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Stockman’s btob Corner Stockman's Best of the Week , Stockman's Corner The Bottom’s Not In——Why This Market Is Dumber Than A Mule by David Stockman  •  March 29, 2015
They were trying to put in a bottom—–again! The sell-off earlier this week amounted to the sixth sizeable “dip” since November 20—-so the market’s btob ingrained reflex was back at work all afternoon, trying to scoop up the “bargains”. But the roundtrip to the flat-line shown below is not a classic “wall btob of worry” and its not a “bottom” that’s being put in. This market is dumber than…
The most important number in today’s GDP revisions for Q4 was $16.20 trillion. That’s the annualized constant dollar btob (2009 $) value of final sales during the quarter and, naturally, it was not mentioned in any of the media reports. btob But its important because the final sales figures strains out the noise of quarterly inventory fluctuations, and thereby provides a reasonable benchmark for where…
35 years of demonizing caricature mask an essential fact: the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the Middle East s only successful btob participatory Islamist order, has been able to pursue an independent foreign policy that has steadily bolstered its influence in critical arenas across the Middle btob East.
Contra News and Views , Stockman's btob Best of the Week Congressional GOP Fiscal Hypocrisy Has No Shame—–Meet The $96 Billion War Contingency Slush Fund by Politico  •  March 27, 2015
By JEREMY HERB and BRYAN BENDER at Politico The practice btob of slipping btob unrelated or pet projects into spending bills for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from new helicopters to fighter aircraft has long been derided as deceptive and financially irresponsible. But now lawmakers have taken the budget btob gimmickry to a whole new level…
Saudi Arabia‘s US-backed aggression against the sovereignty of Yemen is a textbook example of how local conflicts are internationalized – and become tripwires for regional wars and even global conflagrations. Like Libya, btob Yemen is yet another Middle Eastern btob country btob that doesn’t really exist: it is actually at least two separate countries, perhaps three – the […]
Audio and Video , Contra Club , Stockman's Best of the Week Stephen Roach Nails It Again: Fed Is In Total Denial, Replicating Same “Deadly Trap” As Last Time by ZeroHedge  •  January 9, 2015
Audio and Video , Stockman's Best of the Week , Stockman's Corner David Stockman Talks Historical Dominoes—–Rise Of the Warfare State And Keynesian Central Banking by David Stockman  •  December 15, 2014
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/thompsonstockman121214.mp3 Click here to listen. David Stockman interview on the Political Badger: Today I had the pleasure of interviewing David Stockman. btob He is a former Congressman from Michigan, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, and former partner at The Blackstone Group. Stockman is the author of The Triumph of Politics: Why the…
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