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At the end of 2009, we published Hitting the Roof! which discussed the risks of raising the debt ceiling to $12 Billion.
Continue Reading →In 2011, we’ve already experienced 11 bank failures, and while this is not an alarming number, if it continues through the year, we’ll see close to 140 more bank failures.
Continue Reading →When the gears of a machine are out of alignment, mechanics adjust the gears and lubricate them, allowing the gears to flow more freely. So too, the gears of our economy need a mechanical adjustment.
Continue Reading →When companies, whether in the fields of finance, banking or insurance, or for that matter, any other industry, create new types of financial instruments, should they be immediately subject to regulatory review?
Continue Reading →In all the talk about bailouts, markets, toxic assets and government intervention heard in the media, none of the pundits or media moghuls have noticed that there isn’t a real cure, only band-aid solutions. Let’s look at a cure.
Continue Reading →In this sign, understand. Admittedly, a take off on Constantine’s “In Hoc Signo Vinces”, but one for the ages, we believe, because it reflects a paradigm difference in the view of economics.
Continue Reading →The world is at the beginning of a global economic crisis. Yes, the beginning. We have just seen the tip of an iceberg on the horizon, and have yet to see the entirety of its power.
Continue Reading →Welcome to the Great Depression 2.0: this century’s climactic reaction to the “irrational exuberance” of the last half century and the mindless credit system of the United States and indeed, the world.
Continue Reading →The time is come to wake up and smell the scent of a monetary vacuum created within our banking industry by antiquated systems, rules and regulations.
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