Posts Tagged ‘
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Nov 20th, 2009 |
By Jeff Clark |
Category: Featured, Gold
“There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic.” – ...
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Tags: debt, Gold, government, silver
Posted in Featured, Gold |
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Nov 16th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I staked out my position on the Doom & Gloom side back in 1992 when I was shocked by the problem I discuss first. What should you be concerned about? Start with the basics: what do you think you might have to survive? No point in making plans if you ...
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Tags: depression, government, protest, recession, top ten
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
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Nov 11th, 2009 |
By James Howard Kunstler |
Category: Economics, Featured
In The Long Emergency (2005, Atlantic Monthly Press), I said that we ought to expect the federal government to become increasingly impotent and ineffectual - that this would be a hallmark of the times. In fact, I said that any enterprise organized at the colossal scale would function poorly in ...
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Tags: credit, Energy, government, reality
Posted in Economics, Featured |
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Nov 5th, 2009 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Are the Western Welfare States (the U.S., Japan, and EU nations) really going bankrupt? Things were headed that way before the credit crisis began. The Global Financial Crisis may be becoming a sovereign debt crisis and that will worsen an already bad situation.
First, let’s check out the chart below from ...
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Tags: Global Financial Crisis, government, interest rates, welfare state
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Nov 4th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
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 ...
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Tags: capitalism, debt, economy, government
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Oct 26th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
"He who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing."
The quote comes from Ben Franklin. But it was recalled to us neither by America's president, nor Britain's Prime Minister. Instead, the Telegraph in London reported it from the mouth of Cheng Siwei, a "top member of the Communist hierarchy."
What goes around comes around. The ...
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Tags: debt, government, macroeconomics, Warren Harding
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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Oct 19th, 2009 |
By Linda Brady Traynham |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
Agora Financial's Founding Father Bill Bonner, writing in his Daily Reckoning, says there are approximately 131 M jobs in the USA.
Justice Little, Editor of Taipan Daily, also out of the AF stable, says that 26 M jobs have been lost.
The Federal Government says that the unemployment rate is 9.8%. Traditional ...
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Tags: government, recovery, unemployment
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
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Oct 1st, 2009 |
By Samantha Buker |
Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
Hope you bought your last pack of flavored cigarettes by midnight on Sept. 21…or else you’re out of luck. Thank the newly enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
I’m OK with state-by-state action. In fact, I couldn’t have bought the last pack of cloves in Maryland at 11:55 p.m. ...
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Tags: government, tobacco ban
Posted in Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics |
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Sep 28th, 2009 |
By Anthony De Maio |
Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
For those that grew up in a “typical” family, it was always comforting to know that “daddy” was always there to protect and support you, and “mommy” was always there to comfort you and heal you. It was a pleasant feeling to know that someone was always there to take ...
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Tags: government, safety net, slavery
Posted in Featured, Morning Whiskey |
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Sep 23rd, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The FDIC is considering tapping its emergency line of credit with the Treasury. FDIC Chair Sheila Bair recently hinted after a speech at Georgetown University that all options are on the table when it comes time to replenish the dwindling Deposit Insurance Fund. We’ll find out more in the next ...
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Tags: credit, GDP, government
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
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