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-- Possible escalation of the Gaza war From a web site reader: > Read your Web Log -- Watching the pot come to a boil -- Israel > declares -- war to the bitter end -- and you covered it very > well, but I think the Arab surprise will come from Hizballah in > Lebanon. My assumption is Hizballah is wa...

A lot of what I've been reading here doesn't seem to make much sense, at least to me. The price of gold -- in any given currency -- is determined by the marketplace. Nothing else. The value of a currency -- relative to another currency -- is determined by the marketplace. Nothing else. A country can...

-- "The scariest housing chart in the world" California median home prices: http://mrmortgage.ml-implode.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ca-sales-prices1.png ( http://mrmortgage.ml-implode.com/2008/12/30/the-scariest-housing-related-chart-ever/ ) Note that home prices have been falling rapidly, and s...

Dear Jim and Joe, > WHAT IF THE TREASURY BUBBLE BURSTS. > Ok, I admit it, I have a challenge understanding all the financial > repercussions of this crisis. I have a fair amount of money in > treasury funds (i.e. money market funds that invest in short term > T bills). This is the first I have heard...

Dear Fred, > Signs we have a long way to go and a few lessons yet to learn: I've been collecting a few of these lately. Here's my list: "I think most of us are going to bid a fond farewell to 2008. I feel certain that 2009 will be a better year." "After January 20, things will change. Banks will sta...

aedens -- This is quite an impressive article. Did you write this article, or are you reposting it from somewhere else? Are you the author, or is someone else the author? If you're reposting it, what's the URL of the original posting? If you wrote it, then tell us a little about your background. Sin...

Dear Fred, > Peak earnings is an excellent tool but an excellent tool in the > hands of an amateur will still turn out poor work. Peak earnings, > applied at the beginning of a prolonged economic downturn, would > not only be useless but would be harmful. > William Hester of Hussman says this: "...p...

Dear Matt, > A quick look over the 1971 events leaves no room for doubt: it was > a crisis war. I must have assumed far too much. If 1857 was also a > crisis era for Bangladesh (and I see no reason to believe it was > not), then this would be one of the longest mid-cycle periods on > record. I can't...

Dear Gordo, > I know, yall think a multi-year, uninterrupted deflationary death > spiral is imminent, after all, just look at the Great Depression > period or Japan. Well this isn't '29-'32 and it isn't Japan. We > are about to find out what a determined Fed and a willing > government partner can ac...

Dear Fred, > As for the popular view, it seems obvious to me that most of those > appearing on CNBC believe as you do: that we are heading for a > nice recovery or at least a bear market rally in the next few > months. That doesn't mean they are wrong, after all, the market > needs to suck people ba...