thestatedtruth.com | January 28, 2011
 January 28, 2011 Unconfirmed reports from Al Jazeera on Jan. 28 say the army and police forces are clashing in Cairo. These reports have come after reports from state-owned Egyptian satellite Al-Misriyah TV saying army leadership extended the curfew from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. local time to the whole country. www.stratfor.com
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thestatedtruth.com | January 27, 2011
Gene Inger’s Daily Briefing . . . for Friday January 28, 2011:  Good evening;  Consider ‘global revolution’ . . . as rising beyond its infancy if Egypt, the largest of all Arab nations, overthrows the 30-year old Mobarek regime. As we first reported just a couple days ahead of the major news media, […]
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thestatedtruth.com | January 23, 2011
We have followed Clif Droke for a number of years, and his record with the Kress Cycles is one step ahead of most others. The Kress cycles will take on the financial markets, and by extension the economy from 2012-2014. This will come as a shock for the most optimistic observers. The final “hard down†phase of the […]
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thestatedtruth.com | January 18, 2011
Dr Joe Duarte has a good feel for this…..With states cutting budgets across the board, where is the growth going to come from? In San Diego an interesting fight between the city and its unions is developing that could set the stage for how things work out in other places with similar problems. According to […]
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thestatedtruth.com | December 28, 2010
Gene Inger’s Daily Briefing . . . for Wednesday December 29, 2010:  Good evening;  The ‘Insolvent Age’ . . .well-describes the overall risk faced in 2011, which if viewed with full transparency, has risk of making a so-called ‘new normal’ seem comfortable. There are warning flags galore flying; and the irony is it […]
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thestatedtruth.com | December 16, 2010
Neal Soss at Credit Suisse: We have rising prices in gasoline and food. That is worldwide. It is also the warning sign of the worst-case “nightmare scenario.â€Â It as an “eruption of headline inflation (food and gasoline) with no accompanying pick-up in wages or real growth.â€Â David R. Kotok of Cumberland Advisors: Through the December […]
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thestatedtruth.com | December 6, 2010
This is an interesting summary of a review on retirement plans “Broken Promises” from Knowledge@Wharton …… From the women’s movement to the sexual revolution, the generation of 77 million baby boomers born in the United States between 1946 and 1964 has spent the last five decades loudly breaking new ground. Now, as they head toward their “golden years,” […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 16, 2010
John Mauldin Reviews Gary Shilling’s Brand New Book,  The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies For A Decade Of Slow Growth And Deflation. Some of his opinions are covered below. Roadblocks on the deleveraging highway may include a crisis in U.S. commercial real estate (Chart 5) that could exceed the earlier one in housing. Then there’s a possible […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 13, 2010
John Mauldin says…….”If the Bush tax cuts are not extended, in my opinion it is almost a lock that we go into recession next year, unemployment goes to 12%, and underemployment gets even worse”. The only real way to pay for all these benefits will ultimately be a value-added tax, or VAT.    A VAT looks […]
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thestatedtruth.com | November 6, 2010
Here are some shocking numbers…..Personal incomes are not going up. In fact, the income data is downright scary for the U.S.   The largest group of wage earners – a massive 24 million or 16% of the total wage group  – made between 1 red cent and $4,999.99. On average they earned $2,016.  The average wage for […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 19, 2010
   October 19, 2010 By George Friedman German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared at an Oct. 16 meeting of young members of her party, the Christian Democratic Union, that multiculturalism, or Multikulti, as the Germans put it, “has failed totally.†Horst Seehofer, minister-president of Bavaria and the chairman of a sister party to the Christian […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 9, 2010
Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter The Ride of the Keynesian Cowboys by John Mauldin  October 8, 2010 Teachers Don’t Count? The Rise of the Temporary Worker The Ride of the Keynesian Cowboys Let Us Count the Unintended Consequences  To ease or not to ease? That is the question we will take up […]
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thestatedtruth.com | October 5, 2010
October 5, 2010  The game of musical chairs is played with more than one entrant. The players have to focus on the whole group. Contestants gauge their positions as they go around and around. Only when the music stops is the outcome known.  In the US, many investors tend to focus on our […]
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thestatedtruth.com | September 26, 2010
Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter  Pushing on a String   by John Mauldin September 24, 2010 In this issue: Pushing on a String Let’s Shift the Focus An Invitation to an Inflation Party Ten Years and Counting This week the Fed altered their end-of-meeting statement by just a few words, but those words have […]
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