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Mark Spitznagel: The Man Who Predicted the Depression

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:15:00 +0000

MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises's ideas on business cycles were spelled out in his 1912 tome "Theorie des Geldes und der Umlaufsmittel" ("The Theory of Money ...

TraderFeed found this 14 hours ago on online.wsj.com

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Gold up, Stocks up, Obama down

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 00:31:23 +0000

I’ll received more than a few emails asking if I’ve turned my blog into a monthly report. Well, I’ve been in New York since my last post. I was going to bring the laptop, but decided I needed a complete rest from the markets. We have a mid-town timeshare just south of Columbus ...

TraderDoug posted 4 hours ago from tuckerreport.com

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Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:26:00 +0000

Al Gore the former US vice president could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies.

Beanieville Inc. found this 2 days ago on telegraph.co.uk

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Be Prepared for the Worst

Mon, 2 Nov 2009 04:49:00 +0000

Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an annual rate of 3% to 4%. Many of these are the same people who insisted that the ...

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis found this 5 days ago on forbes.com

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Keynes on Mises — and on Himself

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:21:15 +0000

Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Wall Street Journal: Kudos to Mark Spitznagel for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (” The Man Who Predicted the Depression ,” Nov. 7). But while Mr. Spitznagel is correct ...

Division of Labour found this 11 hours ago on cafehayek.com

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Sri Lanka Boosting Gold Reserves

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:31:25 +0000

"Hot on the heels of the Indians the Sri Lankans have wasted no time in turning to gold in order to boost their own gold reserves in favour of the once all mighty US dollar."

iehi posted 8 hours ago from hf-implode.com

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Dealing with Diapers and Baby Supplies on a Budget

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:00:58 +0000

If there is anything more beautiful than the sight of a mother holding her newborn, I don’t know what it is. For many years I worked as a labor and delivery coach, and one thing I heard all the time was “How do I manage all the diapers and baby supplies without spending a ...

dning88 posted 15 hours ago from moneyning.com

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Fred Hickey On Gold

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +0000

With the inexplicable recent reorientation by a traditionally very erudite, pragmatic and realistic Jim Grant (well, not that inexplicable) into what can only be described as pulling some serious wool over his readers' eyes, we decided to fall back to our other favorite newsletter writer: the ...

THE SHARK REPORT found this 38 hours ago on zerohedge.com

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The Great Depression And The Great Recession

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:01:10 +0000

Eighty years ago this week, the stock market crashed. Although it was more a symptom of the economy's underlying problems than a cause of the Great Depression, it is still considered the day the worst economic crisis in American history began. I've always been curious about the Great Depression. ...

Capital Gains and Games found this 8 days ago on forbes.com

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Kenneth Rogoff: The Great Contraction of 2008-2009

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:09:52 +0000

Many economic forecasters and market bulls believe that “the deeper the recession, the quicker the recovery,” which is true – up to a point: immediately after a normal recession, economies do, indeed, often grow much faster than usual over the ensuing twelve months. Unfortunately, the Great ...

FT Alphaville found this 2 days ago on project-syndicate.org

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Video: Shooting at U.S. Army Base; 7 Dead

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:08:21 +0000

BREAKING NEWS: At least seven people have been killed and as many as 30 others were wounded in a shooting at the Ft. Hood army base in Killeen, Tex. Katie Couric reports.

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Q&A: Is Market Efficiency the Culprit?

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:15:00 +0000

EFF : The premise of the Fox book is that our current economic problems are largely due to blind acceptance of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which posits that market prices reflect all available information. The claim is that the world's investors and their advisors in the financial ...

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Junk Default Rate Is Highest Since Great Depression

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:32:01 +0000

" The global speculative-grade default rate rose to 12.4 percent in October, the highest proportion of defaults since the Great Depression, according to Moody’s Investors Service."

iehi posted 2 days ago from hf-implode.com

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Are finance professors to blame for the financial crisis (Part 2)?

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:26:51 +0000

Titan of academic finance Gene Fama writes in his blog : The premise of the Fox book is that our current economic problems are largely due to blind acceptance of the efficient markets hypothesis (EMH), which posits that market prices reflect all available information. The claim is that the ...

Economist's View found this 2 days ago on curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com

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buyer tax credit and jobless aid

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Home-buyer tax credits A house in Philadelphia that's under contract to be bought. One economist estimated that the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers led to 400,000 new home sales this year that would not otherwise have taken place. ( Matt Rourke / Associated Press / October 21 , 2009 )

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Taipan Daily: The Best Trader in the World Is Wildly Bullish on Gold

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:15:36 +0000

Editorial Director Justice Litle tells readers John Paulson now quite bullish on gold and the Reserve Bank of India may have just made him look like a prophet...

tpg2008 posted 3 days ago from taipanpublishinggroup.com

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Why the IMF and Fort Knox Won’t Put the Hurt on Gold

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0000

In your article Why the Imf cannot put the hurt on gold you stated the IMF and US have more than 11,000 tons of gold. There has not been an audit on US government Ft Knox gold since 1954.It is highly unlikely there is any gold in fort Knox let alone over 5000 tons .Why would you quote ...

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Behind India’s Big Gold Buy

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:17:10 +0000

Back in September, the IMF announced it was selling a boatload of its gold reserves in order to finance its global interventions. We thought China might be a big (if not the only) buyer of the 400 tons for sale, and that any leakage of the transaction could make a big wave in the dollar and gold ...

DailyReckoning posted 3 days ago from dailyreckoning.com

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Blue State Exodus

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:24:54 +0000

For the past decade a large coterie of pundits, prognosticators and their media camp followers have insisted that growth in America would be concentrated in places hip and cool, largely the bluish regions of the country. Since the onset of the recession, which has hit many once-thriving Sun Belt ...

Winds of Change.NET found this 3 days ago on forbes.com

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The story so far, in one picture

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:20:00 +0000

Basically, we started out with a year that matched the Great Depression, but have since pulled back a bit from the edge of the abyss.

The Mess That Greenspan Made found this 4 days ago on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

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