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Date Sent: 2011-02-19
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Friday, February 18, 2011 PM edition |
Federal Marshals Threaten, Censor "Libertarian Enterprise"--Arrested for Filming Tourist Attraction
Protestors swell to 25,000 at Wisconsin capital -- 20 reported dead in Libya as thousands take to streets -- Death toll in Yemen mounts as police and protestors clash --
Arab capitals braced for violence as unrest spreads -- Shafik Gabr:
What Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Most -- Ex-aide: Colin Powell was
‘manipulated’ by Cheney into justifying Iraq war -- Bernanke: Don't blame easy money for capital swings
-- Helen Benedict - Military Sexual Assault Against Female Soldiers --
Restore Arizona's Economy by Restoring Goldwater -- Middle East flash
points dynamically updated (Interactive map) -- Bahrain's Army Opens Fire With Machine Guns on Protesters
-- X-47B First Flight: Age of Pilot Ends -- Parabolic Moves: CME Hiked
Gold And Silver Margins By 50% -- FreedomsPhoenix & The Philosophy
of Liberty in 39 Languages -- BofA and Bad Faith Foreclosures in Utah
-- The Philosophy of Liberty: Property -- Your Internet ID - An RFID Smart Card: ‘It is the Way We Do Business’ -- Cutting Defense: Obama, Gates Say No -- How the U.S. Government Forged a Surveillance Society -- Julian Heicklen arrested by Teaneck, NJ and federal officers -- Wisconsin Teacher Protests Prelude To Economic Riots Coming To America? --
Do You Feel $1 Billion Safer Today? -- Hotel Occupancy Rate: Hotels
Struggling in 2011 -- Is China Trying To Create A New Gold Standard? --
President Obama's Budget: A Graphic Illustration -- Evergreen Air and a Secret Chemtrail Facility -- The Fed Is Now Creating The Third Bubble In 12 Years -- Florida’s foreclosure rate is nation’s highest
AZ: Help wanted: Moving the
Freedom's Phoenix warehouse
this weekend;Join GATA Fri./Sat. at the Phoenix
conference; Ron Paul in Phoenix, Feb. 25-27 for Tea Party.
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News Link • Police State
Mother of 3 Arrested for Taking Pictures of Tourist Attraction at Airport
02-18-2011
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www.longislandlawyerblog.com
This case is a frightening example of what can happen when a photographer encounters ignorant bullies with badges.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Federal Marshals Threaten, Censor «Libertarian Enterprise»
02-18-2011
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libertas.ws
For the first time, in its sixteenth year of publication, this journal of libertarian views and opinion " bound by an absolute moral resolve never to initiate force against anyone for any reason, nor to advocate or delegate its initiation " has been
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Government
Who's Afraid of a Free Society?
02-15-2011
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Bill Bonner, The Daily Reckoning
Auburn, Alabama " Last week, my new book, Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse was released. It could just as easily have been called Everything Needs to Be Abolished, and Here’s Why.
The book does two things. First
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Bill Bonner
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Pumping Up The Propaganda
02-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
In 1998 the TOTAL SPENDING of the Federal government was $1.65 trillion. We now run deficits that equal the entire budget of the United States in 1998, without blinking an eye or questioning how we got here. The politicians have scared the populace..
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Employment & Jobs
Protestors swell to 25,000 at Wisconsin capital
02-18-2011
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RawStory.com
Yesterday, on the third day of protests against Wisconsin’s anti-union legislation, an estimated 25,000 protesters swarmed the capital building.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Obama Administration
Photo shows Obama at dinner with Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg
02-18-2011
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cnn.com
A photo released by the White House on Friday shows Apple CEO Steve Jobs, along with other tech luminaries, raising a toast with President Barack Obama at a dinner Thursday night in San Francisco.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
20 reported dead in Libya as thousands take to streets
02-18-2011
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cnn.com
Amid burials and prayers, tens of thousands of Libyans took to the streets Friday to air their discontent with four decades of Moammar Gadhafi, the longest-ruling president in the world, witnesses said.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Death toll in Yemen mounts as police and protestors clash
02-18-2011
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www.france24.com
A hand-grenade attack killed two anti-regime protestors and left 27 injured in the Yemeni city of Taez on Friday, while violent clashes broke out in Sanaa, witnesses said.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Arab capitals braced for violence as unrest spreads
02-18-2011
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www.guardian.co.uk
Killing of demonstrators in Bahrain and violence in Libya threaten an escalation of regional unrest
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Shafik Gabr: What Egypt's Top Tycoon Fears Most
02-18-2011
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www.thedailybeast.com
The well-connected Cairo industrialist Shafik Gabr warns Lloyd Grove that Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran are trying to destabilize Egypt and the country could descend into anarchy.
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Sierra Hancock
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News Link • Iraq
Ex-aide: Colin Powell was ‘manipulated’ by Cheney into justifying Iraq war
02-18-2011
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RawStory.com
Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff said Thursday the former Secretary of State was lied to and manipulated by Vice President Dick Cheney into justifying the US invasion of Iraq.
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Sierra Hancock
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Feature Article • Chemtrails
PokerFace NEWZLETTER for February
Sierra Hancock
This winter has been a real bitch here in the North East. Once again disproving the Communist piece of Crap Al Gore that there is no Global Warming caused by man. The only thing that is responsible for our weather is the SUN.
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News Link • Federal Reserve
Bernanke: Don't blame easy money for capital swings
02-18-2011
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Reuters
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended easy money policies in advanced economies against the charge they are overheating emerging markets, saying factors such as exchange rate rigidity are also to blame.
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Powell Gammill
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Today on LewRockwell.com - Friday Feb 18th 2011
02-18-2011
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LewRockwell.com
For the Love of Liberty, Lew Rockwell on conservatives versus freedom - Egyptians, Revolt Against the State Currency - Water and Survival Techniques - A Nation of Cringing Wretches, TSA gate-rape and Real ID tracking are slave training, says Eric Pet
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Restore Arizona's Economy by Restoring Goldwater
02-18-2011
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Becky Chandler
If Arizona's politicians want to restore the state's economy they would be well-advised to conjure up the ghost of Barry Goldwater. On specific economic matters they should do a remake of the “Miracle of Chile” and put the Goldwater Institute in ch
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Becky Chandler
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News Link • Activism
Middle East flash points dynamically updated (Interactive map)
02-18-2011
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The Political Commentator
Given the level of unrest in the Middle East and the movement of flash points from country to country, a dynamic interactive map is required in order to be able to monitor the situation.
From Tunisia to Algeria, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and I
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Michael Haltman
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News Link • Seriously?
Baby Boxer’s Temper Tantrum
02182011
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www.drscoundrels.com
What in the world could someone have against someone saving money?
Check out this spite filled temper tantrum.
I’m still not sure if she just did a 180 degree turn and convinced California that she was just the nicest lady to walk down the stre
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Activism
A Preview: Bahrain's Army Opens Fire With Machine Guns on Protesters
02-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com & BusinesInsider.com
The situation in Bahrain is now critical, with live fire raining on protesters, resulting in dozens killed, even as Libya (9th largest crude reserves in the world) is rumored to be in a comparable situation. The countdown on Saudi Arabia is now on.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Corruption
Millions In Theft? In A Government Program? No, Really?
02182011
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www.drscoundrels.com
I know there are a lot of people who like to poke fun at the $1000.00 toilet seat or $700.00 hammer of old, and I do agree there is a lot of waste and cost overruns that need to stop at the Department of Defense.
Absolutely.
However, when you l
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Rich Hilts
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News Link • Archaeology
Lobster Missing Link Identified
02-18-2011
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arclein
Tshudy, a geosciences professor at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a widely regarded expert in crustacean fossils, has spent the past couple of years filling in a large blank in the evolution of lobsters.
"It's months of long days," Tsh
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
Water Turbine Improvement of Forty Percent
02-18-2011
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arclein
espite being the second largest shark in the ocean, the basking shark is generally considered harmless to humans as it is a filter feeder. It swims with its mouth open to sift zooplankton, small fish and invertebrates from the water before the water
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robert klein
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
X-47B First Flight: Age of Pilot Ends
02-18-2011
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arclein
++Conducted by a U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman test team, the flight took off at 2:09 p.m. PST and lasted 29 minutes. This event marks a critical step in the program, moving the team forward to meet the demonstration objectives of a tailless fighter-siz
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robert klein
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News Link • Media: Television
Al Jazeera Comes of Age
02-18-2011
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arclein
Inside the newsroom, the atmosphere is alive with energy. Journalists sit transfixed to their monitors, which show live feeds from central Cairo -- where hundreds of thousands of protesters are on the brink of pushing another strongman from power and
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robert klein
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News Link • Precious Metals
Parabolic Moves: CME Hiked Gold And Silver Margins By 50%
02-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
This means the CBs are well on their way to losing the imposed gold standard wars. Look for the USD to take a big step lower shortly as nominal values of everything do the inverse.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
Compulsion in religion
02-18-2011
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www.examiner.com
Warning. Caveat Emptor. Buyer beware. Providing an exegesis of a Quranic verse is an ambitious task for a layman such as me, and I am unqualified. Everything right and true is from Allah, not from Al Azhar, not from Al Jazeera, not from Al Qaida, but
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Housing
Foreclosure-Gate: Foreclosure Exam Produces Expected Whitewash
02-18-2011
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NakedCapitalism.com/
It is really annoying when people, particularly those in positions of power, can’t even be bothered to take the trouble to lie well.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
BofA and Bad Faith Foreclosures in Utah
02-18-2011
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Market-ticker.org
You were sold convenience and competition in banking, but it was explicitly stated at the time that this would not result in your rights under state law being lost.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Surveillance
Your Internet ID - An RFID Smart Card: ‘It is the Way We Do Business’
02-18-2011
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executivegov.com
NIST’s technologists envision that consumers could use an identity credential, such as a smart card or digital certificate, to prove their identity for things such as online banking, without revealing sensitive information at every log-in.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Cutting Defense: Obama, Gates Say No
02-16-2011
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Robert Dreyfuss, Nation
President Obama and Secretary of Defense Gates are defending the indefensible, namely, defense. Against clamor to cut the Pentagon’s bloated budget coming from both the right and the left, from anti-DOD liberals, antiwar activists, ultra-conservative
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Surveillance
How the U.S. Government Forged a Surveillance Society
02-18-2011
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canadafreepress.com/
That organization is tasked with the goal of creating a once-size fits all international identification system using massive data banks that contain individual biometric information on nearly everyone in the world.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Police State
Julian Heicklen arrested by Teaneck, NJ and federal officers
02-18-2011
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Tyranny Fighters
According to Julian Heicklen’s wife, Susan Heicklen, this is all likely the result of a bench warrant issued after Julian failed to appear at an arraignment after being charged with jury tampering.
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Darren Wolfe
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Wisconsin Teacher Protests Prelude To Economic Riots Coming To America?
02-18-2011
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TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com/
State and local government debt has reached at an all-time high of 22 percent of U.S. GDP, and many state and local governments are teetering on the brink of insolvency.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Military Industrial Complex
Do You Feel $1 Billion Safer Today?
02-16-2011
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Mark Thompson, Time Magazine
Contracts just announced by the Pentagon. It's paying 4 companies as much as $281.7 million each for an "indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract to provide advisory and assistance services" to the U.S. military's Missile Defense Agency.
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Leon Felkins
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Hotel Occupancy Rate: Hotels Struggling in 2011
02-18-2011
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CalculatedRiskBlog.com
This year has been tough for hotel occupancy, with only a small increase over the very low levels for the same period a year ago.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Precious Metals
Is China Trying To Create A New Gold Standard?
02-18-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
China's grab for gold is accelerating at a rapid pace, and it's raising questions about the country's ultimate intentions.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Obama Administration
President Obama's Budget: A Graphic Illustration
02-18-2011
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com
I don't pay too much attention to Presidential budgets. The general rule is that spending will be greater than forecast and that deficits will also grow beyond forecast. However, Keith Hennessy has done a great job of graphing the President's budget.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Chemtrails
Evergreen Air and a Secret Chemtrail Facility
02-18-2011
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theintelhub.com
Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. is an Oregon-based aviation company with longstanding ties to the CIA. Its huge Evergreen Maintenance Center in Arizona was bought from the Agency, which offered the property to no-one else.
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Ernest Hancock
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News Link • Arizona's Top News
Arizona Republic Propaganda: Economy in Arizona on the rise
02-18-2011
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AZcentral.com
"Arizona's economic recovery is among the fastest in the country," said Karp, speaking to BBVA Compass clients in Phoenix this week. "And we're seeing a faster recovery compared to a few months ago."
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Federal Reserve
The Fed Is Now Creating The Third Bubble In 12 Years
02-18-2011
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BusinessInsider.com/
The Fed jump-started the stock market with two rounds of massive easing commonly known as QE1 and QE2. Not coincidentally, the market bottomed in March 2009 just as QE1 got underway.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Florida’s foreclosure rate is nation’s highest
02-18-2011
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miamiherald.com
Florida’s foreclosure rate moved above 14 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, and the state now accounts for nearly one in every four distressed homes in the nation, according to a new report.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Housing
Is the NAR Overstating RE Sales ?
02-18-2011
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Ritholtz.com
The impact of this could be substantial. Consider inventory " using CoreLogic;s methodology, unsold inventory in November 2010 was16 months of supply, not the 9.5 months the NAR claimed.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Population Growth: Non-farm Payrolls Have To Grow By 121,000 Per Month
02-18-2011
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ZeroHedge.com
According to the traditionally optimistic Congressional Budget Office, the US has to create 121,000 jobs per month in 2011 just to keep pace with population growth.
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Jack Gregson
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News Link • European Union
Fixed income 101 or why the EU sovereign debt crisis is still very real (chart progression)
02-18-2011
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The Political Commentator
The European sovereign debt crisis still exists determined by the only arbiter that matters, the marketplace. Bonds 101 says that there is a concept known as risk and reward. That is the greater the risk, real or perceived
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