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Despite The Fed’s Jim Bullard proclaiming last week that inflation expectations had rebounded (by which we assumed he meant the Dow), 5-year forward 5-year inflation expectations just dropped in the US to the lowest since 2008. The rest of the world is no better. In spite of promised and delivered policies Japanese and European inflation expectations are also near multi-year (if not all-time) lows… which must mean only one thing – we need moar money printing.

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Since Ben Bernanke reminded the world of the existence of government printing-presses, echoed Milton Friedman’s “helicopter drop” solution to fighting deflation, and decried Japan for not being as insane as it could be… it has only been a matter of time before some global central bank decided that the dropping of cash onto the populace was the key to economic recovery. Having blown their wad on QQE (and been left with a triple-dip recession), it appears Japan has reached that limit.

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China’s home prices posted a second consecutive annual drop in October, raising concerns of a worsening downturn in the vast real estate sector.

CNBC’s Jim Cramer takes a look at what’s happening overseas to see if it is really a bad thing.

Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

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Fossil gets most of its revenue from watches, which is dangerous given the pending smart watch boom. Here’s why Fossil can survive in a world of wearable tech.