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Unsustainability and Transition One Bubble to Rule Them All The Year of the Windshield Godzilla Redux: Disaster A or Disaster B France Is the New Greece US: The Crisis Games Entitlement Unsustainability London, Athens, Geneva, Toronto, and New York “There are decades when nothing happens and there...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Overview – Greece Default Risk Accelerating 2. Is An Orderly Default by Greece Possible? 3. Greece’s Upcoming Elections Look Grim 4. G-8 Summit Members Ambush Germany’s Merkel 5. Webinar With Yacktman Capital Group on Thursday Overview – Greece Default Risk Accelerating...
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Sarkozy: Problem Solved, Or… Germany to Sarkozy: It’s Not Over The ISDA Steps Up No Winners in Ugly Greek Debt Deal, Only Lessons And By the Way, Close Your Borders The Next Greek Tragedy Orlando, Stockholm, Paris, and Staying Young … (December 11, 2009) – Greece's prime...
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This disconcerting story was brought to my attention by our resident commodities expert at Wyatt Investment Research, Kevin McElroy. It's been mostly buried by the main stream media but has substantial implications for exposing the hypocrasy of central bankers tellling us that gold isn't money...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Greece to Form New Coalition Government? 2. Greece Still Up Against the Default Wall 3. Is Italy the Next Financial Crisis? 4. Latest G-20 Summit Accomplishes Little 5. Conclusions: More Roller Coaster Markets Greece to Form New Coalition Government? I haven...
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Long-time readers will be familiar with Michael Lewitt, one of my favorite thinkers and analysts. He has gone off on his own to write his letter, and I am encouraging him to write even more. I call Michael a thinker because he really does. He reads a lot of thought-provoking tomes and then thinks about...
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In my letter earlier this week, our guest writer, Grant Williams, gave Europe about the same odds of escaping crisis as a pitcher throwing a perfect game in baseball. That's 40,000 to 1. Take a look at this decision tree on Europe (below) from STRATFOR, a private intelligence company. Looks like...
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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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09-20-2011
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Filed under: Bailout, Debt, Banks, Greece, Fed, Ireland, Portugal, ECB, food stamps, Poverty, European
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Europe’s banks are in trouble, big trouble. And the U.S. Federal Reserve is prepared to bail them out. European banks are some of the biggest holders of debt (bonds) from Greece and other indebted Eurozone countries. And they will be big losers if Greece defaults on its debt payments. Throw in...
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I hate to embarrass my friend and colleague Andy, but he's easy to pick on. The fact is, while most people in my company regularly buy stocks, he hasn't done so for over a decade. He's an anomaly, and we give him a hard time. That is until we saw how much money he makes in the markets. Last...
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In This Issue: Kicking the Can Yet Again It’s Not Just Greece Who is Going to Buy that Debt? You Have to Admire the Commitment The Problem with US Employment Washington DC, Vancouver, NYC, Maine, and now Europe This week we start with the latest version of the solution to the European Crisis, the...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. How Greece Got in This Mess 2. Kicking the Can Down the Road 4. Stratfor Sounds Warning on European Debt Crisis 5. Is It Time to Short the Stock Market? Introduction I have not written in detail about the Greek debt crisis because it has been so widely chronicled in the media and by...
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The S&P 500 is doing its best to build on the half-point rally it put together last week. All in all, there's no reason to expect stocks to reverse recent weakness and launch toward previous highs. It's better to see stock consolidate after the recent declines, and, perhaps, grind higher...
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The news these days is Greece, Greece, and more Greece. Last year I prepared my readers when the first round of Greek bail-outs was happening. I told them then and telling you now, this isn't over. Not by a long shot. In fact the smart money is on Greece defaulting and destabilizing the French and...
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This will be one of the more controversial Outside the Box posts in a great long time. Indeed, I debated with myself at some length. It will make some readers mad, but I decided it is more important to make most readers think. And, as it happens, there are parts of this week’s essay that I rather...