Breakfast Links

Posted by Jeff Carter
on July 27th, 2012

How do you save for emergencies?

Did you know MF’s Corzine was using Eric Holder’s law firm? You don’t say!

HFT is raising costs, not lowering them.

Uff Da! Geithner and the LIBOR manipulation.

“At the same time, however, he admitted that the Fed used Libor as the benchmark for several bailout programs because it was “the best rate available at the time.” If a rate that the head of the New York Fed knew was subject to manipulation was “the best rate,” then the financial system was in even worse shape than anyone thought.”

Smithfield ($SFD) Chairman on the drought and the ethanol mandate. “Ethanol now consumes more corn than animal agriculture does.” ($CORN, $ZC_F)

For clues on Fed direction, should we be looking at the output gap? ($SPY $ES_F)

Ignore nationwide polls in the election, individual states, and counties mean more. It’s a month before anyone is paying close attention anyway.

The fourth estate is dead.

Are the bull markets over for corn and the dollar?

Estate taxes really harm farmers and small businesspeople.

GDP out today, looking for weakness. I’d call the rumor, “managing expectations”.

Milton Friedman on the minimum wage.

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