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[The Big Picture] Barron's Bad Book Recommendations | The Big Picture: Bottom line is the SEC and the Fed and all of our regulatory agencies looked the other way (and even aided/abetted these crimes against the country) because of their free market ideology, but go ahead and cling to your theory that Fannie/Freddie/CRA were the biggest drivers of this fiasco. Gramlich even warned Greenspan personally about the mess that was brewing back in the early 2000’s, I believe, but go ahead, it’s fine to create your own reality in BananAmerica.

[Untitled] The Real Economy is Suffering... Sinking... and Shutting Down: Meanwhile, we found out this week that the feds have wagered an amount equal to 170% of GDP in their attempt to bailout the world (more below). Part of that money was used to buy Wall Street out of the investments that they didn’t want.

[Peterson Institute for International Economics Monitor] RGE - Systemic Risk: Are Some Institutions Too Big to Fail and If ...: What it shows, however, is that the power of the financial sectorgoes far beyond a single set of people, a single administration, or asingle political party. It is based not on a few personal connections,but on an ideology according to which the interests of Big Finance andthe interests of the American people are naturally aligned, an ideologythat assumes the private sector is always best, simply because it isthe private sector, and hence the government should never tell theprivate sector what to do, but should only ask nicely, and maybeprovide some financial handouts to keep the private sector alive.

[Positive Liberty] Positive Liberty » Does the Trade Deficit Hurt the Economy?: As stimulus packages in the United States, China and elsewhere lift the global economy, the U.S. oil import bill will increase as oil prices and demand rise, and the undervalued Chinese yuan and beefed up subsidies on exports will push Chinese consumer goods and unemployment into the U.S. market. As the stimulus spending winds down, more Americans will be pushed out of good paying jobs with benefits into poorly paying positions without benefits, and be left to charity to obtain health care.

[The Daily Reckoning UK RSS Feed] The real economy is shutting down: As in Rome and Spain, more and more stimulus stimulated spending and speculation, but not real output. During the 2001-2007 period, for example, credit in the US increased by $22 trillion.

[bizzXceleration: Performance, Value and Profit] bizzXceleration: Performance, Value and Profit: LT Business Cycle ...: It also gained unit market share at its fastest pace in eight quarters as many independent operators closed shops, Chief Executive Robert Niblock said on a conference call with analysts.Despite better-than-expected results, Lowe's third-quarter profit forecast missed analysts' estimates as the retailer expected a continued challenging housing market into 2009, especially in regions such as California, Florida and the Gulf Coast.

[The Glittering Eye] The Glittering Eye » Blog Archive » The Candidates on the Economy ...: So, for example, in Fairfax County, Virginia, where a lot of nicely compensated federal government workers live, or, say, San Jose, California (Silicon Valley) prices are high and people who barely make it into the middle class are subject to the AMT. ...

[Bill Cara] Week in Review #35 (2007-09-01): Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is a Cara 100 company because (i) it is financially strong, with a “1” (strongest) rating for safety by Value Line (ii) top-flight management (iii) constant Y/Y (for at least 18 consecutive years) growth of sales, cash flow, earnings and dividends (iv) a nice dividend yield of ~2.3 pct, (v) high margins -- ~30 pct gross and ~20 pct net (vi) strong R&D ~13.4 pct of sales (vii) international diversification with 44 pct of sales outside the US, and (viii) diversified operations across three product lines: (a) run-of-the-mill pharma (44pct of sales/48pct of profit) (b) medical devices & diagnostics (38/42), and (c) consumer over-the-counter medicines and supplies (18/10).

[The Big Picture] Financial Profits and Rising Debt Era | The Big Picture: It is odd that the secular bull market (which ended in 2000) coincides with the rise in debt from 81 until 2000. The growth of debt then went exponential with little in the way of real productive economic growth (other than debt) to keep up appearances.

[politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Are these the figures that ...: New GDP figures for the USA out today -. “The American economy shrank at an annual rate of 1 percent from April through June, the government reported on Friday, stoking hopes that the worst recession since the Great Depression was nearly over.

[Locust blog] U.S. Economy Trending Towards an Inflationary Depression ...: The genius part came from the US and European Illuminists who sponsored, supported and aided Hitler in resurrecting Germany as a militaristic police state so we could have a second world war to take us out of the Illuminist-created Great Depression. They told Hitler that they would destroy the German mark to break Germany out of the clutches of the admittedly onerous and disgusting Treaty of Versailles, which required Germany to make reparations to Allied nations in amounts that were impossible for a country destroyed in a world war to manage.

[Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's blog listings.] The G20 has lost the plot - Telegraph Blogs: Japanâ€â™s exports fell 49pc in January: Germanyâ€â™s GDP has been contracting at 8pc or so (annualized) over the last six months, the worst performance of any major economy in the Atlantic region - although the bitter phase of mass unemployment is yet to come. This is the plain reality, whoever you blame for causing this crisis.

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[Mises Economics Blog] Meanwhile, you are being forced to pay to kill - Mises Economics Blog: of three Irelands or about 11 Kuwaits or the Netherlands””but only if you throw in Sri Lanka. Or if you think of the wars in terms of a country that produces nothing but has to buy about $127 billion worth of goods and services per year to sustain itself, that country would have a lot of eager customers and the second-largest trade deficit in the world.

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