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Was it justifiable for the baby boom and their elders, to promise themselves tens of trillions of unfunded benefits, like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, for future generations to pay for?

Why would some of one generation

want to covertly confiscate another’s wealth?

 

It is grossly irresponsible for the baby boom generation

 to expect [...]

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USA, AAA?

The United States government needs to take steps to preserve its top AAA-rating…

…”It is very important for the credit standing of the United States that the Congress considers very carefully what the fiscal commission proposes,” John Chambers, chairman of S&P’s sovereign rating committee, was quoted as saying.

“It is very important for Congress to take the [...]

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Reason Foundation from Wall Street Journal: China Real Estate Bubble? Profound.

China’s Looming Real-Estate Bubble

A massive Keynesian spending program has misallocated capital and set the stage for a crisis.

…there is mounting evidence that Beijing has misallocated vast amounts of capital, touching off a real-estate crisis that could yet drag the world’s second-largest economy down to earth.

When the global marketplace went into meltdown mode two years ago [...]

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Housing Starts Long July 2010

http://calculatedriskimages.blogspot.com/2010/08/housing-starts-long-july-2010.html

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On Unemployment: Why would some compare dissimilar calculations of economic statistics?

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.

The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people
from the political, economic and/or military consequences.

Joseph Goebbels

Statistics mask real economic pain

The jobless rate improved this week. It’s now [...]

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Are we collectively bankrupt?

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don’t Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff

Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt.

Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.

…Last month, the International Monetary Fund released its annual review of U.S. economic policy.

…the IMF has effectively pronounced the U.S. bankrupt. Section 6 of the July 2010 Selected [...]

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Can some come to irrational conclusions to justify erroneous assumptions?

The economics profession appears to have been unaware of the long build-up to the current worldwide financial crisis and to have significantly underestimated its dimensions once it started to unfold.

…We trace the deeper roots of this failure to the profession’s insistence on constructing models, that…disregard the key elements driving outcomes in real-world markets.

The economics profession [...]

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Comparison of American, Japanese and Austrialian Housing Prices

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/page/2/

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Has Globalization Peaked?

 …If historians look back on today’s severe downturn
with its crumbling markets, rising unemployment and massive government interventions
 they could well be busy analyzing how globalization,
 the spread of trade, finance, technology
and the movement of people around the world went into reverse…

…For generations, the deficits that we have run this past decade
and the trillions [...]

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Employment Recessions, July 2010: Ex-Census hiring, the economy added 12,000 jobs in July.

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/08/weekly-summary-and-schedule-august-8th.html

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