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" What luck for rulers that men do not think"
- Adolf Hitler

"All the perplexities, confusion and distresses in America arise not from defects in the constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue, as much from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."
--John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." - Frederick Bastiat

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."    -- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

A leading Wall Street bank is so concerned by the state of the American economy it is cautioning that a fiscal crisis could engulf the richest country in the world within the next 12 months.

A warning system to detect financial disasters in third world countries would be flashing red if applied to the United States, says Lehman Brothers.

The "Damocles" report is based on 10 economic indicators that are weighted on the basis of past crises in Asia, Europe and Latin America. MORE>>

Of course you know what a boomerang is: it's one of those neat Australian Aborigine contraptions that, when hurled in just the right way, will describe a graceful arch in the air and return to the hands of its thrower - if he's good enough to catch it without having his hands shredded.

It seems like the US government and the money powers of the world have taken this concept and unwittingly replicated it in the world of monetary machinations. MORE>>

02.20.04- The Coming Storm....Economist Global Agenda

02.19.04- Signs of a Hurricane....Faber

02.13.04- The Paper Jungle....Stott

02.05.04- The Last Cheap Stocks In America....Ferris

02.04.04- China set to flood the world with chips....Asia Times

01.23.04- How Does Money Acquire its Value?....Shostak

01.22.04- The State of the Union?....Stott

01.18.04- The Supercycle of Debt....Mauldin

01.15.04- The Illusionary Dow Bull....Sol

01.06.04- Doomerang....Wallenwein

12.28.03- Where Did The Money Go?....Chuhran

12.09.03- The Paper Chase....Sinclair

12.03.03- Chile's Peso Jumps to 30-Month High on Outlook for World Growth....Bloomberg

12.01.03- Dividends Do Matter....Montier

11.26.03- Beating expectations is the same old con....Fleckenstein

11.26.03- Global Economy Impact of declining US capital inflows....Khan

11.15.03- Could it be different this time?....Wood

11.14.03- The Steroid Economy....Mauldin

11.11.03- The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures....Duncan

11.04.03- Inflation/Deflation Insights....Taylor

10.30.03- The Madness of Political Necessity....Sinclair

10.28.03- The threat of the job-is-worth-less recovery....Jubak

10.20.03- Damocles report warns of dollar trouble ahead....English

10.19.03- 10 Years of Rate Rises....Bank of England

10.17.03- The doctor of doom is in....Calandra

10.17.03- Actuarially Unsound....Stott

10.13.03- Japan: The rapid run on dollar assets....Kahn

10.09.03- The rich world's disappearing jobs....Berthelsen and Basu

10.02.03- Dragon at the Back Door....Willie

09.25.03- Chainsaw Jim is Back For More!....Sinclair

09.24.03- Is the Dollar "Toast"?....Wallenwein

09.23.03- Market Breaks Out To Upside....Comstock Partners, Inc.

09.22.03- Flying on one engine...The Economist

09.16.03- Flight to Imbecility....Bonner

09.12.03- Stealth Bears....O'Donnell

09.04.03- Who needs a plunge protection team anyway?....Temple

08.23.03- The Grandest Larceny ....Bonner

08.20.03- How The World Really Works, Part Three....Mauldin

08.11.03- The International Forecaster on US Markets....Chapman

08.10.03- Keep It Simple....Hartman

08.05.03- Healthcare & Financials Lead Friday Decline
VIX Is Starting to Bounce-Seasonals are Turning Negative
....
Murphy

08.04.03- Delusion and Illusion

07.30.03- NASDAQ Rocket: 2003's Greatest Attraction....Kettell

07.29.03- The Euro vs Dollar Currancy War Monitor....Wallenwein

07.17.03- The battle of the monsters....Russell

07.11.03- The Refrigerator and the Government....Stott

07.10.03- Money - Then and Now....LaBorde

06.25.03- Who Deserves a Tax Credit?....Paul

06.16.03- How Wall Street Works....Finger

06.10.03- Time for Regime Change on Wall Street....Denning

05.29.03- Just do it Japan....McIntosh

5.18.03- Time to Jump on the Bond-Wagon?....Hartman

04.24.03- Terry Laundry's "T Theory" Investment Perspective....Laundry

04.23.03- The wrinkled whores of Wall Street....Day

04.22.03- Weapons of Monetary Destruction....Schmidt

04.09.03- War and Terrorism Issues will Impact on the Severity of the Coming Recession....Hugo

03.28.03- US in Economic Cross Hairs of Emerging "Sino-Russian-Islamic Hegemony" ....Sinclair

03.21.03- CEOs as Central Bankers....Picks

03.19.03- All the Way to the Wall....Bugos

03.14.03- Fannie & Freddie are sitting on $3.1T Time Bomb....Crudele

03.06.03- The Kondratieff Winter & The Case for Gold

03.03.03- What is the chance of a strong recovery in the months to come?  'Zero!' ....Richebächer

03.01.03- Money!....Stott

02.17.03- We have now come to one of those rare historic market points. To be a little trite, we are at the moment of truth.....Cohen

02.13.03- Aesop's Fables

02.05.03- Dollar Overhang And The Prospects For Inflation....Milan

01.29.03- We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet!....Gordon

01.21.03- The greenback isn't worth what it used to be. What does that mean for consumers?....Max

01.18.03- Buy Real Estate With Gold ....Hartman

01.08.03- Monty Python & the Holy Grail:The Battle at the Bridge

01.06.03- It's Still A Bear Market on Wall Street....Bugos

01.06.03- U.S. drops report on mass layoffs

12.30.02-Bouncing Betty....McIntosh

12.30.02-Dollar Heads to Fourth Weekly Drop vs Euro on Iraq War Concern

 

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