February 27, 2009 Dear Readers, This morning, as I was looking over dispatches from correspondents around the world – from Ed in Alberta… Sadia in the UK… Baldy in Indonesia… the “General” in Portugal… and Nitin in Katmandu – I began to appreciate what it must have been like to be on the news desk during...
The Endgame Employment Numbers Are Worse Than Posted Aye, Captain, I'm Giving Her All I've Got! Problem #1: Deflation Problem #2: Pushing on a String The Muddle Through Middle Conversations With John Deflation? Stimulus? Deleveraging? Recession? A soft depression? A return to a bull market? With...
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John Mauldin
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01-17-2009
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Filed under: Employment, GDP, Debt, Economic Forecast, Muddle Through, Economic Crisis, Deflation, TARP, Obama, Pushing on a String, Stimulus
Dear Readers, We're no longer in Kansas, Dorothy. At this point, the world's financial markets are in the firm grasp of a massive tornado. Our vision is blurred with fast-moving images of abandoned houses, crumbling banks, pontificating politicians, alien-looking Treasury secretaries on one knee...
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The Room
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David Galland
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10-03-2008
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Filed under: Politics, Inflation, Casey Research, McCain, Economic Forecast, Obama, Bailout, Barton Biggs, Energy, FDIC, Europe
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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David Galland
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08-27-2008
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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.