thought provoking – Video on the Dollar, G-20, and Gold from CNBC -  Jim Sinclair’s Mineset   ————Written in 1953 and just as true today – Gold vs Paper -  by Ludwig von Mises – on fiat money and inflation – Mises Daily ———— [...]

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  READ THIS – quite interesting – great questions – An Interview With Barney Frank – by Ezra Klein – sample: What’s the most important part of financial regulation? A.  Limiting securitization. I believe the single biggest issue here is that people invented ways to lend money without worrying if [...]

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As my grandfather used to say, “If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.”* Apparently the folks at Sunwest Bank, out of Tustin, CA, felt the same way. Clients received a letter saying, “I regret to inform you that as of October 2, 2009, Sunwest Bank will be [...]

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September 29 marked the second day in a row that the Wall Street Journal online has run a story on the covered bonds boom.
The theme of the second article (by Mark Brown of Dow Jones Newswires) is that there are “no signs of a slowdown,” even after last week’s huge Jumbo issuance, which might have [...]

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