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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

If Pearl Harbor were attacked today, could we afford to defend ourselves?

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Excellent article by Paul London on the Huffington Post. If Pearl Harbor Were Attacked Today Could We Afford to Defend Ourselves? If Pearl H...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The next time somebody asks you, "What if China doesn't buy our debt?"

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There's a crescendo of worry regarding the question of whether or not China, one day, will stop buying our debt. Last week, famed hedge ...
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Volker says China's rise highlights U.S. decline

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“You cannot be dependent upon these countries for three to four trillion dollars of your debt and think that they’re going to be passive obs...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

My, Fiscal Trend Digest had us long long the S&P on the recent dip and we're up big today!!

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The Fiscal Timer Digest nailed it!! Sign up for a 30-day free trial.
Friday, September 25, 2009

You CAN spend your way out of a recession!

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Nice post from Bob McTeer's blog : Can You Spend Your Way Out of Recession? “You can’t spend your way out of recession” is a sound bite ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Citigroup to scale back U.S. footprint; limit lending to wealthy

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There is perhaps no greater trend emerging from the Obama Administration than the trend of wealth flowing to the top. For a president that p...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

My Fiscal Timer Digest had you short the S&P going into today and adding to that short

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Long bonds, too! The Fiscal Timer Digest nailed it!! Sign up for a 30-day free trial.

The risk has always been that they would take away support too soon, and that's what they're doing

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Headline speaks for itself. This weekend Obama will promise to the G20 that he will reduce the U.S. deficit. Bye bye rally!!
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Sensitivity on deficits, inflation, will almost certainly shorten the duration of this recovery

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So many people suffering... So many people still being asked to sacrifice... Things were starting to improve but only modestly, thanks to an...

Fed slows $1.45T MBS buy program

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I had a feeling this would happen. It's really unfortunate, but the Fed is now being influenced by the inflation hawks on the FOMC. The ...

Obama's speech at the U.N. We can't go it alone

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If you are looking for the great American economic engine to recharge itself and pull the world to prosperity, you can forget it. Obama beli...

The Right has successfully established the deficit as the main political concern

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Republicans and other conservatives have successfully made the deficit the number one political issue, meaning that any jobs initiatives wil...
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Gov't supplanting consumers

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From an article by Robert Reich that appeared on the Huffington Post. "In other words, the Dow is up despite the biggest consumer retre...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

FDIC considers borrowing cash from banks

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This is totally insane!!! Who are these morons controlling our government and vital institutions??? They are clueless!!! The FDIC CANNOT run...
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Fed's Latest Quarterly Z.1

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The Fed released the Q2 Z.1 report last week. Throughout this year, I've been following the Agency Bond and MBS purchase program that t...
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Money is debt (well, private money at least)

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Just got back from Fox where we taped a show, but it won't be airing; it was for internal use. The discussions, however, were very real....
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Focus on the game rather than the score

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When you watch a football game do you think that it is the points on the scoreboard that decide the game, or is it the teams on the field an...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

You are invited to join my forex trading contest!

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On September 21 I will be launching a forex trading contest, the Pitbull Economics Forex 1 Competition, on the Oanda forex platform. It is ...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Hey, deficit terrorists...keep your guilt trips to yourself!

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To all those screaming about the deficit... What you don't realize is that for every debit there is a credit; for every liability there ...
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Obama: Shrink U.S. productive capacity, then impose tariffs on imports. Unreal!!

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July's bigger than expected increase in the U.S. trade deficit was due to a sharp rise in imported autos. That's because the Obama A...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

U.S. Economic Growth to Slow as Car Rebates End, Survey Shows

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Yes, the one thing that actually worked: getting money in the hands of consumers, is being halted. A measely, $2 billion program that had en...
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Brazil Emerges From Recession, Led by Domestic Demand

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Strong deficit spending in Brazil has pulled the country out of recession. The U.S. is the only major industrial nation still mired in a con...

China Recovery Quickens as Production, Lending Climb

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Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- China’s industrial production rose more than forecast in August, lending unexpectedly climbed and retail sales advan...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Art Laffer's legacy: Falling real earnings

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Art Laffer is a master propagandist. He tells anyone who'll listen (and there are many) that the vaunted "supply-side" economi...
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More signs of hope on the job front

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Weekly unemployment claims are falling... Employment tax deposits are rising this month compared to August... Average daily tax deposits in ...
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Fiscal Trend Digest is here!!

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Mike Norman introduces his new daily research report... Fiscal Trend Digest The only in-depth daily analysis of fiscal trends anywhere! Give...
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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Asset Side of the Government Balance Sheet

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We continue to be bombarded with endless reporting and non-stop commentary that casts the public debt in a very negative light. This echo ch...
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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Congressman Pete Stark gets it mostly right on the national debt

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Watch this interview with Congressman Pete Stark of California as he tries to explain to an ignorant journalist some facts about the nationa...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

A glimmer of hope on the job front?

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The Treasury is reporting that it collected $126.4 billion in employment taxes in August compared with $131.4 in July. On the surface that l...
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More frustration...

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A blog reader just emailed me to remind me that much of the stimulus is still to come in 2010. I very much appreciated his encouragement. Th...
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