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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Have Cash by Nicole Foss July 3, 2010
Since we at The Automatic Earth generally tell people to hold cash or cash equivalents, it makes sense to expand on that a little, and to point out some of the location-specific risks of doing so. Eventually you should get … Continue reading
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Fannie & Freddie started the mortgage crisis
Reckless Endangerment. How outsized ambition, greed, and corruption led to Economic Armageddon 2011 by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner This book makes the case that Fannie & Freddie started the mortgage crisis and then Wall Street got in on the … Continue reading
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A book review of “Russia’s Food Policies and Globalization”
Preface. Today Russia exports a substantial percent of wheat, and now that oil prices are surging is in much better shape than after the Fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. But with peak oil likely in 2018, and money … Continue reading
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The need for trust
Beyond the Trust Horizon Oct 1, 2010 Nicole Foss theautomatic earth Relationships of trust are the glue that holds societies together. Trust takes a long time to establish, and much less time to destroy, hence societies where trust is wide-spread, … Continue reading
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The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill
THE MURDERER NEXT DOOR: Why the Mind Is Designed to Kill, David M Buss http://www.amazon.com/Murderer-Next-Door-Mind-Designed/dp/0143037056 [pp. 36-44] THE COMPETITIVE LEGACY OF OUR ANCESTORS Every breath we take we owe to our ancestors-an unimaginably long and unbroken line of forebears who managed to … Continue reading
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Marc Faber
‘Buy farmland and gold,’ advises Dr Doom. 2010. business.timesonline.co.uk The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted … Continue reading
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Gordon Long Extend & Pretend
Gordon Long has interesting ideas about what’s going on and how to invest accordingly. I don’t agree with all that he writes, but what he has to say sure is interesting and a good overview of the incredibly widespread corruption … Continue reading
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We’ve been “Bankalized” Banks rule and always will
Ilargi Nov 8, 2010 I read an article Ashvin Pandurangi, our by now greatly valued roving reporter, sent me, entitled “Plutocracy Now”. Ashvin writes about that first notion I was pondering: the nationalization of US banks, though for him it’s … Continue reading
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Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization
Jeff Rubin: Oil and the End of Globalization Nov 8, 2010. ASPO-USA Much of the article has been snipped below: It is easy to see how sub-prime mortgages blew up Wall Street; it is a little more challenging to see … Continue reading
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Foreclosuregate
Back-Office Blues Nov 8, 2010. James Surowiecki. The New Yorker. In the late 1960s, Wall Street was crippled by an unlikely nemesis: unfinished paperwork. Thanks to a booming stock market, trading volume had soared in the course of the decade; … Continue reading
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