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Deflation Is Just Around the Corner

Wow, Ed is usually right on, as subsequent events reveal, but this time he is declaring the moment (in relative terms) as a long term situation in the face of macro monetary policy leading (shortly in relative terms) in one direction - hyperinflation, likely hyper-stagflation. As other commenters have said, everyday consumption continues inflated, and about 6 months from now, Opec cuts will come home to roost. Instead of me laying it out, read Engdahl, slowly:

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Can Central Bankers Prevent a Great Depression?

Excellent summary article! Wonder how much longer those enticing dividends on beaten down stocks can continue. This article helped steady my hand hovering over the keys of my computer to buy for the dividend.

America's Fiscal Crisis: Tough Decisions Needed Now

Excellent summary essay Quinn. And Wiskey has the guts to state the full extent of the horror of what has been done in our name. If we had a parliamentary system, a political solution might be possible through a voting coalition of honest conservatives and progressives who have come full circle in their understanding of what has happened and what has to be done. Like P C Roberts and Pat Buchanan, I am so far to to the right now that I am all the way over to the left, or vice-versa. But we have one party with two wings both controlled by the same financial/industrial/m... conglomerates. The future looks bleak, and now the spectre of nuclear war is again front and center as Bush gives puppets like the Georgian leader the go ahead to attack civilians to provoke the encircled Russians. And he still has months to go in office with the spectre of two candidates to follow whose advisors only differ on the regional focus of empire building. I kind of chuckle sadly as I read this site dedicated to the little investor who is trying to defend petty principal in the face of the errosion of every sector of US civil and economic life, and realize that there are still too many CLHs befuddled out there.

Home Prices Fall 11.4% in January: A Chance to Hit Bottom?

What is this "socialist government" crap that I read here. The government is controlled by business, commercial and financial elites, and we got reduced regulation of everything - far from "socialist". Is George Bush the epitome of "socialist" leadership?!? But we do have socialism for the rich - the rich demand no regulation of profit, but a quick socialization of loss. Your witnessing it right now in action and still obfuscating with lines like "socialist government". Sophomoric!