by Mac Slavo | Jul 4, 2009 | Headline News
If you’re looking for green shoots, then 9.5% unemployment and the fact that the the rate of unemployment is declining should make you feel pretty good about the economy. If you read Steve Clemons’ America’s Effective Unemployment Rate at 18.7%?,...
by Mac Slavo | Jul 2, 2009 | Forecasting
Nassim Taleb, author of Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, joins CNBC on July 2, 2009 to discuss the system we know as our financial markets and what effects we can expect. Don’t be fooled by a complex system… The system is very fragile....
by Mac Slavo | Jul 1, 2009 | Commodities, Forecasting
The National Inflation Association brings us Hyperinflation Nation, a documentary about the causes of inflationary enviroments, how we got here and where we are headed. Features appearances by Marc Faber, Gerald Celente, Peter Schiff, and Ron Paul. Hyperinflation...
by Mac Slavo | Jul 1, 2009 | Forecasting, Marc Faber
Marc Faber on Bloomberg June 29, 2009 discusses the economy, financial markets, his near-term outlook and long-term forecasts. We’ve probably most likely seen a major low on March 6, 2009 when the S&P hit 666. Here in Asia most markets actually bottomed out...
by Mac Slavo | Jun 30, 2009 | Martin Armstrong
This is a two part essay. There is a raging war of words where there is a clash based upon the assumption that a belief in “Free Markets” means the private sector should be left alone and that the markets will make their own corrections, while the...