thestatedtruth.com | October 11, 2009
Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter Killing the Goose by John Mauldin October 9, 2009 In this issue: Killing the Goose What Were We Thinking? Let’s Play Turn It Around Detroit, the Red Sox and the Yankees, and Traveling Too Much  Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 8, 2009
 How can they lose this much money?    Oh, they’re giving loans to the same home buyers that wiped out sub prime. The Federal Housing Administration, which insures mortgages with low down payments, may require a U.S. bailout because of $54 billion more in losses than it can withstand, a former Fannie Mae executive said. It […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 6, 2009
Exxon Mobil Passes PetroChina as World’s Most Valuable Company By Joe Carroll Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) — Exxon Mobil Corp. overtook PetroChina Co. as the world’s most valuable company, ending a four-month reign by the Beijing-based oil producer after price controls in China failed to keep pace with rising crude costs. State-controlled PetroChina’s Shanghai-traded shares have […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 1, 2009
 Swiss Health Without Public Option  By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ October 1, 2009 ZURICH — Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens. But the system here does not remotely resemble the model of bureaucratic, socialized medicine often cited by opponents of universal coverage in the United States. Swiss […]
thestatedtruth.com | October 1, 2009
Bernanke Urges ‘Strong’ Consumer Protection in House Testimony By Scott Lanman and Craig Torres Oct. 1 (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told lawmakers that protecting consumers of financial services is “vitally important,†while omitting prior criticism of an Obama administration proposal to shift such powers from the Fed to a new agency. […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 24, 2009
Volcker Unleashes Volley By Larry Doyle|Sep 24, 2009, 1:00 PM I find it interesting, but not surprising, that former Fed Chair Paul Volcker’s testimony to Congress this morning has received little to no coverage by major media outlets. Why? With few exceptions, the financial media plays along with the financial industry which pays the bills […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 23, 2009
U.S.S. Independence (LCS-2) …….We’ve been hearing rumblings about these U.S. Navy triple-hulled ships, so here’s one that was launched recently….Build by General Dynamics, it’s called a “Littoral Combat Ship” (LCS), and it can move weapons around faster than any ship in the Navy. Littoral means close to shore, and that’s where these fleet-hulled ships will […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 22, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | September 21, 2009
China, Russia and the rest of the BRICs will bring the Super Sovereign Currency alternative to the G20 discussion. We have seen that developing over the last few weeks. We know that the main thrust of the G20 where the West is concerned is banking regulations and a unified commitment not to withdraw from anti-deflationary, […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
“Option” Mortgages To Explode  Thu Sep 17, 2009 By Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal government and states are girding themselves for the next foreclosure crisis in the country’s housing downturn: payment option adjustable rate mortgages that are beginning to reset. “Payment option ARMs are about to explode,” Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
So, the banks are told to re write first mortgages, and write off home equity loans and second trust deeds. It sounds like they are doing that, unless the servicier is also the provider of the second (the 4 largest servicers are BofA, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo and Citi)…..in which case they ask (demand) the homeowner to acept new terms on the home equity and second trust deeds or they won’t rewrite the first morgages. This then allows the servicing bank to show the home equity and seconds as performing loans and they then don’t have to show the write off on their books…. Thieve’in Banks…….Thats what we have here.
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | September 18, 2009
Total houehold wealth is up 3.9% April through June 2009, but  is still down by 19% from the high reached back in the third quarter of 2007. To put things into another perspective, just do tthe math on the next chart from 2007.  To do the math….hint, we are subtracting  the 19% loss that we’ve had since the third quarter 2007  from […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 16, 2009
The Bloomberg Professional Confidence Index Global Economy is comprised of responses about the outlook for the global economy, from users globally. A value above 50 indicates a positive sentiment about the global economy from all Bloomberg respondents
thestatedtruth.com | September 16, 2009
thestatedtruth.com | September 13, 2009
City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level 1. Detroit , MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo , NY 29.9% 3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland , OH 27.0% 5. Miami , FL 26.9% 5. St. Louis , MO 26.8% 7. El Paso , TX 26.4% 8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2% 9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1% […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2009
                         Human Fat Yields Multipurpose Potent Stem Cells Human fat from liposuctions can be converted to induced pluripotent stem cells These cells have the potential to become any tissue in the body Less than half a Coke can’s worth of fat needed for process, researcher says By Elizabeth Landau CNN (CNN) — You know that […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 11, 2009
“What exactly is ‘poverty’ to the US government? The equivalent of a family of four living on an annual budget of $22,025 or less.
thestatedtruth.com | September 10, 2009
Harvard Investments Lose 27.3% By Gillian Wee Sept. 10 (Bloomberg) — Harvard University, the wealthiest U.S. school, said its investments fell 27.3 percent in the past year, a $10.1 billion loss that was smaller than President Drew Faust’s forecast in December before markets started to recover. The endowment declined to $26 billion from $36.9 billion […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 5, 2009
States, counties, and cities are having to make deep cuts, in both jobs and programs. Today’s Wall Street Journal talks about the cuts in state after state. States cannot print money like the US can, so at some point they have to either raise taxes or cut spending to balance their budgets. Raising taxes just […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 5, 2009
Interesting statistic. Want to know where wages are rising? Think federal government workers. The gap between civilian and government workers was less than $13,000 nine years ago, but now is almost $30,000. Inflation has been 24%, but government wages are up 55%. According to a recent release from Rasmussen Reports, a government job remains “the […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 4, 2009
A History Lesson On Railroads And Other Things……….    Does the statement, ‘We’ve always done it like that’ ring any bells? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 3, 2009
More Pain Felt by ‘Prime’Borrowers By ROBIN SIDEL SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 The long recession and rising joblessness are taking an increasing toll on the nation’s most credit-worthy borrowers, who are now falling behind on their mortgage and credit-card payments at a faster pace than people with poor financial histories. The mortgage-delinquency rate among so-called subprime […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 3, 2009
Natural Gas Tumbles to Lowest Since March 2002 on Supply Gain By Reg Curren Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) — Natural gas futures extended a decline in New York, falling to the lowest level since March 2002, after a government report showed stockpiles expanded more than average to a record for this time of year. Supplies rose […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 2, 2009
BP Makes ‘Giant’ Oil Discovery in Gulf of Mexico By Eduard Gismatullin Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc, Europe’s second-largest oil company, reported a “giant†discovery at the Tiber Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico that may contain more than 3 billion barrels, after drilling the world’s deepest exploration well. The well is located about […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 1, 2009
 Sheila Bair was very candid about commercial defaults being more of a driver of lots of bank failures this Fall. This is precisely the type of issue we’ve been concerned of. The references some are making about the ‘stress tests’ being feather tests of banks, is something we’ve argued all along; based on ridiculous […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 1, 2009
China Warns Banks on OTC Hedge Defaults -Report BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) may unilaterally terminate derivative contracts with six foreign banks that provide over-the-counter commodity hedging services, a leading financial magazine said. China’s SOE regulator, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), had told the financial institutions that SOEs […]
thestatedtruth.com | September 1, 2009
Housing Won’t Lead U.S. Out of Recession, Gross Says By Susanne Walker Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) — Housing won’t lead the U.S. out of its recession, Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., wrote in his September investment outlook. There has been a significant break in the traditional economic […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 31, 2009
By: Rick Ackerman Rick’s Picks Monday, August 31, 2009 “Phenomenally accurate forecastsâ€Â  Because we never shared investors’ wild enthusiasm for Cerberus, its near-collapse in recent days hardly came as a shock. The once-huge private-equity firm specialized in distressed assets at a time when even the bluest of blue-chip companies – the name Lehman Brothers springs […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 31, 2009
“Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal picks up on the theme of the long road of pain ahead for bank shareholders in the US,†colleague Dan Amoss tells us. “In ‘Banks on Sick List Top 400,’ the WSJ details several ugly highlights from the latest FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile, published last Thursday. “Here are […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 30, 2009
Swine Flu Spreading at ‘Unbelievable’ Rate: WHO PARIS — Swine flu spreads four times faster than other viruses and 40 percent of the fatalities are young adults in good health, the world’s top health official warned in an interview appearing Saturday. “This virus travels at an unbelievable, almost unheard of speed,” World Health Organisation Director […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 27, 2009
Fed Urges Secrecy on Banks in Bailout   Thursday    Aug 27, 2009 12:27pm EDT * Fed urges judge not to enforce order pending appeal * Banks say disclosure could cause loss of confidence By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve asked a federal judge not to enforce her […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 26, 2009
According to the US Department of Energy, liquid fuel demand in the developed nations peaked in August 2005 at 41.89 million barrels per day. Since then, it has plunged by 3.6 million barrels per day to 38.27 million barrels per day. However, you may want to note that despite these tough economic conditions, consumption has […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 24, 2009
How to Kill Germs, and Consumer Resistance Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times Consumers can be skeptical of new disinfectants, so Michael Krall is eager to demonstrate his faith in his company’s ingredient, silver dihydrogen citrate, that is contained in a new consumer product called PureGreen 24. By NATASHA SINGER Published: August 22, 2009 […]
thestatedtruth.com | August 21, 2009
White House Sees $9 Trillion in Deficits Over Decade By Brian Faler Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government’s long-term budget outlook is darker than expected, with projected deficits over the next 10 years totaling $2 trillion more than had been forecast, according to an Obama administration official. A White House budget review set for […]
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