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It's The Best of Times The Elements of Deflation It's More Than Half Full Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay What's a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation...
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John Mauldin
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10-23-2009
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Filed under: Employment, Inflation, Consumer Spending, Debt, Credit Crisis, Housing Crisis, Deflation, Jump Point, Bill Bonner, Tom Hayes, Daily Reckoning
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This Way Be Dragons A Housing Update More Prime Foreclosures In Our Future Are We Paying Too Much for Health Care? Naples, London, and Home for June In fantasy novels the intrepid heroes come across a sign saying "This Way Be Dragons." Of course, they venture on, facing calamity and death,...
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Dear Reader, A quick comment is in order on the recent stock rally. While I could provide that comment, few people do the "dose of reality" thing better than my globetrotting partner and friend of many years, Doug Casey. Begging the forgiveness of our paying subscribers to The Casey Report...
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Solving the Housing Crisis Housing Could Drop Another 20% in Pricing Buy A Home, Get a Green Card A Real Stimulus Package Las Vegas, La Jolla, and the OC This last Tuesday the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by my friend Gary Shilling and Richard LeFrak. They offer a simple solution for the housing...
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This week I am really delighted to be able to give you a condensed version of Gary Shilling's latest INSIGHT newsletter for your Outside the Box. Each month I really look forward to getting Gary's latest thoughts on the economy and investing. Last year in his forecast issue he suggested 13 investment...
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John Mauldin's Outside the Box
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John Mauldin
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03-16-2009
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Filed under: Credit Crisis, China, Housing Crisis, Deflation, GDP, Consumer Spending, Consumer Price Index, Household Wealth, Gary Shilling, Consumer Debt, Consumer Saving, Financial Regulation, Automotive Sector, Deleveraging, Employment, Baby Boomers, Retirement, Eastern Europe, Exports, Protectionism, Savings
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January 30, 2009 Dear Reader, Like most people, I occasionally find myself overwhelmed by the tasks involved with everyday life. This week, I have been, to use the old adage, "working like a dog." Though, now that I think about it, I have a hard time imagining the origin of the term. Even in...
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The Room
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David Galland
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01-30-2009
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Filed under: Interest Rates, Subprime Loans, Gold, Housing Crisis, Casey Research, David Galland, Obama, Foreclosures, Mortgages, FHA, Afghanistan, Stimulus
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This week I bring you two different articles as an offering for Outside the Box. As a way to introduce the first, let me give you the quote from Merrill Lynch economist David Rosenberg about the rising threat of global trade protectionism: "The Financial Times weighs in on the rising threat of global...
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John Mauldin's Outside the Box
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John Mauldin
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01-26-2009
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Filed under: China, Housing Crisis, Subprime, Global Economy, David Kotok, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Nouriel Roubini, Barack Obama, TARP, Tim Geithner, Elisa Parisi-Capone, Economic Policy, RGE Monitor
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IN THIS ISSUE: "The 2008 market will go down in history" "2008: We Learned What We Don't Know" Happy New Year!! Introduction Happy Holidays! I hope that everyone who celebrated Christmas had a very merry one. We certainly did at the Halbert house. I am taking this week off to...
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Forecasts & Trends
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Gary D. Halbert
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12-31-2008
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Filed under: Gary D. Halbert, Housing Crisis, Credit Crisis, Subprime, Oil, 2008, Economy, Estate Planning, MarketWatch, Investor Losses, Nick Godt, Robert J. Samuelson
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This week I am really delighted to be able to give you a condensed version of Gary Shilling's latest INSIGHT newsletter for your Outside the Box. Each month I really look forward to getting Gary's latest thoughts on the economy and investing. Last year in his forecast issue he suggested 13 investment...
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John Mauldin's Outside the Box
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John Mauldin
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12-15-2008
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Filed under: The Fed, Credit Crisis, Housing Crisis, Recession, The Dollar, Gary Shilling, Diversification, Consumer Debt, Depression, Monetary Policy, Financial Crisis, Consumer Confidence, Bank Failures, Bailout, Jobs, Commodities, TARP, Commercial Real Estate
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Leverage Is an 8 Letter Word If Loans Are So Cheap, Why Don't They Sell? Deflation and Helicopters: Time for a Review Commercial Property Loans Start to Haunt the Banks Warren Makes a Bet Thanksgiving, Moving, and New Orleans Leverage is an eight-letter word, which the markets now regard as twice...
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Thoughts From The Frontline
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John Mauldin
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11-21-2008
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Filed under: The Fed, Ben Bernanke, Consumer Price Index, Credit, Warren Buffet, Credit Crisis, Housing Crisis, Deflation, Deleveraging, Commercial Property, Goldman Sachs
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Dear Reader, Keeping up with the complex drama now flashing across the global screen is becoming more challenging with each passing day. In lazier days, a scene might be allowed to unfold at a measured pace, the interactions between major characters developed through subtle nuance and lingering shots...
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The Room
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David Galland
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10-20-2008
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Filed under: International Speculator, Oil, Gold, Recession, Housing Crisis, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Sara Palin, Foreclosures, Voter Fraud, Insurance Fraud, Bretton Woods
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Everywhere I go, people ask me how we got into this financial crisis that has seized up credit and driven the stock markets down 40% or more, most of it in just the last few weeks. Obviously, the simple answer is that the housing bubble burst, and as home prices tumbled, mortgage delinquencies and home...
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This week we look at a very solid piece of analysis on the world economy from my friends and London business partners Niels Jensen and Jan Wilhelmsen of Absolute Return Partners ( www.arpllp.com ). I find it is quite useful to read the considered opinions of those from outside the US and particularly...
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The Headwinds to Growing Your Wealth The Wealth of Nations Housing: Are We at the Bottom? Alt-A is the New Subprime 3.5 million Unemployed and Counting La Jolla, South Africa and London This week we look at the housing market in some detail. When can we expect it to turn around? Part of the problem is...
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What a momentous weekend. I was pounding the table about the need to move quickly on Fannie and Freddie in my last few letters, and especially this last letter. And then they did it. There are a lot of details that have yet to come out, and it is likely to be far more expensive the Savings and Loan crisis...