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Dec 12, 2011, 5:06 pm
As we come to the end of the second half of 2011, it is evident that 15,000 billion in ghost assets have gone up in smoke since last July, just as was anticipated by LEAP/E2020 (GEAB N°56 ). And, according to our team, this process figures to continue at the same rate throughout the year to come. I... Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 3:57 am
Leading American investment analyst James Dines has criticised Australia for allowing China to buy large swathes of its natural resources in what he calls "resource imperialism".
Australia was in danger of squandering it's "irreplaceable inheritance ... traded for easily printed paper", Mr Dines sai... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2011, 5:50 pm
$100.00 seems a reasonable place to take some profits, away.
Don't Miss Out as Silver Prices Surge to
$150 an Ounce
September 16, 2011
By Martin Hutchinson, Global Investing Strategist, Money Morning
Silver prices had an exciting run-up in the year ending in April - they almost tripled, briefly to... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 10:44 am
Satyajit Das is author of Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives (August 2006) and Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk (August 2011)
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In Crosstown Traffic, Jimi Hendrix sang: “can’t you see my signals turn from ... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2011, 8:47 pm
On December 15, 2010, in the GEAB N°50, LEAP/E2020 anticipated the explosion of Western government debt (1) in the second half of 2011. We were then describing a process that would start with the European government debt crisis and then set fire to the heart of the global financial system, namely U... Comment - Like
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Apr 14, 2011, 1:03 am
‘Gold's advance to super cycle indicates demise of dollar, collapse of economy’
By Jijo Jacob
The runaway rise in gold prices is here to stay. And that is not just bad news to the U.S. economy. A sustained gold and oil boom indicates that the dollar is slipping into grave danger and the economy ... Comment - Like
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Apr 8, 2011, 5:20 am
My forecast has been for a powerful Inflationary Recession to occur, a consistently laid out analysis, delivered during the last year or more in clear terms. That has been my call, and continues to be my call. The Deflationist camp is making more noises. They do not know their limitations, which are... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2011, 12:39 am
As Americans know all too well by this point, commodity prices — for corn, wheat, soybeans, crude oil, gold and even farmland — have been going through the roof for what seems like forever. There are many causes, primarily supply and demand pressures driven by fears about the unrest in the Middl... Comment - Like
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Feb 18, 2011, 5:17 pm
Gold and silver seemed to be responding to the stress....
With this issue our team is celebrating two important anniversaries in anticipation terms. Exactly five years ago, in February 2006, the GEAB N°2 suddenly encountered worldwide success by announcing the next "Triggering of a major global cri... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2011, 8:04 pm
This GEAB issue marks the fifth anniversary of the publication of the Global Europe Anticipation Bulletin. In January 2006, on the occasion of the first issue, the LEAP/E2020 team indicated that a period of four to seven years was opening up which would be characterized by the “Fall of the Dollar ... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2011, 7:36 pm
Numerous are the threats to the USEconomy and US financial structures. Many are hidden threats, subtle challenges to undermine increasingly fragile support systems, planks, and cables that hold the system together. The year 2011 will be when the system breaks in open visible fashion, when the explan... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2011, 1:14 am
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — After 45 years, Harry Schultz has just published the last issue of his International Harry Schultz Letter. He’s superbearish but opportunistic.
Schultz, now 87, is one of the legendary characters of the investment letter industry: a hard-driving promoter who specialized... Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2010, 7:47 pm
The second half of 2011 will mark the point in time when all the world’s financial operators will finally understand that the West will not repay in full a significant portion of the loans advanced over the last two decades. For LEAP/E2020 it is, in effect, around October 2011, due to the plunge o... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2010, 7:41 pm
As the LEAP/E2020 team anticipated in its open letter to the G20 leaders published in the international edition of the Financial Times of 24 March 2009, on the eve of the London Summit, the question of a fundamental reform of the international monetary system is central to any attempt to solve the c... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2010, 12:38 am
No wonder Gold and everything else is going up.
- Public announcement GEAB N°48 (October 16, 2010) -
http://www.leap2020.eu/geab-n-48-is-available-global-systemic-crisis-leap-e2020-s-analysis-of-39-countries-risks-2010-2014-a-collective-but_a5295.html
In this issue, our team introduces the annual ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2010, 10:53 pm
By MICHAEL HUDSON
“Coming events cast their shadows forward.”
– Goethe
What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $1 trillion, $10 trillion or even $50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other a... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2010, 3:37 am
Just as anticipated by LEAP/E2020 in issues N°40 (December 2009) and N°42 (February 2010), spring 2010 really marks a tipping point of the global systemic crisis, characterized by a sudden expansion due to the intolerable size of public deficits (see issue N° 39, November 2009) and the inexistenc... Comment - Like
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May 16, 2010, 11:55 pm
Dysfunctional Markets
by Doug Noland May 14, 2010
For the week, the S&P500 rallied 2.2% (up 1.8% y-t-d), and the Dow gained 2.3% (up 1.8%). The S&P 400 Mid-Caps jumped 4.3% (up 8.6%), and the small cap Russell 2000 recovered 6.3% (up 11.0%). The Morgan Stanley Cyclicals jumped 4.4% (up 7.0%), and... Comment - Like
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May 12, 2010, 11:45 pm
One of the few certainties expressed on this blog has been that Gold and Silver are epic investments. I'd say that panned out and will continue to pan out.
by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter | May 12, 2010
The events of the last 12 to 18 months have been as shocking as they have been instr... Comment - Like
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Apr 27, 2010, 7:29 pm
Hat Tip to Charles Powell.
In Australia we think we’ve escaped the worst of the crunch and recession as we ride China’s booming coat tails to a new prosperity.
And in America it’s a similar situation, the economy is back (the first estimate of first-quarter growth on Friday will show annual gr... Comment - Like
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Mar 12, 2010, 1:04 am
LEAP/E2020 is of the view that the effect of States’ spending trillions to « counteract the crisis » will have fizzled out. These vast sums had the effect of slowing down the development of the systemic global crisis for several months but, as anticipated in previous GEAB reports, this strategy ... Comment - Like
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Mar 10, 2010, 7:56 pm
Hat tip to Charles Powell. The divergence between economic conditions in Australia, hitched as it is to China and India and the US and UK is amazing. I would hazard a guess that things will be worse here on a six month outlook, but who can be sure.
I’ve seldom seen so much rubbish written by peopl... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2010, 12:40 am
Hat Tip to charles Powell.
How Brussels Is Trying to Prevent a Collapse of the Euro
By Armin Mahler, Christian Reiermann, Wolfgang Reuter and Hans-Jürgen Schlamp
The problems facing Greece are just the beginning. The countries belonging to Europe's common currency zone are drifting further and fur... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2010, 4:20 pm
America's industrial base is undergoing its most radical restructuring in decades as manufacturers rethink their businesses in the wake of the recession.
From Dow Chemical Co. to Intel Corp., iconic companies are telling stories of wrenching change -- both contraction and recovery -- as they report ... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2010, 4:45 pm
Jesse nails it.
After thinking it over, and listening carefully to the discussion on financial television and the news today in reaction to the proposal for a special bank tax, I can come to no other conclusion. Wall Street thinks that the American people, who came to their aid after the collapse o... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2010, 3:58 pm
C. H. Tung, the first Chinese-appointed chief executive of Hong Kong after the handover in 1997, offered me a three-sentence summary the other day of China’s modern economic history: “China was asleep during the Industrial Revolution. She was just waking during the Information Technology Revolut... Comment - Like
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Dec 26, 2009, 2:28 pm
As everyone is engrossed by assorted groundless Christmas (and other ongoing bear market) rallies, and oblivious to the debt monsters hiding in both the closet and under the bed, Zero Hedge has decided it is about time to present the ugliest truth faced by our 'intellectual superiors' and their Wall... Comment - Like
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Dec 26, 2009, 2:23 pm
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to friends, readers and contributors. Thank You. Comment - Like
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Dec 22, 2009, 2:37 pm
Keiser speaks to economist Steve Keen about wages, deflation and zombie capitalism. Comment - Like
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Dec 20, 2009, 5:53 pm
by Andrew McKillopFormer chief policy analyst, Division A Policy, DG XVII Energy, European CommissionDecember 18, 2009Depreciating Global Warming and Appreciating Real Assets"Hockey sticks in the air!" well summarises the Climate summit debacle and face-saving attempts by Europe's hardcore political... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2009, 4:32 pm
A Fish Oil Story
By PAUL GREENBERG
Published: December 15, 2009
If you are someone who catches and eats a lot of fish, as I am, you get adept at answering questions about which fish are safe, which are sustainable and which should be avoided altogether. But when this fish oil question arrived in m... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 4:38 pm
A synthetic chemical similar to the active ingredient in marijuana makes new cells grow in rat brains. What is more, in rats this cell growth appears to be linked with reducing anxiety and depression. The results suggest that marijuana, or its derivatives, could actually be good for the brain.
In ma... Comment - Like
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