Report.

 
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