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[Most readers will want to skip this annoying exercise in boomer nostalgia.  If you are a Zhangke Jia fan then go see “Mountains May Depart” instead, my favorite film of the past year.]

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Submitted by Alasdair Macloed via GoldMoney.com,

There is a growing fear in financial and monetary circles that there is something deeply wrong with the global economy. Publicly, officials and practitioners alike have become confused by policy failures, and privately, occasionally even downright pessimistic, at a loss to see a statist solution. It is hardly exaggerating to say there is a growing feeling of impending doom.

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Stock splits have been making news in the tech sector recently, especially after Facebook‘s (NASDAQ: FB) most recent earnings call.

Stock splits are often not well understood by investors. Shareholders tend to like them in part because a split creates the impression of owning more. Of course, having a 2-for-1 split does not mean you’re getting twice as much. It means a shareholder will now have two shares that are equal to what one was previously worth.

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The always instructive Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India
Speaking with the FT
Rajan says that while he was a supporter of stimulus policies to “balance things out” over short periods 

In yet another paradoxical move that will leave many scratching their heads, just days after throwing in the towel on its bullish dollar call (now that it expects far less rate hikes over the next year), Goldman moments ago announced that it is also cutting back on its longer-term oil price forecasts (which paradoxically are linked to a stronger dollar) for the coming year, as a result of a rebalancing that is taking far longer to take place than previously anticipated.

This is how Goldman explains its bearish pivot on crude:

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After last Monday’s explosive claims published in Gizmodo, in which a former Facebook employer alleged that the “social network” has been “routinely” suppressing conservative news stories, the company and its CEO have been on the back foot defending themselves from, as expected, mostly a conservative media onslaught.

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As the summer air-travel season gets under way, airports, airlines and the Transportation Security Administration are scrambling to cut security-line waits that have grown so long that many passengers are missing their flights.
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