Media Filled With Fearmongers, but Have no Fear, the Fed is Here

This site has featured evidence of economic weakness in the U.S. for some time, basically since last spring.  Now that the Fed agrees so heartily as to add QE on top of Operation Twist, I start looking for buying opportunities in economically-sensitive assets; this being a total reversal of the stance I adopted in May [...]

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Paradigm Lost: Why the rEVOLution Has Not Been Televised

To those who care about such things, the silence of the media about the extraordinary events around Ron Paul’s campaign is deafening.

Some see conspiracy. I don’t. I see the expected reaction to a paradigm shift — a complete change in the concepts we use to make sense of our politics and culture.

An excellent [...]

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The Fluff And Puff Of Arianna Huffington

COMMENTARY

Arianna Huffington just wrote an “important” op-ed, “Delevering in a Delevering World“.

I know flummery when I see it:

On Monday, I was in Newport Beach to speak at the annual client conference of PIMCO, the world’s largest bond investment company — whose CEO Mohamed El-Erian is a frequent and very popular HuffPost blogger. More than [...]

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Why Don’t People Like Rupert Murdoch?

News Corp. said it will close its News of the World newspaper, a dramatic move to quell a scandal over the U.K. paper’s controversial reporting tactics, which have led to allegations that, in its pursuit of scoops, it intercepted [hacked] voice mails of celebrities, murdered girls and terrorist victims

James Murdoch, News Corp.’s deputy chief [...]

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Tell It Like It Is, Part II

By Jeff Harding

Following along with yesterday’s article, “Tell It Like It Is,” this morning’s headlines were:

New York Times:

Consumer Prices Hold Steady, Easing Inflation Fears

Bloomberg:

Consumer Confidence in U.S. Declines on Job Losses, Inflation Is Contained

Same news, different emphasis. Are things getting better or worse?

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Portfolio Magazine: RIP

By Jeff Harding

I think I got my last issue of Portfolio magazine. Conde Nast just announced that they are closing down the magazine. It was a slick magazine that had one good article and a lot of gossipy business articles on well known CEOs. The writing was out of the New Yorker mode: [...]

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