Posts Tagged ‘ bubble ’

The Bailout Was a Wealth Transfer Scheme

Dec 7th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 created the $700 billion bailout (plus $100 billion in add-ons) Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), a wealth transfer scheme so brazen as to leave one breathless. Another Fed bubble had popped; losses in the real estate mortgage meltdown were real; they had already ...read more

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Human Population Bubble and Regression to the Mean

Nov 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Oh, where to begin, dear reader? We have something important on our mind... Where is the real bubble? Is it a bubble in commodities? Or a bubble in the people who buy them? By the charts ye shall know them — bubbles, that is. The lines roll along nicely, calmly, along ...read more

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The Worldwide Crack-Up Boom

Aug 7th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
A kiss is still a kiss…and a bubble is still a bubble. When a kiss is over, it’s over. When a bubble pops…well…that’s all she wrote! All kisses end—even the wettest “French” kisses. And so do all bubbles—even sloppy mega-bubbles of liquidity. “This one will be no exception,” we remember thinking ...read more

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Risk-Taking Traders Born Not Made

Jan 23rd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
A recent dispatch from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences didn’t give us the next big development in stem cell therapies.  It didn’t tell us how the car of 2020 will be powered.  Instead, John Coates and his team of Cambridge researchers turned the powerful lens of science ...read more

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