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[Read more...]The War on Small Business
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The 5 min. Forecast
September 02, 2010 12:03 PM
by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias
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[*] The War on Small Business: Washington’s long train of abuses against entrepreneurs
[*] Health insurance costs, paperwork requirements, stepped-up audits… It’s worse than ever
[*] The “assault on enterprise” coming to film… A sneak preview of our new documentary project
[*] “Bears on their heels”… Taking stock of stocks as the summer doldrums come to a close
[*] Readers sound off on “sarcastic political commentary” and rare earths
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Today, we revisit a recurring theme: the assault on enterprise. It was the subject of our symposium in Vancouver in July. In this episode, we look at a particularly vulnerable segment of the economy: small businesses.
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Bear Market Race Week 150: Play the 1932-33 Dow Jones Bull Market
September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The 1929 & 2007 Bear Market Race to The Bottom
Week 150 of 149
Play the 1932-33 Dow Jones Bull Market
Foreign Bond and Stock Markets’ Breadth Indicators
Mark J. Lundeen
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27 Aug 2010
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Commodities: Hoarding Versus Shorting
September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Given the decades of rampant manipulation of the precious metals markets on the “short� side of trading, it is more than ironic that as the U.S. CFTC (“Commodity Futures Trading Commission�) ponders restrictions on commodities markets, it has expressed the most public concern about “speculators� on the “long� side of investing.
[Read more...]The Market Ticker – In Front Of The FCIC
September 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Market Ticker - Karl Denninger
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America’s Greatest Wealth Creation Engine
August 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Those who know me well know that I am in incurable optimist. I think the world is going to be better in ten years than it is today. I thought that 20 years ago and 10 years ago and expect to think that 10 years from now. Part of that reasoning comes from the accelerating pace of change in the technology world. The next 10 years will see more change than the last 20-30 years combined!
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Bullion-Buying in China and India, Part II
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In Part I, I alerted readers to the problem with using Western labels and Western analysis to analyze the gold markets of other nations – especially the two titans of the gold market: China and India. More specifically, I pointed out that breaking-down demand into the categories of “retail investment� and “jewelry� demand was both arbitrary and inaccurate.
[Read more...]In The News Today
August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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August 29, 2010 03:00 PM
Dear CIGAs,
The newest fallacy is that the Fed has no more tools left to use.
The Fed has an enormous tool box called “QE to Infinity.” Nothing restricts that creation of money out of thin air whatsoever, which in turn means Currency Induced Cost Push Inflation. That is the message of illustration 3 below.
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Bullion-Buying in China and India, Part I
August 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
One persistent gripe I have with media analysis of economic issues is the extremely stunted perspective on news items. What I mean by this is that a news item will come out which suggests a particular trend (to greater or lesser degrees). What we will then see is a legion of media pundits jumping on this one inference – and then framing it as if it represents the only rational conclusion for this piece of news.
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