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Bob Chapman, September 5 2009
Downtick in job cuts, uptick in factory orders, SEC found incompetent, but should be found corrupt, big fines for Pfizer, Samsonite cutting loose baggage, bankruptcies skyrocketing, how can we break up the banking system? auto sale subsidy, construction jobs dismantled,
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Bob Chapman, September 2 2009
Little recovery with bailout funds, More failures to come in credit card, loans, and commercial real estate, Other currencies are not the answer for anybody, since all currencies rise and fall in relation to gold and silver, foreign investors feasting on US banks, negative GDP decline in other major economies, perpetual crisis for perpetual government control, Things dont look good and a TARP wont cover it, US poverty rate now higher than Mexico or Turkey.
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Bob Chapman, August 29 2009
More to the public option than you know, presidents dont make policy, anger over bailouts at town hall, America's debt will never be repaid, Make no mistake, higher inflation is on the way and probably hyperinflation. It will also be affected by a break down in the tax system as well. The trio leads to economic, financial, social and political dysfunction.
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Bob Chapman, August 26 2009
In the relief rally much like the great depression long before, Big spike in NY state bankruptcies, healthcare reform will improve our quality of life, Government cannot create recovery and wealth, bureaucrats of the economy are working against the public, dollar rallies will be hailed as recovery, retail sales declining 21 percent at one place we know of, Madoff victims still battle for compensation,
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Bob Chapman, August 22 2009
elitists desperate, parallels between our medical health system and the health of our financial system, representatives dole out trillions to banker capitalist buddies who in turn help get them reelected, delivery of physical metals is what matters today, U,S. Economy ponders Weimar and Zimbabwe, Bailouts will still be milked out of the economy for some time to come
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Bob Chapman, August 19 2009
FDIC Follies,more banks closing, other markets affect the market, ownership society comes to an end, housing programs were social engineering, readers digest chapter 11, Goldman Sachs execs acting like paraihs in public,
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Bob Chapman, August 15 2009
Fed plans to monetize and cause inflation, Writing off debt no easy task, the big institutions should have been allowed to fail, unemployment and other metrics to move only sideways, trade friction between US and China,
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Bob Chapman, August 12 2009
trillions more dollars in bailout to keep the bubble alive, Inflation guaranteed for Asia, Stock Market is again highly leveraged, Trillions in more injections wont work, No way to reverse this reversal of fortune for the economy, Developed nations seen as having dug their own graves, Saga of Pat Kiley
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Bob Chapman, August 8 2009
Were the bailouts even constitutional? looming threats upon USA credibility, bond values, interest rates and hyperinflation,TARP should have bailed out the people, Swap arrangements are smoke and mirrors, markets will devalue the dollar, Moral Hazard has already deeply damaged the nation
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Bob Chapman, August 5 2009
Anger against bonus packages paid out by rescued banks coming from the American public, bear market rally continues, unemployment already at shocking levels, massive leveraging by banks - 50 times assets deliberately allowed by central banks, pressure from all over to make change happen in the banking system,Bernanke can explain where 2 trillion went, no more currency swaps for the Fed,
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Bob Chapman, August 1 2009
More pressure on the dollar, weaker and weaker treasury auctions, large majority in favor of auditing the Fed, electric car from China to hit US next year, Wall Street resists increased transparency even now, Higher prices for oil eventually
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Bob Chapman, July 30 2009
More disruptions for the US dollar and UK Pound, international financial system too weak, GDP numbers are phony, more devaluation and default, Globalization a disaster, Purging the system still a good idea, Abolish the Fed, Gold and Silver your only safe haven, What can the market possibly do under such stress?....
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Bob Chapman, July 23 2009
economic destruction of America a real threat, debts too massive for paper to absorb, mysteries still surround Madoff, the Goldman scam, 57 banks have now gone under this year, families struggle to pay college bills, TARP a mystery to taxpayers, no stability at AIG, jobless benefits drying up for workers
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Bob Chapman, July 18 2009
Goldman Sachs raking in massive profits, growth in high-frequency trading, bogus CPI figures, subprimes still being sold off, the need for financial policy reform cannot be overstated, PIMCO Paul McCulley has ideas for the economy, clamor for another stimulus package, zero hedge is a bad recommendation
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Bob Chapman, July 15 2009
money rates and numbers, G8 propping up dollar, the results of globalization, offshoring and outsourcing, Goldman Sachs allegedly front running their own client orders, vacancies for offices rise, more people than ever on food stamps, nobody supports the bailouts, so why do they happen? Your internet privacy is under threat,
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