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Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Presented with little comment.. aside to note that every rip from a dip is greeted by the mainstream stock enthusiasts as a balls-deep buying opportunity in every oil & gas stock... only to be grossly disappointed a day or two later...

Stocks flip-flopped from USDJPY to crude as correlation-algo-in-chief...

But did stops just get run?

And credit is continuing to collapse as stocks bounce...

"Fool Me Thrice?"

Charts: Bloomberg

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

Combine this regulatory burden with the decline of entrepreneurship, and you get a bubbling brew that is toxic to self-employment/small business.

Why has the percentage of the population that's in the work force declined so dramatically? It's a question many have asked, and Gordon T. Long and I attempt to answer in our most recent video program The Participation Rate Mystery--Solved.

Since 2009, the global markets have been largely steered by Central Bank policy, NOT organic economic growth. With the debt-based monetary system dangerously close to shutting down during the 2008 meltdown, Central Banks stepped in as the “buyers of last resort” to provide a backstop to the system.

Investors Beware - Credit Market Collapse Warning

Money Week editor John Stepek has looked at the recent mutual fund collapse in the junk bond market and correctly warns that it is a canary in the coal mine:

If you were around during the financial crisis, you might remember that fund closures became one of the canaries in the coal mine.