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Fed Report Says Economy Continued to Slow - NYTimes.com

Money – Americans are cutting back on everything from cars to food to name-brand products, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday, in another sign that the economy could slow significantly as money from the federal stimulus…

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If change comes to America... thank the economy

Politics – No gold watch for Alan Greenspan as he retired from serving the elite ââ;¬" we can hardly call it public service! After almost two decades as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve,

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Why the Founders Rejected a Central Bank

Money – They understood that governments, even the best of governments, cannot control spending. Even the current administration, which promised strict fiscal responsibility, has had to increase the national debt limit…

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On the Verge of an Economic Crisis

Money – At the heart of this economic malaise is the Fed's poor stewardship of the dollar. The cause of the dollar's demise is not the result of a purely psychological response to public statements on US dollar policy,…

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That Ticking Sound You Hear Out in the Mortgage Market is…

Money – The fundamentals of economic strife based on the disastrous collapse of the U.S. housing market will not get better any time soon.

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Sovereign Wealth Funds Reduce Their Dollar Exposure

Money – The U.S. economy is on the way out, says Dave Gonigam in The Daily Reckoning's blog, Desidooru Saloon. Dave has picked up on a report from the Financial Times that says an anonymous Gulf sovereign wealth fund has…

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Concern grows over a fiscal crisis for U.S.

News – "People seem to think the government has money," said former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. "The government doesn't have any money." A rare consensus has developed across the political spectrum that the…

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The Slosh Theory

Politics – When the Federal Reserve creates new money and/or expands credit, where does this new purchasing power go first? Doesn t it look like it s been sloshing from one investment sector to another?

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Chickens are Roosting: Economy on the Edge

Money – First, there is the devalued U.S. dollar. Our dollar is just piece of paper, backed by or tied to nothing. Therefore, its purchasing power depends in a large part on how many dollars are in circulation. When lots…

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IndyMac Crash: Portrait of a Panic

Money – America has been shaken by photos and video reports of angry customers lined up to withdraw their money from branch offices of the failed IndyMac bank. Such images would not have been seen during America's last…

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These 4 Stocks Are Battling the Bear Market Head On

Money – Even helicopter Ben is worried. He's told Congress that inflation risks have "intensified" and that there's now a threat of "significant downside" to growth. But contrarian investors should be lapping it up, says…

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Fed may issue new rules for mortgage issuers, extend lending…

Money – The Federal Reserve will issue new rules next week aimed at protecting future home buyers from dubious lending practices, its most sweeping response to a housing crisis that has propelled foreclosures to record…

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A Modest Proposal for Ending Socialized Capitalism

Money – Socialized capitalism of the sort the Fed and the Treasury are now practicing, consisting of private gains and public losses, is untenable. On the other hand, it's also true that giant Wall Street investments banks…

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In Search of a Market Bottom: Position Yourself for Profits…

Money – In a Money Morning commentary back in April, I suggested that while we'd hit a new market bottom, we almost certainly hadn't hit the market bottom. So have we now?

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Senate Banking Committee

News – The fed reserve did not have good news for the senate banking comittee today.

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Financial markets under heavy stress: Bernanke

Money – Restoring financial market stability is a top priority for the U.S. Federal Reserve as a weakening housing market, tighter credit and rising oil prices threaten the economy, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday.…

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Randgold Resources Limited: Going well!

Money – As you can see from the above chart we acquired the stock of gold producer Randgold Resources Limited for an average price of $37.65 per share on the 16th June 2008, it closed today at $45.30 for a gain of 20.30%…

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Randgold Resources Limited: Up 8.59% in one day!

Money – We acquired the stock of gold producer Randgold Resources Limited on the 16th June 2008 for an average price of $37.65 per share, it closed on Friday at $51.09, on the NASDAQ for a gain of 35.69% in less then a…

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Poor US Economy: Wall St Sags, Less Optimistic On Fannie…

News – US stocks fell on Monday as worry about the health of the US banking sector after Friday's collapse of IndyMac outweighed earlier optimism over the government's plan to stabilise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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The Fascist Bailout of Fannie Mae

Money – Whatever you may think of revolutionaries like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, when they came in and nationalized corporations , they threw the profiteers out.

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Banking Without the Too-Big-to-Fail Doctrine

Money – I attribute the secular decline of banks to central banking not only because that has been the predominant structure governing our money and banking system for most of this century, but because the main features…

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US spells out Fannie-Freddie backstop plan

Money – WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury announced steps Sunday to shore up mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose shares have plunged as losses from their mortgage holdings threatened…

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Fannie and Freddie: Insolvent

Money – Bloomberg analysts appeared to be perplexed that both companies are ranked Aaa by the credit-rating oligopoly, yet derivatives traders were trading both at levels that implied a credit rating at least five levels…

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U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com

Money – Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies…

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They Rob You With a Fountain Pen

Money – The Federal Reserve, he estimates, has traded the banks about $500 billion in Treasuries (US bonds, backed by the good faith of American taxpayers) in exchange for dubious instruments, about $200 billion for mortgage…

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