Peter Schiff: U.S. Economy, David Stockman, Unemployment, Gold

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Peter Schiff

Jobs Report, David Stockman, U.S. Economy, Gold

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Earnings Reviews: Updated List

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Earnings Reviews To-Date

A list of the most recent earnings reviews for the following companies:

SalesForce (CRM) February 28, 2013
The Salesforce Anomaly: Record Earnings And Ongoing Losses
Why The Salesforce GAAP Vs. Non-GAAP Divergence?

HP (HPQ) February 21, 2013
HP Earnings Begin Long Journey Back

American International Group (AIG) February 21, 2013
AIG Weathers Storm Sandy, Posts Profit

MetLife (MET) February 13, 2013
MetLife Earnings: Where Do We Go From Here?

Cisco (CSCO) February 13, 2013
Cisco Earnings Beat: This Is How We Roll

Rackspace (RAX) February 12, 2013
Rackspace Earnings Disappoint On Record Results

Visa (V) February 6, 2013
Visa Earnings Push Higher

Baidu (BIDU) February 4, 2013
Baidu Earnings Disappoint: Revenues Up, Margins Down

Qualcomm (QCOM) January 30, 2013
Qualcomm Earnings: Life Is Good

Amazon (AMZN) January 29, 2013
Amazon Earnings: Cooler Heads Will Prevail

VMware (VMW) January 28, 2013
VMware Earnings: Down But Not Out

Microsoft (MSFT) January 24, 2013
Microsoft Earnings Review: Windows Saves the Quarter!

Apple (AAPL) January 23, 2013
Apple Earnings Review: EPS Misses on Record Revenues!

Google (GOOG) January 22, 2013
Google Earnings Review: Hopeful Signs in a Multi-Screen World

IBM (IBM) January 22, 2013
IBM Earnings Review and Charts

Intel (INTC) January 18, 2013
Intel Earnings Review: Decline Continues

Morgan Stanley (MS) January 18, 2013
Morgan Stanley Earnings Review: Up and Down They Go

Capital One Financial (COF) January 17, 2013
Capital One Earnings Review: Performance Slows

PNC Financial Services (PNC) January 17, 2013
PNC Earnings Review: Poised to Perform

Citigroup (C) January 17, 2013
Citigroup Earnings Review: Downtrend Reversed!

Bank of America (BAC) January 17, 2013
Bank of America Earnings Review: Limping Along

BNY Mellon (BK) January 16, 2013
BNY Mellon Earnings Review: Another Average Quarter

US Bancorp (USB) January 16, 2013
US Bancorp Earnings Review: Peaking Performance?

Goldman Sachs (GS) January 16, 2013
Goldman Sachs Earnings Review: Multi-Year High for Banksters!

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) January 16, 2013
JPMorgan Earnings Review: Strong Profits Continue

Wells Fargo (WFC) January 12, 2013
Wells Fargo Earnings Review: Raises the Bar Higher!

Oracle (ORCL) September 20, 2012
Oracle Earnings Review: EPS Strengthens, Revenues Weaken, Outlook Stable

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Architectural Billings Up, Bullish for Stock Market?

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Architectural Billings Rise

An Obscure Real Estate Indicator Is Looking Like a 'Huge Tailwind' for the Stock Market 

(Business Insider) The Architecture Billings Index jumped to 54.2 from last month's 51.2 reading, the fastest rate of growth in more than five years.

The index is a leading indicator for commercial real estate.

Dave Lutz, head of ETF trading and strategy at Stifel Nicolaus, sent along the chart below (the billings index in red versus the S&P 500 in blue), describing the surge in billings as a "huge tailwind" for the market.

The chart below suggests that billings can at times correlate with the market – but of course, that is not always the case.

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William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance & Investing

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William Ackman

William Ackman: Activist Investor and Hedge-Fund Manager

We all want to be financially stable and enjoy a well-funded retirement, and we don't want to throw out our hard earned money on poor investments. But most of us don't know the first thing about finance and investing. Acclaimed value investor William Ackman teaches you what it takes to finance and grow a successful business and how to make sound investments that will grant you to a cash-comfy retirement.
The Floating University
Originally released September 2011

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Legacy of Benjamin Graham: Master of Value Investing

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Benjamin Graham

Legacy of Benjamin Graham

Legacy of Benjamin Graham: The Original Adjunct Professor. This film, brought to you by the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing, Columbia Business School, premiered on February 1, 2013 at the 16th Annual Columbia Student Investment Management Association conference.

Produced by: Louisa Serene Schneider

Shot & Edited by: Christina Choe

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Peter Schiff: Black Friday, Fiscal Cliff, Gold, Dollar

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Peter Schiff

Black Friday, Fiscal Cliff, Gold, Dollar

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Warren Buffett's Final Word on Stocks Is 'Hold'

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Warren Buffett

Buffett's Final Word: Hold

Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO, explains why investors should not "buy" or "sell" on current news, adding, "it's just crazy."

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Marc Faber: Europe, UK, USA in a Colossal Mess

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Marc Faber

West in a ‘Colossal Mess’ in Five to 10 Years: Marc Faber

The debt burden in the U.S. and other Western countries will continue to increase, Marc Faber, author of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report told CNBC on Monday, leading to a “colossal mess” within the next five to 10 years.

“I think the regimes will try to keep the system alive as it is for as long as possible, which means there’s no “fiscal cliff,” there’s a fiscal grand canyon,” Faber told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”

Faber argued that the political systems in place in the West would allow the debt burden to continue to expand. Under such a scenario of never-ending deficits, the Western world would rack up huge deficits. One day, the system would break, he said.

“Eventually, you have either huge changes occurring in a peaceful fashion through reforms, or, usually, through revolutions,” he said. The U.S. is getting closer to such a revolution, he said, as is Europe.

“I think the timeframe would be within five to ten years you have a colossal mess … everywhere in the Western world,” Faber said. “I think the deficit here (in the U.S.) — irrespective of who is in the White House — will stay above a trillion dollars per annum for at least as far as the eye can see.”

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Marc Faber: Global Crash Coming!

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Marc Faber

Marc Faber's Biggest Warning Yet: Global Crash Coming! Dr. Doom, Marc Faber, warns of a global crash. He discusses China, as well as gold's next move, with CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now Traders, Rich Ilczyszyn, iiTrader LLC, and Anthony Grisanti, GRZ Energy.

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Peter Schiff: USA Is Already In A Recession!

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Peter Schiff

Peter Schiff: We are Already in a Recession

Peter Schiff, Euro Pacific Capital, on why he believes the economy is already contracting, and what, if any, impact the 2012 elections will have on the economy.

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Peter Schiff: Fed Launches Operation Screw, Goes All-In on Quantitative Easing

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Peter Schiff

Operation Screw: The Fed Goes All-In on QE

The geniuses at the Federal Reserve have concocted a bold new plan to revive the U.S. economy -- print a bunch of money, loan it to Americans at super low interest rates so they can speculate on rising real estate prices, extract the appreciated equity and spend it on consumer goods. In other words, build an economy of real estate, by real estate, and for real estate. The only problem is we've been there and done that. The last time it almost destroyed the U.S.economy.

I guess almost isn't quite good enough for the Fed, so now it's determined to finish the job. These actions will destroy Americans' savings and hurt people on fixed incomes. To protect yourself, I recommend a strategy of foreign equities, commodities, and gold and silver.

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Marc Faber: 100 Percent Odds Of A Global Recession

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Marc Faber: 100% Chance of Global Recession In this "Closing Bell" excerpt, 'Gloom, Boom, & Doom Report' publisher Marc Faber explains why he thinks there's a 100 percent chance a global recession is coming.

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Peter Schiff: America Heading Towards a Collapse Worse Than 2008!

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Peter Schiff

America Heading Towards a Collapse Worse Than 2008 AND Europe! Says Peter Schiff

According to CEO and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff, the U.S. economy is heading for an economic crash that will make 2008 look like a walk in the park. Stimulus programs can delay this day of reckoning, but only for so long and only at the expense of making the eventual meltdown much, much worse.

Schiff, who famously warned investors about the housing and financial crisis in his 2007 book Crash Proof, says the Fed's palliative efforts during the housing meltdown have made the next crisis inevitable.

"We've got a much bigger collapse coming, and not just of the markets but of the economy," Schiff says in the attached clip. "It's like what you're seeing in Europe right now, only worse."

In this nightmare scenario detailed in The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy, the current economic pause is actually the beginning of a material slowdown or recession into year end. At that point, the Federal Reserve will unleash a third round of Quantitative Easing — weakening the dollar without jump-starting the economy. As a result of dollar weakness, import prices rise, pressing the margins of corporate America. Lower margins lead to heavy layoffs, sending millions of workers into unemployment during a time when they can least afford it. Banks fail, housing collapses, and taxes are raised in a futile effort to give the tapped-out government the capital to try yet more futile stimulus.

"That's when it really is going to get interesting, because that's when we hit our real fiscal cliff, when we're going to have to slash — and I mean slash — government spending," says Schiff.

Those cuts will not be at all unlike the draconian austerity measures in Greece, with programs like Social Security and Medicare being dramatically cut or possibly disappearing entirely. The easiest way to put it, is that everything you don't think could possibly happen in America will come to be.

"Alternatively, we can bail everybody out, pretend we can print our way out of a crisis, and, instead, we have runaway inflation, or hyper-inflation, which is going to be far worse than the collapse we would have if we did the right thing and just let everything implode," he offers.

So what should investors do to protect themselves? Schiff has three suggestions: 1 - Get Out of Treasuries 2 - Own the Right Stocks 3 - Buy Silver and Gold

Breakout with Jeff Macke

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Peter Schiff: USA Jobs, The Real Fiscal Cliff, Obamanomics

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USA Jobs, The Real Fiscal Cliff, Obamanomics The Schiff Report - 7/9/2012

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Doug Kass Bearish on Stocks

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Doug Kass: Why I'm Bearish on Stocks Investor Doug Kass describes what he calls a "potentially toxic cocktail" of negative factors that are making him more bearish on stocks.

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Jim Rogers, War, Financial Mafia, LIBOR, Central Banks, JPMorgan!

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Jim Rogers, War and the Financial Mafia - LIBOR, Central Banks and JP Morgan!

Welcome to Capital Account. US manufacturing activity contracts for the first time in 3 years...the weak ISM data came as a shock to economists reportedly. Then orders placed with U.S. factories rose in May for the first time in three months, according to other data. We'll talk about where figures show global confidence, crises, and slowdowns are headed with famed investor Jim Rogers.

Also...Blackrock's Vice Chairman Byron Wien says he spoke to the smartest man in Europe, and what he had to say terrified him. He said, "basically, that massive amounts of debt will bring the decline of Western Civilization, but that in the meantime, before that happens, policy makers would pull every trick they could in order to stave off a catastrophic event."

Why do you have to be the un-named smartest man as christened by a Blackstone bigwig for that to hold weight? Just watch a lot of smart men and women who break this down openly any given day on Capital Account. Today, commodities guru Jim Rogers will do the honors.

And it's one, two, three strikes you're out - Barclays top three executives resign in the wake of the LIBOR manipulation scandal. Chairman. CEO. COO. Why haven't we seen this kind of fallout at big banks in the US from any settlements and scandals? We'll muse over it as what do you know - JP Morgan finds itself under investigation for manipulation of electricity markets.

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Art Cashin: Dangerous Week Ahead for Markets

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Art Cashin: It's Going to Be a Dangerous Week Arthur Cashin, UBS Financial Services, discusses what he's hearing "on trains and at watering holes" about the outlook on this week's market.

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Jim Rogers: 2013 & 2014 Will Be Worse

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Where Jim Rogers Is Putting His Money If you think 2012 is scary, listen to what Jim Rogers has to say about next year, gold and China. "We had a lost decade in America we are going to have another lost decade. Next year it is going to be bad for the American economy. Be very careful. I am short stocks. I own (am long) currencies and commodities".

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