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Chinese Dragon: Breathing Credit Fumes

2016-04-24

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2016-04-24

Economic forecasting, no matter how complex the underlying model may be, is essentially about extrapolating historical trends. We showed last week how economic models completely fail to pick up on structural shifts using Japan as an example. On the other hand, if an economy doesn’t really change much, as in the case of Australia over the last thirty years, model “forecast” are generally quite accurate.

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Russian Aggression Unmasked (Sort Of)

2016-04-23

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2016-04-23

  Provocative Fighter Jocks Back in 2014, a Russian jet made headlines when it passed several times close to the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea. As CBS reported at the time:   “A Pentagon spokesperson told CBS Radio that a Russian SU-24 fighter jet...

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Rational Insanity

2016-04-23

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2016-04-23

  Intel Employees Get RIF’d Dark storm clouds gather along the economic horizon.  They multiply ominously with each passing day.  The recovery, weak as it has been, has run for nearly seven years.  Now it appears to be sputtering and stalling out.   ...

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100 Years of Mismanagement

2016-04-21

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2016-04-21

  Lost From the Get-Go There must be some dark corner of Hell warming up for modern, mainstream economists. They helped bring on the worst bubble ever… with their theories of efficient markets and modern portfolio management. They failed to see it fo...

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Is the Stock Market Overvalued?

2016-04-20

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2016-04-20

  Dismal Earnings, Extreme Valuations The current earnings season hasn’t been very good so far. Companies continue to “beat expectations” of course, but this is just a silly game. The stock market’s valuation is already between the highest and third ...

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Fighting Recessions with Hot Air

2016-04-20

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2016-04-20

   “Prepping” for Recession GUALFIN, Argentina – Stocks are going up all over the world. Meanwhile, it appears to us that the U.S. economy is going down. Go figure. For instance, a labor-market index created by Fed economists… and closely watched by ...

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[4/20/16] – 39. Gun Control with Ryan McMaken

2016-04-20

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The show notes page for this episode can be found at: http://www.wakeupcallpodcast.com/guns Ryan McMaken, Editor of Mises Wire and author of “Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre,” joins Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros to discuss gun control and statistics related to gun ownership and gun violence.

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Willy Wimmer auf dem ersten Anleger-Kongress des Dirk Müller Premium Aktien Fonds am 9. April 2016

2016-04-20

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Einen Tag nach seiner Rückkehr aus Russland und Gesprächen mit Wladimir Putin, berichtete Willy Wimmer am 9. April 2016 auf dem ersten Anlegerkongress des Dirk Müller Premium Aktien Fonds über seine aktuellen Erfahrungen und Erkenntnisse und hält ein Plädoyer für den Frieden in Europa. Weitere spannende Beiträge und Kolumnen von Willy Wimmer und Dirk Müller …

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Ronald Stöferle: “Helikoptergeld der EZB wird kommen”

2016-04-19

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Der Finanzexperte Ronald Störferle (Incrementum AG Liechtenstein) glaubt fest daran, dass die Europäische Zentralbank alles machen wird, damit die Inflation steigen wird. “Draghi hat selbst gesagt, dass er Helikoptergeld sehr interessant findet. Früher oder später wird es kommen. Man nennt es dann vielleicht People´s QE zum Beispiel”, so der Experte bei Wirtschaft TV-Chefredakteur Manuel Koch …

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LTR: Permitting Women in Combat with Ryan McMaken

2016-04-19

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Ryan W. McMaken is the editor of Mises Daily and The Austrian.He has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre. I’d …

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A Morally Sound Tax Reform Proposal

2016-04-19

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2016-04-19

  The Oppressed U.S. Taxpayer This year, Americans’ day of tribute to their federal overlords falls on April 18.  As calculated by the Tax Foundation, the average American will work from January 1 to April 24 (Tax Freedom Day) to pay his share of tax...

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Q&A with George Friedman: Venezuela, North Korea, the Middle East, Kazakhstan

2016-04-19

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Send your questions for George Friedman to Mauldin Economics on Twitter (@mauldinecon) with the hashtag #TWIG. Every week, we’ll pick the most interesting questions and have George Friedman answer them in this Q&A video series. Stay tuned!

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US Economy – Ongoing Distortions

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  Business under Pressure A recent post by Mish points to the fact that many of the business-related data that have been released in recent months continue to point to growing weakness in many parts of the business sector. We show a few charts illust...

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[4/18/16] – 37. Resistance to the European Union with Claudio Grass

2016-04-18

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The show notes page for this episode can be found at: http://www.wakeupcallpodcast.com/eu-resistance Claudio Grass, Managing Director of Global Gold and a co-founder of goldandliberty.com, joins Adam Camac and Daniel Laguros to discuss resistance to the EU in Switzerland and Iceland, the upcoming Brexit referendum, and growing Euroscepticism in Germany.

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Cultural Marxism and the Birth of Modern Thought-Crime

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  What the Establishment Wants, the Establishment Gets If a person has no philosophical thoughts, certain questions will never cross his mind. As a young man, there were many issues and ideas that never concerned me as they do today. There is one que...

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11 on the Nutty Scale – Banks are Paying Interest to Mortgage Borrowers

2016-04-18

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2016-04-18

  Wicked Don Giovanni GUALFIN, Argentina – Tuesday evening, we went to the main opera house in Buenos Aires, the Teatro Colón, to see Mozart’s Don Giovanni. On our way over, our taxi driver told us that Luciano Pavarotti rated it as the second best o...

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Dirk Müller im Tagesausblick vom 18.04.2016 – Angespanntes Verhältnis zwischen USA und Saudi-Arabien

2016-04-18

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Weitere Themen: – Helikoptergeld: Geld ohne Wert – OPEC-Treffen gescheitert: Ölpreise auf Talfahrt – US-Wirtschaft “over the edge” www.cashkurs.com – Ihre unabhängige Finanzinformationsplattform zu den Themen Börse, Wirtschaft, Finanzmarkt von und mit Dirk Müller

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George Friedman: Eastern Europe Is Trapped Between Russia and the West

2016-04-18

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George Friedman writes the free weekly column “This Week in Geopolitics” (http://www.mauldineconomics.com/subscribe-twig) for Mauldin Economics. Subscribe now and get an in-depth view of the forces that will drive events and investors in the next year, decade, or even a century from now. — The European Union’s eastern bloc finds the ongoing refugee crisis annoying but …

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Double Whammy Economics

2016-04-16

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2016-04-16

What’s up with U.S. consumers? They seem to have come to their senses at the worst possible time. They can no longer be counted on to push economic growth up and to the right. Specifically, they’re not spending money on stuff.A little public service on etymology: “Double whammy” was reportedly first used in a 1941 Oakland Tribune article related to boxing. It means a devastating blow, setback or catastrophe. In today’s economy, it often means...

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Why All Central Planning Is Doomed to Fail

2016-04-15

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2016-04-15

We’re still thinking about how so many smart people came to believe things that aren’t true. Krugman, Stiglitz, Friedman, Summers, Bernanke, Yellen – all seem to have a simpleton’s view of how the world works.

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