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Michael Johnston: With the fourth quarter of 2011 now well underway, the year is generally shaping up to be one that many investors will try quickly to forget. After 2009 and 2010 brought steady recoveries from the chaotic downturn in 2008, this year has seen renewed concerns about mounting debt burdens Read more…
The Daily Capitalist: First and foremost, my view is that the markets and the mainstream media have been giving insufficient attention (if any at all) to the core problem that was revealed by the meltdown in 2008. Massive amounts of capital was misspent (“malinvested”) during the boom. In order to finance Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: I’ve made no secret of my aversion to Treasury bonds. Yields right now are irrationally low, and thus do not accurately reflect U.S. credit risk. Read more…
Justice Litle: Argentina’s president was re-elected in a landslide — even presiding over 25% inflation. Will American politicians follow suit? Cristina! Cristina! The chants are as loud today as they were four years ago. Read more…
Larry Edelson: Good morning! I’m on my way back to Bangkok, some 40,000 feet over the North Pole as you read this column. I’ll be back online Tuesday afternoon, but let me tell you right now, virtually all markets are shaping up for some pretty wild moves as we head into the end of the year. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Stuart Varney, host of the aptly named and very highly rated “Varney & Co.” program on Fox Business, put the following question to me in his usual direct style: “Will we have an agreement on Wednesday out of Europe and what will that mean for the markets?” Read more…
Dian L. Chu: While some of us are still recovering from the first ever U.S. sovereign credit downgrade from S&P in August, BofA Merrill dropped another bomb. From Reuters, Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: Mark your calendar for two historic days that could shake Wall Street to its foundation and change the Western world forever … The first is Europe’s day of reckoning, postponed to Read more…
Jeff Harding: The CPI for September came out showing year over year price inflation at 3.9%, up from last month’s 3.8%. Prices increase 0.3% over August. Core price inflation (less energy and food costs) increased only 0.1% over August and is up 2.0% for the year. The BLS said: Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: In the mid 1990s, when I was working as a U.S. Treasury advisor to Croatia, I met with the managers of the U.S. Treasury’s debt. In what would turn out to be terrific advice, the Treasury officials suggested that we extend Croatia s’ debt maturities so the Central European country wouldn’t Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: This coming Sunday, October 23, will go down in history as one of the most important days of the 21st century. On that day, the leaders of 27 European countries will meet. They will announce a new master plan to save Europe. And then they will pray. Read more…
Casey Research Chief Economist Bud Conrad believes the United States is acting as a late-stage empire, acting aggressively on the world stage, lowering its moral standards and debasing its currency. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report at the Casey Research/Sprott Inc. “When Money Dies” Summit, Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: Think U.S. jobs are destined to drain away to China (NYSE:FXI) forever? Think U.S. unemployment will grow and grow while cheap overseas labor supplants American workers? Think your children will be forced to work selling Big Macs to Chinese billionaires? Read more…
David Fry: This posting completes a comprehensive review in the fixed-income ETF segment. While this review seems a grab-bag collection of issues, we like keeping the list of choices at 10. This seems more manageable for most investors. We’re not necessarily recommending one issue over another and where Read more…
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Keith Fitz-Gerald: Do you want to know the real reason banks aren’t lending and the PIIGS have control of the barnyard in Europe? It’s because risk in the $600 trillion derivatives market isn’t evening out. To the contrary, it’s growing increasingly concentrated among a select few banks, especially here in the United States. Read more…
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