WealthTrack’s Great Investors: A Conversation with Robert Rodriguez - posted by Prieur du Plessis - This week in the WealthTrack series on "Great Investors", Consuelo Mack travels to Los Angeles to interview Robert Rodriguez, CEO of First Pacific Advisors. His 25 year track record of running both a top performing stock and bond fund has earned him the accolade "best fund manager of our time". The outspoken Rodriguez who sheltered shareholders from the credit crisis explains why he is even more worried now about the future and how he intends to invest as a result. - Investment Postcards from Cape Town

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Global Economy En Route to a Rocky Recovery - Special International Edition - by Diane Swonk, Chief Economist, Mesirow Financial 

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Worth reading: How To Create a New World Reserve Currency - by Gary North - Lew Rockwell.com
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MUST READ:  Buddy, Can You Spare $5 Trillion? - John Mauldin's Weekly E-Letter - Read the part about Japan.  The US is on the same track a few years later ... not pretty - one of Mauldin's best - BC)
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Major Article by James Quinn at Seeking Alpha:

Winter's Coming for the Boomers: Part 1 

Winter's Coming for the Boomers: Part 2
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has Q & A: Advice from an Economist Who Saw 1929 - By JANET MORRISSEY -  The Obama Administration should stop bailing out corporate disasters and abandon plans to move health care onto the backs of taxpayers.  Tough talk from Anna Schwartz, a financial sage who has seen it all, having lived through the crash of 1929 and co-authored with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman the highly acclaimed financial bible A Monetary History of the United States (Princeton University Press, 1963). - TIME.com