IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Fed to Loan US Dollars to Europe’s Banks 2. See My Blog Posting on Fed Meeting Tomorrow 3. The Latest Census Bureau Report on Poverty 4. Food Stamps Hit New Record High 5. Be Sure to Join My Blog Introduction The news this week will be dominated almost entirely by the Fed Open...
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Gary D. Halbert
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09-20-2011
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Filed under: Bailout, Debt, Banks, Greece, Fed, Ireland, Portugal, ECB, food stamps, Poverty, European
IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Does Small Business Need a Bailout? 2. Obama & the Democrats to the Rescue 3. What’s Not to Like About TARP III? 4. Higher Taxes Hurt Only 3% of Small Businesses – Wrong! 5. President Obama’s “September Surprises” So Far 6. My Thoughts on the Surprising...
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Gary D. Halbert
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09-14-2010
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Filed under: Taxes, Bailout, Income Tax, Banks, Obama, TARP, cut, september surprises, TARP III, Cash-for-Clunkers, small businesses
It has long been my contention that we are entering an extraordinary period of time in which using historical analogies to plot market behavior is going to become increasingly problematical. In short, the analogies, the past performance if you will, all break down because the underlying economic backdrop...
This week I came across two items that I think are worthy of being in Outside the Box, so I am going to give you both. The first is an essay by good friend Paul McCulley, Managing Director of PIMCO, called "Saving Capitalist Banking from Itself." The second is a recent speech by Paul Volker...
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John Mauldin
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02-23-2009
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Filed under: The Fed, Paul McCulley, Banks, Government, Pimco, Bank Failures, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Minsky, Economic Policy, Paul Volker
Dear Friends: Exhale for a moment, forget your losses for the time being, and try to appreciate the fact that you're living through the single most important development in global finance since Bretton Woods. This is a "tell the grandkids about it" moment, when governments all around the...
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John Mauldin
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10-16-2008
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Filed under: Credit Crisis, George Friedman, Stratfor, Geopolitics, Recession, Globalization, Banks, Global Economy, Economy, Financial Crisis, Bank Failures, Bailout, Europe