This is not just about outrunning a bad situation; it's also about reducing your risk of dying when, not if, the "medical safety net" you're accustomed to today disappears. I believe it will.
Go ahead politicians, tell us how important "Wall Street" is to the economy and to you. Let the thieves and liars continue to pollute the markets and screw everyone. Volatility is as high as it is precisely because people are tired of getting buttr
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When a mortgage loan is packaged into one of these "securities" and then all sorts of protection and credit enhancement are taken against it, it is no longer a simple matter of saying that because you didn't pay, there are economic damages...
He simply hit every pitch out of the park he was thrown. He crystallized his message and hit moonshots. This interview is going to be a land mark in his campaign.
It’s not really the end of the world, but to read some of the analysis and data over the past week, it’s hard not to wonder if it’s not the beginning of the Endgame at the very least.
Ron Paul told Lou Dobbs yesterday that the inflation tax – printing more money and expanding the monetary base – will result in people going in the street.
Bernanke, at an annual economic conference in Jackson Hole, left open the possibility that the Fed will take further steps to strengthen the economy. He said its September policy meeting will be held over two days, instead of just one, to allow for a
There are fewer payroll jobs in the United States today than there were back in 2000 even though we have added 30 million people to the population since then.
Without taking some solid, clearly-defined steps, the middle class will undoubtedly move from an endangered species to extinction. The tipping point may already have been passed and, even if it hasn’t, I’m still not optimistic there’s any...
Now, let's get this straight. Is banning short selling equivalent to telling outright lies? No it's not. But it IS equivalent to not telling the truth. And that is, whatever you may think about this, a strange thing to be confirmed in official policy
This time, there will be no bailouts because there can't be. There's no money. Good luck with your belief in the candy-crapping Unicorn America. He's not going to appear.
Let the thieves and liars continue to pollute the markets and screw everyone. Volatility is as high as it is precisely because people are tired of getting buttraped and after a few instances of it they simply say "screw this", take their money...
Aug. 26 - Caution prevails ahead of the closely watched speech by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday, while European sentiment is sapped by a mounting confusion over Greece's bailout.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday announced that the Fed wouldn’t take any steps at this time to provide a boost but indicated they may be considered next month.
This is an admission of weakness, not strength. Bank of America had maintained it didn’t need equity as recently as yesterday and of course before that too, then does a sweetheart deal to build confidence...
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway will invest $5 billion in Bank of America, stepping in to shore up the company in the same way he helped prop up Goldman Sachs during the financial crisis.
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value." – Alan Greenspan (before he converted to the "other side")
After taking a quick detour into pseudo-positive economic data, the BLS sends us right back into the depression, with an initial jobless claims number of 417, far higher than consensus of 405K...
The massive injection of liquidity temporarily salved the day-to-day operations of banks, but they did not repair what ailed our financial institutions.
Amusingly, BofA took issue with my post yesterday, but they didn’t contact me. Instead, they hectored Henry Blodget. Rather weird and frankly a bit cowardly...