1. Still Searching for a Recovery
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... the feds picked their pickets for trillions. But now, it’s turning ugly. Our guess is that the blood will flow…but later. It’s still fairly early in the correction. Investors have lost money – lots ...

2. Born Biddable
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... about 20% of its value – or about $10 trillion. Normally, those losses should be born by the capitalists – the reckless lenders and investors who extended loans to people who couldn’t pay them back. But ...

3. The Capitalism Reformers Caper and Prance
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... and prevents it from dragging down its employees, lenders, investors and counterparties. But what actually happens is much simpler. Money goes from the pocket of the person who earned it…to the pocket ...

4. U.K. Economic Data Boosts the U.S. Dollar
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... governments are pushing foreign investors away from the debt sales. This is one reason the failure of the Gilt auction – which I wrote about yesterday – is of so much concern to the United States. We rely ...

5. Silver and Gold
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... hang around for awhile longer. We’re guessing the savvy investor is looking for a double on this investment, at least. “Apparently, Mr. Paulson sees a solid-gold opportunity,” observes Byron King, the ...

6. A Bailout in Disguise
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... it sound like Wall Street is helping to bail itself out. Finally, the feds are going to harness the private sector…and get the people who caused the crisis to help get us out if it. Now, investors ...

7. Monetary Inflation is Our Future
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... I am convinced that the world’s oil production is peaking and we are likely to see much higher energy prices in the future. So, investors may want to add to their positions in upstream oil/gas companies ...

8. Geithner Tanks the Dollar, Then Pushes it Back Up
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... 0.70. The cause for this dollar weakness? Data released in the United States yesterday was surprisingly strong again, so investors dumped the ‘safe haven’ holdings of Treasuries and moved money back into ...

9. An Oil Play That Pays Big Dividends
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... & Scarcity Investor Update — UPDATED FOR BREAKING NEWS: EPA makes decision providing critical support for “Sonoma Grizzly Power” Three coming U.S. gov’t mandates could force ...

10. Fed Begins Buying U.S. Treasuries
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... before pronouncing judgment. Meanwhile, oil seems sluggish at $54. The euro, too, at $1.34. But gold at least showed some action – down $28 to $923. What happened in the gold market? Didn’t investors notice ...

11. Shipshape
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Baltimore, Maryland Dow rally tapers off as cautious investors bag profits, One renewable energy source right in your own back yard, Off to Greece for an investment tale from the high seas and more… Joel ...

12. Math of Subprime Mortgage Default
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... prices will never again be as low as they are. It would cost only $100 billion per year to double unemployment benefits for the unemployed. Investors, and particularly retirees, have suffered greatly. ...

13. Have the Tanker’s Stopped Tanking?
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... with private investors to buy “legacy loans” – formerly known as “toxic assets” – from financial institutions. No one seems to know exactly how this “Public-Private Investment Program” will work, but everyone ...

14. Greenspan Not Reserved About His Innocence
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... their taste for U.S. debt. Global investors sold $148 billion more U.S. debt than they bought”, which I assume was for the year. In response, I have written a blues song about it, and the four lines of ...

15. The End of the Oil Bust
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... column below, our resident energy expert and man of letters, Byron King, takes the contrarian view. We hope you enjoy his insights… — Byron King’s Energy & Scarcity Investor — A California ...

16. Economy - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - The 30-year mortgage rate fell 5 basis points to 4.96%, the lowest on record dating to 1971, Freddie Mac said. It was the 11th straight weekly decline amid gov't efforts to ...

17. Fannie, Freddie And Now, Hannie (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Subprime Crisis: The media have pounded President Bush for a wave of Hispanic home foreclosures. But it was Democrats who launched a drive to loosen credit for Hispanics -- ...

18. Reverse Mortgages Get Popular; Rule Changes Enhance Appeal (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - New federal rules, a tough housing market and devalued retirement investments will likely spur more seniors to consider reverse mortgages.Read more: BayVal Financial News  ...

19. Pipe Nightmares
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... this topic more than any other mainstream outlet I follow. For investors, there are still several great ways to get some skin in the game. Northwest Pipe is still cheap, at only 10 times earnings. PICO ...

20. The Credit Depression
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... fourth-largest software export services firm. Raju is the former head of Satyam because he quit last week after telling investors the company’s profits had been falsely inflated for years. The stock ...