Authored by Mark Cuban, originally posted at BlogMaverick.com,

I learned it from watching Dennis Rodman and Paris Hilton.  Tell the media what they need and want to hear. Give them a place and time to talk to you about it. Watch the headlines roll in.

Dennis would tell them where he would be partying, with who and something wild he would do. Paris would tell them what she would be wearing and what celebs she would be partying with. Both knew exactly how to leverage the media of the time to their advantage.

By the SRSrocco Report,

While precious metals investors are concerned about the short-term price movements in silver, the real focus should be on this interesting silver market trend.  When the silver market data finally came out in the new 2016 World Silver Survey (released May 5th), it really surprised me.  And, it takes a lot to surprise me.

Every year it's the same: some legacy mainstream media mouthpiece muses on how great Obama's recovery would be... if only it wasn't for stingy US consumers refusing to spend like the drunken sailors of days gone by. Last June, it was the WSJ's Jon Hilsenrath who actually wrote a letter to American consumers, confused by their unwillingness to spend and explicitly accused them of being "stingy" even as the "Federal Reserve was counting" on them to spend, spend, spend. For those who have forgotten this absolute pearl, here it is again:

Dear American Consumer,

 

Submitted by Judith Bergmann via The Gatestone Institute,

We had a feeling there would be a squeeze into today's 3Y auction after this morning reports of that the OTD was trading tight, and quite "special" at -0.5% in repo, traditionally indicative of a notable lack of deliverable and underlying on the day of the auction.

The repo market is also why just before the auction we wondered if there would be another tradtional repo-driven squeeze into today's auction:

3Y was -0.50% in repo today. Squeeze?

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 10, 2016