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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Stocks At Record High, Treasuries at Record Low – Why? 2. Investors Typically Don’t Buy Bonds & Stocks at the Same Time 3. We Often Forget How Huge the US Economy Really Is 4. Certain Investments Available Only to “Accredited Investors” Stocks at Record High...
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By Hard Assets Alliance Team While it is no secret that the US is severely addicted to debt, what some may find surprising is that over half of all privately held US public debt is held by foreigners. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United States accounted for 37.4% of...
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Given the news coming from the Fed and our continued low interest rate environment that's punishing savers and those on fixed incomes I've asked our resident Fed expert and ETF trader Rick Pendergraft to chime in on what investors can do where rates will be low for at least the next two years...
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By Bud Conrad, Casey Research The Fed surprised the market by extending its policy of 0 to 0.25% Fed funds rate to mid-2013. The way the Fed manages to drive rates lower is to buy Treasuries with newly created money – driving the price up and the rates down. The big question is whether the policy...
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By now, you've no doubt heard that Standard & Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating one notch. Let's first understand that this downgrade is more a political statement than a financial one. And it's not likely to affect U.S. Treasury yields much. I think we all agree that the...
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Goldman Sachs says there is a 1 in 3 chance the U.S. will slip back into recession. Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein from Harvard University is says it’s 50/50. At least one strategist is saying the U.S. economy is already in recession. Investors aren’t waiting around to see who’s...
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IN THIS ISSUE: 1. 2Q GDP Report Was Much Worse Than Expected 2. Fed “Beige Book” Confirms Economic Slowdown 3. Is a Double-Dip Recession Now Inevitable? 4. Is The Debt Ceiling Fiasco Finally Settled? Introduction I had not been looking forward to writing today’s E-Letter on the very...
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The Wall Street Journal reported today that troubles in Japan aren't staying on the island nation. Instead, they're spreading throughout the world. From the Journal's article, "Global markets plunged as deepening worries over the specter of a nuclear power crisis in Japan in the wake...
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The Bank of Japan pumped $183 billion in yen to try and contain the damage to the Japanese economy and stock market. It didn't work. The Nikkei dropped over 1,000 points in Tuesday trading, better than 10%. That's after a 5% drop Monday. That qualifies as a crash. And it's no "flash...
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Chuck Butler
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08-16-2010
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Filed under: Dollar, Bonds, Oil, China, Gold, Unemployment, Retail Sales, Economy, GDP, Jobs, FOMC, CFTC, Treasuries, TIC, rate, automobile market
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