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Olympic Waste Isn’t Just For The Olympics

By |2014-12-29T16:24:56-05:00December 29th, 2014|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets|

Every once in a while it is heartening to think that world’s people may finally be awakening from their economic anesthesia and experiencing rightful revulsion about what has occurred. We are told that the global economy fell on its own into a pit of despair in 2008 and has been unable to escape it all “despite” the best efforts and [...]

Better Be A Shovel-Ready Future

By |2014-11-13T12:00:33-05:00November 13th, 2014|Economy, Federal Reserve/Monetary Policy, Markets, Stocks|

In reviewing commentary about all the posturing in Japan preparing for what looks like, to me, an end of the recovery idea, there was one very alarming passage that I think may be important (and not just widely ridiculous) that ties together failure and the possible future course: Abe said yesterday he hadn’t decided whether to proceed with any snap [...]

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