Dear Readers, I have woken in the pre-dawn to find our direst predictions coming true, with global stock markets taking yet another pounding and U.S. stock futures limit down. Serving as a proxy for the mindset now gripping governments around the world, French President Sarkozy has announced that the...
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September 26, 2008 Dear Readers, What a world I have returned to from my cloistered retreat at the beautiful Vivenda Miranda , scenically situated on a cliff outside of the quaint port town of Lagos, Portugal. Everything has changed. Everything is changing. The storm we have so long tried to help you...
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September 12, 2008 Dear Readers, In today’s “special” edition of the Room, I want to go somewhat beyond the latest news and observations on same. Instead, I want to discuss the big picture as it relates to the U.S. and global economy. I do so because it is growing more important with each passing day...
August 22, 2008 Dear Readers, Summer weather, at least that of the preferable sort, has finally returned to the corner of the globe where your correspondent sits listening, too loudly, to Michael Franti’s Yell Fire! . ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WASrQFg8o ) For those of you unfamiliar with Franti...
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Filed under: Inflation, Gold, Ben Bernanke, Dollar, Olympics, McCain, Economic Forecast, Obama, The Casey Report, Euro, I.O.U.S.A.