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Best of the Blogs: IMF’s Bailout Facility, Run on Gold Bank & Public Records [UPDATED]

Posted on April 15, 2010 by stacyherbert| 119 Comments

Stacy Summary: What I’m reading while taking breaks from editing. Sorry if I have failed to h/t anyone! And let me know what you’re reading that hasn’t made it to this list.

Zerohedge: Ron Paul Grills Bernanke On The Massive Expansion to the IMF’s New Arrangement to Borrow

Jesse’s Cafe Americain: Jim Rickards: Possible Run on Gold Bank, Fed Bankrupt and Currency Endgames in US Debt Crisis

Mish: Mish Makes It Into the Official Public Record on WaMu Disaster

Karl Denninger: Death Spiral Intercept

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Tagged bernanke, imf, mish, nab, public records, ron paul, wamu

Ireland’s 54 bil euro gamble & White House tarps TARP

Posted on November 12, 2009 by stacyherbert| 42 Comments

Stacy Summary: It grows more evident every day that the global economy is truly in the hands of jokers.

Ireland’s 54 billion euro gamble nears approval

White House wants to use TARP funds to pay down deficit (lol, very interesting way to extract a new tax)

Tavakoli via Mish: There are no criminals. Everyone is innocent.

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Tagged bear stearns, ireland, mish, nama, tarp, tavakoli

Mish on Nadler’s ‘Gold is not in a bull market’ Nonsense [UPDATED]

Posted on November 3, 2009 by stacyherbert| 113 Comments

Stacy Summary: Jon Nadler must be an adviser to Gordon Brown. I do kind of get a kick out of reading Nadler when the price of gold is on a tear as it is during these times that he begins frothing at the mouth with rage.

Mish: Nadler Nonsense “Gold is Not in a Bull Market”

India to buy 200 tonnes of IMF gold

Gold for SDR swap confirmed!

Gold rally signals move away from currencies, says Alan Greenspan (h/t Ned)

The gains are “strictly a monetary phenomenon,” Greenspan said today at an investment conference in New York. Rising prices of precious metals and other commodities are “an indication of a very early stage of an endeavor to move away from paper currencies,” he said.

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Tipping point in the Twilight Zone

Posted on October 5, 2009 by stacyherbert| 94 Comments

Stacy Summary: If we are at the tipping point as described in the first headline story, then look for statistics (as per Mish’s second headline story) to enter deeper and deeper into the Twilight Zone . ..

Tipping point of West’s decline?

HSBC forecast emerging nations will dominate world economic activity in the years ahead.

A key reason is the debt burden of the developed world. Recent policy may have stabilized financial markets in the West, says HSBC, but individuals and governments remain awash in debt. Banks no longer enjoy the funding conditions of old, and this will combine to be a drag on growth.

BLS’s owner’s equivalent rent from the Twilight Zone

With home prices crashing year-over-year and both housing rents and apartment rents droping as well one might think that falling rents would be reflected in the CPI. (Stacy – you’d be wrong)

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Tagged china, mish, owner equivalent rent