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The Only Thing Really Going Down Right Now is the U.S. Dollar

Okay. Who put the financial world in a time machine and took us all back to 2007? Seriously. Oil traded above $80 overnight. Gold is hovering near $1,060. Stocks are up. Bonds are up. The Aussie dollar is up. Will anything ever go down again?

October 21st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
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Economic Cycle Theory

We began the week wondering about the cycles of history and markets. We wondered whether Australia is following the Anglo-American cycle into a long-winter…where people lose confidence in each other, in government, and in the institutions they relied on in the past for law and order, employment, and prosperity.

October 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 29 comments | Continued
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Warren Buffett: People Do Not Make Money by Betting Against the US Economy

What we saw was an over-stretched empire getting ready to snap. But we were also allowing ourselves to be lazy. Rather than deconstruct the capital structure of the world’s largest economy, we decided to sell the whole damned thing.

October 12th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
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Americans Have No Money to Spend Because They Already Spent It!

From Florida, comes news of the first drop in population in 60 years. “Unemployment is soaring,” reports USA Today. “Florida is second to California on foreclosures.”

Yes, dear reader, there is trouble in the sand states…

September 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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Economists Agreed the Stimulus Was Working and the Recession Was Coming to an End

We don’t know when the recession will end…but we’re dead sure that those 53 economists interviewed by Bloomberg…and those at the Fed too…don’t know either. Few of them seem to have any idea what is really going on.

August 17th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
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When Fears of Inflation Are More Pronounced

But let us not be accused of being pessimists. Take a look at the chart below. It’s from a 2002 book called Triumph of the Optimists by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Stanton of Princeton University. It shows that over the last one hundred years-and importantly, prior to the blow-off phase of the credit bubble in 2000-dividends accounted for half of your total return in U.S. and U.K. common stocks.

July 7th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
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Fed Willing to Print Money to Buy More Bonds to Keep U.S. Interest Low

Meanwhile all sorts of mischief is afoot in financial markets and the Australian energy market. U.S. stocks fell over 1.5% in Thursday trading. The minutes of the Federal Reserve’s April meeting were published. The notes said there were “significant downside risks” to the U.S. economy and that the global financial system remains “vulnerable to further shocks.”

May 22nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | Continued
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Chinese Economy Seems to be Growing

One of the risks we think is especially understated for China is the risk of central planning. Investors tend to favor China – over, say, India – because they think the Chinese government – even in the hands of communists – is capable of guiding the economy to prosperity.

May 11th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
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U.S. Stocks Hammered to Dust

Monday, the battle was hot and heavy. By 8 PM last evening, the financial media was in a panic. An attack of stock market panics was rolling over the world…

October 8th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
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