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MZM, M3 Show Flight to Safety
With increasing frequency, charts of MZM and M3 are being touted as evidence of an expansion of money supply that is running out of control. Some even claim the charts show hyperinflation.
Please consider the following charts.
Note: Click on any chart in this article to see a sharper, larger image.
MZM Annualized Growth
M3 Annualized Growth as of 2008-04-17
Chart thanks to Bart at NowAndFutures.
Claims that those charts show hyperinflation, or even a rampant increase in money supply is typical of the half-baked analysis spawning all over the web. For starters MZM and M3 contain credit transaction...
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Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day 4/17 (ERTS/TTWO, ACS/ORB, IDGR)
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StreetInsider.com Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day:<>Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) received a second request for information from the FTC regarding its proposed acquisition of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
Take-Two has resisted EA's overtures.
<>Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) announce an agreement to acquire Orbital Sciences Corporation's (NYSE: ORB) Transportation Management Systems (TMS) business for $42.5 million.TMS is the nation's leading provider of Global Positioning System (GPS)-based fleet management systems, with trailing twelve...
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SMSI +24.3%, CHIP +17.5%, EPCT +13.9%, THRX +11.1%, DXPE +10.3%, TSRA +8.5%, MATK +7.5%, CMTL +6.8%, ACUR +5.7%, MELI +4.4%, HRS +4.1%, PBT +3.9%, TIVO +3.8%, ASIA +3.4%, GFI +3.0%, HMY +3.0%, SHPGY +2.4%, BHP +2.4%, ORCL +2.2%, ADCT +1.8%, RTP +1.8%, WMT +1.6%, INAP +1.5%, GOLD +1.2%, BHI +1.1%...
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TMA -60.9%, ABK -26.0%, UDRL -19.0%, CWTR -17.7%, MR -10.1%, ANH -9.6%, CMO -9.2%, MFA -7.9%, USMO -7.2%, ZUMZ -6.9%, NLY -6.6%, PETM -6.4%, FCEL -4.0%, STEC -4.0%, WM -2.3%, EXC -1.8%, LCAPA -1.8%, TMS -1.4%, TOT -1.1%, RWT -1.0%.
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