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• Why We Are in a Depression | THE CONSERVATIVE POST
  One of today's top economists explains why we are in a depression now, and the worse is yet to come… Via Zero Hedge: What Is A Depression Anyway, And Why We Continue To Be In It? Bookmark and Share ...
• What Is A Depression Anyway, And Why We Continue To Be In It? | zero hedge
  You will pardon us for posting two excerpts from David Rosenberg today, but this one is a must read, and explains more clearly than anything written on the matter why America is currently, and without doubt, in a depression, due primarily to ongoing secular changes in consumer and investor behaviour...
• Bank Run 2011?
  Bank Run 2011? Free-Market Thinking. Dominant Social Themes. Power Elite Memes exposed. Ron Paul and Libertarians. Ludwig von Mises and Austrian Economics. Gold is Money. Gold and Silver are Honest Money. Central banks create inflation. Human action is only solution. Special Guest interviews discu...
• Irish Worries For The Global Economy « The Baseline Scenario
  By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson Is the global economic recovery still on track? The mainstream view is: yes, without a doubt. But increasingly, there are increasingly reasons to fear another financial disruption – particularly given the latest developments in Ireland. The consensus among official...
• The War on Small Business
  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. To help set the stage, let’s look at some important stats from the Small Busines...
• The Invaluable Work of Economic Scientists
  Wolf, Stiglitz, Krugman – we love these guys! They pushed the world’s governments to undertake huge “stimulus” programs. Of course, the stimulus programs didn’t work. They couldn’t work. All they could do was to disguise the facts and delay the necessary adjustments. But these fellows do...
• Higher education
  Galloping inflation in American college feesFOR decades, college fees have risen faster than Americans’ ability to pay them. Median household income has grown by a factor of 6.5 in the past 40 years, but the cost of attending a state college has increased by a factor of 15 for in-state students an...
• US Treasuries: the Mother of All Bubbles? « Gold blog, gold blogs, blog silver, precious metals blogs
  Speaking on a recent CNBC broadcast, Peter Schiff, president of Euro-Capital, said, “The bond market is the mother of all bubbles right now.  When it bursts the losses will dwarf the combined losses of the stock market bubble and the real estate bubble.” Marc Faber, author of the Gloom Boom and...
• Bernanke Out of Bullets, But Not Bombs | FINANCIAL SENSE
  Word on the street is that the Fed is now "out of bullets." Many economists fear that in its efforts to spur recovery, the Fed may have already exhausted its array of monetary ammunition and that it has nothing left of significance to fire at the steadily advancing recession. They believe that since...
• Velocity – Armageddon Antidotes & Just Say “No” to 401(k) & IRA Confiscation
  Deepcaster. "Why all the concern about Inflation, much less Hyperinflation? Isn’t the Private Sector Massively deleveraging? Yes. Hasn’t M3 been dramatically dropping in recent months (a Major Sign of an Economic Depression BTW)? Yes."
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