Posted on 13 April 2009. Tags: AAA, accountability, acquisition, Alan Meltzer, apartment building, bailout programs, banking, banks, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Benjamin Graham, Big Brother, big government, bond auction, bond market, borrow, buy your first apartment building, california, Carnegie mellon, CFA, CFA study program, Chairman, charter, Chartered Financial Analyst, CNN, commercial real estate, competitive, conservative insurgency, credit markets, crowd out, debt, Delta Global Advisors, depression, eavesdropping, economy, fair tax, Fed historian, federal, federal reserve, financial system, fiscal policies, Georgia, government debt, hedge inflation, hedge risk, history, hyperinflation, independent media, inflation, Keynes, learn about CFA, Michael Pento, Milton Friedman, monetary policy, money, money printing, money supply, municipal bonds, munis, nest egg, Obama administration, Obamanomics, older workers, online, political economist, Politics, President Obama, private placement, private sector, progressive taxation, public auction, public oversight, Real Estate, recession, releveraging, Retirement, risk, risk management, risk mitigation, Rob Viglione, Santa Monica Tea Party, secrecy, socal real estate advisors, spend, state, state secrets, struggling to pay taxes, surveillance, tax protests, tax reform, taxation, tea parties, tears, The Freedom Factory, transparency, Treasury securities, unemployment, Utah, valuation, value investing, what is a CFA, wiretapping
Obama continues Bush policy of surveillance secrecy despite campaign promises, tax protests spark conservative insurgency online, submit video footage of your tax woes to CNN and you might be aired nationally, Fed historian and political economist predicts worse inflation than 1970s, consider real estate as an inflation hedge, municipal bond market shows signs of life, older workers 45 years and older face brunt of recession, and flood of government debt crowds out private economy… Continue Reading
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Posted on 03 April 2009. Tags: accountability, Ahmad Tanveer, AIG, alternative economic data, america, American International Group, bail out the people, barack obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Brother, big businesses, bipartisanship, BLS, bonds, bonuses, bottomless pit, budge deficit, budget plan, Bureau of Labor Statistis, bureaucratic, capitalism must end, cato institute, chanting and drumming, collectivism, concentration camps, congress, debt, democrats, Department of Homeland Security, depression, detain immigrants, detention centers, developing world, development, development economics, DHS, economic systems, Economics, Economists' Adventures and misadventures in the tropics, employment obligations, end of American Empire, fair trade, Fannie Mae, fascism, federal reserve, financial regulations, fiscal year, FNM, FRE, Fredd Mac, free enterprise, free trade, G20, Georgia, global New Deal, Global Socialism, globalization, Goldman Sachs, Gordon Brown, Group of 20, harassed by government, Harry Reid, House of Representatives, Hugo Chavez, IMF, immigrant deaths, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ineffective, inherited mistakes, insurance, international aid organizations, International Monetary Fund, London, mortgage giants, mortgage market, Nancy Pelosi, new york protest, New York University, New Yorker, NYU, Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Pakistani, Pax Americana, Politics, poor countries, President Obama, prisons, protectionism, quadrillion, real unemployment, recession, republicans, retention bonuses, Rob Viglione, Russia, secondary market, Senate, ShadowStats, socialism, spending bill, statistics, stimulus spending, summit, The Elusive Quest for Growth, The White Man's Burden, third world, Tim Geithner, trade credits, treasuries, trillion, troop withdrawals, unemployment, united states, unprecedented spending, utopia, Utopian aid plans, Venezuela, wasteful, why doesn't aid work, Why the West's Efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good, William Easterly, World Bank, world leaders
Government detention camps cover up deaths-does America have a human rights problem? Congress passes unprecedented $3.6 trillion budget with $1.2 trillion deficit, official unemployment rates his 8.5%-some economists claiming they are really upwards of 20%, government mortgage giants Fannie and Freddie to pay $159 billion in new bonuses, Obama calls end to ‘Pax Americana’, world leaders pledge $1.1 trillion to IMF, Russia refuses to remove troops from Georgia, NY protesters call for government to ‘Bail out the People’, Hugo Chavez declares that ‘Capitalism must end,’ and Treasuries drop with announcement of next week’s $59 billion note issue and Goldman Sachs estimate that government will need to borrow another $3.25 trillion this year… Continue Reading
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