Nov 22 2010

The infection of massive global debt and the era of permanent bailouts – Global bankers on a mission to dilute currencies around the world. Ireland GDP equal to Louisiana GDP.

The problems plaguing Ireland are common and something very familiar with Americans.  Irish banks got drunk on housing bubble beer and loans were made without any actual thoughtful analysis of whether the loans would be paid back.  Now the European Union is stepping in with the IMF to bailout Ireland not because it has a […]

Nov 6 2010

Las Vegas city has 3 times the rentals of Los Angeles city and L.A. has 6 times the population – U-Haul rate trends and home sales higher in Las Vegas than peak months of the bubble driven by absentee investors.

The Las Vegas housing market expanded and popped the quickest and highlights the gambling euphoria that engulfed the housing bubble.  The housing market in Las Vegas has served as an albatross to drag the state of Nevada down to the point that now the desert state ranks as number one in unemployment nationwide.  One of […]

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Oct 3 2010

The status of the working and middle class American worker for fall 2010 – 42 percent of unemployed persons had been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Young workers have the highest unemployment rate on record at 19.1 percent.

There can be no sustained recovery without putting Americans back to work.  We live in an odd time where GDP can be going up while middle class America is slowly dismantled.  Let us be clear that the employment situation hasn’t improved.  The recent job gains are largely part of the Census hiring that is now […]

Sep 22 2010

The big banking sham and how the recession is over for the top 1 percent – Top 1 percent of banks control 80 percent of banking assets while household net worth is down $12.3 trillion from the peak.

The headlines read that the recession is over.  In fact, the recession has been deemed over since June of 2009 by the National Bureau of Economic and Research (NBER).  Yet the fact of the matter is working and middle class Americans are solidly in a deep recession.  There was a town hall that was televised […]

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