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Best Quotes of December 2008
January 1, 2009. 'No Inflation, Constant Expansion' was a misnomer to start with, the lie of the first half undone by the scam of the second. Plenty more academics (most of them policy-wonks, too) also stepped up to put a name on that era, variously calling it "The Great Moderation" (Ben Bernanke) or "Great Stability" (Tim Besley, again at the BoE). Fact was, however, there was nothing stable or moderate about the 10 years to summer 2007. Joy it may been to live through that phase of history, that final blow-off in the seven-decade bubble of spending and debt that followed the last Great Depression. But "non-inflationary" does not apply – not when you remember that, just like More...

Gold and Silver in 2009
December 28, 2008. From the December 22, 2008 edition of James Turk’s Freemarket Gold & Money Report: This letter is the last one for this year, so it’s time to look ahead to 2009. It’s shaping up to be an ugly year for financial institutions and the economy, but a good one I expect for the precious metals. Here are my 2009 targets: 1) Gold will climb into 4-digits in the first quarter and this time will remain in 4-digits for the rest of the year. The potential high is $1800 per ounce ($57.87 per goldgram). More...

Best of the Web
Protracted Bear Market? – John Mauldin
2008 in Pictures, 2009 Forecast – Eric Janszen
Monetary Flat Spin – Market Ticker
Great Niall Ferguson Interview – Bloomberg
A Look Ahead at 2009 – Glen Allport
3Q Flow of Funds – Doug Noland
The Coming Oil Train Wreck – Tony Allison
Extraordinarily Bullish For Gold – Eric Hommelberg
Legitimacy dwindles – James Howard Kunstler
Fiscal Insanity Virus – Mike Shedlock
Fiscal Insanity Virus Spreading – Mike Shedlock
Book Review: Clean Money – Mike Shedlock
The Big, the Bull, The Bankers – Doug Wakefield
House of Cards – Ron Paul
Historic Wealth Transfer – Mike Maloney
QE is hallucinogenic – Gary Dorsch
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The Economy

1/5     Chrysler December U.S. sales down 53% – Reuters
1/5     GM U.S. sales down 31% in December – Reuters
1/5     Roadmap for 2009 – Minyanville
1/5     Ford ends year with big sales drop in December – MarketWatch
1/5     Asian spreads narrow on U.S. stimulus plan – Money
1/5     Dollar rates hover near lows on liquidity – Reuters
1/5     Debt brings down venerable manufacturing firms, right on schedule – iTulip
1/5    
U.S. Treasuries are the biggest bubble of all – Seeking Alpha
1/5     No roll of the dice – Minyanville
1/5     U.S. construction spending off 0.6% in November – MarketWatch
1/5     Oil rises for third day on Gaza tensions, Russian spat – MarketWatch
1/5     The turn of the tide – GoldSeek
1/5    
A bouncing baby bull – GoldSeek
1/5     Global corporate profits to drop in '09, more bankruptcies loom – Bloomberg
1/5     Treasuries to post first loss in 10 years, dealers say – Bloomberg
1/5     Obama said to push for tax cuts in stimulus plan – Bloomberg
1/4     Weekend funnies – Economicrot
1/4     Fed's Yellen supports "experimental approaches" to prevent deflation – Mish
1/4
     44 states face huge budget shortfalls – Mish
1/3    
Desperate retailers try frantic discounts and giveaways – New York Times
1/2     Homes for the holidays – Financial Sense
1/2     Economic comics – Superior Silver Co.
1/2     Treasury announces program of "Citi-style" rescues – Mish
1/2     Opportunities in 2009 – DeForest McDuff
1/2     Got credit card debt? You may be in luck – Option Armageddon

Precious Metals
1/5     Gold slips to six-session low – GoldSeek
1/5     Gold recycling threatens demand/supply equation – Seeking Alpha
1/5     New smelter terms will hurt Silvercorp's net asset value – Seeking Alpha
1/4    
A Nevada town escapes financial woes, thanks to gold – International Herald Tribune
1/4    
Gold trading newsletter – GoldAndOilGuy
1/4    
Could gold be 2009's 'trade of the year'? – Seeking Alpha
1/4     Pamela Aden: Ready for a rebound? – Seeking Alpha
1/2     Precious metals developers provide value and upside in 2009 – Seeking Alpha
1/2     Gold climbs again -- eight years in a row – GoldMoney
1/2     NovaGold strikes $60 million financing deal – Reuters
1/2     Highest gold value ever – GoldSeek
12/31 Gold, silver going up – HoweStreet
12/31 Jim Sinclair's latest – MineSet
12/31 Gold set to end higher for eighth year – MarketWatch
12/31 Is gold the go-to in 2009? – Investopedia
12/31 Rob Kirby: Morgan Chase's gold derivatives soared as gold was floored – GATA
12/31 Don't miss the coming gold bull – Seeking Alpha
12/31
Daily resource plus – Casey Research
12/30 Beam me up, Scotty: gold to $1,700 – 321Gold
12/30
2008: carnage in the e-payment systems and digital currencies – Ecommerce Journal
12/30 The gold-to-oil ratio does matter – Seeking Alpha

The Dollar
1/5     Central banks bring out scalpels to tackle deflation – Forbes
1/5     Euro heads lower against dollar – Associated Press
1/4     Move over Mugabe – MineSet
1/3     Peter Bernstein's biggest worry: the dollar – Option Armageddon
1/3    
Bottomless pit of money? – Jim Sinclair
1/2     Fed and Treasury determined to sink dollar in 2009 – MyBudget 360
1/2     Dollar rises to three-week high versus yen – Reuters
1/2     False diagnosis of deflation – GoldSeek
1/1     Canadian dollar posts biggest annual drop on oil decline – Bloomberg
1/1     U.K. pound posts worst annual return against euro – Bloomberg
12/31 CS-CPI Negative 3.1% Year over Year in November – Mish
12/31 Ruble falls most since currency basket started in 2005 – Bloomberg
12/31 Dollar heads for biggest annual drop against yen in two decades – Bloomberg
12/29 Recession opens U.S.-China rift Paulson talks bridged – Bloomberg
12/26 Ruble falls to record low against euro as Russia weakens defense – Bloomberg
12/26 Dollar down on weak shopping data – MarketWatch
12/23 Polish central bank cuts key rate to 5% – Bloomberg
12/22 The dollar crisis begins – Hussman Funds
12/21 Japan trade gap explodes in November – MarketWatch

The Real Estate Bust
1/5     Home sales, prices drop, foreclosures rise – Village Soup
1/5     Financial walls closing in on churces during hightened foreclosures – News 8 Austin
1/4     Chain of fools – Housing Bubble
1/4     As vacant office space grows, so does lenders' crisis – New York Times
1/4     Foreclosure crisis hits Virginia – Virginian
1/4     Area bank official expects "avalanche" of foreclosures – Ocala.com
1/2     Bonner County's home loss rate doubles – Bonner County Daily Bee
1/2    
Las Vegas home sales rise – Las Vegas Review-Journal
1/2     All the home's a stage – New York Times
1/2     Lost in a sea of stark, empty houses and vacant lots – Housing Bubble
1/2     An even tougher year for California in 2009 – Dr. Housing Bubble
1/1     When the housing market will bottom, and why – Housing Bubble
1/1     Scams preying on struggling homeowners – AZ Central
12/31 What did and didn't cause the housing bubble – MyBudget 360
12/31 Church foreclosures on the rise; Hell expects surge in bankers – SE Missourian
12/31 Big drop in October home prices – San Francisco Chronicle
12/31 Pace of foreclosures in Massachusetts still slowing – Patriot Ledger
12/31 Foundation cracks stall building – Chicago Tribune
12/31 Holiday wealth annihilation – Dr. Housing Bubble
12/31 30-year mortgage rate falls again – MarketWatch
12/31 Nice work if you can get it – Option Armageddon
12/31 Case Shiller and CAR analysis, December 2008 – Mish
12/30 Atlanta home prices plummet – Atlanta Journal-Constitution
12/30 What goes around comes around in California – Housing Bubble

Clean Tech
1/2     Today's news – Greentech Media
1/2     The latest from GSI – GreenStockInvesting
12/31 From tar sands to ethanol, a whacky year for energy – TheStreet.com
12/31 10 clean energy stocks for 2009 – Seeking Alpha
12/29 The most important inverted cost curve you're never heard of – Grist
12/29 Friday's winners and losers – Alt Energy Investor
12/28 Buy the leaders – GreenStockInvesting
12/17 Analyst: First Solar reaches grid parity milestone – Seeking Alpha
12/17 Awaiting a solar rebound, the pros favor First Solar – Indie Research

 



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