1. How 4 families try to recover from foreclosure (AP)
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AP - You've heard about the bad mortgages, about sad struggles with insolvency, about the wave of foreclosures that has crashed over America. But what happens next?Read more: BayVal Financial News  ...

2. Still Searching for a Recovery
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... are more reluctant to use it. They know where that leads; many would prefer to live under a highway than to run up more debt. A big change in attitude has taken place. People used to think that whatever ...

3. U.S. Government Buys Hypocrisy With Fiat Currency
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... Reserve will continue to be required to create more and more money so that the moronic, desperate Congress can borrow it so that they, their parasitic entitlement friends and more and more desperate people ...

4. Born Biddable
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... the captain and his mates were all morons. Then, when it washed up, we switched to a more cheerful song, with the sound of blowtorches cutting her up…and the furnaces melting her down…as background ...

5. 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 ...

6. Fla. Realtor uses boat to display foreclosed homes (AP)
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... couldn't pay the mortgage.Read more: BayVal Financial News  ...

7. The Capitalism Reformers Caper and Prance
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... should stop the worship of money and create a more human society,” he writes. “Happiness has not risen since the 1950s in the US or Britain,” he points out, despite big increases in wealth. ...

8. U.K. Economic Data Boosts the U.S. Dollar
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... released yesterday morning showed that the U.S. economy shrank slightly more than previously estimated in the fourth quarter. GDP fell 6.3% in the last quarter of 2008, just above the earlier estimate ...

9. Foreclosures Drop 10% in November (BusinessWeek Online)
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BusinessWeek Online - A surprising new report suggests that U.S. home foreclosures actually declined 10% in November despite signs that the housing slowdown is worsening in much of the nation.Read more: ...

10. Bargains in the REIT Wreckage (BusinessWeek Online)
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... has dropped 35% after plunging about 45% in 2008. On Mar. 19, Moody's downgraded General Growth Properties to "C," its lowest rating above default, prompting another wave of selling.Read more: BayVal Financial ...

11. Silver and Gold
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... $63,359 and more… Eric Fry, reporting from Laguna Beach, California… A few days ago, billionaire hedge-fund manager, John Paulson, spent $1.28 billion to buy a piece of AngloGold Ashanti (AU: NYSE), ...

12. JC Flowers chief resigns from Hypo supervisory brd (AP)
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... as the German government considers whether to buy the troubled bank.Read more: BayVal Financial News  ...

13. Repayment Risk Shifts Back to Mortgage Lenders Under House Bill (Bloomberg)
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Bloomberg - March 27 (Bloomberg) -- The repayment risk on exotic mortgages would have to be shared by the lenders under a law proposed by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.Read more: BayVal ...

14. Disaster: Homestead, Fla., hit by foreclosures (AP)
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... rolling her eyes. "Speculators drove up the housing market." Now many of those speculators are forced to rent their properties, which drives home values down even more. Many older properties that were ...

15. Zombie Economy Feeds on New Money and Credit
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... economy has been a walking zombie for decades, animated only by the constant infusions of new money and credit from the Federal Reserve to finance more and more deficit-spending of government, so that ...

16. A Bailout in Disguise
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... caring. And now, we turn to Ian in Baltimore for more news: “The U.S. Treasury auctioned off $34 billion in five-year notes yesterday – barely,” writes Ian in today’s issue of The 5 Min. Forecast. “Demand ...

17. Absurdities of Socialism and Hyperinflation
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... in some cases brutally vandalized, and people buy stocks, rather than gold and silver? Remember Stott’s Law? “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth.” This is true ...

18. Monetary Inflation is Our Future
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... refreshing" perspective on the global economy, investing, and today's markets. Monetary Inflation is Our Future Read more: Agora Financial Feeds  ...

19. Bond Vigilantes, A Coming Bubble, Likely Currency Winner, Big Data Hits and More!
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... bubble it will create Global economy on the brink… vote of no confidence in Britain, Japanese [...]Read more: Agora Financial Feeds  ...

20. Geithner Tanks the Dollar, Then Pushes it Back Up
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... higher yielding investments. At one point yesterday the dollar index dropped precipitously (more than 1.5% in less than 10 minutes), and then bounced back up within a half hour. Jennifer McLean, who takes ...