Brian Pretti: The World’s Capital Is Now Dangerously Boxed In – YouTube

Published on Jan 4, 2014

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This week Chris speaks with Brian Pretti, managing editor of ContraryInvestor.com, a financial commentary site published by institutional buy-side portfolio managers. In their discussion, they focus on the global movement of capital since quantitative easing (QE) became the policy of the world\’s major central banks.

The ensuing excellent discussion is wide ranging, but the key takeaway is that capital is being herded into fewer and fewer asset classes. With such huge volumes of money at play, very crowded trades in assets like stocks and housing have resulted — bringing us back to familiar bubble territory in record time.

The key for the individual, Pretti emphasizes, is risk management. The safety many investors believe they are buying in today\’s markets is not real.

via Brian Pretti: The World’s Capital Is Now Dangerously Boxed In – YouTube.

2013 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year | Zero Hedge

The fifth anniversary of Zero Hedge is just around the corner, and so, for the fifth year in a row we continue our tradition of summarizing what you, our readers, found to be the most relevant, exciting, and actionable news of the year, determined objectively by the number of page views. Those eager for a brief stroll down memory lane of prior years can do so at their leisure, by going back in time to our top articles of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. For everyone else, without further ado, these are the articles that readers found to be the most popular posts of the past 365 days.

Read more: 2013 Greatest Hits: Presenting The Most Popular Posts Of The Past Year | Zero Hedge.

The Metadata Program in Eleven Documents

The Metadata Program in Eleven Documents
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Just Two Words From Apple On The NSA’s iPhone Hacking Show How The Tech Community Now Hates The NSA (AAPL)

Just Two Words From Apple On The NSA’s iPhone Hacking Show How The Tech Community Now Hates The NSA (AAPL)
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If Walmart or McDonald’s began describing the Obama Administration as an unconstitutional threat to the privacy of its customers, it would be front pa… Read more

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