Archive - Nov 22, 2010 - Blog entry

In closing, keep your eyes glued to the Euro. The markets seem to view the Irish bailout as a “positive” for the currency. If this view results in the European currency breaking above 37.5, then the inflation trade is back on with a vengeance and the US Dollar could potentially be in SERIOUS trouble.

UK public-sector pension reform has already cut the value of employees’ prospective pensions by a quarter, even if no further changes are undertaken, the Financial Times reported, citing a study by the Pensions Policy Institute to be published on Tuesday.

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I swear to you that I may be a cynic but I am NOT a pessimist - this is just a crappy market to invest in and I call them as I see them. Did you know that newsletter revenues go down significantly when the outlook is pessimistic? People don't want to hear bad news...

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This is a musical and visual accompaniment to the post written by Cognitive Dissonance: "Crony America and the Bill of Rights."

Among the richest and most powerful, the senior partners of Crony America if you will, it was always understood that sharing the wealth with the lower class was simply a means to an end and would cease when it was no longer profitable to do so. Only those in deep denial cannot see that we have reached that point today.

The Federal Reserve has been manipulating the economy for the last 20 years through the “wealth effect.” When the wealth effect gets given back, plus interest, the markets crash. The Fed is now using quantitative easing to trick us into buying one overpriced asset, stocks, because the alternative, bonds, is even more overpriced. Long term US trend growth is only 2% a year. We’re going to have another crash. The recent moves in American stocks have been purely speculative. While the S&P 500 went up 20%, the junky part went up 120%. Cash is the only hiding place.

Paul Volcker's public loss of control of the Federal Reserve Board in 1987, combined with President Reagan's unwillingness to publicly back him, ultimately led to Volcker's resignation that same year. Kevin Warsh's Wall Street Journal op-ed wasn't just coincidence, and it presumably signals rising discontent within the Fed that will eventially reveal itself in votes against Bernanke. Volcker's loss of control led to his resignation, and Bernanke's similar problems probably point to his.

Exactly was we predicted in the beginning of the year, Ireland is the 2nd Euro nation that didn't need a bailout to get bailed out! Now that some may start taking this seriously, I go through a quick history of how we got to this point and prep for an intense analysis of how the contagion will unfold, how ugly the haircuts (that nobody needs, of course) will get, and who may be the next domino to fall.

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