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http://www.itulip.com/images2/dead-fish.jpg Technology bubble ten years later: The money’s not back Good news, bad news, and another word of...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/fiscalbomb.jpg Six years ago today the Brookings Institution released a report Sustained Budget Deficits: Longer-Run...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/crywolf300.gifNo capital controls in the USA... yet September 2008 we wrote in US exchange rate and capital...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/manipulate.gifGoldman Sachs shorts its own stock, tanks market, makes billions off SEC fraud charge news SAN...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/debtdrug300.jpg Government-backed liar loans At least one good thing came out of the housing fiasco. We’ll never...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/robbersLG.jpgReal Life 2010: One I’m working on projects this afternoon, trying to focus, but I’m distracted....
http://www.itulip.com/images2/bankteller280.jpgBank Theft Alert: Have you looked at your account statements closely? We have been alerted to a...
http://www.itulip.com/images2/housingpublic300.jpgUncle Sam as Landlord In 2005, as we saw tracts of homes spring up all over South Florida,...
http://www.itulip.com/images/tinfoilhat300.jpg$134.5 billion in fake government securities: Case closed, sans tin foil hat Why did the government...
Government Involves Itself in SOE Fuel Derivative Defaults Last year's commodity price plunge caught a number of Chinese state-owned enterprises...
http://www.itulip.com/images/ice300.jpgFIRE Buys Ice Back when we started talking up gold in August 2001 when the metal traded at $270, if we...
http://www.itulip.com/images/pig.gifMexico City taking cover as deadly swine flu outbreak hits Saturday, April 25, 2009 (The Dallas Morning News -...
Rating cut to junk http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56D79T20090714
SURPRISING STABILITY It is either comforting or surprising, then, that the Tier 1 capital ranking itself shows little change in composition and...
http://www.itulip.com/images/fakebonds300.jpgRise of the Demagogues: The case of the $134.5 billion in fake U.S. bonds What happened: In News of...
http://www.itulip.com/images/house11.jpgDid someone say, "Housing market recovery?'' Throwing new potential home buyers into the maw of ARM...
http://www.itulip.com/images/gaspump.jpgGasoline and S&P 500 make new highs, China diversifies into Wally Bucks, REITs cave... finally On my way...
http://www.itulip.com/images/fruitcakeMED.pngFolks, we need your help. The usually insightful MarketWatch/FOX News financial columnist Paul B....
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29913689/ How about instead: 6 bloggers who look at the system with some objectivity? Cynthia
http://www.itulip.com/images/buffettrose.gifBuffett predicts more market turbulence May 5, 2007 (James P. Miller - Chicago Tribune) Investor...
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JUST how worrying are the figures, published on Wednesday December 10th, showing that China’s exports and imports plunged in November? Exports fell...
On 11/8/2008, Prof. Robert Shiller wrote the following. “The financial crisis that afflicts the country is largely a result of speculative bubbles,...
http://www.itulip.com/images/CCP-USA20.gifChina paper urges new currency order after "financial tsunami" We've been tracking the standoff of...
http://www.itulip.com/images/HarpersNov2008SavingCapitalism.jpgSave Capitalism from Harper's November 06, 2008 (Peter Foster, Financial Post) As...
http://www.itulip.com/images/emergconsumcredit.jpg Fed cuts rates quarter point to zero percent, is open for more Central bank says it will cut...
http://www.itulip.com/images/bensteam.gif Why the Fed Didn't Raise Interest Rates March 21, 2007 (Peter Coy - BusinessWeek) Inflation is...
BoA to close credit cards for approximately 60% of customers? "I work in Credit Department at BoA (Senior Level Credit Analysist Boa Bldg 3rd fl,...
Not the first to point out that recapitalising the system is right idea (Chris Whalen, Roubini among others have as well, this is well laid out and...
http://www.itulip.com/images/speedcrash.jpgFed Funds spread signals crash The last time the Fed Funds target rate got this out of line with the...
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