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Barcelona and Real Madrid Exits from Champions League Pale to Exit from EU
The talk is about Greece leaving the Euro, but the bigger concern has always been in Spain. It is a country that is vastly bigger economically than Greece. It has a 22% unemployment rate. Things are so bad there that austerity, if the populace ever agrees to it, will never be big enough to make a dent. As Spain goes, so does Europe, and the world…
The news from JP Morgan gets worse by the day, and it is becoming eerily similar to what happened with Bear Stearns in 2007. The question is, will there be the same outcome? Before you laugh off the question, ponder the implications. There is still an untold nominal value of trades sitting out there that JPM is responsible for, in an illiquid CDS market, with hundreds of specialty hedge fund vultures circling around the wounded JPM. The $2 Billion loss is likely to increase to $4 Billion or even more, and then when you look at the impact on JPMs corporate bonds and their stock price, things can begin to spiral out of control. We call on Jaime Dimon to step down immediately so JPM will not become the next Bear Stearns and drag the rest of the market into oblivion.

Betterment Made Some Angry With Their Blog Post
Betterment, our fellow disruptors of all things evil that goes on in the financial services space, and fellow New Yorkers, seem to have hit a nerve in the investment advisor community and made a few people throw quite a fit. It all stems from a recent post in their blog- Financial Advisors are Bad for Your Wealth
Their post sparked backlash to financial advisor and investment advisors bloggers- see the post from I Heart Wall Street and The Reformed Broker, to see their response.
Once you read everybody’s opinion, we will let you decide who is right and who is wrong.

Tax Day!
Tax Day has come and gone and if you are in the mood for a breezy, yet interesting article, we point you to Smartmoney’s 10 Things I Hate About Tax Day:
1. Paperwork
2. Dishonesty
3. How they treat investment income
4. The mortgage interest deduction
5. Stupid retirement rules
6. Subsidizing half the country
7. Taxing overseas Americans
8. Taxophobia
9. It’s regressive
10. Alternative Minimum Tax