ATTEN: U.S. Currency Control Comes Into Effect Jan. 1, 2013!

The law requires that any financial institution (US or foreign) remitting any foreign payment to a bank in such a country withhold 30 percent of the amount of such payment and remit that percentage to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a tax.

A withholdable payment is defined as any payment of interest, dividends, rents, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, enumerations, emoluments, and other fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, [...]

You won’t feel a prick any longer: Scientists invent needleless injections with Star Trek-style immunisation device

High-speed pressure jet administers medicine through the skin

Device is similar to the system used by Dr Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy in Star Trek

Medicine could be delivered via a high-speed pressure jet through the skin in a new needleless method developed by scientists which could spell the end of painful injections.

The Star Trek-style device, unveiled by scientists yesterday, can be programmed to deliver a range of doses to varying skin depths.

The breakthrough [...]

Austerity, Spending, And The Black Market In The Room: Spending new money is easy, taking money away from someone is hard, yet that is what needs to be done.

Via Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors,

 

A dull morning with the Euro markets shut down.  Stock futures have meandered throughout the overnight session, trading up and down, but in a narrow range.  We get the ISM data and vehicles sales today.  It would be surprising if ISM didn’t disappoint, which means the market has already priced in a print lower than the expectations of 53 calculated by Bloomberg.  Vehicle sales will [...]

Mass transit won’t return Monday a.m

It’s going to be a mad, mad Monday-morning commute.

Mass transit probably won’t be fully up and running until “well into” tomorrow, and straphangers should plan on walking, biking or carpooling to work, officials said yesterday.

Subways, buses, Metro-North and the LIRR won’t be restarted until transit workers deal with potentially flooded train tunnels and vulnerable power lines, Mayor Bloomberg said.

NJ Transit, too, is in limbo [...]

Elton John Cautions Against ‘Nastiness’ of Media, Tells Prince William and Kate Middleton to Prepare for ‘Bumpy’ Ride

British music superstar Elton John says his friend the late Princess Diana would be “very happy” with her son William’s choice of bride, but he had harsh words for the British media that have intensified their coverage of William and Kate Middleton since their engagement was announced.

An aggressive pursuit by paparazzi in Paris is believed to have led to Diana’s death in a car crash in 1997. Henri [...]

$5 trillion in total QE means Goldman’s estimate for $1,650 gold may need to soon add an extra zero to it.

by Zh

Here is David Rosenberg’s take on today’s NFP, recent market action, impact of D.C. gridlock (bad for fiscal policy, no impact, we believe on monetary – all hail emperor Ben)

On NFP:

NICE TREAT IN U.S. PAYROLLS, BUT THERE WAS A TRICK IN THE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY

Well, that was quite the shocker. Nonfarm payrolls managed to dramatically exceed expectations and rung up a total of 151,000 jobs in [...]