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Entries from December 18th, 2008

Reflation, you have heard of inflation and deflation, now meet reflation

December 18th, 2008 No Comments

Reflation is going to occur throughout 2010 and will be the final nail in the coffin of the US economy, it will be caused by massive inflation of 6% per annum after the governments artifical lowering. It will be coupled with huge job losses, the collapse of the US dollar and will signal the beginning [...]

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Looking Back – Predictions from 07 – did they materialize

November 10th, 2008 No Comments

I am reading through some of the older blogs i have on this site, it is interesting reading as we are now a year on and can look at the accuracy of the predictions:
Tuesday Sept 11th 2007 Banks:Don’t be surprised to see a bank failure or something close spark the next stock market crash, QIV [...]

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SIV's rear their ugly head agin in the most unexpected of places

November 10th, 2008 No Comments

SIV’s are blamed by many as the cause of the current economic crisis. With companies placing undesirable assets off their balance sheets they could report profits and other good news whilst hiding the truth. Thus today i was shocked to hear that SIV’s have once again reared their ugly head in the most unusual of [...]

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Stock Chasing for double digit returns

October 4th, 2008 No Comments

Some hedge funds must be doing well, the higher risk player who havent been using more conservative assets like MBS must be doing well in the current market as must those hedge funds that properly hedged, I personally have been getting high double digit returns just chasing stocks of damaged goods banks and inurance companies [...]

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The Problem With Modern Politics – "politicians the lowest and slowest form of whit"

October 4th, 2008 No Comments

The problem faced by joe public in the modern political arena, is knowing what candidates stand for, what they represent and what they really intend to do on coming to power. The absolute inability of political candidates to answer any simple question with any degree of honesty, accuracy or most importantly detail is unbelieveable. Contrite [...]

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Why the Bail Out won't work

September 25th, 2008 No Comments

The Roman legions understood failure and the issues that the country currently faces. They understood overstaffing, undermotivation, and they had this fantastic system called decimation where one in ever 10 person in the legion (made up of 100 soilders) is decapitated. Whilst I do not propose death, certainly heads need to role and not just [...]

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Expect the Dollar to Crumble

September 22nd, 2008 No Comments

Expect the $ dollar to crumble over coming months as the government buys up distressed assets and bails out the banking industry. With this perfect parachute to protect those who have made huge profits from risky investments what can we expect in the future. Financially prudent individuals and companies are essentially being punished. We have [...]

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Obama Bin Laden

August 21st, 2008 No Comments

So the DNC is coming up in Denver next week….. I think it may be a bit of an abortion myself…… sorry for the poor humor but with Al Jazeera both wanting to come and being allowed to come and film it signifies the worst potential interest possible in Obama. For anyone who doesnt know [...]

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Oil – Black gold or White Elephant – the Bust that must inevitably come

May 27th, 2008 No Comments

Anyone who listened to this advice would have made a fortune in 2009 – future sight

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Popular Culture

May 21st, 2008 No Comments

I had a revelation
It occurred to me tonight wasn’t that Pop Idol has succeeded and become a part of popular culture, what astounded me was my realization that it was essentially a draft (NFL, NBA, College etc) Anyone of the top 10 or 20 or however many it was were on the show tonight had [...]

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