1. U.S. Government Buys Hypocrisy With Fiat Currency
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... budget deficit for next year!!! Not surprisingly, then, the Economist magazine shows that our federal governmental budget balance, as a percentage of 2009 GDP, is already a NEGATIVE 13.7%, which can be ...

2. The Capitalism Reformers Caper and Prance
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... way. The reformers promise a ‘new deal,’ but they’ve always got an ace up their sleeve somewhere. Enjoy your weekend, Bill Bonner March 27, 2009 This article was originally featured on ...

3. U.K. Economic Data Boosts the U.S. Dollar
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... shrink 1% in 2009. The Norwegian krone (NOK) came under some selling pressure after the cut, selling off nearly 2% in the last 24 hours. A slight fall in the price of oil also weighed on the krone. Norwegian ...

4. Bargains in the REIT Wreckage (BusinessWeek Online)
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BusinessWeek Online - After a terrible 2008, real estate investment trusts are having an awful 2009. The SPDR Dow Jones Wilshire REIT (NYSEArca:RWR - News) exchange-traded fund, which tracks 82 REITs, ...

5. Silver and Gold
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... 2009 edition of the Rude Awakening, “Buy Gold…We Really Mean it This Time.”) “Dollar debasement will doubtless trigger inflation,” Byron insists. “Over time, this will cause a flight from paper currencies ...

6. Disaster: Homestead, Fla., hit by foreclosures (AP)
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... in a subdivision called The Oasis in Homestead: "I should buy right now. The market in Florida has been going nothing but up." Here's what Reina thinks in 2009: "I think I'd rather sell ...

7. Absurdities of Socialism and Hyperinflation
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... no clothes, people are beginning to see the truth of it, and the laughter has begun in the form of escaping from them. Regards, Don Stott March 26, 2009 This article was originally featured on Whiskey ...

8. Geithner Tanks the Dollar, Then Pushes it Back Up
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... predicted the metals markets would recover in the second half of 2009. Commodities account for over 60% of Australia’s exports, and 70% of exports in New Zealand. If data continue to show China is on solid ...

9. A Critical Response to “A Net-Positive Gas Tax”
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... the economy, not put money into the pockets of the American people. Regards, Chris Hitzroth March 26, 2009 This article was originally featured on Whiskey and Gunpowder A Critical Response to “A ...

10. An Oil Play That Pays Big Dividends
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... you to make $63,359 from “Sonoma Grizzly Power” This bear hunter nearly died the day he accidentally discovered “Sonoma Grizzly Power” in 1847. In 2009, three government mandates ...

11. Federal Corruption Lacks Proper Punctuation
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... am now in the lead in the race for the prestigious Mogambo Economics Writing Award (MEWA) for 2009, which I have already won every year for the last 17 years. To those who object to my fraudulently giving ...

12. An Unsustainable Way of Life
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... the new presidential administration, Kunstler continues: “Lending on the scale that became normal over the last decade is, for sure, the one thing that we will not recover. We turn around in 2009 to find ...

13. Shipshape
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... Grizzly Power” This bear hunter nearly died the day he accidentally discovered “Sonoma Grizzly Power” in 1847. In 2009, three government mandates could allow you to harness his discovery ...

14. Surprise! Higher Gas Prices Are Coming
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... our government through taxes — those are three charities I normally wouldn’t hand a donation to. So here we are in the third month of 2009 and oil is sitting around $50 a barrel — which is ...

15. Have the Tanker’s Stopped Tanking?
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... could force you to make $63,359 from “Sonoma Grizzly Power” This bear hunter nearly died the day he accidentally discovered “Sonoma Grizzly Power” in 1847. In 2009, three government ...

16. Meet the Regulators of Team USA Economy
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... be unwound as fast as possible — and run properly. Reich didnít give a date back then, but added that his departure would be ìsooner, rather than later.î That sooner was Feb. 27, 2009. Enter the ...

17. The Lint Age
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By Bill Bonner. "Circa 2009, there is hardly a soul in the entire world who has not been corrupted by the barbarie della reflessione of the late imperial period. Both patricians and plebes are for bailouts. ...

18. A Few Nations Under God: Race and National Socialism in America
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... the horses…and then each other…and they tend to do their killing along ethnic and racial lines. Regards, Gary Gibson January 16, 2009 Post from: Whiskey and Gunpowder A Few Nations Under God: Race and ...

19. The End of the Oil Bust
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... fast. Russia may shock us in 2009 with significant decreases from some older fields. Saudi Arabia is problematic, despite all the happy talk from Riyadh. The problem is that most of the world’s oil comes ...

20. Cheering Gold’s New One-Month Low
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... you will have a chance to buy gold at lower prices before it goes up higher later this year. Much higher, in fact, according to the 2009 forecast made by Diggers and Drillers editor Al Robinson. Not everyone ...