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[the evil speculator - one nefarious trade at a time] Channel Formations | the evil speculator - one nefarious trade at ...: namely that while GDP was a positive on the face of it, stripping out CFC, homebuyers tax credits and increased government spending, all of which are unsustainable, you end up with a negative number for the real economy and the other headwinds (rising unemployment, foreclosures, CRE etc etc etc) will ultimately re-assert themeselves. Whether this is sooner or later, is what I cannot answer :)

[Safehaven] Safe Haven | An Economic Recession?: But it's precisely when business is at a low ebb that turning points are normally seen. This especially holds true when money supply growth has been trending higher along with stock prices, for it provides leverage for that needed infusion of liquidity into the economy to rescue it from going into full-fledged recession.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Iraqi Dinar Discussion: December 14, 2006 ...: May God, judging by His word, not allow these sniping voices to twist this sacrifice of love which helps the Iraqi people to obtain peace and prosperity into their false argument that it is not legitimate for the ox to eat from the grain he has worked so hard to harvest for the masters of the vineyard (the Iraqis - who ultimately owe the vineyard and its fruit to God). And may we seek the blessings on our labor (which is represented in the money we obtain from it) only from God's good hand of blessing - for surely He can never be deceived by the false arguments when His word is plain in saying the blessing is legitimate on the ox which treads out the grain.

[Safehaven] Safe Haven | Gold, Interest, Basis: The gold basis is one of the most sensitive economic indicators with a seismographic predictive power. In particular, if taken in conjunction with other indicators such as the silver basis, volume, open interest, and the lease rates for the monetary metals, it is capable of predicting the beginning of the disintegration of the world's payments system.

[Truck and Barter] Truck and Barter: Dinar Discussion December 2008: The Prime Minister expressed pleasure for Khalaf's visit, noting that such a visit by "the Ambassador or any Arab official is always welcome and we want to boost bilateral relations with Arab states." Al-Maliki added that the Iraqi authorities are now in control of the security situation in the country, after they got rid of sectarian violence, boosted national unity.

[eScholarship Repository] eScholarship: Rural Democratization in Mexico's Deep South ...: Jonathan Fox, Carlos García Jiménez and Libby Haight, “Rural Democratization in Mexico’s Deep South: Grassroots Right-to-Know Campaigns in Guerrero,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 2009

[Floyd Norris] Conservation Efforts Are Slipping - Floyd Norris Blog - NYTimes.com: I believe the answer to be that American’s are still hooked on credit, Americans are not changing their habits they are simply buying gasoline using their credit cards but are they paying them off or is their overall debt increasing?

[Homeland Stupidity] The coming economic collapse of the United States - Homeland Stupidity: As soon as corporate bonds AA rated (Think Junk Bond) start hitting the fan it will make the mortgage mess look like a small bump in the road and our dollar will no longer stagflate, it will just turn over and flat out die. The losses to that market will buckle everyone’s legs once they start.

[National Security Experts] National Journal Online -- National Security Experts -- Biggest ...: The shame of it is that our own weakness would hamper our ability to help in restoring order or maintaining stability.  The Reagan Administration rang up debts out of proportion to any in prior American history.  The last Bush Administration effectively doubled the national debt.  To pull ourselves out of the current mess, the Obama Administration must add more deficits.  In a worldwide depression, with disorder infecting or threatening a country like China, the United States might find foreign and domestic lenders unwilling or unable to fund its debt--and our government might teeter on the precipice of default.  Not being an economist, I cannot imagine the consequences.

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » 'It Has Been Too Pretty For Too Long': If they start giving away condos to anyone who has a pulse than I can see some interesting stuff happening. If you rent a rat-infested hellhole and you don’t care about your FICO score because you never had a credit rating anyhow, and someone offers you a nice new condo for nothing (even $10,000 in options that you can sell for food), why not just live there as long as possible without ever paying for anything?

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Look over there”¦: By the end of WWII, though, anyone following the ebb and flow of ideas must be struck by the ferocity with which good ideas – ideas that had worked extraordinarily well in chasing away human material misery and the encrustations of centuries of political oppression –

[abitare's Blog] Home Prices at 2003 levels and falling...: demon almost all these foreclosures are investors and more focused on the bubble cities where investors bought into....so I don't consider this as americans walking away from their homes but investors walking away from their non home investment....

[WE Blog] Open thread 10/27 | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: “As our administration makes progress on the agenda that Washington has ignored for too long, we expect we’ll get some news coverage of that progress that we like and some tough coverage that we don’t,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “It’s not unlike the New Orleans Saints, who are getting lots of good coverage of their perfect record so far ”” certainly better coverage than the [2-5] Redskins ”” but it doesn’t mean the Saints have liked every story that’s been written about them since training camp.

The Big Picture: As for transporting building materials just got off the phone with an in-law who drives for an independent trucking firm. Evidently much has changed in the space the last 12 months as larger corporate firms like Hunt have reduced prices in competing for less freight.

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