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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. The New Federal Budget Deal That Nobody Likes 2. Fed Considers New Strategy to Stimulate Economy 3. Former Fed Official Explains How This Would Work 4. Conclusions – This Would Be A Huge Surprise! Overview My readers know that the global financial world is waiting with bated breath...
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Last Friday I was in Sonoma, California, for Mike Shedlock’s investment conference. The weather was grey and gloomy, but the conversation was animated and bright. I was fully engaged the whole day and never more than when John Hussman was speaking, commenting, or asking tough questions. John and I have...
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You Can't Be Serious The Serious Unintended Consequences It Is Time to Break Up the Banks New York, Singapore, and the SIC Conference in California I admit to being surprised by Cyprus. Oh, not the banking crisis or the sovereign debt crisis or the fact that its banks were eight times larger than...
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The ECB Explained How to Prevent a Bank Run The Distant End Game The Bang! Moment is Here Chicago, Tuscany, Singapore, Rhode Island, and Rock of Ages "Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence– especially in cases in which large short...
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We woke up this weekend to a €100 billion "rescue" of Spanish banks, and the initial reaction of the market was relief. But did we not just see this movie, but with Greek subtitles rather than Spanish? Was this another of those "necessary but not sufficient" plot lines that Europe...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Spain in a State of Emergency 2. The Failure of Spain’s Bankia SA 3. Latest Red Herring: A Eurozone “Bank Union” Fix 4. The Future of the Euro and the Eurozone 5. Consumer Confidence Heads Further South 6. The Fed: Time for QE3? 7. June 25: The End of Obamacare Rally...
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There Is No Easy Grexit A Rational Bank Run Greek Fatigue The Alligator of Bank Runs Who Gets the Old Maid? Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Italy, and Singapore "Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations? I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Old Debts Threaten European Banks 2. Is the Super Committee Doomed to Fail? Introduction We begin today with highlights from a surprising article written by David Enrich and Laura Stevens that appeared in the Wall Street Journal last week. A recent research project...
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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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Bailing Out Europe’s Banks WWGD? What Is the Fed Really Risking? What Will the Fed Do Next Week? Twist and Shout? Europe, Houston, NYC, and South Africa What in the wide, wild world of monetary policy is the Fed doing, giving essentially unlimited funds to European banks? What are they seeing that...
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This week your Outside the Box offers two views, one from the US and one from Europe, both dealing with banks and financing. First, back in July, my friend Chris Whalen at Institutional Risk Analytics wrote an important comment about how the situation in the housing market is blocking efforts by the...
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Is It Time to Buy a House? Time to Get Outraged by the Banks We Need a Mulligan A Congressional Investigation Is Needed How We Get Out of This 20 Policies to Implement to Create Jobs Tuscany, Kiev, Geneva, and London This week we look at data from the Bank of International Settlements, by which (if someone...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Does Small Business Need a Bailout? 2. Obama & the Democrats to the Rescue 3. What’s Not to Like About TARP III? 4. Higher Taxes Hurt Only 3% of Small Businesses – Wrong! 5. President Obama’s “September Surprises” So Far 6. My Thoughts on the Surprising...
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Gary D. Halbert
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09-14-2010
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Filed under: Taxes, Bailout, Income Tax, Banks, Obama, TARP, cut, september surprises, TARP III, Cash-for-Clunkers, small businesses