Tag: Japan
Government Economic Policy Cannot Cure A Problem It Caused
Neither President Bush’s nor President Obama’s economic policies brought this recession. The event was preordained from years of governmental economic mismanagement and intervention. The crisis could have come sooner, or later. It happened on Bush’s watch. Now Obama must deal with it. The insanity of current economic policy has been dealt with here before. Keynesian [...]
VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945
Some great old film of a spontaneous celebration in Honolulu upon hearing that the war with Japan had ended. To see additional background on this film or to view it in a larger picture, go to its source.
Observations on Markets — Beware the Next Few Months
Market action yesterday and the day before was particularly hard on precious metals and other commodities. This behavior is consistent with a belief that QE2 will end without an announcement of additional QEs. This possibility and its ramifications were discussed yesterday in Mauldin’s Outside the Box article where David Galland was interviewed. I am in [...]
The Japanese Tragedy
It is beyond words to describe the devastation in Japan. ABC News has a series of before and after shots that show the horrible devastation. An event similar to this could happen here. Help in whatever way you can or feel appropriate.
Why Worry About Greece?
For all we have heard about Europe and the PIGS, it appears the US and Japan have bigger problems. This chart from a post at Infectious Greed where Paul Kedrosky explains the source and basis: The size of the sovereign fiscal adjustments ahead around the world, based on the latest IMF figures, assuming countries want to [...]
Save Yourself and Your Family — Read This
Sovereign defaults are coming. They are mathematically impossible to avoid as was discussed in The Continuing Spiral to Bankruptcy and Welfare States R.I.P. For individuals and/or investors, this piece may contain the most important information available for protecting yourself and your family. Please read it carefully, several times if necessary to fully digest what is [...]
Treasury Bubbles About To Burst
Our ability to fund our deficits and fixed income needs ended last year. The Treasury market is perhaps the biggest bubble yet to burst. It is highly probable that this bubble reached its zenith and started to deflate 2009, propped up only by extensive and surreptitious quantitative easing. It is nearly certain that it bursts [...]
USA as Japan – Our Lost Decade
Image by Tony the Misfit via Flickr Image by Okinawa Soba via Flickr Suggestions that we are in for a “Lost Decade” similar to Japan (they have actually lost two decades!) are hard for most Americans to accept. But, in terms of the stock market, we have already lost a decade, especially when you adjust [...]
Mish on Mauldin
Death of Muddle Through The US government is on an unsustainable path. Deficits are soaring and the Obama administration is planning massive tax hikes. Moreover, businesses have little reason to hire already because of massive overcapacity. Add increasing health care costs to the list of reasons for businesses not to hire. Given that government spending [...]
More Bad News for Dollar and Treasuries
More terrible news from ZeroHedge on the Dollar and Treasuries. Does anyone not now believe that surreptitious Quantitative Easing has not been going on and will continue? Detailed Look At TIC Flows: August Treasury Purchases By China, Japan And UK Drop To Lowest Total Year To Date Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/18/2009 19:58 -0500 [...]
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