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Guest Post: When At First You Don’t Succeed, Bring In the Reserves
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain Someone asked why Bernanke seemed so positive about the US recovery, and what he would do if his prediction turned out to be incorrect. The first answer is rather...
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Guest Post: A Plunge in Foreign Net Capital Inflows Preceded the Break in US...
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain The peak of foreign capital inflows into the US was clearly seen in the second quarter of 2007, just before the crisis in the US that has rocked its banking system...
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Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain This news has appeared on the Agence France-Presse (hat tip Michel Proulx) and I have translated this into English for now. One has to wonder if the great Speech...
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Guest Post: Do Ben and Tim = Thelma and Louise?
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain One cannot help but note that Team Obama is trying to derail serious proposals regarding financial reform for Wall Street at the G20 meeting, as we suggested they...
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Guest Post: Bloodbath Coming in the US Banking Sector
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain The stock market rallied today because of a slightly better than expected ISM Services number. Considering how much ‘stimulus’ the government has given to the FIRE...
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Guest Post: US Dollar Very Long Term Chart and Empirical Observations
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain Here is an update of the US Dollar (DX) Very Long Term chart last shown on 3 April 2009 when the Eurodollar short squeeze was still abating. We do not see any...
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Guest Post: Gold Is Rallying Because…
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain Gold is a superior store of value. It resists the attempts by the monetary authorities to debase it, because except for concerted attempts to suppress its price...
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The Tide of History and The Resilience of the Human Spirit
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain Why do so many people continue to turn their noses up at an investment with returns like those listed below? And not only that, why do small groups continue to...
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Guest Post: $38 Billion Tax Break Granted to Citigroup to Help Improve the...
Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain Maybe it’s a mistake. Did Timmy have time to run their return on TurboTax? Well, at least it will make the results of the TARP program look better on paper if it...
View ArticleGuest Post: Front Running the Fed
Served by Jesse from Le Café Américain I had a friend from the old neighborhood who was the Comptroller of a major casino in Las Vegas in 1970-80s, where I also was married in 1981. Only lasting win...
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