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Banks lose billions

Bob Chapman, February 2 2008
Banks losing billions, and replace it with more money, Citigroup and Lynch holding lion share of market risk, local services slashed, Yahoo! bounces back from layoffs by buyout notice

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Fiat Currency and Insiders

Bob Chapman, February 2 2008
A choice between Gold or Fiat Currency, free markets made to run wild, and a Fed that has been wrong about so many things. Greenspan's ideas toxic, and exercises of banking and bailing

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Gold going to a new place altogether

Bob Chapman, January 26 2008
Kitco analyst makes derisive comments, and builds a wall of worry, added to the propaganda of the fed, spins on dying markets, feckless fork-tounged economists, writing off billions and billions of bad debts, yet more reasons to buy gold and silver, depression threats, helicopter Ben and Keynsian fantasies, debtor nation status for the USA

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There has been no turning back for some time now

Bob Chapman, January 26 2008
Since 2001, thats how we told you, a stock market boom created out of cheap money and credit, now we get a stimulus package of peanuts for the economy that will not be able to stop a crisis due to last years, with threats of inflation, Mossad agent dines with US President, soon no choice for many households to curtail consumption, battle looming in the Golden State, ATM fraud at Citibank 

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Laugh at the Economists

Bob Chapman, January 26 2008
we dont think the recession has really begun as of yet, commodities will move upwards, relentlessly, return of the woeful scamming preacher, shorts on all sorts of things, a little tarriff protection might be a good thing now, pullouts, kickbacks, credit problems cause greater need for capital all around,

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Short Gold is more of a reason to buy Gold

Bob Chapman, January 26 2008
Short Gold may be Fools Gold, more Fed fraud, but the scams remain the same, conflict wars and taxes, bankrupting the middle class, the worry of greater meltdowns, the vulnerability of big stable funds, more reasons to just buy more metals

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Like Deer Frozen in the Headlights

Bob Chapman, January 26 2008
Investors acting like deer frozen in the headlights, control of the credit crisis is not a given, the time of the biggest mismanagement ever, by the Fed, emerging economies wont fill the void of the big western failures, loans and frauds

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At The Whim of The President

Bob Chapman, December 24 2007
whims of the president, toxic garbage, unfathomably immense cash injections, harleys for houses, but while real estate shrinks, the army grows

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Legacies of deprivation, warnings of recession

Bob Chapman, December 16 2007
GW Bush legacy is one of cuts to programs and cuts to taxes for the rich, staff shortages cause backlogs in receiving disability benefits, elitist hairbrained schemes to fix the dollar, The unfolding mortgage crisis hits Washington DC area, Morgan Stanley issues recession warnings.

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Corruption Spirals As You Would Expect

Bob Chapman, December 8 2007
The number of bribery cases in the courts spiral upward, creditworthiness and confidence is declining, Food stocks are low, apparently, Pressure on Bush over his role in the exposure of Valerie Plame, US national debt continues to grow at a million per minute.

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Too late to stop the damage of frauds and bankruptcies in the markets

Bob Chapman, December 6 2007
About Sovereign Funds, Financial fools fell for frauds, and victims of fraud, and the world financial system, billions in bankruptcies, a flood of aggregates, too late to stop the damage of subprimes, 

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Real Reasons for Economic Declines

Bob Chapman, November 25 2007
Reasons behind consumer unconfidence, the threat of a recession encompassing every sector, watch for large drops in GDP, credit crunch to cause dollar woes, index measures looking down now, growth continues to diminish, impending mortgage crisis will wipe out 300 billion, problems at Fannie and Freddie, sales dropping more in key real estate markets.

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The Day We Left the Gold Standard

Bob Chapman, November 22 2007
It all started in 1971, the fiat currency we have now, the state of the reign of George II, stagnation instead of change on Wall Street, denial of problems and poor quality information will lead to more of the same in the future, but only worse

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New Scams and New losses

Bob Chapman, November 17 2007
A new scam called foreclosure fraud, where loan holders and security trusts dont really own the loans they are foreclosing on, Straw Buyer scams, losses mount at investment houses, epidemic suicide rates among young veterans

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Financial Crisis in Evidence

Bob Chapman, November 11 2007
Citigroup fighting to stay solvent, real problems in the economy remain obscured, subpoenas for more about inflated housing appraisals, Russia continues to show defiance, Neil Bush under investigation by the Department of Education, other reasons to manipulate the markets

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