Declining Positive Sentiment on the Future of the US Economy

Since we’re in the mood, let’s begin today with a question: Do you think your kids or grandkids will be worse off than you?

We’ll give you a moment to think about it.

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Fifty-seven percent of Americans responding to a similar question posed by The Hill predict today’s young people won’t live better lives than their parents.

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Why to Buy Gold in a Deflationary Economy

The Dow rose 20 points yesterday…after a fabulous increase the day before.

Gold went up $38.

We’ve already given you our forecast. We think gold AND stocks are going down. But what do we know?

The role of markets is to make fools out of market analysts. So, the shrewd forecaster has to be careful. He shouldn’t be too precise in his predictions. He can say what direction prices are going. Or he can say when. But not both.

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Finding the Best Buying Opportunities in Volatile Markets

Mr. Market spoke last week….

Unfortunately, no one could understand a word he was saying. Like a back-alley drunk, Mr. Market was mumbling about so much of everything that he wasn’t saying anything at all.

Since July 26, Mr. Market has obliterated $6.8 trillion of global market capitalization. That’s fairly decisive. But last week, he seemed to be having second thoughts…and third thoughts.

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Economic Indicators and Inflation Rise In Tandem

Stocks soared and bond yields bounced yesterday. If we didn’t know better, we’d imagine that economic conditions were pretty darn good. But we do know better…

America’s economic recovery contains more cracks than Humpty Dumpty…after suffering his “great fall.”

Somehow, all of Bernanke’s horses and men managed to slather enough monetary glue onto the fractured pieces of our economy to hold them all together. But the reconstructed economy does not look very much like the original one. Humpty Dumpty is now a Picasso.

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How Quantitative Easing Has Paralyzed the US Economy

Who can you trust?

Whoa… Big sell-off in stocks yesterday. The Dow down 242 points. Investors were worried…

…about new explosions in Japanese nuclear plants…

…about Europe’s periphery states on the verge of default…

…about revolutions, demonstrations and civil wars in the oil producing states…

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Will Camerons Cuts Cost the UK?

Its no secret that the United Kingdom, like the other industrialized economies, is going through a bit of a hard spill. Growth is slow, barely above par for the year, and inflation is rising hard and fast. Inflation is rising so fast, in fact, that British law required Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to address the situation personally in a letter to the newly elected Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osbourne.

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Economic Correction: Too Much Danger on the Downside

Oh my…oh my…

Locusts…earthquakes…tornadoes… What next? Fire and Brimstone!

Theres a plague of locusts eating crops in Australia…

Earthquakes are becoming more common…after devastating quakes hit Haiti and then Chili.

We could definitely feel it in Buenos Aires, said our friends. It was very unsettling. The heavy blinds we have up outside began smacking against the house as if there were a wind storm. But there wasnt any wind.

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7 Critical Data Points Show the US Economy is Hitting a Wall

It’s been declared countless times in the mainstream media that the economy has recovered. The US is out of recession and good times are back again. Yet, there is plenty of data to support that this is not the case. Seven of the top warning signs that the US economy may be hitting a wall are highlighted below.

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