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Ponder This? Six-Pack #35
2008-06-09 19:27:00 1. The Federal Reserve System is the primary culprit as to what caused the current credit/housing/mortgage bust. The below-market interest rates engineered by Alan Greenspan and continued by Ben Bernanke and Co. created bubbles and malinvestments (think “Negative Amortization Mortgages” for one specific example) that are now coming home to roost laying waste to ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
Ron Paul Speaks With Iraqi Legislator in Congress Committee Hearings
2008-06-06 16:11:00 This is a very interesting and telling question and answer session. The language and communication barrier is large, but it comes out loud and clear that the Iraqi people do not want a massive long-term U.S. military presence and a Vatican-sized U.S. embassy. George W. Bush said we were giving them democracy right? ... More About: Politics , Congress , Current Events , Ron Paul , Paul
Ponder This? Six-Pack #35 (Real Estate)
2008-06-03 18:21:00 1. Due to the overwhelming evidence of a long-term bubble in the housing market due to unprecedented lax lending standards, we have called for a significant drop in real estate prices since the March 2005 introduction of the Ponder This… newsletter. Although housing continued to hold on for about another year, with some markets ... More About: Economics , Estate , Real Estate , Current Events , Real
Ponder This? Six-Pack #34
2008-06-01 00:57:00 1. With social mood rolling over back into a more serious bear market environment, it is always interesting to see new social trends begin to grow and take off. This article/video blog highlights a large crowd of hipsters gathered at Union Square in New York City for what looks like a spontaneous “fight club” ... More About: Politics , Economics , Sports , Entertainment , Current Events
Ponder This? Six-Pack #33
2008-05-30 06:10:00 1. America was created as a land focused on the protection of liberty and limited government. Known as the “land of the free”, the country has been a rare force in the history of the world in terms of creating and maintaining a free society. That being said, with individual freedom being a ... More About: Politics , Economics , Entertainment , Current Events , Pack
Memorial Day
2008-05-27 04:37:00 Please join me in a moment of reflection for those who have given their lives in times of war. On this day of reflection, it becomes even more concrete that war is a bane of human existence. As we continue into the 21st Century, we must remain vigilant in our efforts to bring peaceful solutions ... More About: Current Events , Memorial Day , Memorial
Ponder This? Six-Pack #32
2008-05-22 22:20:00 1. Reflecting the sentiments held by the editorial board here at Ponder This… and aligning with reasonable and aware analysis of the underlying interests in the subject, huge bond manager Bill Gross today came out stating that he believes the Federal Government has understated consumer price inflation on a continuous basis. Given that so ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
Ponder This? Six-Pack #31
2008-05-21 16:03:00 1. As a young person, I always took it as natural that fluoridating the water supply made sense. It’s one of those things you kind of accept given the nominal BS reason given that “it’s good for tooth decay”. Given that there have been growing questions in relation to potential health risks associated ... More About: Politics , Economics , Entertainment , Current Events , Pack
Amazing Comic Ignorance
2008-05-19 08:48:00 I love the quote at the end: When you’re in a hole, stop digging. Check it out and feel free to laugh out loud: More About: Politics , Comic , Entertainment , Current Events , Amazing
Ponder This? Six-Pack #30
2008-05-14 18:30:00 1. Bill Kauffman, author of Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Anti-War Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism, which is worth a read in itself, provides a very solid review of Ron Paul’s excellent piece of 21st Century political analysis The Revolution: A Manifesto. 2. In a turn of events that is at the same time ... More About: Politics , Economics , Entertainment , Current Events , Pack
Real Estate/Credit Deflation 16: The Next Dozen Shoes to Drop
2008-05-09 20:58:00 ?If the shoe fits, it?s too expensive.” ~ Adrienne Gusoff I was offered a very nice position with Fisher Investments of Woodside, California last year and, although I passed on the opportunity, I truly respect their money management track record. At the same time, I have noticed from their website that they are comparing the ... More About: Economics , Estate , Credit , Shoes , Real Estate
Ponder This? Six-Pack #29
2008-05-08 08:32:00 1. Mish produces a very nice analysis of government sponsored entity (”GSE”), mortgage backed security packager Fannie Mae and its capital position. Needless to say, given the significant downturn in the housing market, predictable by us, but unpredictable by pie-in-sky financial professionals and government bureaucrats the world over, the mortgage giant is not looking ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
Ron Paul Receives the Most Military Donations
2008-05-05 07:54:00 Many chicken-hawks, war-mongers and those who may potentially profit from endless war and the military-industrial complex (politicians included…) have tried to smear Ron Paul as somehow not supporting the troops because he is not a gung-ho Iraq War supporter. The facts say, however, that Paul’s positions - protect and defend America first, do not ... More About: Politics , Military , Current Events
Must See Real Estate Value Chart 1988-2008
2008-04-30 08:06:00 The chart speaks for itself. Click the picture to enlarge: Read what caused this turn of events here. More About: Economics , Estate , Real Estate , Current Events , Real
Ron Paul on Bloomberg?s Night Talk
2008-04-30 06:56:00 This is a very solid interview. Props to Bloomberg for producing it. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Ron Paul
Current Fed Policy - Destined to Fail
2008-04-24 21:47:00 Mish presents an extraordinary analysis of Bernanke’s Federal Reserve auction facilities and why they are really just reshuffling the chairs on the deck of the titanic. One of his best points is that the Fed is not “King Midas” - just because it is willing to hold crappy bonds, such as mortgage backed securities, ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Current , Policy
Ponder This? Six-Pack #28
2008-04-23 03:47:00 1. Amidst the housing bust portion of the boom-bust cycle, brought on by extremely loose monetary policy engineered by “Easy” Al Greenspan and continued by “Helicopter” Ben Bernanke, underwater home “owners” are now setting fire to their houses (and even cars) to attempt to gain insurance settlements on an impaired asset. This sort of ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
Economic Analysis - Market Analysis - Mid-April 2008
2008-04-19 07:58:00 The economy is undoubtedly at a critical turning point. Let’s take some time to make a reasonable attempt to understand what has happened and what is happening now, and try, humbly and sincerely, to decipher what is next on tap for the economy and markets. First, for a little macro background: 1. In 2007, the United ... More About: Market , Analysis , April , Economic , 2008
Government Continuity Plan?
2008-04-17 17:21:00 There is absolutely no reason why, if our executive branch of government has a government continuity plan for major disasters, that this information should not be shared with the key committees in the House of Representatives. Why would Bush and Co. deny access to such information to our elected representatives? The only answers ... More About: Politics , Government , Plan , Continuity
Renters Getting HOSED
2008-04-17 07:04:00 Check out this site: angryrenter.com. With prudent renters having realized that housing was in a bubble and avoiding the madness, they are now being double wammied by irresponsible Federal government officials who want to levy taxes to bail out those who got in over their head. To put it simply: NO ONE DESERVES A TAXPAYER FUNDED BAIL ... More About: Politics , Economics
Ponder This? Six-Pack #27
2008-04-16 00:08:00 1. The U.S. Federal Government could be in trouble of losing its AAA debt rating status. The article linked cites potential costs associated with bailing out government sponsored mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as broker-dealers such as Bear Stearns. Not mentioned are the rising costs of global military operations ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
World Riots Over High Food Prices
2008-04-15 03:21:00 Yet, fiat currencies are still unbacked by hard assets and our Federal government somehow still has the gall to subsidize corn-based ethanol. Read a little bit about it here. Is there any sanity left? Turning corn into fuel for SUVs as global grain and staple food prices skyrocket? U.S. taxpayers subsidizing this lunacy? Who ... More About: Politics , Economics , Food , World , Current Events
An Economy Built on Lies
2008-04-13 05:12:00 Gary North pens a hard charging piece about the vast web of lies that has enveloped our modern financial, political and economic system. Listen friends, buying the empty rhetoric of lying politicians and the ignorant spouting off of big media personalities WILL NOT HELP YOU when the lies catch up with society. Please perform your ... More About: Politics , Economy , Economics , Lies
Ponder This? Six-Pack #26
2008-04-12 01:46:00 1. With a full blown credit crisis that was caused by too much government intervention into the marketplace (creating a huge social mood bubble via popular belief in the Fed and its abilities to end the business cycle), the majority of “solutions” that have been floated include vastly expanded government intervention into the market. I will ... More About: Economics , Current Events , Pack
Must Read Illumination of ?Earmarks? by the Honorable Ron Paul
2008-04-11 07:16:00 Earmarks are given a bad name through ignorance of their process and power hungry central administrators who want more power over the use of Federal government revenues. The Constitution says the Congress is in charge of Federal government spending, NOT the executive branch (the administrator of law ONLY). Please read the article, digest its meaning and spread ... More About: Current Events , Ron Paul , Read , Paul , Earmarks
Ponder This? Six-Pack #25
2008-04-10 07:10:00 1. Gary North points out strongly how the Federal Reserve and Federal Government in general have created the current crisis in the economy. There is no doubt in my mind that the Fed has played a tremendous role, essentially the most important in terms of psychology, in brewing the credit bubble that lead to ... More About: Politics , Economics , Current Events , Pack
Tibet Protestors Scale the Golden Gate Bridge - plus more
2008-04-08 00:30:00 - The Golden Gate Bridge is a huge structure spanning the entry way into the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose Bay Area. It is a tremendous landmark and a beautiful piece of engineering. Today, protesters climbed the wires and held up two massive banners proclaiming a message of “Free Tibet ”. I applaud these individuals’ ... More About: Politics , Economics , Sports
The Fed Got Us In This Mess
2008-04-06 09:26:00 They should not be granted more authority. The fact that they exist and are believed to make downturns “not likely to happen” leads to an overly optimistic and ignorantly un-diligent general attitude among the people at large. The presence of the Fed causes a false sense of security. The fact of the ... More About: Economics , Mess
Mish Hits One Out of the Park
2008-04-03 23:39:00 In his latest commentary, Mike Shedlock chimes in strongly on the Fed, the Bear Stearns bail out, the inifficiency of central bankers trying to set prices (interest rates, time preferences), and how the existence of the Fed itself, creates a feedback loop that makes free market credit an impossibility. Click here to read Mish’s ... More About: Politics , Economics , Park , Hits
Ron Paul?s New Book: The Revolution - A Manifesto
More articles from this author:2008-04-03 20:35:00 It is an absolute must that anyone who considers him or herself even a nominal lover of America and/or freedom read statesman Ron Paul ’s upcoming book: The Revolution: A Manifesto. The book will be a complete expose of many of the fallacies, foolishness and wrongheadedness of our current American political and policy landscape. To put it simply, ... More About: Politics , Economics , Entertainment , Book 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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