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    Fed to buy $500 billion in US debt

    Billion is chicken sh1t. We are talking trillions now
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    Fed to buy $500 billion in US debt

    Not much. The market has priced more than that already.
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    Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market

    Imagine that in a not too distant future we will have mood reports. Today the collective mood is low. There is 70% chance for the stock market to finish down and for your wife to come home late. It will help, don't you think?
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    Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market

    http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/twitter-crystal-ball/
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    Hey Bears, Let me hear your roar!

    Gummy bear can't roar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1PuesGGBc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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    October 19th 2010 = watch out

    <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/S%26P_500_index_around_the_time_of_the_crash.png">
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    Shorting Apple with a target of $250

    There is always a chance albeit a small one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA
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    Why Germany Has It So Good...

    What about the beer? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJmyPcuJohM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J1bTxj5dFM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXfYvo6j_o&feature=related
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    Why Germany Has It So Good...

    Is it true that the German central government has 72% of GDP debt?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_public_debt In terms of foreign exchange reserves minus external debt Germany looks like the USA...
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    Few charts to stimulate the brain

    http://bit.ly/budrlj [Foreign direct investment, net inflows] http://bit.ly/bkZd05 [Military Exp.] http://bit.ly/9pQBwd [Imports] http://bit.ly/b0hS8F [Exports] http://bit.ly/bPqR4O [GDP per capita] http://bit.ly/c3Bxxl [Industry value added % of GDP] http://bit.ly/cHYHfL...
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    The Subprime Debacle: Act 2

    http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2010/10/second-leg-down-of-americas-death.html Ok Gonzalo Lira is a loose canon. There are some good points made in te comments under the article A bankruptcy attorney wrote me the following: Love your blog and follow it regularly. I was unable to post...
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    Why Germany Has It So Good...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures NATO requires 2% I believe. Another thing is that US show a much larger variation than Germany does, so that talking about the "average" is more dangerous when referring to the US than when referring to Germany...
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    The Subprime Debacle: Act 2

    WTF? Gonzalo Lira Gender: Male Occupation: Writer, Filmmaker About Me www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalo_Lira www.imdb.com/name/nm1921893/ www.twitter.com/expat229 My Blogs Team Members Gonzalo Lira _
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    The Creature from Jekyll Island

    Free book about how banking works: http://mises.org/Books/mysteryofbanking.pdf Banking is very complex. Many of us out of ignorance are defaulting to simplistic theories to explain the problem.
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    The Creature from Jekyll Island

    Free banking FAQ http://mars.superlink.net/~neptune/BankFAQ.html
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    The Creature from Jekyll Island

    One of the central points made in the Money Masters video is that instead of printing treasuries, that are sold to the fed and other central banks for interest thus enslaving the citizens of the USA, the congress should print money. If they can issue 1 trillion in bonds they can surely issue 1...
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    The Subprime Debacle: Act 2

    The yoghurt may hit the fan again. (you may want to watch this from the sidelines) http://www.frontlinethoughts.com/pdf/mwo101510.pdf However, legally...and this is the important part...MERS didn't hold any mortgage notes: the true owner of the mortgage notes should have been the REMICs...
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    Why Germany Has It So Good...

    This is so true: "Many Americans think that we've got a trade deficit because we can't compete with China. We've got a trade deficit because we can't compete with Germany in selling things to China. Until people wake up and look at the kinds of things that the Germans are doing to keep their...
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    Anybody else short US 30 Bond

    It turns out I have that book. I guess I have to read it.
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    The Creature from Jekyll Island

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System Easy read "Current functions of the Federal Reserve System include:[6][30] To address the problem of banking panics To serve as the central bank for the United States To strike a balance between private interests of banks and the...
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