thestatedtruth.com | December 7, 2009
From The Inger Letter       www.ingerletter.com Today’s latest report showed continued year-over-year declines for Consumer Credit; which is now an all-time one-year collapse which bears watching. I also believe that despite the protestations about credit not being available; consumer and business folks alike (at least those with basic smarts) aren’t inclined to borrow at this time, […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 7, 2009
Japan Releases Stimulus Package as Recovery Weakens By Keiko Ujikane and Toru Fujioka Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — The Japanese government unveiled a 7.2 trillion yen ($81 billion) economic stimulus package amid signs the recovery and Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama’s popularity are waning. Hatoyama’s first stimulus plan includes 3.5 trillion yen to help regions, 600 billion […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 7, 2009
Bernanke Sees ‘Formidable Headwinds’ for U.S. Economy By Craig Torres and Shobhana Chandra Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy faces “formidable headwinds,†including a weak labor market and tight credit that are likely to produce a “moderate†pace of expansion. “The economy confronts some formidable headwinds that […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 6, 2009
Treasury Needs Plan B For Mortgages From The Yew York Times By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: December 5, 2009 AFTER months of playing pretend, the Treasury Department conceded last week that the Home Affordable Modification Program, its plan to aid troubled homeowners by changing the terms of their mortgages, was a dud. The 10-month-old program is […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 6, 2009
 I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations.  The bad news is I had to take him down after just 2 days.   There were more people coming up to my house screaming than ever before. Aflac tried to sell me accident insurance…….then the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost had near […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 4, 2009
Include Me Out – It looks like more and more equity investors are adopting the linguistically mangled posture of Samuel Goldwyn. At least that’s what it looks like from the latest TrimTabs data. Here’s how Mark Hulbert portrayed it in his MarketWatch column this morning: And November turned out to be yet another in an […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 4, 2009
Geithner Slams Bonuses, Says All Big Banks Could Have Failed By Robert Schmidt  Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner criticized the record bonuses expected to be paid by big banks this year and refuted claims by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that it would have survived without government aid. Taking aim at what […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 3, 2009
 Obama’s Plan and the Key Battleground December 2, 2009 | 1155 GMTBy George Friedman U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements. First, he intends to maintain pressure on al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistani border […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 2, 2009
 Comments from Cumberland Advisors, a major institutional investor (full report attached below)……………This is worth the time to read.The number of FDIC-insured bank units rated “F” rose from 2,256 at the end of June to 2,337 as of Q3 2009. Even with the heavily subsidized money center banks added back into the equation, the Stress […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 1, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | December 1, 2009
U.S. Personal Income Rose In October. Â But it was boosted by government benefits, says David Rosenberg. Take away the free money from the feds and income actually went down. Income has been going down for a long time in the US. English colleague Brian Durrant wonders why there is no revolution: “Consider a country. For […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 1, 2009
US Commercial Property Loan Defaults Soar-Reports Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:59pm EST By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) – The default rate for commercial real estate loans held by banks reached the highest in 16 years and the outlook looks worse, according to a report by a research firm released on Monday. The […]
thestatedtruth.com | December 1, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 30, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 30, 2009
Is Britain On The Brink Of Financial  Armageddon? By James Palumbo A year ago, the world reacted with astonishment as Iceland technically went bust. It seemed inconceivable that a modern democratic nation could have such parlous finances that only an emergency $6billion bail-out from the International Monetary Fund enabled its economy to keep functioning. […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 23, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 22, 2009
Bills Yielding Zero Make 1938 Moment By Liz Capo McCormick and Daniel Kruger Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — For the first time in seven decades, Treasury bills are paying no interest while stocks continue to appreciate — a divergence in U.S. financial markets that might be perilous if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke didn’t know […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 22, 2009
H1N1 Deaths Doubling Almost Every Two Weeks in Europe By Jason Gale Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) — Swine flu deaths have doubled almost every two weeks since mid-October in Europe, with 166 occurring in the past week, the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention said. Across the region, 667 people infected with the new H1N1 […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 21, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 20, 2009
Shocking and hard to believe, but real. Do you want gold as insurance or the dollar long-term? $4.8 trillion – Interest on U.S. Debt Unless lawmakers make big changes, the interest Americans will have to pay to keep the country running over the next decade will reach unheard of levels. By Jeanne Sahadi, CNNMoney.com senior […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 20, 2009
Paulson: Gold’s Bull Run Is Just Beginning November 19, 2009 By Simon Avery John Paulson, lionized by many investors for his winning bet on the fall of the housing and financial markets, is now getting aboard the gold wagon. The hedge fund manager told his investors that even at $1,150 an ounce, the bull run […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
Jim Rickards: If gold is money again, at some point it goes to at least $4,000….How could this happen? Easy if countries of the world print to much currency. Thursday, November 19, 2009 Daily Dispatches  Today Jim Rickards remarked that the United States and China are devaluing their currencies against each other in a game of […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
This chart says one thing bigger then anything else……..higher interest rates are only a matter of time. The smartest guys on Wall Street starting with David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital are betting on higher interest rates, forced by the market place, will happen sooner rather then latter starting in the United States and Japan. (He is a critic […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Fidelity Investments said the average balance on customers’ 401(k) retirement accounts has returned to September, 2008 levels on contributions and third- quarter investment gains. Account balances in plans for U.S. workers benefited from the 22 percent year-to-date gain in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index along with continuing employee contributions, the […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Meredith Whitney, the analyst who cut her rating on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. last month, said the bank has lost some of its top-performing employees as executives left to start their own investment companies. “Goldman’s lost a tremendous amount of talent going to set up their own hedge funds,†Whitney, founder […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 19, 2009
FHA, Prime Mortgage Defaults at Records on Job Losses By Kathleen M. Howley Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Foreclosures on prime mortgages and home loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration rose to three-decade highs in the third quarter, driven by the biggest job losses since the Great Depression. One out of every six FHA mortgages […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 18, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 18, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 17, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 14, 2009
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – The world’s largest cruise ship has arrived in South Florida.The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas docked Friday at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. It set sail from Finland to Florida in late October. Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 12, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | November 12, 2009
Fannie, Freddie Warn On Losses   By NICK TIMIRAOS Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, already reeling in red ink, are warning they could face additional losses from the weakening condition of mortgage-insurance companies. Fannie and Freddie together have required capital injections from the Treasury of $112 billion since the government took them over through conservatorship […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 12, 2009
Sen. Chris Dodd unveiled a whopper of a bill, one that might cause the biggest financial and monetary shakeup…umm…ever. Like most of Congress, we’ve barely cracked the 1,136-page affair…but here’s what we’re picking up thus far: Under the proposed bill, the Fed gets stripped of almost all its banking oversight and consumer protection powers. Bernanke […]
thestatedtruth.com | November 11, 2009
THE G-20 MET LAST WEEKEND AND MADE IT VERY CLEAR NO MONETARY TIGHTENING WOULD OCCUR AT THIS TIME In effect, the G-20 said all systems are go for economic expansion globally. The G-20 said in their news release, “Economic and financial conditions have improved following our coordinated response to the crisis. However, the recovery is […]
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