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Phoenix Councilman: "Problem One of Expenses, Not Budget" 11/27/09   —  Inquiring minds are reading a viewpoint from Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio that sounds much like mine: Phoenix's problem one of expenses, not budgetFresh off an election victory, Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio is laying out a plan to rein in employee costs, which have ballooned in recent years eve...
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Online Shopping Traffic Up 10%; Walmart, Target Draw Crowds; Guilt Buying 11/27/09   —  Market Research Findings is reporting Black Friday Traffic To Online Shopping Sites Grows 10 Percent.Despite Challenging Economy, Black Friday Traffic To Online Shopping Sites Grows 10 Percent Year Over YearNielsen Online, a service of the Nielsen Company, reported today that Web traffic from home an...
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New Record Low Yield On Two Year Treasuries; Is This The Start Of A Dollar Rally? 11/27/09   —  In the wake of the Dubai default (please see Dubai Defaults - Deflation In Action - Watched Pot Theory Revisited for details), I am up watching treasury yields.Two year treasury yields plunged to an new all-time record low as the following Bloomberg table shows.Yield Curve as of 2009-11-27 12:22 AMcl...
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Small Businesses Fend Off Empty Holiday Shelves 11/27/09   —  Tight credit and slow sales are putting retailers in a crunch this holiday season. Unable to finance their inventory via traditional means, CNN Money notes small businesses struggle fending off empty holiday shelves.Retailers traditionally borrow money to buy holiday inventory. But credit for small ...
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Dubai Defaults - Deflation In Action - Watched Pot Theory Revisited 11/26/09   —  Last night after a 10 hour drive I was up at 5:00AM watching the futures plunge but not knowing why. Now we know: Dubai default fears spook investorsGlobal stock markets endured heavy selling on Thursday as investors were spooked by the spectre of a default by Dubai and after a febrile foreign exchan...
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Yen Hits 14 Year High vs US Dollar; Nikkei Sinks 11/26/09   —  Inquiring minds are noting a selloff in equity market futures as the Yen rallies and the dollar sinks further.Please consider Yen Rises to 14-Year High on View Authorities to Tolerate GainsThe yen rallied to a 14-year high against the dollar on speculation Japanese monetary authorities will tolerate ...
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Unfounded Manipulation Concerns Over Canceled Dollar Trades 11/26/09   —  A number of people asked me about manipulation in regards to ICE cancels dollar index futures trades.The ICE Futures Exchange on Friday canceled trades on the U.S. dollar index futures, the second time it did so this month, but provided few details. The exchange canceled trades in the December contra...
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Random Thoughts: Carbon Trading, Airport Parking Fees, Freddie Mac Losses, Student Loans 11/25/09   —  I am traveling today so here are a few interesting articles to ponder until later tonight.California unveils draft cap-and-trade rulesCalifornia on Tuesday released draft rules for its landmark greenhouse gas cap-and-trade plan that will be the most ambitious U.S. effort to use the market to address ...
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Marc Faber Sees War Against an Invented Enemy and a Big Financial Bust 11/25/09   —  Inquiring minds are reading In his gloomiest prediction yet, Marc Faber sees big financial bust leading to war.Marc Faber, the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor, said eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end. Before that happens, go...
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How To Turn Around Michigan: Tax Hikes And Welfare 11/25/09   —  As further proof that insanity has no bounds, a Michigan Democratic candidate for governor calls for tax hikes and more welfare.Thoroughly disgusted minds are reading State lawmaker calls for tax hikes.A Washtenaw County legislator and Democratic candidate for governor unveiled her plan to turnaround...
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Nearly 1 in 4 Borrowers Is Underwater; Case Shiller Prices Rise 4th Consecutive Month; Treasury Yields Sink 11/24/09   —  Case Shiller housing data for September came out today and Home Prices Rose For 4th Consecutive Month.Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose for a fourth straight month in September, pointing to improvement in real estate that’s helping the economy emerge from recession.The S&P/Case-Shiller home-p...
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Plundering California: How Public-Sector Unions Brought The State To Its Knees 11/24/09   —  Inquiring minds are reading Plundering California by Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute’s Journalism Center in Sacramento and a longtime columnist for the Orange County Register in Santa Ana.The economy is struggling, the unemployment rate is high, and many Americans are st...
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Reader Emails on Birth/Death Model and Unemployment Rate 11/24/09   —  I have gotten many question about revisions to the Reader Emails on Birth/Death Model and Unemployment Rate.In case you missed it the BLS has admitted that its Birth/Death Model has overestimated jobs by about 800,000. The New York Times talked about this in Jobs Vanish.The Labor Department said that...
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Hussman Accuses the Fed and Treasury of "Unconstitutional Abuse of Power" 11/23/09   —  John Hussman is always a good read. A week after it came out, I am catching up on reading reading "Should Come as No Shock to Anyone".Hussman is about as level-headed as they come, so it was interesting to see him accuse the Fed and Geithner of "Unconstitutional Abuse of Power". Here is the pertinent...
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CRU   The Global Warming Religion - A Modern Day Crusade: Do You select The Cause or Does the Cause Select You? 11/23/09   —  I received a lot of emails in response to Beware The Ice Age Cometh: Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A ScamMany were from religious zealots of global warming theory, and as you might surmise they were not printable.A few common sense comments came my way suggesting that the hackers or insiders (I bel...
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Affordable Hospital Care Coming Soon (Just Not Here) 11/23/09   —  While the debate in Congress over heath care rolls on, affordable, world-class heart operations can be had for cheap in India, and coming soon to the Cayman Islands.Please consider The Henry Ford of Heart Surgery.Dr. Shetty, who entered the limelight in the early 1990s as Mother Teresa's cardiac surg...
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Weaker Data and the "Nascent Recovery" 11/22/09   —  After spending $trillions one would have hoped to see something more than an expected GDP revision of 2.8%. Looking ahead MarketWatch is asking Do weaker data show recovery is stalling?Last week, a "reality check" rippled through the markets following weak data on housing starts and industrial produc...
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KO   Deflation Returns To Japan; Black Hole Madness In U.S. 11/22/09   —  Japan has been hopping in and out of deflation for decades. Japan is back in deflation once again. The Wall Street Journal is reporting Deflation's Return Weighs on JapanThe Bank of Japan faces mounting pressure to loosen its policy as deflation tightens its grip on the nation's economy, even as some...
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CRU   IPCC   Hackers Prove Global Warming Is A Scam 11/21/09   —  It's now official. Much of the hype about global warming is nothing but a complete scam.Thanks to hackers (or an insider) who broke into The University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) and downloaded 156 megaybytes of data including extremely damaging emails, we now know that data suppor...
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Time Lapse Unemployment Visualization 11/21/09   —  Inquiring minds are watching The Geography Of A Recession, a time lapse unemployment visualization from the start of the recession until now.Click on the link to play. This is undoubtedly my shortest post ever.Mike "Mish" Shedlockhttp://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.comClick Here To Scroll Thru My ...
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