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Nov 3rd, 2011 |
By Steve Horwitz |
Category: Economics, Featured
One nice thing about the Internet age is that libertarians and other supporters of the free market have a platform to offer our own narratives on financial crisis and recession. This democratization of publishing means we can offer counter-narratives to the those of the elites, and do so contemporaneously and ...
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Tags: banks, central bank, free market capitalism, Housing bubble
Posted in Economics, Featured |
3 comments
Oct 13th, 2010 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Housing, Macro Economics
The issue with the recent robo-signing scandal is that clear title could disappear in the American mortgage market. Part of the outrage is that U.S. banks have been foreclosing on mortgages which they don’t even own. Part of the reality is that the convoluted process of securitisation means banks may ...
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Tags: American real estate, banks, debt, foreclosure
Posted in Featured, Housing, Macro Economics |
22 comments
Mar 15th, 2010 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
“Masked youths...attacked the head of Greece’s largest trade union, who was addressing the crowd, and hurled stones at the police. GSEE union boss Yiannis Panagopoulos traded blows with the rioters before being whisked away, bloodied and with torn clothes.”
The Daily Mail account put the blame for these disturbances on Germany’s ...
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Tags: banks, collapse, debt, Greece, protest
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
7 comments
Feb 10th, 2010 |
By David Galland |
Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we’re very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in ...
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Tags: banks, government mortgage subsidy, loan default, real estate
Posted in Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies |
3 comments
Aug 21st, 2009 |
By Samantha Buker |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
“It does gall you. Just because we're a little bitty county doesn't mean we don't need a bank. It wasn't our fault."
-- Hazel Bedingfield, 79, who now travels 24 miles for her Social Security payment at her new bank
You deposit your paycheck on Friday and can’t get money out on ...
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Tags: bank failure, banks, loans, real estate
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
13 comments
Aug 13th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
Investors often assume dangerous, unnecessary risks by owning stocks on the basis of sloppy economic and financial analysis. For each stock you own, you should frequently reassess the reasons for owning it. Also, you need to remain on the lookout for signals that the future operating environment for a particular ...
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Tags: banks, loans, risk
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies |
11 comments
Jul 10th, 2009 |
By Tex Norton |
Category: Featured, Personal Investing
What am I missing? Why do the majority of folks blindly accept the shenanigans of the federal government? Why is it advisable to bail out the failures and penalize the productive? Isn’t there a moral hazard lurking somewhere in this mix?
In a recent editorial, Peter Schiff reminded me of what ...
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Tags: banks, FDIC, insurance
Posted in Featured, Personal Investing |
9 comments
Jun 16th, 2009 |
By David Eichler |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
The debate rages on over how to do proper accounting for financial institutions. After each major debacle, there is a stampede to some other method. Maybe the chronic problem is the ongoing assumption of modern accounting that every security has an instantaneous value based on its expected revenue and its ...
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Tags: accounting, banks, mortgage
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
2 comments
May 26th, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Oil
Something like a week remains before General Motors is reduced to lunchmeat on industrial-capital's All-You-Can-Eat buffet spread. The wish is that its deconstructed pieces will re-organize into a "lean, mean machine" for producing "cars that Americans want to buy," and that, by extension, the American Dream of a Happy Motoring ...
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Tags: banks, Oil, stagnant incomes
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics, Oil |
5 comments
May 19th, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The Great Wish across America is to resume the life of comfort-and-convenience that seemed so nirvana-like just a few short years ago, when the very constellations of the heavens might have been renamed after heroic Atlanta realtors and Connecticut hedge fund warriors, and the boomer portfolios groaned with earnings, and ...
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Tags: banks, economy, money
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
7 comments
