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22 Jul, 2009

Socialized Heathcare… Do we want this?

Posted by: shiznit In: Economy| Health Care| Obama

First Step: Watch this video on Canadian Healthcare
Did you watch the video?  I would embed it so you can watch it here, but it seems that due to technological limitations (or decisions) that isn’t going to happen.  And no I’ve decided against figuring out how to circumvent such actions.  So, click the link already.  It [...]

Hold your hats folks as here are some of the forecasts for 2009 (link):

GDP falling by 2.2%
Slow recovery in 2010
> 9% unemployment by 2010
Decline in inflation (hmmmm… if monetary policy says anything this will reverse or at least eventually destroy the dollar)
Continued decline in housing prices
Decline in real consumption of more than 1%
Indeterminate on the [...]

It seems that the tune to march to these days is credit o credit we need more credit.  Somehow somewhere we forgot quite quickly that credit got us into this mess.  If credit is expanding much faster than real economic growth the outcome will be instability in the economy.  That is like an individual taking [...]

Hyperinflation, inflation, deflation, depression, recession, stagflation… well which is it? I have no clue, but there is a massive monetary inflation occurring, and a looming recession.  Hmmm so does this mean a inflationary depression?  Yikes.
Last week I took a break from overwhelming myself about the markets and the state of the economy. The timing [...]

A picture is worth a trillion words…
 
Frankly I’m not surprise to see what the Fed is doing and can only imagine what this is going to look like if this bailout goes through.  There is a precedent throughout time that inflating the monetary supply only prolongs the inevitable.  This is a sad state of affairs and I see only troubled [...]

What concerns me most is looking at the highly probable future outlook…
The gov’t is looking to bail out the Freddie and Fannie (dependent upon congressional approval), which will help out new, but not existing home buyers. By adding their debt the gov’t is using our tax dollars and inflation adjusted dollars to secure them. However, [...]

05 Sep, 2008

Who do we owe? Why does the USA have soooo much debt?

Posted by: gauntlett In: Debt| Economy

Okay, here is a very interesting sermon about Debt.  Regardless of your stance on religion this is an interesting watch.


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