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- December 14th, 2009
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Euroland’s revolt has begun: Greece defies Europe as EMU crisis turns deadly serious
“Euroland’s revolt has begun. Greece has become the first country on the distressed fringes of Europe’s monetary union to defy Brussels and reject the Dark Age leech-cure of wage def…
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Important News - Dec. 14
1) Congress Sends Obama Measure With 12% Average Budget Increases “Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) — Congress gave final approval to a $450 billion spending bill for government agencies providing…
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Abu Dhabi isn’t “giving” ten cents to anyone, let alone $10 billion.
They are proposing to LOAN money with a lot of strings attached. Dubai World will undergo a partial switch of creditors, that’s all. They still won’t be able to pay their debts. The journa…
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After 25 years in the Mortgage business I can act as an expert on credit scores and reports.
The Mortgage industry looks at the 3 main reports Equifax Trans Union and Experien, and uses the Middle score of these 3 to determine your score. The score is call a Bankruptcy Risk Score. A lender wa…
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Investment in Citigroup (C) is now riskier.
At least 5 billion shares more of common from the new offering. >>$17 billion of common stock, with an over-allotment option of $2.55 billion; approximately $2.8 billion of prepaid common stock purcha…
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Fairfield Residential Files Chap 11 -
“Fairfield filed for Chapter 11 late Sunday afternoon in Delaware and listed assets of $958 million and liabilities of $834.9 million as of the end of September. In addition, Fairfield noted tha…
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Reasons why the Depression is far from over.
#1. Commercial real estate has just begun to collapse. #2. No way out of the National debt other than inflate our way out. #3. An economy based on consumption driven by debt for 70% of its growth won&…
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Here is where you can go to see who voted how on this huge spending bill:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJOugw37CabFvf2Jhp2wfxXyeQegD9CIN7JO1 52 Democrats, 3 Republicans (Cochran, Collins, Shelby) and both Independents voted “yes”. 3 Democrat…
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How the Federal Government conducts business:
It’s a slow day in a little East Texas town. The sun is beating down, and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a…
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Here is a little look at CURRENT REAL ECONOMY:
Check out the charts/descriptions for more, quite interesting. Freight Rail carloads down 8.2% from 2008, 17.4% from 2007. Coal down 13.3% (11.5% from 20007) Forest products down 18% (30.6%) almost th…
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Greece is on the brink.
Their govt is telling all that everything is going to be alright. But even though they have a recently new elected govt. they want to keep the calm Oil is bot with dollars. If the Euro goes under, eve…
- December 13th, 2009
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The 30-year bond question.
The bond market is for the big boys. That’s why most of the Series Seven questions are about bonds. Stocks aren’t that complicated if you can read an income statement and a balance sheet,…
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Great Read: U.S. Debt - Is There a Limit?
Great Reads Had the pleasure of extra time to read a couple of longer pieces Friday that would be worth a look by all. Eric Janzen of Itulip offers the first part of a market commentary for free (the…
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Debt default crisis continues:
Ukraine needs $2 Billion loan to save it from defaulting on its debts and risking bringing down other countries through contagion effect of massive national debt defaults, but IMF imposing harsh auste…
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PRICE FIXING
The government picks up the spending”outlay” slack for its citizens in order to keep the consumer GDP alive. Lets face it … How much lower would home prices be and and how many more…
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The credit crisis of 2008-2009 has shaken and rocked this nation to the very core.
Small defects quickly snowballed into big avalanches. The housing bubble that many “home flippers” so handily enjoyed proved unsustainable; the massive trade imbalances continually run were unsust…
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Important New - Dec. 13
1) Even in Santa Cruz, growing number of people seek financial refuge in the military “This is the first time local recruiters can remember having a wait list, or what the military refers to a…
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Tomorrow is D-Day for Dubai.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Heavy rain pounded Dubai on Sunday adding to the gloom of the emirate’s debt woes a day before the deadline of the $3.52 billion bond by state-owned developer Nakheel, with no…
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Russian Central Bank To Buy 30 Tons Of Gold This Week
The source at Gokhran, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on Dec. 7 approving the sale. “Next week, I think, we will conclude everything.&…
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This is all BEFORE THINGS START REALLY CRASHING.
We’re plunging into the abyss with at least 12 states about to go bankrupt The federal deficit at an expected record $2.2 trillion Savers still getting near zero percent returns, credit contract…
- December 10th, 2009
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Late Night News:
1) Geithner Says Treasury Faces Long-Term Losses From Autos, AIG ““There is a significant likelihood we will not be repaid from our investments in AIG, GM and Chrysler,” Geithner said. Th…
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US dollar rally is imminent.
Most of the world’s debt is denominated in US dollars! We printed 2 trillion and we borrowed 50 to 300 trillion! When the borrowing stops, we won’t have enough dollars to pay principal + i…
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GS is hiring fund managers, folks!
This was taken off the Goldman Sachs website last week. It’s an eye-opener: “Goldman Sachs has immediate openings for Investment Bankers and Mutual Fund Managers: Qualifications: Candidate…
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The debt ceiling is clearly meaningless to the US Gov’t.
So … I’m asking everyone to write to their senators and representatives. Feel free to work off my draft below: Do NOT raise the debt ceiling! Think of the national debt as a credit card gr…
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We are in trouble… New employment number are OUT -
The population of this country is 300 million. 160 million are retired. That leaves 140 million to do the work. There are 85 million in school. Which leaves 55 million to do the work. Of this there ar…
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Fascinating, first it was China Daily, now Canada:
“The real inconvenient truth The whole world needs to adopt China’s one-child policy Diane Francis, Financial Post Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 …..The “inconvenient tr…
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Retail: It is pretty dire.
The momentum is also slowing, so we would expect that the last half will not be as robust as the first half. What does this mean for retail? It is pretty dire. Also to be expected is heavier returns i…
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Important News - Dec. 10
Top 10 Countries Most Likely To Default Lebanon, one of the most heavily indebted states in the world, completed a debt swap in March for around $2.3 billion of foreign currency paper maturing this…
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Emergency Jobless Insurance Claims Surge By Most Ever In Prior Week
“The number you won’t hear mentioned anywhere in the Mainstream Media: 327,729. That is how many people shifted to Emergency Unemployment Compensation programs in the last week alone, hitt…
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Obama, WE have nothing left to SPEND!!!
Somebody Has To Stop The Spending (Video) (M.W.) Martin Gross, Social Scientist and NY Times best-selling author, calls Obama, Congress, and mainstream media “masters of deceit” with no re…
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AOL is almost a dead issue.
WHAT could they POSSIBLY offer the public that has not already been taken (successfully) by other companies?? Search Engine??? NOPE - not when you have Google, Bing & Yahoo as the major players N…
- December 9th, 2009
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Why would Gold go up?
The FED still plans on devaluing the dollar 50% but, we may not know that is happening. The dollar index is measured against other weak currencies. Thus, if the dollar is devalued 20% and they are dev…
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Did anyone see the CNBC interview this morning with Elizabeth Warren?
She stated the TARP money was given to the banks to lend, and they are using it to buys stocks, which they are gambling with the taxpayers money, because if the invest unwisely, we lose. Joe Kernon wa…
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Don’t know about the U.S, but the world is drowning…
Europe’s ECB puts Greece’s sovereign debt on its agenda for urgent discussion at its next meeting on December 17th as its considered Greece may default on its national debt: http://www.guardian.co…
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DOOMSDAY SCENARIO, Dec 17-18:
Here is what I think is going to happen next week: (maybe earlier, if any unexpected news arise, for e. g. insolvency of NY/CA state, Ukraine default, rate downgrades, etc) Monday (14th): Dubai (nakhe…
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Absolutely Nothing Has Been Fixed (December 7, 2009)
http://www.oftwominds.com/blog.html Let’s start with The Obvious: None of the fundamental causes of the global financial meltdown have been fixed in 2009. As we careen toward 2010, it’s a…
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Boy, I wish I had a job like this:
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — Kenneth Feinberg, the U.S. paymaster for rescued companies, will exempt some executives at American International Group Inc. from a $500,000 salary cap after at least five e…
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OUTRAGE: Even if banks repay TARP, they are still making huge amounts of money in our expense.
100 cents Timmie got the Big O some more money to give away to the richest Americans.. I cannot believe how much control Wall Street has over Congress… It is shocking… Elizabeth Warren was…
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Important News - Dec. 09
1) Sovereign debt fears weighing on world markets (”global debt crisis”) “Sentiment in the market has been knocked in the last couple of days by worries about a global debt crisis…
- December 7th, 2009
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Don’t spend what you aint got. It’s just not worth it.
Sometime in the past two or three generations, Americans got addicted to “Stuff”. Cars, bigger homes, electronic gadgets (how many flat-screen TV’s, iPods, laptops, remote controls d…
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Read this article carefully…, If it does not post in its entirety, go to Huffington Post.Com…
Elizabeth Warren Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the banking bailouts Posted: December 3, 2009 10:00 AM Can you imagine an America without a strong middle class? If you c…
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Dollar cost averaging saved my but!
I’m only down 20% right now but if I had not made those monthly contributions for the past 2 years, I would be down 35%. Dollar cost averaging saved my but! I’ll tell you something else to…
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Options Signal Stock Peril as Analysts See Profits (Update2)
By Jeff Kearns and Lynn Thomasson Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Forecasts for the fastest U.S. earnings growth in 15 years are failing to convince options traders that the Standard & Poor’s 500 In…
- December 6th, 2009
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I will not hire anyone back until…
You have to have income to spend, most people have to be employed to have income or credit. Over at my end of the world, I will not hire anyone back until I know about the “health care” bi…
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The whole scenario was developed on the credit card model.
It was why credit scores became the most important credential for a mortgage. The loans were asset backed and most importantly risk was transferred via securitization. Wall Street has a junk bond drea…
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Housing prices were stable for many decades until the government decided to make housing more affordable for everyone.
By establishing a dozen entities whose sole purpose was to expand credit, houses became unaffordable for anyone who wanted to buy one with actual money. Other things that became unaffordable when the…
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“Mooing in the zombie paddock.”
Raising rates from zero to .25 would have an impact on the value of the dollar, but little impact on the dollar carry trade exiting the Fed window. NEITHER will have much effect on unemployment, short…
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No one questions why the dollar is set to raise.
Suffice to say as the dollar rises any attempt to increase interest rates will multiply the effects of a strong dollar.The fed cannot lower interest rates so if the dollar takes off with a lot of velo…
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Unemployment Misery may be defined as the product of Burden and Composition.
The latter refers to the quality of jobs lost and the quality of replacement jobs.Unemployment misery is rising even more rapidly than burden. In the current Great Reckoning high skills jobs in constr…
