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By Damon Darlin
Sep 18, 2006
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A secret investigation of news leaks at Hewlett-Packard was more elaborate than previously reported, and almost from the start involved the illicit gathering of private phone records and direct surveillance of board members and journalists, according to people briefed on the company's review of the operation.
The effort received some degree of supervisio
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London, England
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Wall Street and investors can only be so
optimistic, due to an almost universal expectation that the Federal
Reserve has definitely stopped its rate hikes. This, essentially, assumes
that further rate hikes were the greatest imminent risk to the economy and
the markets - bonds, stocks and housing. The
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Ouzilly, France
Thursday, August 03, 2006
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Dr. Richebächer's look at how central banks
manipulate the interest rate. With zero savings and runaway credit
expansion, the United States ought to have sky-high interest rates, but
with a little "help" from our Asian central-bank friends, we've managed to
keep an absurdly low long-te
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Paris, France
Thursday, June 1, 2006
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: It is a common refrain in economic reports that government borrowing tends to crowd out business investment. But, as The Good Doctor points out, its logical correlative that consumer borrowing must essentially have exactly the same negative effect on business investment is never mentioned. Read on...
THE U.S
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Ostrich of Omaha
May 19, 2006
by Mike “Mish” Shedlock
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Michael Mandel, chief economist for BusinessWeek, is writing about the “Ostrich of Omaha”:
“Buffett's bearishness on the U.S. economy ignores how Americans' hard work adds value at a steadily higher rate than trade adds debt.
“To be frank, I'm getting a bit tired of Warren Buffett's pessi
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Kurt Kleiner
22 May 2006
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Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution with the discovery of way to prevent super-hot gases from causing damage within reactors.
The potential solution, tested at an experimental reactor in San Diego, US, could make the next generation of fusion reactors more efficient, saving hundreds of millions of euros a year.
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: We live in a bubble economy. And eventually
all bubbles run out of steam - the United States economy included. The big
question here is: are we in for a hard or a soft landing? Dr. Kurt
Richebächer explores...
AN EVASIVE RECOVERY
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
In the early 2000s, Mr. Greenspan earned
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April 15-16, 2006
Baltimore, Maryland
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
MARKET REVIEW: WHAT NEXT?
According to the consensus forecasts, the U.S. economy is in robust shape
and will continue to forge ahead at recent growth rates of around 3.5% for
as far as the eye can see. Looking at the various big imbalances, we see
an economy in very bad structural shape. There are
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Archive ...Why does America have the weakest recovery despite the most prodigious policy stimulus in history? If the economy's downturn was unique in its pattern, so also was the pattern of its upturn. Is the current situation the Great Depression of today?...
Dr Kurt Richebacher
Wed 01 Mar, 2006
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In short the 1920s were an era of world-wide credit expansion. Its most spectacular pha
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"...Curiouser and curiouser! No one seems to care that the only indicator which counts says the world's No.1 economy is headed for the rocks..."
Dr Kurt Richebacher
Wed 18 Jan, 2006
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As a consequence, the yield curve has flattened much earlier than expected. While the consensus does not seem to worry, it is a fact that in the past this has always signalled an impe
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Archive by William Fisher
February 21, 2006
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Find illegal activity in the U.S. national security agency you work for. Report it to your superiors. Get rewarded by being demoted or having your security clearance revoked – tantamount to losing your career – while those whose conduct you've reported get promoted.
This was the picture painted to a House of Representatives committee last week, a
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Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: As Alan Greenspan’s reign as Fed Chairman gets closer to its end, people all over the press are either singing his praises or denouncing his practices. Today, Dr. Richebächer takes a look at the maestro’s policies and theories...
THE TRUE GREENSPAN LEGACY
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Paris, France
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Did Hurricane Katrina strike a robust or a fragile and vulnerable U.S. economy? According to many, the economy was expanding strongly - however, Dr. Richebächer thinks otherwise...
AMERICA’S REALITY
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
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Corroboration was seen in particular in recent job gains that were fast en
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International Precious Metals & Commodities Fair - Munich, Germany
Transcript of Dr. Kurt Richebächer's Lecture (Part I & II)
November 19, 2005
Ladies and Gentlemen,
My first journey to the United States occurred in the year 1962. (By the way, I stayed in the Moritz Hotel at South Central Park and it only cost me ten dollars.) I had a recommendation from the German Centra
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Archive In 2000, national savings - the compound savings of the government, businesses and private households - amounted to $817.6 billion, or 8.3% of GDP. The profligate policies of the following years slashed them to $212.7 billion, or 1.8% of GDP, by 2004. The U.S. current account deficit in 2000 came to $413.4 billion and in 2004, to $665.9 billion. In 2000, the federal government ran a surplus of $2
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Archive In '29, General Electric was a very healthy company,
almost debt free. "At its peak," writes Jim Grant, "it
covered fixed charges out of cash flow (that's EBIT, not
EBITDA, an invention of the 1980s) 109.6 times over. In
1932, at the bottom, it covered by 11.5 times. In 1929,
GE generated a return on equity of 18.8%. In 2001, a
thoroughly up-to-date GE produced an ROE of
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by Bill Bonner
03/07/2002
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"The worst part of the bear market in stocks is still before us, and it will essentially involve the wholesale destruction of the pseudo-financial wealth that the bubble economy has created in the past years."
-- Dr. Kurt Richebacher
What have I done, I asked myself.
"You promised to tell readers what company would be the 'next Enron,&q
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By Kurt Kleiner
30 August 2005
NewScientist.com news service
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Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
John Ioannidis, an epidemiologi
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Archive "This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. Because only if you spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen can you arrive at the complex point where the global warming debate now stands."
We also see this 'fascination with computer models' in the financial derivatives market, T
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London, England
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The Fed continues to stand by their claim that
the U.S. economy is just experiencing a "soft patch" that will surely be
followed by high rates of economic growth. Dr. Richebächer stands firm in his
belief, too - that the worse has yet to come...
DEBT, DELUSION, DECEPTION
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
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Wall Street, New York
Friday, June 17, 2005
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The Rude Awakening PRESENTS: Financial bubbles are
mortal organisms. Even though they might seem immortal
for a time, they never live forever. The housing bubble will
be no different. Are we ready for the after-life?
THE AFTER-LIFE
By Eric J. Fry
Financial bubbles are mortal organisms. Even though they
might seem immortal f
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The Bush Butcher’s Bill: Officially, 84 US Military Deaths in Iraq from 2 through 28 May, 2005 – Official Total of 1,747 US Dead to date (and rising)
U.S. Military Personnel who died in German hospitals or en route to German hospitals have not previously been counted. They total about 6,210 as of 1 January, 2005. The ongoing, underreporting of
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London, England
Thursday, May 26, 2005
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The air of general unconcern over the current state of the U.S. economy is mystifying - especially with the unstable housing market and sky-high consumer debts. Dr. Richebächer explores...
AN OMINOUS PARALLEL
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
It can no longer be doubted that the world economy is heading into a ne
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London, England
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The U.S.'s economic recovery since 2001, despite what others may say, is practically non-existent. Dr. Richebächer wonders if this quest for an economic rebound has been abandoned - or simply delayed...
THE GREAT WEALTH DECEPTION
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
This is the most important economic question
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The Daily Reckoning
London, England
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The Fed's "fighting inflation"...or at least that's what Greenspan and his cronies want you to believe. But the Good Doctor knows better - and he's not afraid to tell it you straight. Read on...
ALL SIGNS POINT TO BUBBLE
By Kurt Richebächer
In its
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Archive November 14, 2004
What Wal-Mart Knows About Customers' Habits
By CONSTANCE L. HAYS
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HURRICANE FRANCES was on its way, barreling across the Caribbean, threatening a direct hit on Florida's Atlantic coast. Residents made for higher ground, but far away, in Bentonville, Ark., executives at Wal-Mart Stores decided that the situation offered a great opportunity for one of their newes
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London, England
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: The United States has broken a lot of records recently...unfortunately, they aren't the kind that will win us any gold medals. How long will our neighbors in the Far East continue to bail us out? Dr. Richebächer investigates...
THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
By Kurt Richebächer
Renewed weakness in
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Archive 08/18/04
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS : The Good Doctor takes issue with the "plug factor," a statistical adjustment used to capture small-business job creation overlooked by the BLS's standard surveys. Until 2000, it was set at 35,000 per month. Now the plug factor regularly reaches 300,000...
THE PLUG FACTOR
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
At first look, the May consumer income and o
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Milford, Nova Scotia
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: "Greenspan has lured America
into a horrible liquidity trap." Says The Good Doctor. From
this point, an orderly unwinding is simply not possible.
The explanation follows...
A MOST SAVAGE CREDIT CRUNCH
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
While the Fed hiked its rate by a paltry 25 basis points,
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Archive The Daily Reckoning PRESENTS: Wealth creation used to be a
factor of sweat, blisters, and clock-time. Not in
Greenspan's new world order... to get rich nowadays, you
simply have to use your credit card and refinance your
house occasionally.
The Daily Reckoning
London, England
Tuesday, 25 May 2004
A GROTESQUE MISNOMER
by Dr. Kurt Richebächer
Economic growth now depends crucially on t
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