The world is undercollateralized. This is the single most important feature of the 2011 economy. Sixty years ago, if assets were worth less than loans, it was possible to work our way into the black. In 1950, 59% of US corporate profits were from m…
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The Cowardly Corporate Media
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
As a former ink-stained wretch, I have to say that Charles Hugh Smith is ‘bang on’ with this assessment…
Want to reverse the decline of the media? then stop worshipping corporate profits and start worshipping skepticism and a strong voice for truth,…
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The Cowardly Corporate Media
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
As a former ink-stained wretch, I have to say that Charles Hugh Smith is ‘bang on’ with this assessment…
Want to reverse the decline of the media? then stop worshipping corporate profits and start worshipping skepticism and a strong voice for truth,…
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Earnings Death or Taxes
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Weak corporate tax collections in the first quarter and through April 11 could mean that many quarterly earnings reports may surprise the market by failing to meet analysts’ inflated expectations. Either corporate profits are falling sharply or else corporations have suddenly become much savvier about offshoring income and avoiding taxes. While they may be getting…
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The Fed’s Most Dangerous Game: Checkmate
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
The Fed can only choose the least-worst option now: either destroy the real economy by sinking the dollar below support and unleashing the Inflation Monster, or abandon the “risk trade” stock market rally.
The Fed’s game plan–sink the U.S. doll…
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Japan’s GDP shrinks by 1.3%
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
continuation of the Ponzi requires debt markets to continue growing without limits …. who is gonna buy all this new and roll-over debt that needs to find a home? no guidance from the Bernank re: QE3 as it might cause a waterfall decline in debt marke…
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Barron’s: ‘The Underappreciated Upside Risk’
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
“This little period of congestion in stock prices could hardly fit more neatly into the logically bulletproof case for a stall or pullback in the tape, one made here for several weeks.”
“The excuses to “sell on the news” are rife.”
“Strong corporate…
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Bernanke’s Narcissistic Swill- Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 4 Comments
The Treasury began to pay off the weekly $25 billion in SFP CMBs this week resulting in a net paydown of $12 billion at Thursday’s bill settlements. That was a bullish influence on stocks as expected, but indirect bid data suggests that the FCBs weren’t all that aggressive in their bidding at the regular bill…
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Herbert Obama
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
This has all happened before.
This will all happen again.
From the “Had Enough Therapy Blog” (comparing Hoover’s words with Obama’s words):
“Obama’s State of the Union:
“Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock…
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Prediction: The U.S. Economy in 2011
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The New World Order
What All the hype about Christmas sales over the last few weeks masked (was) the fact that American consumers demanded bargain-basement prices. And the price-cutting dramatically reduced sellers’ margins. In short, profits aren 
