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TOP STORIES Oil dips as Ike weakens, OPEC mulls holding steady - AP An Itchy Finger on the Trigger of a Bazooka - NY Times 2008 a tough year so far ... ; Dollar - Commodity Online Toronto stocks tumble on resource demand fears - Reuters ECONOMY ... - AP Mortgage Giants’ Future: A Rebuild or a Teardown? - New York Tiemes FED/TREASURY/BANKING Rescue [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 12:56:00

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Creating “Mini-TARP” Bonus Pools Would Help

Good Evening: As 2008 bumps, grinds, and otherwise limps its way to a close, various asset markets can be expected to trade in narrow ranges ... in the future, they are faced with a doubt-laden present. Today’s economic statistics in the U.S. are a case in point. Consumer sentiment offered a mildly positive surprise, with a nice uptick in “future [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 04:55:44

Oil's Well That Ends Well?

I have mentioned a couple of crazy notions on Urban Digs regarding a slowing world economy and increased unemployment actually being a positive for ... broker of mine, who had previously been an ATF officer. He used to say "just because I'm paranoid doesn't ... in the commodity price decline where the question of short-term correction versus long-term [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 15:50:20

Seven key points on deflation

A few thoughts on the subject of deflation to help you make sense of what has unnecessarily become one of the hottest topics of discussion in recent ... in demand that results from slower economic growth and, in the period ahead, plunging commodity prices ... particularly significant, in and of themselves, as they are not the driver of present or future pr [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 19:09:00

For land’s sake: Farmland preservation in Ohio

My evenings and weekends lately — well, the past few months — have largely been taken up by the annual rounds of food preservation as I dry, freeze, can, pickle, and otherwise put up as much produce from this year as possible.  But when I took a day off work recently, I headed to a conference about another kind of preservation altogether [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 19:40:49

Riddled In Buyer’s Remorse

It’s Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. “Housing clearance rates remained soft across the country over the weekend, particularly in the nation’s biggest markets of Melbourne and Sydney, which showed no signs of recovering from their torpor. The Australian reported many homes continue to sell for well under what their owners had hoped to [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 22:58:03

Ask an Infantryman: Pining in Madison

Uncle Jimbo writes: Oh and yes I am totally hot for Kathy, I know she is anti-religion, I'm not but if you can get in touch with her let her know ... out there, my friendships would be analogous any other commodity, to be bought and sold on the CBOT ... . Should I risk burning up the expected future value of this friend -- we'll call him "July Soybeans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 02:14:10

He’s a gamer

Speaking of our other favorite dominant regular-season team that flamed out in the postseason … By now all this offseason Cubs stuff is totally old news. The North Siders parted ways with Kerry Wood, sadly dealt Mark DeRosa, smartly dealt Jason Marquis, and bizarrely signed Milton Bradley - which would have been a fantastic idea back in 2005, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 00:46:57

Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan

This article originally appeared in a newsletter: The Objectivist published in 1966 and was reprinted in Ayn Rand’s Capitalism: ... . It is that commodity which serves as a medium of exchange, is universally acceptable to all participants ... of such a commodity is a precondition of a division of labor economy. If men did not have some commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 20:15:53

Not an optimal investment allocation

Bob Greer and John Cavalieri at Pimco have put together an interesting article that drives yet another stake into the investment thesis favored by ... two-thirds of their retirement money to stocks and continuing to do so indefinitely into the future ... commodity prices as well. We saw it most obviously at the gas pump, but in fact a very broad range [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 15:39:00

The Choice We Are Facing

Kyle-Anne Shiver offers an essential take on the likely shift to a democratic-socialist state under a Barack Obama administration: ... is a carefully choreographed illusion, that socialist justice is a capricious commodity doled out on a whim ... and by taking children very early into indoctrination as model, happy future workers for the collective "good [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 16:24:00

Forget About Mike Leach to the Vols or Huskies. Is There an NFL Job in His Immediate Future?

The following NFL teams are likely to either have a head coaching opening or an offensive coordinator position to fill after this season: Cleveland, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Oakland, Detroit, and maybe though probably not, the Jets and Eagles. What are the chances that college football’s hottest coaching commodity, Mike [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 17:30:59

Truth or Consequences

Of those reading this website in the early days, many expected that by 2008 the world would begin to look like a different place ... in stealth mode: supply side investments are being crimped due to low commodity prices, and investment ... strapped, but gasoline at under $2 a gallon, (arguably the scarcest input into societies' future - see [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 16:38:50

EUROPE IN RAPID DECLINE ON WORLD STAGE

January 6, 2009 Steve Collins   Many Christians have expected that Europe would be the region from which a “beast” power or “anti-Christ” ruler will emerge. One should always keep an open mind to all possibilities as we progress deeper into the end times, but on-going events are revealing Europe to be a continent in rapid decline [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 07:44:40

A critique of the market as optimal system, and remedies for the meltdown

Why is it that: “The need for a pervasive, permanent role of government in directing investment also emerges from more recent studies of economic ... outcomes rests on Pareto optimality, an absurdly narrow definition of social goals. A proposal ... competition only leads to the right outcomes if everything that matters is a marketable commodity [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:48:22

Emerging Markets: Stumble or Fall? Economist

Will the global financial crisis halt the rise of emerging economies?NOBODY talks about “decoupling” any more ... by exports to American consumers, easy access to cheap capital and high commodity prices. All three props ... more, they will import less over the coming years. This could reduce emerging economies’ future growth rates [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 18:57:00

HOW OBAMA WOULD STIFLE DRUG INNOVATION

The pharmaceutical industry has begun to give up on developing drugs for routine medical problems in favor of discovering "specialty" ... controls -- based on a view of medical care as a commodity to be purchased at the lowest price, with little ... economically pernicious effect of price and access controls is how they distort future investment decisions [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 13:35:56

Biofuels As Alternative Sources of Energy

Biofuels are a popular topic when it comes to proponents of alternative energy. It’s easy to see why people would get excited about the prospects ... causes of the sharp commodity price increases we saw last year. In August of 2008, UC Berkeley held a special conference called “The Future of Biofuels?” in which experts took a critical approach [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:05:34

Caveat Inventor?

On October 30th, 2008 the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit released their decision on Bilski a case questioning the validity of a business ... appropriate pricing and apportioning of commodity hedging instruments—a process by which companies ... , that wasn’t enough. An aside But what does it all mean, Basil? What are the implications to future [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 18:39:34

Michael Masters .... in the news again

Boy, you know you've made it to the big time when one of those sketches of your pensive mug appears as part of a story on the front page of the Money ... -handed quest to reduce long positions in commodity futures that, incidentally, might benefit ... to the nation's challenging energy future. Apparently, even if the WSJ art department does take the time [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 17:06:00

Worldchanging Interview: Bill McKibben

This article was written by Emily Gertz in April 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. [ ... about global warming. In his latest, Deep Economy: the Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future ... sustainable future, says McKibben, as well as more genuine satisfaction with our modern lives. He urges [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 22:00:38

Polaris Golf Resort: Will You Buy A Recreation Residence There?

Who wouldn’t love to take a fun family vacation and enjoy recreational activities that can be done either with others or alone? Unfortunately, vacations end all-too-quickly and you’re back to familiar settings before you know it. However, what if you were able to at least consider something as wild as purchasing a second home near an [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 09:08:05

Let Them Eat Treasurys

Good Evening: Today the U.S. capital markets continued the slow healing process that began on November 21 ... . Many options will be considered, but in my opiniion, we’ll need to start thinking long term ... particularly peppy, and our index futures responded by rallying prior to this morning’s open. A drop back [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 05:30:22

Polaris Golf Resort: Opportunities To Purchase A Second Home There?

Who wouldn’t love to take a fun family vacation and enjoy recreational activities that can be done either with others or alone? Unfortunately, vacations end all-too-quickly and you’re back to familiar settings before you know it. However, what if you were able to at least consider something as wild as purchasing a second home near an [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 09:09:48

Leigh Duncan-Durst: Loyalty and Lifetime Value

I recently began to wonder how many of the airlines and hotel chains have really considered “Customer Lifetime Value” in the creation of today's largely calendar-driven loyalty programs. Beyond the motivation to examine year-over-year performance, how was it decided that one year is an adequate period over which to “judge” and reward a customer’s [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 12:39:29

Gary Shilling: "Collapse on Schedule (with video)

Um.......Sadly, I think he may be right. It does bode well for large caps though. A sluggish economy will crush the smaller firms and startups as credit tightens ans results are muted. I think the play here is buying the monsters in sectors.. Here is a great interview with Henry Blodget and Aaron Task from today: Now, here is Schilling report: [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 10:21:00

2009 Stimulus Package Buoys US Dollar

Rising against the Euro, Yen and Swiss Franc, the greenback sought strength in the release of preliminary plans for the Obama administration’s ... as supported, yet tepid growth, could be expected for the future.   In addition, helping the greenback gain ... percent on falling commodity prices and thin consumer spending.  The figure is significantly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 22:42:06

DrumBeat: December 8, 2008

Oil rises on talk of auto bailout, stimulus NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices rebounded from a nearly 4-year low Monday as U.S. automakers neared a deal that would keep them out of bankruptcy and President-elect Barack Obama pledged to stimulate the economy of the world's largest oil consumer. U.S. crude for January delivery rose $2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-08 13:37:28

A World to Win

Notes for an introduction to perspectives by Rob Petersen This article was presented to a forum in August last year iand was forwarded to History matters by one of our readers. It present a very interesting perspective on the world and South African situation and we hope that you will enjoy read on. 1 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:56:02

Top 5 Secrets Why Cash is Not Safe

In this turbulent economy many people are fleeing the stock market (or selling low) and sticking their money in cash.  While I do recommend cash ( ... of investing, we usually think about the risk that a stock, mutual fund, bond, or commodity ... 3 years), investing in cash is the wrong choice for long term (10+ years) goals, such as retirement [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 21:34:25

Yes, I’m still here

It’s 2009. More importantly I’m still employed. I actually had a blog post planned out for early January in the event that I lost my job. Hey, if you’re not going to promote yourself, who will? I was reviewing my new years resolutions from last year and I realized the only one I really followed through on was finding new employment [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 12:35:08

A Sucker's Rally

The start of a new year lures many a so-called expert into forecasts which mostly turn out wrong ... . But all this money creates a giant debit, which has to be paid for by savers now and in the future ... has chosen to spend on future goods rather than current consumption. For that, he or she will receive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 00:14:23

Oligarch Loyalty No Longer a Given

From the Lex Column of the Financial Times: The crisis has highlighted that Russia is hardwired into the global economy ... foreign policy has a cost in terms of battered confidence and capital flight. That may restrain future ... adventurism undermined that grand bargain. Lower commodity prices, slowing growth, will make [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 13:39:05

The organic times are a changin'

By Meredith Niles As people from Haiti to Ethiopia are tragically struggling to cope with rising food prices, many are piecing together the reasons behind our recent price spikes. The culprits lie in everything from the switch to growing crops for biofuels to market speculation. The situation is complex and involves multiple factors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-11 22:12:55

Opening Thoughts October 29 2008

Prices of Treasury coupon securities have rebounded from the depressed levels attained in late trading yesterday ... of the equity market. As the US consumer totes up his assets and future liabilities, he cannot hold ... . Inflation had been a concern of the central bank but the decline in commodity prices should assuage those [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 10:56:50

Reap What You Sow

Get an MBA in agribusiness to beat the recession blues. ……………….. Land, our forefathers would have told us, is like a pot of gold. Management students — hit by recession — tend to agree. In times when the finance sector has taken a beating and marketing isn’t the hottest of options, there is one specialisation [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 02:56:41

Why are prices falling? Why does this scare the bourgeoisie?

by Eddy Laing“Credit Suisse chief economist Joseph Tan told The Straits Times that the dramatic fall in prices was due to ‘massive unwinding’ by ... . These speculators - whose bets on future prices drove prices to record highs - are fleeing to safer havens ... (a ‘commodity’ to Marxian economists) is determined by the amount of labor that goes into [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 17:02:15

Evergreen Solar Extends Slide On Lehman-Related Fallout

a second-straight day on concerns about complications related to a stock-lending agreement with Lehman Brothers in connection with a May 2008 ... by Lehman and indexed to something called the ” Lehman Brothers Commodity Alpha Trading Strategies I Excess ... %, to $10.09. Best Buy (BBY) shares are trading lower this morning after the company posted [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 13:46:57

President Bush Threatens Veto of Poison-pill Laden Drilling Bill; Oil Falls to $90/bbl

—Gabriel Malor So far, Republicans have managed not to cave on offshore drilling (though ANWR seems to be out of the question) ... . In related news, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission actually looked through the data ... the six-month period. In other words, index traders and swap dealers were driving the future price [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 14:55:10

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Asia Sentinel - Is Badawi Bailing Out his Friends?With barely three months until March when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is due to relinquish his office, he has approved a project that reeks of an attempt to salvage the profitability of conglomerate Sime Darby and to further buoy the country’s budget airline, AirAsia, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 12:24:37

Fabulous year for Crawford Perspectives

PETER BRIMELOWCommentary: Astrology-based letter was 2008's top performerBy Peter Brimelow, MarketWatchLast update: 1:25 a.m. EST Jan ... was, you know, superior.After all, the first widely-recognized exception to the dogmatic Efficient Market Hypothesis view that no-one could beat the stock market was MIT's Fischer Black's certifying that Value Line's [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 09:11:00

More from the Front Lines of the Financial Crisis by Stephen Lendman

Posted by dandelionsalad on November 3, 2008 Dandelion Salad by Stephen Lendman Global Research, November 3, 2008 In its latest economic outlook, Merrill Lynch economists “worry about inflation, or more precisely,” a lack of it. From crashing global equity markets, falling commodity prices, rising unemployment, stagnant wages, over-indebted [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 18:11:43

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida

The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 16:24:17

Part One: An Ecology of Angels.

A Sentience Without FormOne of earliest creatures of an intermediate and indeterminate realm known to our species that encompasses both the formalized range of human ruminations, as well as the intuitive senses held in the intelligence of the heart, (that instrument of cognition being of greater sensitivity than that of the intellect) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 19:58:00

An Economic Sea Change

With all the doom in the markets, it's essential to get a bird's eye reading of economic conditions when expectations suddenly change ... in all markets - stocks, housing, financial, political - will be with us for the foreseeable future ... out of the blocks to recovery. Lower oil/commodity prices also contribute the dollar's rise. VIABILITY [more...]

Date: 2008-09-07 13:20:56

Deflation

Falling prices sound good to consumers struggling to buy groceries or gas, but the work of Yale University economist Irving Fisher, ... : (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or gains in income in the remote future; (b) the hope of selling at a profit, and realizing a capital gain in the immediate future; (c) the vogue of reckless [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 20:47:00

End of the Road (BCS Championship)

There’s a football game of some note on tonight, but the delay’s been so long now, ... about Player X and Player Y) and express themselves while hot-commodity coaches wax poetic about dream jobs ... portion of players who will be selected at future NFL Drafts. Oklahoma’s offense is obviously great [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 05:49:35

[Blogs] MATERIALISM, YOUTH, APATHY & ART: HOW WE CAN ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

At the Pin the Pits screening, I met Matty C Roche, a cultural activist from Liverpool involved in the campaign. We may swoon about how well Obama's speeches manage to capture the fears and hopes of a generation, but there are young people over here who can unlock our imagination and turn the pressure up on the way we live our lifes and treat each [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 18:32:46

DrumBeat: December 28, 2008

With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34

Counting Blessings

This diary at DailyKos from a woman who got laid off along with 2/3 of her company yesterday is going to become increasingly regular news. For all that I've been swimming in the schadenfreude at watching the banks collapse and multimillionaire CEOs humbled, mass layoffs of ordinary people like this, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-12 00:17:43

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