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Slow Growth or Contraction

Oct 27th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The economy is either growing slowly, or contracting. Housing is probably going down. Remember, Mr. Market has to destroy the idea that “housing always goes up.” When he’s finished people will think that “housing never goes up.” Unemployment? People are gradually beginning to realize that the last ten years were the worst ...read more

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Record Number of Americans Ready to Expatriate

Apr 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International
In a survey of readers on March 22, 2010, InternationalLiving.com found that nearly 96% of respondents said they are more likely to move out of the United States than they were last year. More than 500,000 readers of the company’s free Daily E-letter were asked a single question: Are you more ...read more

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Will a Dollar Rally Lead to a Gold Correction?

Nov 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Currencies, Economics, Featured
So this is what it feels like in an inflationary melt up. House prices were up 6.2% in the third quarter over the same time last year, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. House prices in the capital cities are surging. Stocks are surging. Gold and oil ...read more

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Four Reasons Hyperinflation Hasn’t Hit the U.S. Economy Yet

Nov 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Everything we know about classic economic theory suggests the U.S. economy should be experiencing Zimbabwe-like hyperinflation right now, thanks to the nearly $2.2 trillion the U.S. Federal Reserve has pumped into the system. But we’re not…yet. Classic economic theory says that money supply can be used to stimulate the economy and our ...read more

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Debt Is Dangerous, Especially of the Government Kind

Nov 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Earthlings are all convinced that a financial crisis of cosmic proportions befell the planet last fall. Had the authorities failed to act with determination and speed, it would have been the end of the world. In the popular mind the politicians have saved capitalism from its own excesses. Our views are ...read more

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Economic Misdiagnosis Due to Government Stimulus

Oct 28th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Personal Investing
Most money managers have misdiagnosed what’s currently driving the global economy. The multiple that investors are willing to pay for next year’s earnings means more than any sentiment polling. The forward P/E multiple on the broad stock market is not nearly as high as it was during the Internet bubble, but ...read more

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Gold, the Dollar and Smoking Guns

Oct 2nd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
"The transcending value seen in the Dollar has lost its foundation..." A short series of secret memos, published and dissected at ZeroHedge, provide the "smoking gun" of gold-market manipulation. Apparently. And given this little slew of dusty archive-digging – throwing up three documents from 1968 to 1975, each one declassified within thirty ...read more

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Reality Receding Across America

Sep 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Now that everybody in the USA, from the janitors in their man-caves to the president addressing congress, has declared the "recession" over, is exactly the moment when what's left of the so-called economy is most likely to implode. If there were still shoeshine boys on Wall Street, they'd be starting ...read more

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Once Again, Stupid, It’s The Economy

Sep 11th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
In many ways it always has been.  Simply put, the economy is at the root of everything we do.  For example, despite President George H.W. Bush’s success with the first Gulf War, he was unseated in 1992 by Bill Clinton’s use of  “It’s The Economy, Stupid!” Did that phrase have any ...read more

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Mortgage Defaults May Trump the Fed

Jul 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Housing, Macro Economics
Good news everyone! The end of the world has been postponed indefinitely. You may now carry on as if another credit bubble is blowing (which it is, in China). It was a truly bullish way to wrap up the week. China reported a 7.9% rise second in quarter GDP, driven mostly ...read more

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