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Here are two contradictory articles on CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/04/news/economy/rising_commodities_prices.breakingviews/index.htm?postversion=2009080412 and http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/04/pf/consumer_bankruptcy_filings/index.htm?postversion=2009080417 This along with the previously mention...

John, What I am wondering is: Does the crash have to start with the market or can the economy actually collapse first? With all the manipulation, corruption and perma-optimism is it possible for equity markets to lag the larger "real" economy. It wouldn't surprise me if one day our debit cards didn'...

Burt Wrote: Ok this is a REAL problem with each dollar the Government invests, but were did you get this name for this law, I like theories... Wiki has a good summary. While the Law was named for economic reasons, a good analogy is the space race: When NASA first started making rockets, they were sa...

On my point of view this is much too early to have a new small crash (and I call 2008 crash a small crash), what should(?) happen in 2010.2011 is a disruption of the bank system, BUT the central banks are able (until 2010-2011) to prevent a complete bank system failure. My first point is that a cra...

Let's not forget that the greatest period of growth in GDP and stocks was during the mid-thirties. Let's hope your right. At present there are a lot of reasons to expect future growth to be low after this business cycle. In 1930 a lot of basic fundamentals were favorable: Abundant source of energy ...

On this site some people just love to talk about "maximum ruin"... by malleni » Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:23 pm No One really likes to talk about maximum ruin. My argument is given all the negatives in the news, it seems strange that equities markets continue an advance. The only possible explanations are...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- U.S. stocks were set for a higher open Wednesday, after stock futures held their ground after a government reading of gross domestic product showed the economy contracted more than expected in the first quarter. http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/29/markets/premarkets/index.htm...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Taxpayers are increasingly exposed to losses and the government is more vulnerable to fraud under Obama administration initiatives that have created a federal bank bailout program of "unprecedented scope," a government report finds. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bank-bailout-may-...

Friday, April 17, 2009 The Visible Hand http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/ " This report examines information indicating that the U.S. government has surreptitiously intervened in the American Stock Market." Now to see if Goldman Sachs can be tied to this? An interesting consideration is can government...

WASHINGTON: The Chinese cyber spies have penetrated so deep into the US system — ranging from its secure defence network, banking system, electricity grid to putting spy chips into its defence planes — that it can cause serious damage to the US any time, a top US official on counter-intelligence ha...