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[Safehaven] Safe Haven | Copper: What's Up?: Similar stories are being reported across Asia as documented by the Asia Property Report which estimates that real estate transactions were down 70% in Q-4, 2008. With Asia and the world's building boom gone bust or at least slowed significantly, and China's export markets in a severe and prolonged recession, demand for their products and the copper within is unlikely to recover soon.

[The Market Oracle] Economic Weakness Supportive of Bond Prices :: The Market Oracle ...: This leading indicator is telling us that both sectors are in a recession for the foreseeable future with no turnaround in sight. The monthly Employment report was every bit as lousy as the past half dozen, with another 700k+ jobs lost (including revisions) and the official Unemployment Rate jumping to 8.5% it’s highest reading in decades.

[carapace] Monday March 23, 2009 - There’s one way to find out if a man is ...: As Bob Dylan sings, “steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.” The kings of AIG and other Wall Street titans are working hard to abscond with as much taxpayer money as possible, while refusing to take any responsibility for the financial mess that is bringing the U.S. and world economy to its knees. AIG is the most glaring and stupefying example of questionable spending.

[MainStreet.com] Economy Contracting at Slower Pace | News | Money/Investing ...: Analysts are forecasting that the commercial real estate industry is poised to fall into the worst crisis since the last great property bust of the early 1990s. Delinquency rates on loans for hotels, offices, retail and industrial buildings have risen sharply in recent months and are likely to soar through the end of 2010 as companies lay off workers, downsize or close.

[Calamos Investment Commentary] Market Review and Outlook: We have seen positive signs over the past few months. In our view, the first quarter bounce in the equity markets now suggests that a recession is likely, not a depression.

[Kansas City Star: Business] Economy contracting at slower pace, no bottom yet - Kansas City Star: But most analysts think the low point is still months away, with more bad news likely before the economy stabilizes and begins to rebound."I think the best that can be said right now is that the pace of decline has slowed, .based trade group of purchasing executives, covers indicators including new orders, production, employment, inventories and prices.

[The Compleat Trader] The Compleat Trader: Global Markets May Recover But India Likely ...: The current interest in India is due to the fact that India is likely to deliver 5% growth in the middle of no growth. That will change over next 9-12 months and as global markets rally, India is likely to underperform the global equity markets.

[Building Blocks] An economic turnaround in sight? | Building Blocks | STLtoday: The government’s economic stimulus program is the “the right thing to do” but now isn’t the time for unbridled optimism, Zandi said. He predicted the areas most likely to benefit are job makers such as health care, educational services, government and technology.

[Goldnotes - A Resource Investor's Blog] Goldnotes - A Resource Investor’s Blog » London Irvine Report ...: We have all just been burned by where fiat currency took us, and no one will trust China, the Europeans, or the Russians not to do exactly the same as America, given the chance to run a reserve currency.  Stay long precious metals and load up if the IMF sells. As the new recession/depression starts to accelerate ahead, as I think likely, the expiring game of fiat currency will abruptly go out of control.  Below, a destabilised system in the process of increasing disintegration.

[Vital Systems Security] Vital Systems Security » Blog Archive » Black Swans: It seems that Geithner et al are simultaneously asking questions of economy: how is it that we do vital systems security in a way that does not destroy capitalism (or at least capitalism as we understand it)? How is it that we do it in a way that does not disrupt the very characteristics that make this system vital (risk taking, entrepreneurialism, the flow of capital).

[Comments for The Big Picture] Words from the (investment) wise 4.12.09 | The Big Picture: “The minutes succinctly state the reason for the bold and outsized move: ”˜In light of the economic and financial conditions, meeting participants viewed the expansion of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet that might be associated with these and other programs as appropriate in order to foster the dual objectives of maximum employment and price stability. Several members felt that the significant deterioration in the economic outlook merited a very substantial increase in purchases of longer-term assets.’

[The Housing Bubble Blog] The Housing Bubble Blog » Something Called History In California: ‘Downtown is fairly small as urban downtowns go but with my income it was as close as I could get to something like London or New York and still stay in Los Angeles,’ said Hutton Cobb, who rented a home in a nearby suburb for about 25 years before buying a condo in the 24-story Evo building.”

[Global Investing] Global Investing » Blog Archive » Bear market rally/Bull market ...: This cycle of bubble and bust however is what needs immediate attention. We can no longer sustain prolonged periods whereby stock indices reach paramount heights only to tumble in a few years time. - Posted by George M. ... As a major weighting in the FTSE for one (where I invest), they can pretty well pull the index on their own, and I see them as a leading indicator of economic recovery. Would say the same for commodities in general, for which prices have fallen close ...

[FinanMart.com - Finance Update 2] FinanMart.com - Finance Update 2: Pay Me Weekly - The End Game: Amid all the positive sentiment about Japan's economic miracle, companies soared to valuations that would have been unheard of in the US or any other country. Of course, there were plenty of pundits who sought to justify these valuations as reasonable.

[Economist's View] Economist's View: Fed Intervention and Moral Hazard: Any rate cut(s) at this point would not do anything but continue the enormous misallocation of newly available funds from the Feds we have seen in the last few years. That process diverted a mind boggling amount of money from the general population that could spend it and from the companies that could develop new products and services to fill the new needs into something as unproductive as overbuilding houses and bidding their prices to the levels that left them essentially outside of the reach of average family.

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