A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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Statistical Proof The Facebook IPO Will Be As Euphoric As Predicted – Forbes
ForbesStatistical Proof The Facebook IPO Will Be As Euphoric As PredictedForbesTomorrow's Facebook initial public offering will prove one of those once-in-a-decade market events (Netscape IPO, anyone?), as the world's most slavishly followed pr...
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The Myth of U.S. Consumer De-Leveraging
The supposed “de-leveraging” which the mainstream media boasted of was nothing but propaganda mythology. However, the new consumer debt which Americans have piled on since the beginning of 2010 is very, very real. And all the resulting U.S. auto-loan defaults, credit-card defaults, student-loan defaults, personal bankruptcies, and foreclosures in the months ahead will be...
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Making It In America
Making It in America
In the past decade, the flow of goods emerging from U.S. factories has risen by about a third. Factory employment has fallen by roughly the same fraction. The story of Standard Motor Products, a 92-year-old, family-run ...
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Consumer Credit in U.S. Surged in Nov.by the most in 10 years
Consumer Credit in U.S. Surged in Nov.
By Meera Louis - Jan 9, 2012 3:21 PM ET .
Consumer borrowing (CICRTOT) in the U.S. surged in November by the most in 10 years, showing households are optimistic enough to take on debt and banks are willing to len...
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SPX Update: Bears Have Left the Building — Look Out Below
I think being long this market right now is exceptionally risky.
Yesterday, I suggested that the sentiment survey due out today from the American Association of Individual Investors would indicate that sentiment levels were reaching bullish extremes.&n...
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Gingrich tax ‘plan’ starves government, feeds the wealthy, rests on flawed assumptions
Gingrich tax 'plan' starves government, feeds the wealthy, rests on flawed assumptions
Angry Bear Blog|Dec. 14, 2011, 8:41 AM|55|1
by Linda Beale
In case you hadn't heard about it, Gingrich would offer taxpayers a choice to pay tax under current polic...
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Grim Outlook For Housing Prices
House prices will fall 3 percent nationally in 2012, excluding foreclosures and short sales, Douglas Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief economist, said at a University of San Diego real estate conference on Tuesday.
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The Shocking Ways Private Prisons Game The System
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: ...
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Debt panel poised to admit failure amid partisan wrangling TOMORROW
Debt panel poised to admit failure amid partisan wrangling
Updated 27m ago
WASHINGTON (AP) – A special deficit-reduction supercommittee appears likely to admit failure on Monday, unable or unwilling to compromise on a mix of spending cuts and tax i...
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The Surveillance Catalog – Where governments get their tools
The Surveillance CatalogWhere governments get their tools
Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks...
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Gold Price Conspiracy: What Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You To Know
Is it really so preposterous to believe the United States and Europe would conspire to keep pole position in the global financial system?
I don't think so - and neither does China.
That much was revealed in a diplomatic cable recently uncovered...
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The Slums Are Back
The number of Americans living in slums increased 33% in the past decade.
This scary trend was identified by a report out this morning from Brookings. Slums (our term) refer to areas of concentrated poverty where at least 40 percent of individuals ...
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BB&T pushing HELOCs
Suddenly BB&T is pushing 3.49% home equity loans? This is troubling on several levels.
1. I thought banks were under orders to reduce their real estate exposure. 2. Anyone who currently has actual equity in their "home" must have a)bought in the 199...
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The 10 Crash Commandments
I been in this game for years, it made me a animal
There's rules to this s**t, I wrote me a manual
A step by step booklet for you to get
your game on track, not your wig pushed back
The Ten Crack Commandments, Notorious B.I.G.
I don't try...
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The Recession Has Created a New "Lost Generation"
New census data released today reveals that the recession has made American 20 to 30-somethings into a Lost Generation of unemployed and underemployed, the AP reports.
According to conomists, this trend will continue through the decade, and when i...
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Japan’s lost decade: still a risk for U.S. conomy
Japan's lost decade: still a risk for U.S. conomy
On Monday September 19, 2011, 10:59 am
By Steven C. Johnson
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the U.S. conomy slouches toward another recession and confidence in policymakers erodes, investors are coming to gri...
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What’s the most outrageous, seemingly-impossible…
Well, for me it's a continuation of the insane interest rate chart trend, shown below.
Really, if someone would have told me that in 2011 the U.S. will have racked up $15 trillion in sovereign debt (plus another hundred trillion in "off the books" obl...
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Chasing the Market Down from $1.5 Million to $870,000
Last week the California unemployment rate shot back up to 12 percent. Couple this with the underperformance of revenue for the state and we have heavy headwinds ahead.
It will be a herculean effort for home prices to remain inflated in bubble mar...
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The Secret Way to Profit from the U.S. Debt to China
Perhaps the biggest reason our country is facing a contentious debt-ceiling debate is because of the massive U.S. debt to China.
It's easy to forget that China is the world's largest buyer of U.S. Treasuries and it has as much to lose in this high-stakes game of...
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Larry Summers: Duh, We Need More Stimulus!
The U.S. economy is half way to a lost decade because demand is in decline and we're not doing enough to revive it, according to Larry Summers writing for Reuters. It's the lack of demand, he argues, that's caused growth to slow to a crawl pace of 1% o...
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The Destruction of the Middle Class will not be Televised
The disappearance of the middle class will not be televised. Don’t expect your favorite talking head to relay this information to you.
At the core of our economy we have become a consumption nation. This necessarily isn’t negative if we wer...
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The Once and Future Dips of the U.S. Economy
Last week, it looked as though a tide might have turned. The Dow fell another 97 points on Friday. And the 10-year US Treasury note rose to yield less than 3%. What will happen next? We don’t know. But it wouldn’t be a bad thing if investors too...
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Minack n- On a higher plane
Might be a reason for that what the f@#$ rally from hell Lime Juice 2 opined in the post below.
DUD110526.pdf (140.37K)
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QuoteForeign-sourced earnings have pushed developed-market profits to above-average levels. Part of this reflects the ...
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The Lost Decade for the S&P 500
May 22, 2011
Here is a new update of a chart that illustrates the total return performance of the S&P 500 since the Tech Bubble closing high on March 24, 2000. The chart shows the value of $1000 invested in the index, including dividends, but exc...
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The Lost Decade for the S&P 500
May 22, 2011
Here is a new update of a chart that illustrates the total return performance of the S&P 500 since the Tech Bubble closing high on March 24, 2000. The chart shows the value of $1000 invested in the index, including dividends, but exc...
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What "Secular Cycle" Means
By guest contributor Ed Easterling
May 17, 2011
There is a skeptical gremlin perched on the left shoulder for many investors. He often sneers at notions of "cycles" and other presumably predictable periods. When the word "secular" accompanies t...
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After Osama
Osama bin Laden, according to CNN, has been killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan and his body has been recovered.
Almost a decade ago, bin Laden, in hopes of, according to some reports, inspiring a jihad and bleeding US financial strength...
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SPX Update: 12-year Study of Investor Sentiment Points to a Top
The latest American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sentiment survey numbers were released yesterday, and amazingly, were virtually unchanged from the week prior. For the second week in a row, bearish investors remain at 17%,...
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