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Showing posts with label Fed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fed. Show all posts
Thursday, April 25, 2019

The Greatest Increase in Wealth Inequality in American History Occurred During the Obama Administration

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Source: David Stockman Email I just received an email from David Stockman's newsletter, and it included the upper grap...
Monday, July 9, 2018

Will the Trump Trade War Result in a Spike in Gold?

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Gold-stock analyst John Doody holds  in a Kitco interview that the Trump tariffs will result in job losses. He says that, in turn, the Fed w...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Stock Buybacks and the Wisdom of Presidents

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Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post  published an article that draws a parallel between the mortgage bubble of the Bush years and the c...
Monday, January 2, 2012

My Letter to the Kingston Freeman Concerning Gary Weiss's Op Ed

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The Kingston Freeman published my letter in response to Gary Weiss's Op Ed concerning Ron Paul: Dear Editor: Congressman Ron Paul ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Future of America at the Wall Street Demonstration

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H/t Contrairimairi.  I wonder what percentage of the Wall Street demonstrators are as smart as this guy. .
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Obama's Stock Market Weakness

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The Dow fell 391 points today while the S&P 500 fell 37 points, 3%, to 1129.  The immediate reason was that yesterday the Fed announced ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Unstoppable Force Versus Immovable Object: Road To $6500 Gold Paved with Failing Economic News

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Kitco has some excellent commentaries.  Darryl R. Schoon discusses the likelihood of a meltdown in the dollar.  He argues that the 1971 deva...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Stock Market Volatility

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As of this writing the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 389 points today, and it was up 450 points an hour ago.  The graph above, from ISt...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Do I Have Egg on My Face?

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Do I have egg on my face? Sort of. Half an omelet. Chris Johansen forwarded the above video after my diatribes about Beck over the past cou...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

More on Reappointment of Bernanke

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I received the e-mail below from the Campaign for Liberty . As I previously blogged, although I have been concerned about the Fed for many y...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Fed, Bernanke Cover Up Wall Street Welfare Moms' Receipts

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A friend who teaches finance at a college near New York City (he doesn't want me to divulge his name because his college has threatened ...

Bernanke and the Deep Blue Sea

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The Hill.com says that a number of senators like Inhofe (R-Okla.), Sessions (R-Ala.), Feingold (D-Wis.), Sanders (I-Vt.), Dorgan (D-N.D.) ...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

AIG Investors Not Allowed To Lose

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It's nice to be a bank. You can lend people money you don't have, and make reckless investments at that. Then, when the reckless inv...
Monday, June 9, 2008

Petition to Abolish the Federal Reserve Bank

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I just received an e-mail from Ron Holland concerning a petition to abolish the Federal Reserve Bank. I have signed it and have forwarded ...

The New York Sun's Home Run

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The New York Sun has hit a home run . I had previously blogged about my concern that the Sun's and Fox's coverage of the recent u...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Schnorrers' Day on Wall Street

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"Hooray for Chair Bernanke The economic explorer 'Did someone call him 'schnorrer''? ... This fact I emphasize with str...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Howard Katz's Poem

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At the beginning of each issue of Howard S. Katz's financial newsletter , the One-Handed Economist, he offers a poem. Here is the poem ...
Monday, November 5, 2007

Gold and Commodity Exposure in Your Portfolio

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John Maynard Keynes quoted Lenin as saying that best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. There is debate wheth...