1. Still Searching for a Recovery
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... the International Herald Tribune. Until now, the whole bonus/executive pay/bailout spectacle was just an amusing diversion – diverting the public’s attention with a trifling few million dollars, while ...

2. Born Biddable
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... Henry Paulson began the digging with his TARP program in September of last year. Then came TALF. Not to mention various trillion-dollar salvage operations from the Fed. How much do all these rescue efforts ...

3. Three Dollar Threats, Two Energy Trends, One Interesting Chart and More!
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by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias First Russia, then China, now U.N.? Powers of the world move to ditch the dollar Puru Saxena on why the Fed secretly wants inflation… the more the better The 5 ...

4. U.K. Economic Data Boosts the U.S. Dollar
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... on to the Elite Eight to play powerhouse UCONN on Saturday. The currency markets weren’t as exciting as the basketball games yesterday, as the dollar held in a fairly tight range. The big move came in ...

5. Silver and Gold
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... bet that the U.S. government is pursuing a long-term policy to debase the dollar,” Byron continues. “Seems like a winning bet to us.” AngloGold is not Paulson’s only wager on the yellow metal. He also ...

6. Zombie Economy Feeds on New Money and Credit
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I thought that I had a pretty good handle on how much “stimulus” money Congress and the Fed have spent so far, ranging, as it does, in the zillions of dollars… So I was taken aback when Addison Wiggin ...

7. A Bailout in Disguise
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... for mankind, down the road to Hell. The monetary base of the U.S.A. is to be increased 500% over the next few months. More than a trillion dollars’ worth of debt is to be monetized. Doesn’t this guarantee ...

8. Absurdities of Socialism and Hyperinflation
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... with houses, cars, dollars, stocks, government and bureaucracy. Millions of new shares of stock are issued each week, and government is growing like a weed. There’s very little gold and silver on ...

9. Monetary Inflation is Our Future
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... confirmation that the Federal Reserve wants to debase the U.S. dollar. It is worth noting that the total debt in the United States now exceeds $60 trillion, and its economy is around $14 trillion. So, ...

10. Geithner Tanks the Dollar, Then Pushes it Back Up
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Good day… The currency markets took back what little strength the dollar mustered over the past two days with the euro (EUR) moving back above 1.36, and the Australian dollar (AUD) moving back above ...

11. An Oil Play That Pays Big Dividends
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Stocks continue to rally as the Fed floods the dollar lines, Another oil shipping company to stick on your watch list, Time running out for science geeks/technology enthusiasts ...

12. Fed Begins Buying U.S. Treasuries
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... you buy a U.S. Treasury bond, you pay for it with real money – or, at least as real as dollars get. Money changes hands. No net increase in the money supply. But when the Fed buys a Treasury bond it creates ...

13. An Unsustainable Way of Life
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... semblance of a gold-backed dollar. Or it’s kind of like Peak Oil. M. King Hubbert drew the fundamental Peak Oil graph back in the 1950s. Heck, I heard Hubbert give his speech in fall 1977. I saw Peak Oil ...

14. Home Prices Plunge, Avoiding the Dollar, Investing in Nuclear, The China Dilemma and More!
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by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias The latest chapter in the housing bust: Home prices collapse, but insiders bullish? Chris Mayer with a way to escape the dismal U.S. dollar Our resource man explains ...

15. Shipshape
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... bobbing around the twenty dollars mark, but many saw that as a temporary side effect of the “necessary restructuring process”…something that, evidently, never seemed to materialize.) Now that you ...

16. China’s Threat, Stocks Soar, A Housing Solution and More!
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by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias China calls dollar into question… why the red nation wants a new “international reserve currency” Stocks boom… what happened the last time the ...

17. Math of Subprime Mortgage Default
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... of the sub prime mortgages could be resolved? Why then are we talking about payments to banks and financial institutions of more than a trillion dollars? Is there no one in Washington that does the math? ...

18. Another Bailout Plan, A Sector Set to Soar, Auto Curiosities, CBO Forecasts and More!
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by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias What the world needs now is… another trillion-dollar bailout The 5 explains the complex plan that’s got the market booming Who’s paying for this? CBO ...

19. Greenspan Not Reserved About His Innocence
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... his stupid song!” – Chicago Sun), but the sentiment is perfectly correct: Foreigners refusing to use the dollars they receive, as a result of America’s $820 billion per year trade-deficit, to buy more ...

20. Passing Out the Dollars
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By Chuck Butler. "Besides the fact that the government shouldn't have their hands in the cookie jars that belong to banks, imagine if you will, just how well-run these banks will be with the government ...