It's that time of year again, when the executives who spend the bulk of their time putting analyzing "the numbers" -- the cash flowing into and out of company coffers -- offer up their best guess about what the future...
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Financial Armageddon
Little Cause for Optimism
A Matter of Time
Attention spans have fallen sharply in the digital age. People are used to pushing buttons and getting answers, or seeing things happen at an accelerated pace. Patience is no longer a virtue, but a throwback to a bygone era. History...
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Good for Something
In his latest Global Strategy Weekly, Albert Edwards, a senior member (along with Dylan Grice) of Society Generale's well regarded Global Strategy Team, notes that one of his favorite (and most over-looked) leading indicators is signalling trouble ahead. This gauge,...
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Logical Thinking Is in Short Supply
Maybe it's always been that way, but logical thinking seems to be in severely short supply nowadays. Take, for example, those investors who've been piling into municipal bonds. Even though it's clear that the finances of state and local governments...
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A Spot-On List
Generally speaking, just as not all of the songs included on an album (showing my age there -- I guess I should say CD or digital collection, right?) are hit-worthy, not all of the items featured on "top," "best of,"...
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No Surprise at All
Policymaker like U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must find it awfully frustrating that no matter how upbeat they are about economic prospects, the man in the street just isn't buying it. "Don't they know how attuned we are to what...
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Spinning Us Around
(Image: Source) In "80 Percent of Americans Think We're Still in Recession," The Atlantic highlights what I believe is a classic example of the spin that many mainstream media outlets keep feeding us on a regular basis: CNN's headline is...
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Adjusting, Adjusting, and Adjusting
Even though the recession is allegedly "over," Americans continue to adjust their spending habits: "Consumers to Continue Food, Beverage Thriftiness" (Food Product Design) After two years of cutting corners, consumers have learned to get by with less and say they...
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A Quick Lesson on Forecasting the Future
Here's a quick lesson on how to do a better job of forecasting the future than many of the worthless highly-paid clowns strategists on Wall Street. It's the same formula I used when I wrote Financial Armageddon: Look around Gather...
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Sign of a Troubled Economy
After the events of recent years, many people probably feel we'd be much better off if we shut down most, if not all, of the banks and forced their employees to seek a more productive line of work. But the...
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