George Soros, James G. Rickards, & EL-ERIAN: Central Banks Are Creating Financial Instability, Capital Markets Are On A “Critical State” And And Are “Potentially Prone To Collapse”. There Is A Lot At Stake, For Both Current And Future Generations

George Soros Warns “Central Banks Are Creating Financial Instability”

While the crisis in Europe is first in Goerge Soros’ mind because it is the “hottest” risk flare currently, his biggest concern in what he calls the “disarray in global cooperation,” or what we would call ‘dueling central banks’. “The almost universal adaptation of quantitative easing,” worries him and he notes that “Europe is the last bastion of orthodoxy,” in this regard [...]

Blackstone’s Schwarzman: election scrutiny of PE may pay off

Steve Schwarzman, Chairman and CEO of Blackstone, sat down with Bloomberg News’ Jason Kelly and said that election scrutiny of private equity may pay off: “There’s a point of view that these business have performed very well for institutions…Ironically, it gave the public and other people a chance to think through these arguments.”

Schwarzman also said, “We have not seen any of the blow back that you might expect.”

 

 

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The Fed vs The ECB – Presenting “The Correlation Of 2012″ And What It Means For Gold

by ZH

If there is one cross asset correlation that defined 2011 (and the greater part of 2010), it was that of the Euro-Dollar (EURUSD) currency pair and the S&P 500, which have correlated with near unison nearly all of the time. And yet, the stability of this correlation may be getting unglued, because as Goldman insinuated in its market roundup note from yesterday, it is “reasonable to think that the [...]