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Plundering California: How Public-Sector Unions Brought The State To Its Knees
Inquiring minds are reading Plundering California by Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center in Sacramento and a longtime columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana. The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans ...
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Reader Emails on Birth/Death Model and Unemployment Rate
I have gotten many question about revisions to the Reader Emails on Birth/Death Model and Unemployment Rate. In case you missed it the BLS has admitted that its Birth/Death Model has overestimated jobs by about 800,000. The New York Times talked about this in Jobs Vanish . The Labor Department ...
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Hussman Accuses the Fed and Treasury of "Unconstitutional Abuse of Power"
John Hussman is always a good read. A week after it came out, I am catching up on reading reading "Should Come as No Shock to Anyone" . Hussman is about as level-headed as they come, so it was interesting to see him accuse the Fed and Geithner of "Unconstitutional Abuse of Power". Here is the ...
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The Global Warming Religion - A Modern Day Crusade: Do You select The Cause or Does the Cause Select You?
I received a lot of emails in response to Beware The Ice Age Cometh: Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A Scam Many were from religious zealots of global warming theory, and as you might surmise they were not printable. A few common sense comments came my way suggesting that the hackers or ...
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Affordable Hospital Care Coming Soon (Just Not Here)
While the debate in Congress over heath care rolls on, affordable, world-class heart operations can be had for cheap in India, and coming soon to the Cayman Islands. Please consider The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery . Dr. Shetty, who entered the limelight in the early 1990s as Mother Teresa's ...
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Weaker Data and the "Nascent Recovery"
After spending $trillions one would have hoped to see something more than an expected GDP revision of 2.8%. Looking ahead MarketWatch is asking Do weaker data show recovery is stalling? Last week, a "reality check" rippled through the markets following weak data on housing starts and industrial ...
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Deflation Returns To Japan; Black Hole Madness In U.S.
Japan has been hopping in and out of deflation for decades. Japan is back in deflation once again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Deflation's Return Weighs on Japan The Bank of Japan faces mounting pressure to loosen its policy as deflation tightens its grip on the nation's economy, even ...
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Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A Scam
It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam. Thanks to hackers (or an insider) who broke into The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and downloaded 156 megaybytes of data including extremely damaging emails, we now know that data ...
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Time Lapse Unemployment Visualization
Inquiring minds are watching The Geography Of A Recession , a time lapse unemployment visualization from the start of the recession until now. Click on the link to play. This is undoubtedly my shortest post ever. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To ...
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Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Risk Policis At Citigrifroup
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — Citigroup is whining that new regulations eliminate pricing for risk. So what does it do? Jack up rates is the answer. To lower interest rates, Citi customers must spend more . Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for ... (more) Disingenuous Credit Card Whining And Risk Policis At ...
California Students Protest 32% Tuition Hike; State Budget Gridlock II Coming; Massive Deficits In San Francisco
Massive fiscal problems confront California once again. Let's start with a look at California students hit with 32% hike in tuition . California undergraduates and their parents just got hit with a 32% increase in tuition by next summer. With hundreds of angry students chanting outside their ...
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Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In House Finance Committee
Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In House Finance Committee
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — Chalk up a rare victory for the little guy (and the nation itself). The Bill To Audit Federal Reserve Passes Key Hurdle In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by ... (more) Ron Paul, Alan Grayson Audit The Fed Bill Approved In ...
Bank Regulators "Reign of Terror" on Small Business Loans
In response to Freefall In Small Business Loans I received an email from "ABO" the CEO and owner of a bank. ABO, who has been in the banking business 30 years, writes: Mish, I was reading the article you wrote concerning the difficulty of securing small business loans and President Obama ...
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Economists Opposing Fed Audit Are On Fed Payroll
When you can't change public opinion any other way, you buy it. That is the message from Huffington Post today in Economists Opposing Fed Audit Have Undisclosed Fed Ties . As the debate over an audit of the Federal Reserve intensifies in the House, one camp is trotting out eight academics that ...
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Cap-And-Trade "Three-Card Monte" Dead For 2009
Typically, one of the best thing Congress ever does is nothing. And so it is again with the Cap-And-Trade energy bill. Thankfully, Senate Climate Bill Delay Raises Doubt on Chance for U.S. Law . The U.S. Senate won’t try to pass a bill limiting U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions for months, clouding ...
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Audit The Fed Needs Your Help ... Again!
It's time to make some phone calls. It will take less than 10 minutes. Here are the Democrats who support the auditing of the fed. Rep. John Adler, NJ: (202) 225-4765 Rep. Travis Childers, MS: (202) 225-4306 Rep. Steve Driehaus, OH: (202) 225-2216 Rep. Rubén Hinojosa, TX: (202) 225-2531 Rep. ...
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Housing Starts Green Shoots Wither On Vine
Housing Starts Green Shoots Wither On Vine
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — After optimists talked up rising housing starts for several months as green shoots, improving conditions, etc., reality came knocking in full force with the New Residential Construction Report For October 2009 . BUILDING PERMITS Privately-owned ... (more) Housing Starts Green Shoots Wither On Vine
Freefall In Small Business Loans
Freefall In Small Business Loans
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — In what should be no surprise, banks are cutting back on small business loans. Please consider Small business loans: $10 billion evaporates . Eight months after President Obama began prodding the nation's banks to increase their small business ... (more) Freefall In Small Business Loans
Worst Is Yet To Come For Insurance Companies
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — Fitch is warning Insurers Face $23 Billion Loss on Commercial Property . U.S. life insurers, a group led by MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., may lose as much as $22.6 billion on investments in commercial real estate through 2011, Fitch ... (more) Worst Is Yet To Come For Insurance Companies
Delong Says Odds of Another Great Depression Reach 5%; I Assess Odds of Various Scenarios
globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com — Economist Brad DeLong, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, is getting increasingly pessimistic. DeLong says: Chance of Great Depression Now 5%... For 2 1/4 years now I have been saying that there is no chance of a repeat of the Great Depression ... (more) Delong Says Odds of Another Great Depression Reach 5%; I ...
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