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CURRENCY WARS: Misguided Economic Policy
 The
critical issues in America stem from minimally a blatantly ineffective
public policy, but overridingly a failed and destructive Economic
Policy. These policy errors are directly responsible for the opening
salvos of the Currency War clouds now looming overhead.
Don’t be fooled for a minute. The issue of Yuan devaluation is a political
distraction from the real issue – a failure of US policy leadership. In my
opinion the US Fiscal and Monetary policies are misguided. They are wrong!
I wrote a 66 page thesis paper entitled “Extend
& Pretend” in the fall of 2009 detailing why the proposed Keynesian
policy direction was flawed and why it would fail. I additionally authored
a
full series of articles from January through August in a broadly
published series entitled “Extend & Pretend” detailing the predicted
failures as they unfolded. Don’t let anyone tell you that what has
happened was not fully predictable!
Now after the charade of Extend & Pretend has run out of momentum and more
money printing is again required through Quantitative Easing (we predicted
QE II was inevitable in
March), the responsible US politicos have cleverly ignited the markets
with QE II money printing euphoria in the run-up to the mid-term
elections. Craftily they are taking political camouflage behind an
“undervalued Yuan” as the culprit for US problems. Remember, patriotism is
the last bastion of scoundre s
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PRESERVE & PROTECT: The Jaws of Death

The United States is
facing both a structural and demand problem - it is not the cyclical
recessionary business cycle or the fallout of a credit supply crisis
which the Washington spin would have you believe.
It is my opinion that
the Washington political machine is being forced to take this position,
because it simply does not know what to do about the real dilemma
associated with the implications of the massive structural debt and
deficits facing the US. This is a politically dangerous predicament
because the reality is we are on the cusp of an imminent and
significant
collapse in the standard of living for most Americans.
The politicos’ proven
tool of stimulus spending, which has been the silver bullet solution for
decades to everything that has even hinted of being a problem, is
clearly no longer working. Monetary and Fiscal policy are presently no
match for the collapse of the Shadow Banking System. A $2.1 Trillion YTD
drop in Shadow Banking Liabilities has become an insurmountable problem
for the Federal Reserve without a further and dramatic increase in
Quantitative Easing. The fallout from this action will be an intractable
problem which we will face for the next five to eight years, resulting
in the “Jaws of Death” for the American public.
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With TIPS, heads I win, tails I also win |
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An Eight-Legged Table |
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Why Has America’s Ronomic Recovery Stalled? |
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Overdrive - Who really rescued General Motors? |
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Sex, Drugs, and the Subprime Meltdown |
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The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street
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Citi CEO and central banker disagree over reforms
Basel risks punishing wrong banks FT
German bankers in attack on regulations
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Four Big Banks Should Plan to Bail Out of Europe
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US Treasury sells negative-rate bonds FT
Debt sales highlight abnormal conditions
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A U.S. State on the Verge of Default: A Simulation - Or Is It?
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Radical changes to state pension proposed
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99 Weeks: When Unemployment Benefits Run Out
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Zombie America vs. China’s Zombie-Eaters 2020 Farrell
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Bernanke Asset Purchases Risk Unleashing 1970s Inflation Genie
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With TIPS, heads I win, tails I also win Hulbert
An
Eight-Legged Table Wells Fargo
Why Has America’s Ronomic Recovery Stalled? Project Syndicate
Overdrive - Who really rescued General Motors? New Yorker
Sex, Drugs, and the Subprime Meltdown Mother Jones
The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers
Fleeced America--and Spawned a Global Crisis Amazon
The New Scramble for Africa Asia Sentinel
FLASH CRASH - HFT - DARK POOLS
MARKET WARNINGS
Think this economy is bad? Wait for 2012 WP
The new Wall Street: No bubble, no profits MW
So What Is Insider Trading? Sorkin
G20 MEETING
Geithner's hidden G-20 agenda Asia Times
CURRENCY WARS
Status quo for dollar as G20 lacks urgency FT
What Does a Weak US Dollar Mean for Investors? Schwab
Fed up with the peg Finance Asia
Hongkongers are getting sick and tired of
the effects of the peg to America’s sinking currency. |
In Pyongyang, the Dollar Commands Respect BW
Q3 EARNINGS
UBS hit by investment banking losses FT
Swiss bank sees return to positive net money flows
Swiss urge capital boost for banks FT
Capital proposal targets UBS and Credit Suisse FT
Devil could lie in the detail FT
UBS Posts Profit, Sees Strong Fourth Quarter WSJ
UBS swung to a third-quarter net profit from a year-ago loss
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reversed two years of heavy outflows from wealthy clients.
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well be liquid, as long as few people ask for their money back
at any given time. But solvency is a different matter -
relating to the ability of the assets to satisfy the
liabilities."
John Hussman
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