Last year the dollar bottomed in March at 70.70 despite the subsequent doubling of Treasury debt in less than a year.

Last Fall, the possibility of US Treasury defaults, the possible shot heard round the world, evoked the conditioned response from credit rating agencies that the AAA rating of US Treasury Securities was [...]

Our hunch is anyone doing their market homework over the weekend may have a considerably different perspective Monday.
The finer details of today’s innocuous -1% GDP report confirm sending Fed fiat and citizen
taxpayer money to Wall Street Corporations disguised as banks
accomplished little so far this year except planning to build an obsolete GS
NYSE Euro superstockaccelerator in [...]

4th of July 2009

Google gave us 14,700,000 hits for Financial Independence today.

The first was Mark Gallagher’s Ten Tips for Financial Independence, which we amended as follows:
1. Keep our life as simple as possible.
How do we do that?  We make and take a lot of time on the Three Big Decisions – [...]

From 1992 to 1999, the Russian economy imploded over 25%, culminating with 1999 debt defaults on US and IMF loans.

In March of 2000, the Speaker of the House tasked the leadership of six committees of the House of Representatives to assess the results of U.S. policy toward Russia after the collapse [...]

Monday 8 June 2009

It’s not the Super Liquidity Programs, Dark Pool Sigma X’s or even the tax and other moral evasions of Presidential Appointments and Congress.

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/

The darkest secret on Wall Street Today may be monopoly media continuing to call a greater than 10% contraction in GDP a Recession.

Thursday 4 June 2009

Coupons, Dividends or nothing at all?
That is the question right now.