July Was Las Vegas’ HOTTEST Month Ever…..Ever!

thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010

Las Vegans  just lived through the hottest month ever. The high reached triple digits every day in July, and the heat hung on through the night to push last month into record territory. According to the National Weather Service, July’s average temperature of 96.2 degrees was the highest of any month since record keeping began [...]

Unusual Solar Activity, Complex Eruption On The Sun

thestatedtruth.com | August 3, 2010

From Art Cashin on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Longtime readers know that for years we’ve been remarking on the unusual lack of solar activity.  Well, the sleeping sun woke up Sunday and woke up in a big way.  Here’s a bit of detail from Spaceweather.com: COMPLEX ERUPTION ON THE SUN: On [...]

Greenspan Says Decline in U.S. Home Prices Could Bring Return Of Recession

thestatedtruth.com | August 1, 2010

Here are some of the comments from Alan Greenspan on NBC’s “Meet The Press”.   We should keep in mind that Alan Greenspan told congress a year or two back that his “model” was broken! Joshua Zumbrun         August 1, 2010 “We’re in a pause in a recovery, a modest recovery, but a pause in the modest recovery [...]

Byron Wein…..”The Smartest Man In Europe”

thestatedtruth.com | July 20, 2010

Write up from Byron Wein…………”The Smartest Man In Europe”                    Commentary courtesy of www.fmxconnect.com We recently came across an interesting piece from Blackstone on the European Stimulus and the road to recovery. Bryon Wein is a well known strategist. The most salient points are outlined below: No clear way out of the enormous debt burden [...]

Gold Sentiment Negative……Hulbert Says Sets Up Contrarian Pattern

thestatedtruth.com | July 2, 2010

Gold and gold stocks look absolutly terrible, so this makes a lot of sense!  The Hulbert Financial Digest has been tracking this kind of thing for over 30 years.   Friday July 2, 2010 ANNANDALE, Va. (MarketWatch) — Gold’s huge drop on Thursday is not the beginning of a new major leg down for the [...]

What Happens When, Not If….Interest Rates Rise!

thestatedtruth.com | June 23, 2010

Source: Heritage Foundation

No Cluck For Our Buck!

thestatedtruth.com | June 23, 2010

  Source: Heritage Foundation

U.S. Foreclosures to Reach 3.9 Million in Second Record Year

thestatedtruth.com | December 10, 2009

U.S. Foreclosures to Reach 3.9 Million in Second Record Year By Dan Levy   Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — Foreclosure filings in the U.S. will reach a record for the second consecutive year with 3.9 million notices sent to homeowners in default, RealtyTrac Inc. said. This year’s filings will surpass 2008’s total of 3.2 million as [...]

Here Are Some Charts On The Housing And Credit Bubbles

thestatedtruth.com | June 2, 2009

thestatedtruth.com | May 11, 2009

  STRATFOR May 11, 2009 By George Friedman After U.S. airstrikes killed scores of civilians in western Afghanistan this past week, White House National Security Adviser Gen. James L. Jones said the United States would continue with the airstrikes and would not tie the hands of U.S. generals fighting in Afghanistan. At the same time, [...]