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How Not to Run a Pension Stupid Government Tricks Illinois Is Digging a VERY Deep Hole Catastrophic Success Time to Buy a House? Looking Over My Shoulder Palm Springs, Argentina, and Singapore "The government is the prisoner of the bureaucracy. We have 4,021 associations and 6,200 codes. You simply...
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All Spain All the Time Structural versus Cyclical Dilemmas The Mother of All Housing Bubbles Spanish Banks en Bancarrota Meanwhile in the Rest of Europe And Two More Leaked Documents The Fat Lady Has Not Sung San Francisco, New York, and Philadelphia Last Monday I was in Paris and was asked to do a spot...
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Everyone is curious about the state of housing in the US. My friend Gary Shilling recently did a lengthy issue on housing as it is today. I asked him to give us a shorter version for Outside the Box, and he graciously did. And you want to know what Gary thinks, because he is one of the guys who really...
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Long-time readers of Outside the Box are familiar with the names Dr. Lacy Hunt and Van Hoisington. They are a regular feature here, as quite frankly, anything that Lacy writes or says I pay serious attention to. This is their regular quarterly report, where they outline seven things that are likely to...
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The Subprime Debacle: Act 2, Part 2 They Knew What They Were Selling Warning to Mr. Robert Rubin and Management Popping Through It's Time for Some Putback Payback The Worst Deal of the Decade? And Now to the World Series At the end of last week's letter on the whole mortgage foreclosure mess...
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The Subprime Debacle: Act 2 Where is the Housing Recovery? The Foreclosure Mess Some Foreclosure Takeaways Yankees, Rangers, and The Endgame Trouble, oh we got trouble, Right here in River City! With a capital "T" That rhymes with "P" And that stands for Pool, That stands for pool...
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Pushing on a String Let's Shift the Focus An Invitation to an Inflation Party Ten Years and Counting This week the Fed altered their end-of-meeting statement by just a few words, but those words have a lot of meaning. It seems they are paving the way to a new round of quantitative easing (QE2), if...
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The Chances of a Double Dip Houston, My Book, and New York I am on a plane (yet again) from Zurich to Mallorca, where I will meet with my European and South American partners, have some fun, and relax before heading to Denmark and London. With the mad rush to finish my book (more on that later) and a...
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Quickly, I will be on Larry Kudlow's show tonight (Tuesday, June 28), which is at 7 pm Eastern. Larry has promised that we will spend some quality time on some of the current issues facing us. See you there! And now, let's jump in to this week's Outside the Box. Last January 2009, the Outside...
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This week we have a really counter-intuitive Outside the Box. I was talking with the editor of Breakthrough Technology Alert, Patrick Cox about health care costs and he made some very interesting observations from new research about health care. It seems healthy people pay more for health care than sick...
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Was it only last week I was expressing outrage that US taxpayers would have to pick up the check for Greek profligacy in the form of IMF guarantees? This morning we wake to up the sound of $250 BILLION in IMF guarantees for a European rescue fund, most of which will go to countries that are eventually...
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Filed under: Housing, Alan Greenspan, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Europe, Economic Crisis, IMF, Greece, Goldman Sachs, Capital, Michael E. Lewitt
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Where Is All that Greek Gold? The Greeks Write Back The Euro and a Conspiracy of Hedge Funds So Where's the Inflation? No Help for Homebuilders The Singularity, San Antonio, Home, and Addictions The economy grew in the fourth quarter by 5.9%, the most in years. The adjusted monetary base is exploding...
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I have been writing for a very long time about the coming debacle that the commercial real estate problem is going to be. This week's Outside the Box is an interview that my good friend David Galland did with Andy Miller, a man on the inside of the coming commercial real estate crisis. I thought...
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Today I offer you an insightful look at China's real estate market - a "burgeoning bubble" that deserves a close eye as the possibility for breaking increases. Remember the chaos in Japan after their own housing dreamscape got violently yanked back to earth? As investors, we have to recognize...
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The Statistical Recovery, Part Two A Recovery Statisticians Can Love A Few Thoughts on the Housing Market Some Thoughts from Maine Tulsa, Birthdays, Weddings, and Paul McCartney A few weeks ago I first used the term "statistical recovery" to describe the nature of today's economic environment...