thestatedtruth.com | July 19, 2009
Converting an I.R.A. Into a Roth?   July 18, 2009 By RON LIEBER You’ll be hearing a lot in the next six months about Roth Individual Retirement Accounts — but not as much as you should about a long-term threat that hangs over them. Starting Jan. 1, you’ll be able to take a regular I.R.A., […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 18, 2009
Thoughts from the Frontline Weekly Newsletter Europe on the Brink by John Mauldin July 17, 2009 Â Â In this issue: Europe on the Brink And Then There Was Leverage Too Big To Save Those Wild and Crazy Swiss A Positive Third Quarter? We have avoided Armageddon, at least for now. The cost to the US […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 17, 2009
Marina Kalashnikova’s Warning to  the West……  by J. R. Nyquist  Weekly Column  Meet Marina Kalashnikova: a Moscow-based historian, researcher and journalist. Last August she criticized foreign “experts†for suggesting that a conflict with Moscow will not happen because Russia’s elite is too closely associated with the West. According to Kalashnikova, “The […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 17, 2009
 Huge Rally? Don’t Laugh……..By: Rick Ackerman, Rick’s Picks   Rick’s Picks Friday, July 17, 2009 “Phenomenally accurate forecastsâ€Â  Just because there are a dozen great reasons to hate stocks right now doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t go much higher. Not only that, the bear rally could continue for quite a while – till 2011 […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 12, 2009
 The year is 1909. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 : ************ ********* ********* ******  The average life expectancy was 47 years.  Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.  Only 8 percent of the homes had a […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 12, 2009
A study finds that 26% of the defaults across the country are calculated economic decisions to bail out of loans by borrowers who could afford to make the monthly payments. By Kenneth R. Harney July 12, 2009 Reporting from Washington — Would you, under any circumstances, default on your home mortgage, even if you could […]
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thestatedtruth.com | July 7, 2009
Inflation, Sentiment and the Kress Cycles July 7, 2009 Despite a 40% market recovery and an abatement of the credit crisis, a climate of high fear abounds among market participants. Investor sentiment polls continue to show an excess of bears over bulls as few believe that a recovery can be sustained. If anything, fear has been […]
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thestatedtruth.com | June 17, 2009
The Mysterious Case of the Seized Bearer Bonds, Worth $134 Billion The US media has been generally silent about $134 billion in bearer bonds seized by Italian police at the Swiss border. On June 8, AsiaNews reported: Italy’s financial police (Guardia italiana di Finanza) has seized US bonds worth US 134.5 billion from two Japanese […]
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