Posts Tagged ‘ Mainstream ’

Euro Zone Crisis Will Endanger Even Good Companies: S&P – CNBC.com

May 24, 2012

CNBC.comEuro Zone Crisis Will Endanger Even Good Companies: S&PCNBC.comThe euro zone debt crisis will continue to dominate European stocks in 2012, with even well-run companies in danger of being sucked into the morass, according to S&P Capital...
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Interpreting The Head Scratching Unemployment Claims Data

By Lee Adler

March 29, 2012

Interpreting The Head Scratching Unemployment Claims Data

Actual, not seasonally adjusted, initial unemployment claims totaled 319,349 last week, according to the Department of Labor tabulation of weekly data submitted to it by the 50 state employment departments. This number was virtually unchanged from the prior week total of 319,382. As always, the media reported only the seasonally manipulated numbers showing a...
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The Myth of U.S. Consumer De-Leveraging

By JeffNielson

January 18, 2012

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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Best Laid Plans – Professional Edition Fed Report

By Lee Adler

May 7, 2009

The TBAC estimate of borrowing for this week missed by $33 billion, a sign that once again, the experts have no clue how badly things are spiraling out of control. For the week, the Treasury dumped $51 billion in new supply on the market, $28 billion of which settled today. As a result, the...
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Initial Warning Signs Bearing Fruit – Professional Edition

By Lee Adler

January 9, 2009

Initial warning signs of market weakness earlier in the week began to be confirmed on Friday, and they could lead to a protracted and devastating decline when just about everyone in the mainstream expects otherwise. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for...
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Obie Drinks the Kool Aid, What Would Shakespeare Say?

By Lee Adler

January 8, 2009

I like Obie, but he has drunk the Kool Aid. We are doomed. He’s listening to the advice of those very same world renowned egonomists who never saw the current mess coming. How could those who never saw it coming in the first place, and didn’t recognize it after it had already begun have...
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