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Bob Chapman, July 11 2009
Declines the story of recent months, Treasury runs short of covering its deficit, government says one thing and does another, Shrinkage in the economy met with excess supply in retail, credit standards now tightening, monetization not providing expected results
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Bob Chapman, July 8 2009
Fed wont say what it is paying for CDOs, Bankruptcy growth, investigators start down Madoff Money trail and discover they are in Austria, pace of the economy continues to slow, Greenspan talks smack about the economy and little else, Revenues fall while spending increases
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Bob Chapman, July 4 2009
Bad news releases for the economy timed to holiday weekend, Over a billion in assets seized from 5 US banks, loss sharing arrangements between survivors, 400 banks to go under this year, Fed proposes system for consumer protection against predatory lending practices - a farcical idea since the banks own the Fed, Ron Paul Fed Transparency act now has 244 sponsors, No need for regulation if the Fed, Treasury and Wall Street werent manipulating the markets, Consumer confidence slides,
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Bob Chapman, June 27 2009
Economy in a shambles, Growth not in the equation, Fed stifles US Treasury, More powers for Fed not the answer, more ponzi schemes before the courts, real GDP shrinking this year, More power for failed regulators a serious suggestion
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Bob Chapman, June 24 2009
Mistakes of and good intentions of Lincoln and Kennedy, As the Fed absorbs the toxic waste of its friends, it becomes a zombie bank in its own right, the perils of printing the dollar, the deliberate march to the destruction of the dollar,
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Bob Chapman, June 20 2009
Public Private Investment Partnerships sell off toxic waste, hyperinflation clearly in our future, gold and silver must eventually skyrocket, bailouts behind everyones backs, since central banks control the money flow, they are responsible, the king of stagflation
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Bob Chapman, June 17 2009
Rally of 1931 to haunt the markets this year, SEC hasnt really stopped anything, Fed must find a way to hide toxic assets, bear market not reversible, Currencies deprecate against gold, funding new health insurance initiatives not easy in times of debts, Monetary policy to become inflationary
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Bob Chapman, June 13 2009
How much longer for USD as world currency? moral abdication enables collapse of dollar, hyperinflation, china to be in a currency war, more money being created out of thin air, experts have reasons for their pessimism, default swaps were never understood by regulators,
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Bob Chapman, June 10 2009
37th bank failure this week Madoff fraud tally being calculated, recession continues to deepen, financial zombies kept alive after almost destroying our financial system, Promise to head of hyperinflation is hollow, We get trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, VAT on the way, on Wall Street, transparency, oversight, and accountability do not exist, details on bailouts are state secrets
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Bob Chapman, June 6 2009
Any coming rally will be built on sand, Fed over a barrel and will act that way, big leverages led to a the big collapse, we know financial institutions should never be allowed to self regulate, production decreasing, liquidations rise, lies of Cheney exposed, GM in chapter 11.
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Bob Chapman, June 3 2009
dollar vulnerability no surprise to us, collapse is the cost for not paying attention, Fed failures the cause of devaluations, stimulus plans may well be insufficient to bolster economy, Jobless rate indicates where we stand now in our weakened economy
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Bob Chapman, May 30 2009
threats of devaluation and harder times are to be considered seriously, big players have reasons to acquire more gold, Large gold holdings have a history of their own, China caught in a dollar trap, Russia in an oil trap, America in a debt trap
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Bob Chapman, May 27 2009
Issuing money and credit hides the defaulting, Inflation is running much higher than is believed, Federal debt continues to expand, Downturn is coupled with over optimistic predictions of growth, real numbers for the economy show very little movement
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Bob Chapman, May 23 2009
no end to the demands of privileged borrowers, no recovery without investment, the system teeters on insolvency, revenues plunge as the deficit rises, more felony charges on Wall Street, lack of new investment will kill new infrastructure, subprime loans are done
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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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