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5 Disheartening New Economic Developments

August 3, 2011 · 1 comment

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Now that the debt ceiling has been raised and the media have already turned to the question of how Obama will be celebrating his 50th birthday, it behooves us to consider the new market slump that has sunk in following registration of the reality of America’s debt situation. Immediate crisis would seem to have been [...]

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Obama Rescues States With Shadow Bailouts and Interest-Free Loan Extensions

February 9, 2011 · 3 comments

in Obama, Obama Effect, US economy, bailout, bankruptcy, debt, government, news and updates, politics, stimulus, unemployment

Now we know that a whopping 32 states are officially bankrupt, and that apparently, the US government has been engaged in shadow bailouts of these states, i.e., “giving them money under the table.”
In addition, all that money that states borrowed from the Federal government in order to continue to pay unemployment benefits? Now they won’t [...]

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Which 18 States Are NOT Bankrupt Yet

February 9, 2011 · 1 comment

in 2011, US debt, US economy, bailout, bankruptcy, collapse, debt, living in US, market reports, moving to U.S., news and updates, unemployment

The Economic Policy Journal recently released a list of U.S. States that are officially bankrupt (i.e., insolvent). These states are receiving SHADOW BAILOUTS from the federal government. As Zero Hedge puts it, “one can only wonder how many other shadow programs are currently in operation to fund states under the table with federal money.” He [...]

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The other day, a reader reminded me of the post I wrote a year and a half ago on the coming double-digit inflation. More and more, lately in the news we hear snippets about inflation cropping up in the food prices around the world. Yet inflation is still almost taboo to talk about inside the [...]

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Making Money In a Deflationary Environment

March 1, 2010 · 4 comments

in Federal Reserve, US economy, USD, consumers, deflation, depression, economy, financial planning, interest rates, investing, market trends, money supply, recession, stimulus, unemployment, wealth protection, wealthbuilding

The rally has been over for a good two months, and the markets have been stuck in a trading range since the New Year. Recent concerns over the potential of sovereign debt crises, however, show that we’re not out of the woods yet.
Just consider some of the following areas for potential setbacks in the markets: [...]

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Survival Skills To Barter With In Case of Financial Ruin, Unemployment, or Economic Collapse

January 15, 2010 · 12 comments

in diversification, economy, education, emergencies, lifehack, market crash, risk, self-protection, survival, sustainability, unemployment, wealth protection, world order

Do your “transferable skills” include survival skills? If you work in financial markets, accounting, tourism, real estate, university-level teaching (certain fields), administration, human resources, and a number of other fields whose central activities are not connected in any real way to the basic “stuff” of living, it is more likely that you are lacking in [...]

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US Jobless Rate Hits 7.5%

January 27, 2009

in layoffs, unemployment

Well, maybe we are getting close to 10% unemployment in the US as I suggested in a previous post. The most recent numbers indicate that unemployment levels in the US have reached 7.5%. According to this Globe and Mail report, anyway. Still, it’s a long way off from Great Depression numbers. AND unemployment is measured [...]

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