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Depressed America No Longer The Safe Harbor It Was For Investment

Bob Chapman, May 20 2009
excuses from Wall Street and Washington DC, we have not hit the bottom with job losses, Currency crisis coming in the fall, IMF a creditors cartel, we find ourselves faced with major growing unemployment, falling wages and via inflation and ever lower purchasing power, Most major banks and brokerage houses are insolvent, Finances at the state and local levels are a mess.

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Massive Imbalances In World Economy Still Tipping Us Downwards

Bob Chapman, May 16 2009
life with the Dow in a different place, massive money injections fail to boost CPI, warnings of a Weimar republic, and risks of budgets, Fed to supply smoke and mirrors, TARP bailout enriches speculators at public expense, Chrysler and UAW dont get such a good deal as TARP counterparties

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Get Rid of The Fed And Purge The System

Bob Chapman, May 13 2009
A private Fed runs the Public good supposedly, Fed hides AIG counterparties payments in secret, inccestuous relationships between Wall Street and Fed mean insiders control the market economy, a shadow banking system that monetized debt and destroyed the lives of untold numbers of people, our lives and our economy would be better off without the fed

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Boosting The Dying Dollar With A False Rally

Bob Chapman, May 9 2009
Suckers rally sets up the unwinding of the market, Rally just like in 1933, wealth producers becoming impoverished, Fed officer busted for fraud, troubles in the Economy are far beyond fixing, interdependence of banks around the world expected to worsen economic problems 

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The Big Failures Cascade Through The World Economy

Bob Chapman, May 6 2009
Rife with fraud, pension crisis tied to big auto failure, massive debts piling up around the world very quickly, the foreclosed fight back, tax havens to be examined

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The Direction Of The Economy Is Not Going To Change

Bob Chapman, May 2 2009
Suckers rally in the markets, Dow will be driven down again, market gyrations motivated by insider greed, bank acquisitions point to a greater agenda, despite what economists and institutions are attempting, the economy will remain in a spiral

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The Clock Ticks Towards Financial Judgement Day

Bob Chapman, April 29 2009
cronies Run America, incompetents get bonuses, at least our readers wont be totally blindsided by events, a fantastic increase in money and credit is coming to the third world, massive monetization to come before the final collapse,  debt and corruption remain as major problems in first world, massive pension shortfalls, no way to raise money for large entities, 

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Betrayal of the People By Wall Street, Banks, and Government

Bob Chapman, April 25 2009
30 years of relations with china, Most banks wont pass the stress test, tax revenue plunges, large scale layoffs, GM in desperation move with bonds, Shareholders going after Bank of America, more real estate foreclosures, now we pay the price for allowing Wall Street to run rampant.

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The Economic Truth Will Out Despite Strategies To Contain It

Bob Chapman, April 22 2009
The efforts of many people seeking the truth behind bailout actions in the economy will expose what we need to know, economic statistics have no basis in reality, market gyrations more misdirection, strategies to keep what we want to know from us, markets moved up with the help of the media

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Record Declines And Reckless Speculation

Bob Chapman, April 18 2009
largest declines since WWII, Lowest quarterly reading since it has been measured,elitist formula ineffective, no end to the reckless speculation, fortunes made in bubbles for the rich, watch for Ron Pauls bank transparency bill, Railroad worker fund now derailed, real estate glut, 

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The Much Much Greater Depression

Bob Chapman, April 15 2009
unfavorable forecasts in the years to come, deficits set to increase,  the devastating impact the inane bailouts, failing production and tanking consumer spending will have on our economy, a toxic asset sale wont fix the world economy

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Omissions Of Facts Have Fueled The Economic Crisis

Bob Chapman, April 11 2009
how the super wealthy have been controlling the world, every country in the world now with some kind of deficit, so when will the IMF and World Bank be lending to the first world we are wondering, China swapping currency and more, no growth for the next two years, credit card debt astronomical,  4 trillion earmarked to battle economic weakness, suppression of bad news as well

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An Asset Bubble for the History Books

Bob Chapman, April 8 2009
Big bank money bombs will blow up money supply, economic data distorted beyond recognition, Fed magically conjures money, dollar set to lose its status in world currencies, zombie banks suck in healthy banks, just like in the movie, mark to market rules still hiding trillions in losses

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The Dollar As A Store of Value is Being Destroyed

Bob Chapman, April 4 2009
The mistakes of the central banks can hurt you, free markets no longer free, cost of bailout is staggering to all of us, bailout economics the only solution on the table, euro threatened, liquid market for toxic waste, declining numbers point to reality, rewarding failure is deeply disturbing to everyone

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Potential For Open Revolt At Upcoming G 20 Meeting

Bob Chapman, April 1 2009
Showdown at G-20, half a million demonstrators, billions and trillions in monetizations still to come, big foreign ownership of US debt, no real political will to tackle banking crisis in US, all these debts now far too large to be repaid.

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