Posts Tagged ‘ Goldman Sachs ’

Modern Civilization: This Sucker Is Going Down

Apr 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
George W. Bush was onto something in the fall of 2008 when he remarked apropos of the Lehman collapse: β€œ...this sucker could go down.” It’s my serene conviction, by the way, that this sucker actually is going down, right now, even as I clatter away at the keys β€” perhaps in ...read more

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Inflation, Shortages and Starvation

Apr 13th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Gold
In the last six months many important events have transpired. The credit crisis intensified with CIT, Dubai and looming sovereign defaults. Commercial real estate is still frozen and about $600B needs to be refinanced during 2010. Massive fraud is being revealed on a grand scale such as with the 2,000+ ...read more

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Obama Hostage to Wall Street, Americans Hostage to Consumerism

Dec 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Okay, so President Obama didn't run for office to help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street - or so he said on CBS's "60 Minutes" show Sunday night. But maybe it didn't seem like such a bad idea once the election was over. Anyway, the net ...read more

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Shorting the Subprime Market

Jan 25th, 2008 | By | Category: Emerging Markets
WHEN SOME OF THE MOST INTELLIGENT AND POWERFUL MINDS in the financial world are all doing one thing, it can be very difficult for anyone to do anything else. With fortunes at stake, both personal and financial, going against the trend can sometimes lead to losses totaling in the billions. If ...read more

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