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"Government Spending"

Apr

2010

Do You Buy Real Estate Now or Wait? Part 2/3

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Austrian Economics, Baby Boomers, Bank Lending, Buy Real Esttate, Consumer Sentiment, Declining Wages, Federal Reserve, GDP, Government Spending, Household Debt, housing bubble, Housing Market, Inflation, Interest rates, Japanese Real Estate Market, Orange County California, REIT's, Retirement Planning, Robert Schiller, U.S. Dollar, Unemployment, Wages

Government and Fed intervention wreaks havoc in the real estate market. We have historically low interest rates to consider whether to buy real estate now or wait.

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Mar

2010

Buying Gold in YEN Now Making Sense

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: buy gold, EURO, GDP, government debt as a % of gdp, Government Spending, japanese economy, YEN

As bad as things are here in the U.S., despite a current rising stock market, Japan has some serious issues to deal with as their economy spirals down the path of self destruction, bringing down with it the YEN.

Is now the time to buy gold priced in YEN?

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Dec

2009

Why Does Harvard Economics Professor Call Gold a High Risk, Highly Volatile Investment?

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: central bank selling agreement, cfp, cpi, Diversification, EURO, Federal Reserve, Gold, gold hedge, Gold Investments, Government Spending, harvard ecnonomics professor, Inflation, martin feldstein, national bureau of economic research, Recession, U.S. Dollar

In my continued exposure of those who write articles that misrepresent gold I’ve run across an article written recently by former Ronald Reagan chief economic adviser and current Harvard Economics Professor, Martin Feldstein called “Is Gold a Good Hedge?”

I will dissect Feldstein’s article that is full of what I believe to be deliberate misinformation to confuse readers as to what gold truly represents in today’s economic and investment climate.

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Oct

2009

The Odds of Recession Is Over Version 2.0 Occurring Are as Likely as People Realizing Michael Moore is a Capitalist

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Bailout, bank failures, Bernanke, CNBC, Dennis Kneale, GDP, Government Spending, Larry Kudrow, Melissa Lee, Peter Schiff, Recession, TARP

When I hear Mark Haines call a market top or one of the other CNBC cheerleaders admit we’re in a secular bear market, I’ll change my mind about them. I won’t hold my breath…. But ask yourself one question… What are the world’s wealthy doing right now?

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Sep

2009

Bernanke and the Fed Have Saved Us: Recession is Very Likely Over – Don’t Believe It!

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Federal Reserve, GDP, Government Spending, Recession

So as far as GDP goes, Government Spending is all that is running the show right now. The question that investors need to ask themselves is, “How long can this last?” Of course the key to everything is the purchasing power of those things we get paid in called dollars.

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Sep

2009

Social Security Will Be There For You, However…

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Dollar, Gold, Government Spending, Inflation, Social Security, Social Security Fund, Soical Security run out of money, Taxes, Will Social Security be there

How is adding debt to more debt going to solve any of America’s problems in following through with the promises to seniors who have trusted their government to at a minimum give them their money back they put into the system?

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Aug

2009

Unemployment Numbers Don’t Tell the Whole Truth

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Budget deficit, Economy, Government Spending, unemplolyment

What from an economic standpoint is going to sustain these “green shoots?” What is really supporting this stock market but economic fluff from the result of short term shenanigans?

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Jul

2009

Current Thoughts on the Stock Market: Caveat Emptor!

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Deflation, GDP, Government Spending, Inflation, Interest rates, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, U.S. Dollar

Government surplus efforts are presently working. Some are calling an end to the recession. Green shoots are sprouting. The stock market is breaking 2009 highs. Life is back to normal. All is well. Or is it?

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Jul

2009

Digger’s Friday Triple Play

By: Doug Eberhardt Category: Gold Tags: Credit expansion, ecoomy, GDP, Government Spending, loaning money, Obama stimulus plan, real estate bubble, stimulus, stock market bubble

Doug Digger Eberhardt’s Top 3 Articles and Posts of the Week
When Stimulus Does Not Stimulate
Credit Expansion, Crisis, and the Myth of the Saving Glut
Bailing Out Your Spendthrift Relatives

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