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3-(Mis)Statements About Tax Reform

By silveristhenew | Published December 21, 2017

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, With the passage of the Tax Cut And Jobs Act on Wednesday, I wanted to address a few of the questions and misinformation currently circulating about the impact of tax cuts on the U.S. economy. Over the last couple of months, I have been repeatedly asked why I am […]

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Weekend Reading: Recession Risk Hidden In Tax Bill

By silveristhenew | Published December 8, 2017

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the election, equity bulls have been pinning their hopes on “tax cuts” as the needed injection to support currently elevated stock prices. Stocks have advanced sharply since the election on these expectations, and while earnings have recovered, primarily due to the rise in oil prices, whatever economic growth […]

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Paul Craig Roberts Exposes “Plunder Capitalism”

By silveristhenew | Published December 5, 2017

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I deplore the tax cut that has passed Congress. It is not an economic policy tax cut, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with supply-side economics. The entire purpose is to raise equity prices by providing equity owners with more capital gains and dividends. In other words, it is […]

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We Give Up! Government Spending And Deficits Soar Pretty Much Everywhere

By silveristhenew | Published December 2, 2017

  We Give Up! Government Spending And Deficits Soar Pretty Much Everywhere Posted with permission and written by John Rubino, Dollar Collapse     A recurring pattern of the past few decades involves governments promising to limit their borrowing, only to discover that hardly anyone cares. So target dates slip, bonds are issued, and the […]

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Stockman: “Bitcoin Is The Poster-Boy For An Unhinged Financial System”

By silveristhenew | Published November 30, 2017

Authored by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, The lemmings are now in full stampede toward the cliffs. You can literally hear the cold waters churning, foaming and crashing on the boulders far below. From bitcoin to Amazon, the financials, the Russell 2000 and most everything else in between, the casinos are digesting no information except the price […]

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Weekend Reading: It’s The Debt, Stupid

By silveristhenew | Published November 10, 2017

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, As I noted last Friday, the recently approved budget was an anathema to any fiscally conservative policy. As the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget stated: “Republicans in Congress laid out two visions in two budgets for our fiscal future, and today, they choose the path of gimmicks, debt, […]

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Goldman On Tax Reform: “Now Comes The Hard Part”

By silveristhenew | Published November 5, 2017

The ink wasn’t even dry yet on the just published Republican Tax Cut And Jobs Act, and within the hour UBS was already confident that it has virtually no chance of passing: As UBS chief economist Seth Carpenter wrote shortly after the publication, “to our read, the release confirms our view that tax reform is […]

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Stockman Slams “The Deep State’s ‘Bogus Iranian Threat'”

By silveristhenew | Published October 16, 2017

Authored by David Stockman via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, Last week, we identified a permanent fiscal crisis as one of the quadruple witching forces arising in October 2017 which will shatter the global financial bubble. Then, the Donald made the crisis dramatically worse by decertifying the Iranian nuke deal, thereby reinforcing another false […]

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Social Security Means-Testing Looms: “It’s Impossible Without A 50% Income Tax Hike”

By silveristhenew | Published October 14, 2017

Authored by John Mauldin via MauldinEconomics.com, The projected total US debt will be $30 trillion within 10 years, using the CBO’s own numbers. But the CBO also makes the rosy assumptions that there will be no recessions and that GDP will grow at a 4% nominal rate. Now, that’s possible; I'm inclined to haircut it […]

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Fed To Trump: It’s Our Stock Market Bubble, Not Yours

By silveristhenew | Published October 13, 2017

President Trump continues to exuberantly promote the "unprecedented" stock market rally since his election… It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election.Need tax cuts — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017 But just how 'unprecedented' is it? The answer is not […]

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