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Submitted by Michael Klare via TomDispatch.com,

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Just over two years ago, at the Milken global conference, the head of Apollo Group Leon Black said that “this is an almost biblical opportunity to reap gains and sell” adding that his firm has been a net seller for the last 15 months, ending with the emphatic punchline that Apollo is “selling everything that is not nailed down.”

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Growth mutual funds fared poorly relative to value funds during the 2000-02 bear market. But they have outperformed in the past 10 years, which includes the 2007-09 bear market. Your investment of $10,000 in growth, core and value funds would have behaved quite differently in the past 10 and 15 years. The latter period included both of those outsized bear markets. The past 10 years caught only the later market slump.

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Mad Money host Him Cramer shares a list of what’s going right in the market.

We’ll keep you updated on Greece, as the prime minister lashes out at EU leaders and Greeks queue at ATMs fast running out of cash.

Submitted by Paul Rosenberg via FreemansPerspective.com,

This is the question that astute investors are forced to ask themselves these days. No reasonable person believes that a system of ever-expanding debt can resolve painlessly. It simply cannot happen… not, at least, until 2+2 stops equaling four.

But the international money system, while deeply interconnected, can implode in sections. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that it will crash as a single unit.

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Mergers and acquisitions activity is on pace to hit its highest level in terms of deal value in eight years. If you’re looking for industries where consolidation could be on the horizon, look no further than these four.