Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the United States to regulate over the counter (OTC) derivatives...
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The Claude Rains Recovery By Monty Pelerin , posted February 27th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/02/27/the-claude-rains-recovery/ “No Recovery?” In the best Claude Rains fashion, “I am shocked, shocked!” There is no economic recovery, and there will be no economic recovery...
Rosenberg is Right-On, Again By Monty Pelerin , posted January 4th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/04/rosenberg-is-right-on-again/ Image via Wikipedia Rosenberg is Right-On. Here is his daily email with links to the full piece. The only part that I might take issue with is his contrarian play...
HAPPY NEW YEAR, NOW GO TO THE BOMB SHELTER By Monty Pelerin , posted January 1st, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/01/01/happy-new-year-now-go-to-the-bomb-shelter/ Stock your bunker. 2010 is apt to be ground zero for financial markets. Sixty years later, a bomb-shelter strategy once again seems...
Let it never be said that the FutbolGuru is one-sided. Lemmings are one sided which is why they run off cliffs. Or rather, why it is so easy to get them to run off cliffs. What if one of those lemmings in White Wilderness had simply stopped to smell the cameras? Not only would it have been spared the...
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Filed under: class, Obama, Liberal, Conservative, hope, war, class warfare, recession, moderate, Reagan, depression
I was just interviewed for local news Fox8 about the economic recession and its effect on current effects with the local retail market. It's supposed to air after major league baseball tonight around 10pm in the New Orleans area. Video cameras are...
Back in September Phillip Johnson commented on the UK's economic position and the likely criminal trends in the near future: Most violence is caused by young men against young men, usually at night, when they are drunk. At a time of economic slowdown...