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German engineering at work. Just wow :cool:

Hehe Mr. Conspiracy :cool:

My EUREX feed is dead.

"P.L. 104-191 contains changes in the taxation of U.S. citizens who renounce or otherwise lose U.S. citizenship. In general, any person who lost U.S. citizenship within 10 years immediately preceding the close of the taxable year, whose principle purpose in losing citizenship was to avoid...

Yes, still Canadian citizen. This is related to the "sever all ties to Canada" though. If you "maintain a presence" in Canada you will have to pay taxes on worldwide income. If you "sever all ties", you can get around it from what I understand. That includes "residential ties"...

Found this, interesting: http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=55704&n_tit=Indians+Flee+Dubai+as+Dreams+Crash++-+Fall+out+of++Economic+Crisis Local police have found at least 3,000 automobiles -- sedans, SUVs, regulars -- abandoned outside Dubai International Airport in the...

Sprott is one of the bears that deserves some respect because his funds we not -50% for 2008, unlike other gold bugs. I think he was down single digits in his main fund for 2008 and is up 10+% in January 09. FWIW: Attached find the year end 2008 letter by Sprott.

Dubai economy in free fall. South East Asian workers leaving the city in drovers, rental prices plummeting. I guess the decoupling theory was only good until it wasn't. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/545539-dubai-rental-costs-fall-by-a-third-in-two-months---agents The cost of renting in...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Little-Book-of-Bull-Moves-in-Bear-Markets/Peter-D-Schiff/e/9780470383780 When why does he write: "Peter D. Schiff (Darien, CT) is President of Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., and one of the few non-biased investment advisors to have predicted the current...

Ask those traders that had their accounts at Lehman Prime Brokerage London. They lost their entire accounts. Billions went up in smoke. The biggest risk in "this" recession is not price action but your brokers/banks going belly up overnight leaving you empty handed.

We've seen examples of emerging markets a) with no domestic consumer market to speak of b) GDP primarily comprised of infrastructure spending and exports going into steep contractions (-8%, -12% peak to trough) rather than "normal" G7 recessions (-3%, -4%). Let's see how this one...

Schiff: "But, since Euro Pacific Capital is a brokerage firm and not a Registered Investment Advisor, I am prohibited by regulators from providing any details on the investment performance achieved by my clients." A brokerage firm? What a lame excuse. Why doesn't this asshat run a hedge...

Thanks, nice selection there. "Bombtrack" = :cool:

My thought: What if it doesn't happen?

Next up: Commerzbank :cool:

ES + DAX getting bludgeoned. JPY rallying. I'm off the gym, enjoy the bloodbath :cool:

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Barclays debt and UK government debt... isn't that basically identical now? :cool:

Three important achievements of Brazil: - G-string bikinis - the "Brazilian" shave - Giselle Bündchen Nobody needs the Real :cool:

http://www.ft.com/cms/86a30e34-dfd5-11dc-8073-0000779fd2ac.html?_i_referralObject=1009054857&fromSearch=n Hendry's "5 ideas for 2009": 1. What if government bonds (US, French, German + Japanese) continue to outperform stock markets in 2009? 2. What if China goes into a depression? 3...