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[Techdirt] I think an energy bubble would probably be the most beneficial, preferably one that focused on alternative energy sources. If we come up with new processes for energy production, not only do we help to secure our own energy independence, we can export the technology to other nations and begin to collect revenues based on energy as opposed to hemorrhaging money to oil producing countries as we do now.

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[Financial Sense] "Flight to safety in 09, USD, Gold, Euro, Yen" by Christopher ...: It’s hard to say the USD rally last year alone caused the commodity and metals bubble to break, or did the pending world economic slowdown, which caused the speculators to bail out – and/or did the pending economic slowdown then force financial deleveraging on all fronts which flooded money back into the USD as people liquidated?

[The ChamberPost] The ChamberPost: State of American Business Update: We will no longer stand by and watch as America's national security and economy become more dependent on the unstable foreign nations that we rely on for nearly 70% of the oil we use each day. President-elect Obama and the 111th Congress need to enact an energy plan that reduces our foreign oil dependence by at least 30% within ten years.

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[Kevin Drum - Mother Jones] Kevin Drum - Mother Jones Blog: *Stimulus and Energy Efficiency ...: I agree that we need major incentives to encourage people to improve their energy efficiency, but I suspect a mortgage-based approach will just cause a repeat of the bursting bubble we've just witnessed.

[Chris Martenson blogs] Alcoa - Daily Digest - Jan 7 - Jan. 6, 2009 | Blogs at Chris ...: All told, real GDP was expected to fall much more sharply in the first half of 2009 than previously anticipated, before slowly recovering over the remainder of the year as the stimulus from monetary and assumed fiscal policy actions gained traction and the turmoil in the financial system began to recede. Real GDP was projected to decline for 2009 as a whole and to rise at a pace slightly bove the rate of potential growth in 2010.

[abitare's Blog] Peter Schiff - Don't Stimulate Me Bro!: He does seem to forget that it was the excesses of the "ROARING 20's" where the free market ran rampant that built up to the bubble crash (no real margin requirements, anyone could basically buy and own stocks on a phone call - sort of like naked shorting).  He also ignores the whole knock on Hoover for his lack of intervention  on behalf of the banks and just basically letting  them crash.  He also doesn't know that when FDR took office the Supreme Court kept knocking down his legislation as unconstitutional 5-4.  It wasn't until FDR won re-election by a landslide and real threats of increasing the size of the Supreme Court (which would then allow FDR to stack the Court) that Chief Justice Roberts switched his votes from against to in favor of all the new legislation (hence the phrase "a switch in time saved nine"). 

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[The Economists' Forum] FT.com | The Economists’ Forum | Choices made in 2009 will shape ...: This is a year in which the fate of the world economy will be determined, maybe for generations. Some entertain hopes that we can restore the globally unbalanced economic growth of the middle years of this decade.

[Institutional Economics] Institutional Economics: ”˜Light Reading It’s Not’ - Forbes: The sharp decline in the Australian dollar exchange rate is also a powerful stimulus to net exports, but any boost to demand from fiscal stimulus will also have the perverse effect of putting upward pressure on the exchange rate, reducing net exports. In an open economy, there is no free lunch from fiscal policy.

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