Category Archives: Global Finance

How Freedom works

1) force the President to step down 2) dissolve the Legislative Branch 3) Suspend the Constitution 4) put the military in charge 5) promise elections in the future Sounds like freedom to me!

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In other news

Saudis’ Bin Ladin Group set for nuclear deal with French firm This comes a few days since Wikileaks released a 2008 cable that France intended to sell civilian nuclear technology to Libya. So has the caliphate already swallowed France?

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Canada and “misleading news”

Article about CRTC and News If you haven’t lived in/near Canada, the NDP is the extreme left party in Canada – left by European standards, not Wimpy North American standards. The CRTC is roughly similar to the FCC, but with … Continue reading →

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The Final Victory

The NY Times is reporting a stunning development in the last hour.    The Germany Stock exchange plans to take over the New York Stock Exchange. NY Times Story First the disclaimer – I worked for NASDAQ from 1998-2002 as a  manager … Continue reading →

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Stunning

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110209/ap_on_re_us/us_shale_oil_3 Where has this news been hiding?   “Fracking” also works for oil in addition to natural gas.   As a result, domestic oil production has been going up the last two years while consumption has been going down (because of the … Continue reading →

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The Real Estate Exit Strategy

Rasmussen reported today that 35% of people currently say their house is worth less than what they owe on their mortgage.   The percentage of people who believe that their house is still worth more than their mortgage has dropped 6% … Continue reading →

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My one sentence “Replacement” for Obamacare

“Any amounts paid by an insurance provider (public or private) that exceeds the premiums paid by the insured party will be deemed income for the purposes of the Federal Income Tax” The core of the “Health Care Crisis” is all … Continue reading →

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It’s about the oil, stupid

Egypt is sitting on at least 4 billion barrels of oil, and a ton of natural gas.   Offshore under the Red Sea, oil drilling has been finding oil deposits in the last year. Curiously, the reason Egypt hasn’t exploited the oil … Continue reading →

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Financial Double Speak

Why don’t people trust “capitalism”?  (and I use that word loosely)

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“blockbuster deal” in context

It took a little digging to find the price that Bonneville paid to acquire WTOP-AM in Washington DC, one of the 17 stations Bonneville just agreed to sell for $505 million. According to Billboard Magazine from pg 97 on August 23, … Continue reading →

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Nobody has ever lost a dime…

On a regular basis over at least the past decade, radio host and newsletter publisher Bob Brinker would be asked about the safety of investing in government securities (other than US Securities). One piece of advice he gave out was to be … Continue reading →

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Got an extra $118,473 per month to spend?

If you do, the Don Imus mansion on Long Island Sound is for sale.  He’s already dropped the price by $5 million Inquire here for details

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Corporations are “Hoarding Cash”!!!

This is a battle cry rumbling up through the more Progressive folks – that “Big Corporations” are “hoarding cash”, rather than hiring employees and expanding their business – as if it is up to the government to tell a business … Continue reading →

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Bringing new things to light

Jeff Immelt is all over the news today, hanging out with the Communist President Hu of China, and Barack Obama. Jeff Immelt is the head of General Electric, a company so big and diverse that when I was in college … Continue reading →

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Illinois “solves” its budget problem

In typical Democrat fashion, the state legislature of Illinois (with no Republican support) voted in the middle of the night to raise the state income tax from 3% to 5%. Corporate income taxes go from 4.8% to 7%. Let the … Continue reading →

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