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Expect the Economic Crisis to Continue

Thanks for this Dickensian ray of sunshine.

The Next Recession

As Pat Buchanan suggests...it's time for industrial policy.

Stocks Soar, Unemployment Rises, Dollar Slumps

Thanks Peter. Any policy prescriptions that you think the administration should be undertaking right now?

A New Economic Indicator?

Make no mistake: girls with hairy tushes are not the same as girls with fury bushes.;-) Many investors are unable to distinguish the two.

Whistling Past the Depression

In the Phillipines there's a saying, "At a distance none that appear well smell bad." From a distance, we see few details. Fish, women, currencies...soon all will be for sale at a discount.

Keynesian Economics: Why Krugman and DeLong Need to Read More Carefully

Bloviation...

What Is Decline in Nonresidential Construction Telling Us?

Also, the current character of much commercial build-out (that's vacant) is obsolete...it requires massive reconfig to adopt to the newer tech businesses that will revacate the new infrastructures.

After Securitization: Who Owns America Now?

There's an old Chinese saying, "He who owes is King." The fact is, so much of the debt you list will ultimately need to be charged off. As with many of the formal unfunded liabilities...they'll need to be discounted.
So, in terms of discounting to net present values...the actual numbers are much less. FYI;-)

Steve Liesman's Non-Farm Payrolls Calculus

Don't pick on Steve...he's pretty sharp.

The Mother of All Asset Price Bubbles

Forget the stock market...is main street overpriced?

Debt Deflation: What's the Solution?

"Those who become collaterally unemployed through no fault of their own..." I'm not sure the press has really examined fully the nature of current unemployment and the decline in real wages. Are you suggesting it's time for an industrial policy?

Recession Hardship Is Painful, But Can Be Beneficial

The pain of hemorrhoids causes some to switch to a high fiber diet as well. Was that your point?

GMAC Has Finally Been Nationalized

"...I would personally prefer they try a process which allows these firms to fail whereby equity and debt holders suffer consequences that are consistent with taking market risk." This has been a lingering, enduring problem--the super-rich ownership class didn't want to take the hit. They wanted to be bailed out. Consider the folks that were ripped off by Madoff--they want the SEC's negligence to be deemed a liability so that they can be compensated, aka "bailed out."

California: Entering Inflationary Depression

Too soon to tell.

Baidu: A Pure Momentum Trader's Favorite (with Occasional Blowups)

See: www.yebol.com. Really, the future of search is post-PPC.