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Ed Dolan Ed Dolan's Econ Blog Edwin G. Dolan is an economist and educator with a Ph.D. from Yale University.
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ZeroHedge | On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/22/2012 - 18:39 Auto Sales CDS China Consumer Sentiment Crude David Rosenberg Global Economy Housing Starts Iran Israel Merrill Michigan NAHB NFIB Payroll Data Personal Income recovery Rosenberg University Of Michigan Back in early 2011, even as the global economy was at best flatlining, the one goalseeked explanation to justify a levitating stock market (which was rising solely due to the short-term effect of transitory QE2 liquidity), was soaring corporate profitability (which only lasted as long as companies could trim some residual SG&A fat; they have now cut into the bone in terms of layoffs). This time around, with corporate margins having peaked, there had to be some other validation to explain away the "narrative" of the latest bout of central bank infused stock market levitation: it just happened that this time it was once again that old faithful, and always wrong, justification - decoupling.
The short of the century – The bubble in government bonds is finally bursting | papermoneycollapse.com
“The government can always pay.” This is a statement that has no basis in fact. Any rational analysis will quickly expose it to be a fallacy.
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John Mauldin
"Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish… read article
No, gold is not in a bubble. It wasn’t in a bubble in 1973, either, but it still corrected by 40% then.
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Keiser Report — RT Programs
Every week Max Keiser looks at all the scandal behind the financial news headlines. In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss multi-camera fraud live from Parliament, push button autocracy from the global central banks, and losing granny’s peanut butter money on Wall Street. In the second half of the show Max talks to Josh Brown about his new book, Backstage Wall Street.