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Via email, Ben VanMetre at the Illinois Policy Institute mentions huge tax hikes that Progressives are angling for.
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The Financial Times reports Russia Plans Military Exercises After Mounting Ukraine Unrest .
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Greenlight Capital hedge fund manager Einhorn Shorting Tech as ‘Cool Kid’ Stocks Show Bubble . Greenlight Capital Inc., the $10.3 billion hedge-fund firm run by David Einhorn, said it was betting against a group of technology stocks as evidence grows of a bubble.“There is a clear consensus that we are witnessing our second tech bubble in 15 years,†the New York-based firm said in a quarterly letter to clients today. Greenlight said that companies it’s betting against may fall by at least 90 percent “if and when the market reapplies traditional valuations,†according to the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News.
China Manufacturing Output and New Orders Contract Once Again Chinese manufacturing remains in contraction for 2014. Output and new orders were down for the 4th consecutive month, but at a slightly reduced pace according to the HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI .
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