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Gun to my head – I had to pick a single non-US stock market to be invested in for the next ten years and I cannot touch the money in between, which one would I pick? I don’t even need to think twice about it, the answer is Brazil. I would be shocked if, by…

Breaking news after the close – Detroit, Michigan has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. This has been a long time coming, obviously, and no amount of business-friendly initiatives or financial engineering was going to change that. But still – this is the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. An estimated 713,000 people reside in the city…

Today on Fast we debated Caterpillar and talked about all the new billionaire stock picks from yesterday’s amazing conference. Highlights below!

You can hardly expect a bond shop to entirely avoid a fixed income earthquake like the one we’ve just seen erupting across the curve and around the world – but given their own dire warnings about, well, everything, would it be too much to ask for them to have stepped away just a smidge? Guess…

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Warren Buffett, Byron Wein up in the limousine!  Ok, sorry, I will stop that now. Sorry. Anyway, it was pointed out to me that sometime last night I broke through 50,000 followers on Twitter. When I started working on Wall Street, I never dreamed that I would one day be a financial markets commentator with…

My coverage of CNBC and Institutional Investor Magazine’s third annual Delivering Alpha Conference will come in four parts today. Below, my notes from the two evening panels, enjoy! – JB *** Panel – Asset Bubbles, moderated by Kelly Evans • Michael Novogratz, Principal and Director, Fortress Investment Group • Michael Sacks, Chief Executive Officer, Grosvenor Capital Management • Steve Kuhn,…