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DARK SECRETS: Mark spitznagel - The Real Truth

'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb says your city's new bike lane is the reason the economy sucks

"Many are discovering that lifestyle improvements, such as bicycling paths and pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly cities, may not produce economic growth."

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From 1929 To Dot-Com, Why This Euphoria Could End In Ashes

Equity markets are once again in a euphoric run, with comparisons being drawn to two historic episodes of excess: the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and the Roaring Twenties preceding the Great Depression.

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Top Wall Street exec warns of 1929-style crash - but only after massive gains in the short term

‘The biggest risk to investors isn’t the market – it’s themselves,’ a Wall Street manager said.

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‘Black Swan’ investor still sees a ‘euphoric high’ ahead and doesn’t think the largest bubble ever is bursting yet—but then there could be an 80% crash

“I think, when this is over, we’re going to see something far worse than ’08, ’09. I think the market’s going to crash, like, 80%.”

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Mark Spitznagel warns we're in 'black swan' territory now, and diversified portfolios are a 'big lie'

The hedge fund veteran said the market will continue to see “pure euphoria” in the short term but will exit the Goldilocks zone toward the end of the year.

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Bank of America CEO says we need to take action on the national debt now, while ‘we’re in relatively good times’

The national debt situation is so bleak it costs the federal government $3 billion per day just to pay the interest.

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August’s stock market fiasco is a 'stark red flag' for what’s to come, veteran hedge funder warns

“These whips are the market process. This is the market zigging in order to zag.” Universa Investments' Mark Spitznagel told Fortune.

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'Black Swan' hedge funder warns a recession is coming this year—and the biggest market bubble in history will soon pop

“It’s not different this time,” Mark Spitznagel, cofounder and CIO of the private hedge fund Universa Investments, told Fortune.

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3 Mid-Cap Stocks With Strong Upside Potential

With the market hitting near-record highs and some experts warning about potential downturns, now might be the time to consider adding mid-caps to your investment mix. Thus, one could invest in fundamentally sound stocks like Acuity Brands (AYI), PVH Corp. (PVH), and NewMarket Corp. (NEU), which have strong upside potential.…

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'Black Swan' investor warns the 'greatest bubble in human history' is about to pop and stocks could lose more than half their value

The federal government will have less capacity to respond, and the economy could enter a recession by the end of this year, Mark Spitznagel predicted.

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Zombies: Ranks of world's most debt-hobbled companies are soaring - and not all will survive

They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good

The Independent UK

One of investing's most reliable, highly-recommended strategies is up over 11% this year—so why do leading financial advisors still say they rarely use it?

The classic 60-40 portfolio was never meant to be the end-all, be-all portfolio—it’s just “a good starting place," according to Vanguard's Todd Schlanger.

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Why Janet Yellen isn't worried about the $33 trillion national debt

Yellen looks at one key statistic to determine if the U.S.'s national debt is sustainable, and she says it's "at a very reasonable level.”

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The hedge fund titan who’s been watching for ‘black swans’ for decades says the ‘greatest credit bubble in human history’ is set to pop—but he’s not worried

Mark Spitznagel and Nassim Taleb have been watching for black swans for decades. "We’ve never seen anything like this level of total debt and leverage in the system," he tells Fortune. "It's an experiment."

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