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Bud Conrad

Bud Conrad holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. He has held positions with IBM, CDC, Amdahl, and Tandem. Currently, he serves as a local board member of the National Association of Business Economics and teaches graduate courses in investing at Golden Gate University. Bud Conrad is also a regular lecturer for American Association of Individual Investors. In addition he produces original analysis for Casey Research.

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Assessing How Serious the Financial Crisis Can Get

Apr 23rd, 2009 | By Bud Conrad | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
It’s time to call the global crisis what it is: the worst financial collapse since 1929. That’s no surprise to our readers, who have been amply warned over the last five years. But now even government officials, after trying to ignore the facts on the ground for the last couple ...read more

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Battle of the Flations

Dec 25th, 2008 | By Bud Conrad | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
One of the most hotly debated topics among financial talking heads these days is, “Deflation or inflation, what is it going to be?” There is no question that we are currently experiencing asset price deflation and economic slowing. But we, the editors of The Casey Report, see this as a transitional ...read more

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Backfield in Motion at the Fed

Nov 12th, 2008 | By Bud Conrad | Category: Economics, Macro Economics, Politics
Under Bernanke’s direction, the Federal Reserve has completely rewritten its mission. Many articles in the International Speculator and The Casey Report have reported the strange growth in the loans they have made and explained that Bernanke has, for a long time, espoused unconventional actions to avert deflation and to expand ...read more

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