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Who Is Responsible For The Non-Stop Market Rally Since March?

December 31, 2009 – Comments (5) | RELATED TICKERS: GS , JPM , GE

"After all, if a company like Goldman Sachs can borrow gigantic sums of "money" from the Federal Reserve at zero interest, why would it not shovel that money into the burning furnace of a fake stock market rally? "  [more]

Forecast 2010 I'd called for a Dow at 4000."

December 30, 2009 – Comments (12) | RELATED TICKERS: GM , GS , MS

Forecast 2010  [more]

Move Your Money From Your Giant Bank to a Community Bank

December 29, 2009 – Comments (8) | RELATED TICKERS: GM , GS , MS

MY COMMENT:    [more]

Peak Oil and Peak Credit

December 25, 2009 – Comments (2)

Max Keiser interviews Gail Tverberg of http://theoildrum.com/ . This is two interviews in a row by Max with people who are believers in Peak Credit. (Ref my previous Dec 09 post with Professor Steve Keen.   [more]

Tice "Hold gold & silver coins for protection", Steve Keen about wages, deflation and zombie capitalism.

December 23, 2009 – Comments (2)

MY COMMENT: They speak to me....  [more]

Banks Strategically Default and So can You. Morgan Stanley to Give Up 5 San Francisco Towers Bought at Peak

December 19, 2009 – Comments (2) | RELATED TICKERS: MS , GS

MY COMMENT: Vox Day reminds Fooldom that banks have no ethical problem strategically defaulting. Read and heed and share with anyone who maybe underwater following the bubble implosion:  [more]

Helicopter Ben Bernake gets the Kiss of Death from Time Magazine - Named Man of Year

December 17, 2009 – Comments (3)

Appearing on the cover of Time as person of the year is like a bell ringing. It almost always is akin to a figurative death sentence for the person involved, and sometimes even a literal one.

Jeff Bezos made the cover in 1999 - the year the internet portion of the tech stock bubble topped out.GW Bush made the cover as his popularity rating had just begun to slide, ending at the worst such rating since Nixon, concurrent with a stock market crash.Hitler made the cover in 1938.General Chiang Kai Chek in 1937. It turned out to be an ill omen, career-wise.Stalin made the cover in 1939 and again in 1942.Kennedy made the cover the year before he was assassinated, as did Martin Luther King - a literal death sentence in both cases.Lyndon B. Johnson made the cover in 1964 - he was about to lead the country into the Vietnam catastrophe.Nixon and Kissinger made it in 1972.It was Yury Andropov's turn in 1983 - he died shortly thereafter.Gorbachov became 'man of the decade' half a year before being forced to step down.Obama's turn was last year.Most worrisome however, in 2006 Time decided to write on its person-of-the-year cover 'You!'.

Read the entire post at Mish's blog here:  [more]

Perhaps this is why the news also got out about GS employees seeking handgun permits in bunches.

December 16, 2009 – Comments (0) | RELATED TICKERS: GS , SWHC , RGR

MY COMMENT: I told Fooldom to buy guns and ammo stocks back in Jan 09. Now GS employees are pilling in.  Disclosure I am still long ammo makers, as the bull market in guns and ammo is just getting started.    [more]

Shadowstats' John Williams: Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression

December 16, 2009 – Comments (10)

MY COMMENT: Faber and now John Williams are making the hyper-inflation call.  You should read John Williams report reguardless of your belief/position.    [more]

Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi Attack At Milan Rally Condemned As "Act Of Terrorism"

December 13, 2009 – Comments (2)

Italy's richest man / President victim of terrorism?  [more]

People of Walmart - One in Four Children on Food Stamps, One in Eight Overall;

December 12, 2009 – Comments (7) | RELATED TICKERS: WAL

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)   [more]

Surging Zimbabwe Stocks - A Look At Things To Come

December 12, 2009 – Comments (0)

Zerohedge - finds the story and makes it's call:  [more]

"They'll all make billions betting against Obama."

December 09, 2009 – Comments (1) | RELATED TICKERS: GM , GS , JPM

MY COMMENT:  One of the few competitent truth tellers allowed in Financial media Market Watches': Paul Farrell  [more]

"we're headed into the wildest king-hell debt workout that the world has ever seen, which will propel a lot of people used to working in air-conditioned cubicles into a world made by hand. "

December 07, 2009 – Comments (3) | RELATED TICKERS: GM , GS , JPM

Climate, Oil, War, and Money
By James Howard Kunstler
on December 7, 2009 7:08 AM   [more]

Absolutely Nothing Has Been Fixed - charles hugh smith

December 07, 2009 – Comments (1)

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Ron Paul 03 Dec 09 Takes C-SPAN Phone Callers

December 06, 2009 – Comments (0)

Great stuff here from Dr Paul:  [more]

Senator Bunning to Bernanke "You are the definition of a moral hazard. Your Fed has become the Creature From Jekyll Island"

December 04, 2009 – Comments (13) | RELATED TICKERS: GS , JPM , MS

Great post and testimony by Mish Shedlock   Senator Bunning to Bernanke "You are the definition of a moral hazard. Your Fed has become the Creature From Jekyll Island"  [more]

Got Confidence? This should help...Matt Taibbi Exposes Obama's Wall Street's Inner Circle

December 02, 2009 – Comments (5)

MY COMMENT: I was a long time reader if WSJ, Barrons and FT. I let my subscriptions expire.  I find far more credible and useful information on the web.    [more]

How Many Americans Are On Food Stamps?

December 01, 2009 – Comments (14)

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