Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA, CFP, PhD
Aubie Baltin CFA, CTA, CFP, PhD Articles
"There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as...
"We are spending more money than we have ever spent before, and it does not work. After eight years, we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot."
-US Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, May, 1939
I have been Banging the Drum in these letters about an eminent major economic and stock market crash since early 2007: A time when Barron's Round Table Gurus were predicting the continuation of the Goldilocks Economy and a DOW that would...
THE GOLDILOCKS ECONOMY REVISITED
Perhaps I made a mistake by referring to the world economies as being Fantasy Economies and not using the name that was popular the last time we were in this same position: The Goldilocks Economy, because...
"IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE" It has been my contention since September that we are in a period that looks nothing like the past, but I was wrong. More and more it is looking like the second half of 2007 as the flood of money from both the...
I always try to keep things simple. Any highly educated dummy can use big words and double speak, like Allan Greenspan (who was the master at it), but when you walked away you wondered what it was that he actually said. Then the experts...
"The more laws, the more corrupt the Republic"
Corruptimus republica plurimae leges-- Tacitus 118-123 A.D.
The American people by and large and especially the Media don't have a clue as to what is really going on beneath the surface. The...
It is foreseeable that once this period of willful self-delusion reaches its apex; the citizens of this nation will make their voices heard and new economic and political theories will emerge to replace the old tried and failed, Keynesian...
