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- Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press [view article]
- What Happened to the Fed's $1.816 Trillion Lifeline? [view article]
- 3 Things America Needs to Do to Get the Economy Back on Track [view article]
- The Coming Crash of 2008: A Result of Overleveraging [view article]
- Financial Landscape: Writedowns, Losses and Capital Raised [view article]
- Putting the Perception and Reality of the Financial Crisis Into Perspective [view article]
- Lloyds Buys HBOS: Good Deal or Bad? [view article]
- Bear Stearns’ Bailout by the Fed, JPM: A Century Old Conspiracy [view article]
- Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
- Lessons From the Banking Meltdown [view article]
- Investment Bank Crisis: The Greatest Show on Earth [view article]
- Should I-Banks Trade Publicly? [view article]
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- What Happened to the Fed's $1.816 Trillion Lifeline?
- 3 Things America Needs to Do to Get the Economy Back on Track
- Putting the Perception and Reality of the Financial Crisis Into Perspective
- Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess
- Lloyds Buys HBOS: Good Deal or Bad?
- Should I-Banks Trade Publicly?
- Nine Months Later: Some Annual Predictions from the Financial Press
- Will Lehman's Bankruptcy End the Moral Hazard?
- Buyouts and Shakeups: How the Financial World Is Changing
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Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
user 260928 ....... and king george iii was known as "the insane"... any correlation with our present king george..... iii.....??? ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Great article, reminds me of the BCA Research commentatry from back on Sept '07 titled "An Inflection Point in the Debt SuperCycle"www.beearly.com/pdfFil... Reply
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
GREEDY CROOKS SHOULD BE PUT IN JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
bottom is 8500 for DOW. Arrest PAULSON..he is a CROOK. Arrest BUFFETT. he is another crook ReplyBanker
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Kudlow is an ignorant blowhard. He doesn't even know that the RTC was the respository for assets of FAILED institutions. I don't support the bill at all, but the compensation cap seems like a good poster child for extracting a personal price from the pockets of the executives who want to be bailed out by dumping their crap on the government. No one's stopping them from selling out to a private entity.I vote for "or else" and encourage Congress to push for other remedies: e.g., suport the Fed continuing to pump liquidity into the system. Also, raise the FDIC limit to $500k. The last change to $100k was in 1980, when banks were faced with 'disintermediation.' Let consumers raid their 401k's to pay mortgage debts, etc. Reply
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
The bottom is called ZERO.Thats where we all start living in caves.
I have read the articles on this site and have come to the conclusion that we had all better start choosing which variety of soup (with water or with extra water so you get more) you will be getting at the soup line.
Starbucks is going to open a "premium" soup line option. Reply
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
yup, there's no other way out of this but feed the beast!or new age slavery if the 'donor nations' overtake the debt-ridden and credit-frenzied nations Reply
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
read this for a good laugh:www.cnbc.com/id/268673... Reply
Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
The federal reserve bank is the country's bodyguard. without it who's going to take care of the troubles ? Just like getting your health/medical insurance, without it, you either die or brook. get it ? ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Errata: The Income Tax only assists in paying the interest on the debt, not the debt itself. ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
I agree. Most of this problem stems from having a Central Bank (aka Federal Reserve), which produces the money for the entire country. The Central Bank controls the interest rates and the inflation (since they control the money supply). They also regulate the value of the dollar by increasing and decreasing the money supply.They loan each dollar to the government with an attached interest. Every dollar produced is actually: a dollar + a percent of this dollar in immediate debt. Since the central bank has the monopoly on the production of the money supply, the only way to pay the debt is to borrow more money from it. This creates even more debt. This system is a self-generating debt machine.
The central bank has to continually produce money to cover the debt that is created from borrowing. This method creates even more debt. It is impossible for the government to get out of this self-induced debt.
This was why the US broke away from England. King George III outlawed the interest free and independent currency that was being used by the American Colonies. This forced the colonies to borrow money from the Central Bank of England with interest, putting the colonies into debt.
"The refusal of King George III to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution."
Benjamin Franklin
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies... If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, the banks and corporation that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered"
Thomas Jefferson
We didn't implement a Central Bank until Woodrow Wilson was in his presidency. The Federal Reserve act was created during this time, along with the Federal Income Tax. The Income Tax only assists in paying the debt, not the governments budget, as some people like to think. Prior to that, the government (and the economy) operated just fine. Reply
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Where's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Smart man, Lloyd, smart man. The best article I've ever read at this site. Excellent, excellent, work. ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Great article. It is very easy to see that the US has lots of things out of wack. In fact, many people have been seeing our demise for over a decade. It is easy to agree on the imbalances, yet it is nearly impossible to predict when these will come home to roost. ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Great article. It is very easy to see that the US has lots of things out of wack. In fact, many people have been seeing our demise for over a decade. It is easy to agree on the imbalances, yet it is nearly impossible to predict when these will come home to roost. ReplyWhere's the Bottom? Still Anybody's Guess [view article]
Regrettably, I fear you may be right. As much as I decry fiat currency, as much as I would love to see a stake driven in the heart of the federal reserve, as much as I fear the proposed bailout will decimate the dollar and collapse bond prices, he fact remains that our economy is still in better shape than its compatriots, and we may, in fact, emerge from this "crisis" smelling like a rose in global comparison. This is about as depressing a scenario as can be imagined. There is no reason to get long, but neither is the risk on the short side worth the reward. I can envision a post-bailout scenario where equities trade in a range the next two years while the dollar grinds down incessantly. This is the worst case scenario where short the dollar is the only remedy but the dollar keeps popping up because of weakness overseas. About the only thing to do is jump on gold and hope the PPT gets distracted or runs out of money. Reply