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I wrote about consumers completely giving up this week: http://futronomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/consumers-throw-in-towel.html The fundamentals of a balance sheet recession were eventually going to overwhelm the optimism that everything is over "because it was bad and therefore must get better." Some...

wvbill, Goldman has essentially become the market since it was allowed to become a "supplemental liquidity provider" with essentially no competition. This sounds like conspiracy territory, but to see Russell mention it above would have to make one think twice. The amount of total daily volume that i...

This is from Comstock partners via Zero Hedge

Matt1989 wrote: Only because you hold capitalism up as the ultimate ideal. 1) Inaccurate. I hold individual liberty as the ultimate ideal. Capitalism is a vehicle to exercise individual liberties. 2) What do you have against ideals? Or are you just trying to be "in character" as a nihilistic GenXer?...

How so? We weren't capitalist in the first place. The US hasn't been capitalist for nearly a century. Capitalism embraces failure as much as it does success. Our governments have been seeking to eliminate failure by any means necessary. That is a patently anti-capitalist motive. There are a lot of ...

"I think the government has actually been doing a pretty good job at trying to keep people calm." Really? The WHO called the crisis a "threat to all of humanity." -- http://news.scotsman.com/world/39Threat-to-humanity39-closes-Mexico.5225485.jp Governments have also been advising (and providing) pe...

Marsh Aviator wrote: "Having spent most of my adult life (50 Year old) as a libertarian/objectivist, now increasing doubt the continued viability of the capitalist system." How so? We weren't capitalist in the first place. The US hasn't been capitalist for nearly a century. Capitalism embraces failu...

I don't believe in any of the hype around this swine flu. I think it is a power grab by government and a money grab by the drug companies. Together with a complicit media (as always) we are being fed mass propaganda to instill fear, panic and complicity. Eat well, exercise, keep a stash of storable ...

Vaccines are useless and usually do more harm than good. Case in point is the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak where dozens more were killed by the vaccine than the flu itself prior to the vaccine being recalled. But the entire idea of vaccines for the flu lacks common sense. The virus undergoes countless mu...

Two articles this week discussing the "big picture."

First one is dedicated to JLak.
Against Empirical Analysis

Timing the Depression