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We hear much about institutions being too big to fail, and so, the taxpayer is expected to bear any cost to save large financial companies. We think that the more relevant question to ask is whether these institutions are too big to save?
With the passage of the most recent bailout bill, the taxpayer is now [...]

The credit worthiness of the United States is deteriorating rapidly and may lead to a credit rating downgrade.
In our 2009 forecast, we mentioned that the United States may be downgraded this year.  The trillions of dollars being pumped into a dying financial system will have its consequences. The treasury is expected to issue $2 trillion [...]

At $8.5 Trillion already pledged by the US Government, the 2008 bailout of the financial sector has become largest single expenditure ever assumed by the US Government (Or any government). Just how large you ask? We’ve now exceeded the total cost of World War 2, The New Deal, Korean War, Iraq Invasion, Vietnam, The Louisiana [...]

The yield on the 10 year treasury sunk to a 50 year low this week. It’s important to pay attention to moves in the treasury yield. If investors are panicked, they are more concerned with safety and less concerned with returns. Because price and yield are inversely related, when demand increases and the price for [...]

Russia’s RIA Novost Reports – A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts.
Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily Izvestia published on Monday: “The dollar is not [...]

The U.S. government is ready to provide $7.7 trillion of American taxpayer money after guaranteeing $306 billion of Citigroup Inc. debt yesterday. These pledges amount to HALF OF US GDP and almost four times the amount the Government receives in tax revenue per year.
The US dollar sold off on the news as gold spiked [...]

That’s right $4.28 trillion dollars. That’s $4,284,500,000,000. The total cost has now exceeded the total cost of World War 2, in inflation adjusted terms. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac have cost the American taxpayer $350 Billion, AIG $110 Billion+, Bear Stearns $30 Billion and $25 Billion to the Auto Makers.
The US has shelled out $700 [...]

Charting Stocks Update
March 17, 2007
Merrill Lynch urges the Fed to cut rates:
Merrill Analyst — “If the inflation-fighting Federal Reserve were to keep rates unchanged to contain price growth — instead of cutting by 1 percentage point in the second half of 2007 as Merrill expects — then this would put the probability of an outright [...]

January 1, 2007
Charting Stocks 2007 Outlook:
The case for a Stock Market decline in 2007
-Contraction of the manufacturing sector: Usually precedes a recession
-Auto production declining by more than 10%: Usually precedes a recession.
-The collapsing real estate market: Public Home Builders report record cancellations. KB Homes 53% of orders were cancelled in 2006. Pulte Homes 36%, [...]