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  • How Economic News is Spun (Worst-Economy-Since-Great-Depression Alert)

    03/03/2006 10:09:19 AM PST · by SirLinksalot · 56 replies · 1,273+ views
    NewsMax.Com ^ | 03/03/2006 | Paul Craig Roberts
    How Economic News is Spun Paul Craig Roberts Friday, March 3, 2006 Readers ask me to reconcile the jobs and debt data that I report to them with the positive economic outlook and good news that comes to them from regular news sources. Some readers are being snide, but most are sincere. I am pleased to provide the explanation. First, let me give my reassurances that the numbers I report to you come straight from official U.S. government statistics. I do not massage the numbers or rework them in any way. I cannot assure you that the numbers are perfectly...
  • Letter from my Dad (May be important)

    03/03/2006 7:59:26 AM PST · by Killborn · 114 replies · 2,189+ views
    Mar 03 | KB's Dad
  • The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse

    03/03/2006 12:41:03 PM PST · by handk · 32 replies · 1,336+ views
    Gold-Eagle.Com ^ | January 15, 2006 | Professor Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.
    The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D.January 15, 2006 Abstract: the proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire. I. Economics of Empires A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations. The imperial ability to tax has always rested on a better and stronger economy, and as a consequence, a better and stronger military. One part of the subject taxes went to improve the...
  • Federal Reserve Raises Key Rate Target to 2.5%

    02/02/2005 11:42:34 AM PST · by presidio9 · 63 replies · 2,279+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | February 2, 2005 | GREG IP
    The Federal Reserve raised its short-term interest rate target by a quarter of a percentage point for the sixth time, and signaled little change in its plan to continue raising rates gradually in the months ahead. The rate change, which was expected, brings the target for the federal-funds rate, charged on overnight loans between banks, to 2.5% from 2.25%. It was 1% last June. The statement accompanying the rate change was almost identical to that issued after its last meeting on Dec. 14. Economic growth is "moderate," the jobs market is improving "gradually," and inflation is "well contained." It said...
  • China Has Lost Faith in Stability of U.S. Dollar

    01/26/2005 12:59:33 PM PST · by dilbert80 · 75 replies · 1,602+ views
    Associated Press | 01/26/05 | Edith M. Lederer
    Economist: China Loses in Dollar Stability Wednesday January 26, 3:47 pm ET By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer China Has Lost Faith in Stability of U.S. Dollar, Top Chinese Economist Says at World Forum DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- China has lost faith in the stability of the U.S. dollar and its first priority is to broaden the exchange rate for its currency from the dollar to a more flexible basket of currencies, a top Chinese economist said Wednesday at the World Economic Forum. At a standing-room only session focusing on the world's fastest-growing economy, Fan Gang, director of the...
  • Bears Run Amok in Market Prophet's Vision

    10/25/2003 1:06:46 PM PDT · by sourcery · 15 replies · 360+ views
    TheStreet.com ^ | 10/23/2003 | Jon D. Markman
    Rumors of the 2003 market rally's imminent death have been greatly exaggerated in recent months. But according to one analyst with an enviable track record, the end days are finally here, and it's time to prepare for a sickening plunge into December and beyond. The doomsayer is Michael Belkin, one of the few investment analysts who has emerged from the recent boom, bust and reboom with his reputation not just intact, but aglow. Most independent researchers build careers as all-bull or all-bear, but not this guy. Operating out of a home office on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound near...