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Thu 2009-07-30 00:00 EDT

Hussman Funds - The Destructive Implications of the Bailout - Understanding Equilibrium - May 18, 2009

-- ``The Treasury has issued an enormous volume of debt into the frightened hands of investors seeking default-free securities. This has allowed the Treasury to finance a massive and largely needless transfer of wealth to bank bondholders so easily over the short-term that the longer-term cost has been almost completely obscured...transferring wealth from those who did not finance reckless loans to those who did... the Treasury and Federal Reserve have crowded out more than a trillion dollars of gross investment that would have otherwise have been made by responsible people in the coming years, shifted assets to the control of those who have proven themselves to be irresponsible destroyers of capital, and have planted the seeds of inflation that will cut short any emerging recovery.''

18; 2009; Bailout; Destructive Implications; Hussman Funds; Understanding Equilibrium.

Thu 2009-07-23 00:00 EDT

Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis: 1. The End of Ponzi Prosperity

by Satyajit Das; creative destruction

1; ending; global financial Crisis; Lessons; Ponzi Prosperity.

Sat 2009-06-13 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Links 6/13/09

DownSouth reads Richard Kline's ``our next twenty plus years. Argentina twenty times larger.''; ``American exceptionalism therefore will most likely not die an easy death, and the U.S. will not be spared that final humbling, and destructive, drubbing.''

Links 6/13/09; naked capitalism.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle. Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.

Jesse's Café Américain: Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle. Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.; Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman blames rating agencies; ``The destruction of the real wealth was in the bubble when the middle class was systematically destroyed. This is just the settling of accounts. What we are seeing now is the paint peeling off the rotten economy which the financiers created for their personal benefit.''

Jesse's Café Américain; Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.

Mon 2008-12-15 00:00 EST

Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers: The End of the Washington Consensus

Counterpunch; ``Total private-sector markets (in practice, markets run by the banks and money managers) have shown themselves to be just as destructive, wasteful and corrupt and, indeed, centrally planned as those of totally statist governments from Stalin's Russia to Hitler's Germany.''

ending; Jeffrey Sommers; Michael Hudson; Washington Consensus.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: The Dollar Trap Part II: Mutually Assured Financial Destruction

Jesse's Café Américain: The Dollar Trap Part II: Mutually Assured Financial Destruction

Dollar Trap Part II; Jesse's Café Américain; Mutually Assured Financial Destruction.

Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT

Failure of Central Banking leads to Debt Capitalism Self

Failure of Central Banking leads to Debt Capitalism Self Destruction, by Heny C. K. Liu; 2008-07-21

Central Banks lead; Debt capitalism self; failure.

Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT

Guest Commentary

The Great Consumer Crash of 2009, by James Quinn (Prudent Bear); ``the tremendous prosperity that began during the Reagan years of the early 1980s has been a false prosperity built upon easy credit''; ``We have outsourced our savings to the emerging economies, along with our manufacturing jobs.'' ``the gathering storm has arrived. It will be long, painful and destructive.''

guest commentary.

Tue 2008-07-22 00:00 EDT

Failure of Central Banking leads to Debt Capitalism Self

Failure of Central Banking leads to Debt Capitalism Self Destruction, by Henry C. K. Liu

Central Banks lead; Debt capitalism self; failure.

Fri 2008-06-27 00:00 EDT

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Is The Inflation Scare Over Yet?

"Destruction of credit via massive writedowns..., accompanied by sharply rising unemployment rates, falling wages, and curtailment in credit lines everywhere is simply not an inflationary environment"; "ery likely new all time lows in the 10-year treasury yield and 30-year long bond are coming up"

Inflation Scare; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Thu 2007-12-13 00:00 EST

Money Matters: G7 Dwarves Try To Increase Debts

by Elaine Meinel Supkis; Fed auction plan; saving system collapsed; "these tax cheats...will work with our government to continue the destruction of America"

G7 Dwarves Try; increasing debt; money matters.

Mon 2007-12-10 00:00 EST

Money Matters: A Bubble That Broke The World--Book By Garet Garrett

by Elaine Meinel Supkis; "Chinese plan...accept a loss of even $2 trillion if this means the utter destruction of the US military due to the USA going bankrupt"

books; broke; bubble; Garet Garrett; money matters; world.

Sun 2007-12-02 00:00 EST

Speech, Bernanke --Deflation-- November 21, 2002

Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here; remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, 2002-11-21; policy responses available to cure deflation; "Sustained deflation can be highly destructive...and should be strongly resisted"; Helicopter Ben orgin

2002; Bernanke; deflation; November 21; speech.

Sun 2007-11-25 00:00 EST

CDO Dumping Ground Still Sinking - Barron's Online

CDO Dumping Ground Still Sinking, by Jonathan R. Laing, Barron's Online; ACA Capital facing downgrade, destruction, forcing banks to recognize billions of CDO losses

Barron s online; CDO Dumping Ground; sink.

Wed 2007-09-19 00:00 EDT

The Lies of Alan Greenspan

by William Greider; "always spot reasons to stomp on the real economy of work and production, but was utterly blind to the destructive chaos in the financial system"

Alan Greenspan; lying.

Fri 2007-07-06 00:00 EDT

BBC NEWS | Business | Buffett warns on investment 'time bomb'

Warren Buffet: "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction"; 2003-03-04;

BBC News; Buffett warns; business; investment; time bomb.

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