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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Mac Slavo submits: Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research has performed a Cost Benefit Analysis of Jobs Stimulus created under President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since it was enacted back in February through the end of October. This number is updated and posted on the Administration’s...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Mac Slavo submits: The Black Friday panic of 1869 saw mobs of angry Americans drag bankers from their offices and hang them in the streets. From a recent Bloomberg story , we learn that bankers on Wall Street are preparing themselves in an effort to avoid a similar fate. "I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Mac Slavo submits: The International Forecaster, Bob Chapman , discusses The Fed’s options for 2010 and what effect their decisions will have on the economy in Potential for Fed To Hyperinflate: The following information may be the most important we have ever published. One of our Intel sources, highly placed in banking circles, tells us that on 1/1/10 all banks that have received TARP...
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SeekingAlpha Retail Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Mac Slavo submits: SHTFplan contributors opined about the 2009 holiday retail season in The Recession in Pictures , with many coming to a similar conclusion to Alan Cohen, Chairman of Abacus Advisors. From Zero Hedge, An Unbiased View of The Holiday Shopping Season : Complete Story »
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Dr. Marc Faber has been in the news a lot lately, asked repeatedly about the price of gold, and, while there was some confusion about his outlook last week as noted here (Mac Slavo at SHTFPlan going so far as to contact the good doctor to clarify his views and documenting the results here), the preponderance of recent reports point to a very bullish Faber. [More...]
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The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Dr. Marc Faber has been in the news a lot lately, asked repeatedly about the price of gold, and, while there was some confusion about his outlook last week as noted here (Mac Slavo at SHTFPlan going so far as to contact the good doctor to clarify his views and documenting the results here ), the preponderance of recent reports point to a very bullish Faber. There is a growing collection of related...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Mac Slavo submits: Friday’s unemployment report from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics is anything but a green shoot. The official U-3 unemployment number is 10.2%. The broader and more comprehensive official unemployment number, the U-6, is at 17.5%. The U-6 counts all the people that want a job but gave up, all the people with part-time jobs that want a full-time job, and all the people...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Mac Slavo submits: Well known economic analyst Marc Faber still likes gold, especially when compared to equity prices. In his October 2009 Gloom Boom & Doom report , Faber discusses his long-term outlook for the shiny yellow metal: Some pundits will argue that precious metals are expensive, but this isn’t my view. Why would anyone not own some gold, rather than US dollars, when interest...
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Mortgage News Clips (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Times.co.uk ———— Contrarians Denninger, Dent, Faber and Hoye Looking for Dollar Rebound – Author: Mac Slavo – SHTFPLAN.com
