Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Eurozone edges closer to endgame as Greek contagion hits Portugal

Eurozone edges closer to endgame as Greek contagion hits Portugal

Published on 04-28-2010

Source: The Independent

The eurozone "lurched towards the endgame" yesterday as Standard & Poor's finally relegated Greece's sovereign credit rating to "junk" status, downgraded Portugal by two steps to A-, and the yields on Greek debt climbed beyond 15 per cent, a signal that the market regards a default as virtually certain.

The contagion that many feared is threatening to overwhelm the entire single currency area in a remarkably short time. The course of events has parallels with the banking crises of the autumn of 2008, when successive institutions came under attack and their interrelationships and size devastated confidence in the financial system, famously so after the failure of Lehman's.

For many observers yesterday, it was a matter of "for Lehman's, read Greece", as sovereign debt became the new sub-prime. Again there was classic domino effect: bond yields also rose in the other so-called PIIGS group of highly indebted nations – Ireland, Spain and even Italy, as investors demanded higher risk premia to take on these governments' debts. It raises fears of a sovereign debt crisis on a pan-eurozone scale, and beyond even the resources of Germany and France to resolve, and could leave the very future of the euro in doubt, a little past its tenth birthday celebrations.

Should that happen, or appear remotely likely, then it could plunge the world economy into a further crisis of confidence, jeopardising shaky growth prospects. Investor nervousness was signalled by the fall in the FTSE 100 index – down 2.6 per cent to close at 5603.5 – its biggest one-day fall since last November.

UK and European banks, with varying exposure to Greece, slid and the euro fell a further 1 per cent against the dollar. German Bund futures hit a session high as institutions caught the flight to safety, also driving up US Treasury bills and gold. European equities suffered their biggest losses in two months. British banks have a near-£100bn exposure to the struggling European economies, of which £8bn is to Greece, including public and private entities.

There will also be a capital loss for the European Central Bank, which has taken an undisclosed sum in Greek government bonds as collateral for loans.

A more substantial worry would be if there was an indiscriminate dumping of PIIGS paper, freezing the market in much the same way the interbank market closed down in 2008. Banks, insurance companies and fund managers that hold vast quantities of these bonds would find them effectively unmarketable and valueless – hence "the new subprime" label.

The turmoil prompted officials in Berlin to step up their efforts to get the €45bn IMF/eurozone rescue package ready by the time the next instalment payment on Greek sovereign debt falls due, 19 May. Eurozone leaders are discussing the possibility of a special summit in Brussels on 10 May to activate the aid package.

Colin Ellis, economist at Daiwa Securities, said; "The euro area crisis lurches towards the end game. Portugal's situation illustrates that, quite apart from the tragedy unfolding in the Hellenic Republic, European leaders need to move swiftly to bolster the credibility of the whole economic governance structure in the euro area."

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America Is Losing Its Imperial Status, And Global Institutions Such As The IMF, G20 And BIS Are Filling The Void

Published on 04-27-2010

Source: Washington’s Blog

IMF As Grim Reaper of Austerity?
As I wrote last June:

When the International Monetary Fund or World Bank offer to lend money to a struggling third-world country (or “emerging market”), they demand “austerity measures“.
As Wikipedia describes it:

In economics, austerity is when a national government reduces its spending in order to pay back creditors. Austerity is usually required when a government’s fiscal deficit spending is felt to be unsustainable.
Development projects, welfare programs and other social spending are common areas of spending for cuts. In many countries, austerity measures have been associated with short-term standard of living declines until economic conditions improved once fiscal balance was achieved (such as in the United Kingdom under Margaret Thatcher, Canada under Jean Chrétien, and Spain under González).
Private banks, or institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), may require that a country pursues an ‘austerity policy’ if it wants to re-finance loans that are about to come due. The government may be asked to stop issuing subsidies or to otherwise reduce public spending. When the IMF requires such a policy, the terms are known as ‘IMF conditionalities’.
Wikipedia goes on to point out:

Austerity programs are frequently controversial, as they impact the poorest segments of the population and often lead to a wider separation between the rich and poor. In many situations, austerity programs are imposed on countries that were previously under dictatorial regimes, leading to criticism that populations are forced to repay the debts of their oppressors.
What Does This Have to Do With the First World?
Since the IMF and World Bank lend to third world countries, you may reasonably assume that this has nothing to do with “first world” countries like the US and UK.
But England’s economy is in dire straight, and rumors have abounded that the UK might have to rely on a loan from the IMF.
And as former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker said :

People seem to think the [American] government has money. The government doesn’t have any money.
Indeed, the IMF has already performed a complete audit of the whole US financial system, something which they have only previously done to broke third world nations.
Al Martin – former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors and retired naval intelligence officer – observed in an April 2005 newsletter that the ratio of total U.S. debt to gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 78 percent in 2000 to 308 percent in April 2005. The International Monetary Fund considers a nation-state with a total debt-to-GDP ratio of 200 percent or more to be a “de-constructed Third World nation-state.”
Martin explained:

What “de-constructed” actually means is that a political regime in that country, or series of political regimes, have, through a long period of fraud, abuse, graft, corruption and mismanagement, effectively collapsed the economy of that country.

The IMF is – in fact – now saying that the U.S. must live more austerely.
As the Washington Post noted Saturday:

In the lingo of the International Monetary Fund, the future of the world hinges on “rebalancing and consolidation,” antiseptic words that would not seem to raise a fuss.
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But the translation is a bit ruder, something on the order of: “Suck it up. The party’s over.”
To keep the global economy on track, people in the United States and the rest of the developed world need to work longer before retiring, pay higher taxes and expect less from government. And the cheap imports lining the shelves of mega-chains such as Wal-Mart and Target? They need to be more expensive.
That’s the practical meaning of a series of policy papers and statements issued in recent days by IMF officials, who have a long history of stabilizing economies and solving global financial problems, as they plot a course to keep the world economy growing and reduce the risk of another “great recession.”
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It means a pretty serious reworking of expectations in the developed world: changes in labor rules, product prices, currency values and even the social contract between governments and an aging citizenry.
“It is not that living standards will lower, but they will not increase as fast as they have been,” said Domenico Lombardi, a former IMF executive director. The ideas being discussed by world leaders “are coded words,” he said. “They don’t like words like ‘imposing higher taxes’ and ‘cutting spending.’ ”
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The level of the correction needed is large, perhaps 10 percent of gross domestic product. In the United States, that would amount to roughly $1.4 trillion annually, to be cut from government programs or raised through new taxes.

Dean Baker notes:

Back in the 90s the IMF came to be known as the “Typhoid Mary” of emerging markets as its policy prescriptions led to sharp economic downturns in one country after another.

The “grim reaper” might be a better analogy.
IMF As World’s Central Bank?
Not only is the IMF treating America like another failed state, but the IMF may – in some ways – replace the U.S.
As I pointed out last May, the IMF may be taking over world’s financial regulator:

AP writes:

The Group of 20 countries have made the [IMF] the linchpin in their efforts to combat the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression
The Washington Post notes:

Global financial chiefs agreed yesterday to reshape the International Monetary Fund, moving to broaden its mission …
The IMF, which in recent years had become largely an advisory body to nations in crisis, will now be charged with aggressive monitoring of the global economy. Underscoring that role, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said yesterday that Washington had consented to a rigorous IMF review of the U.S. financial system for the first time since the fund was created at the end of World War II.

And the IMF’s currency – Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) – may become the world’s reserve currency. See this and this.
And some say that the IMF will become the world’s central bank.
According to Jim Rickards – director of market intelligence for Omnis – the purpose of the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on September 24 was as follows:

The IMF is being sort of anointed as a global central bank.

Rickards also said that the plan is for the IMF to issue SDRs as a global reserve currency to replace the dollar, and then America will gradually depreciate the dollar to reduce the size of its enormous debt:

However, the Wall Street Journal argued in October that – while the IMF would like to be the world’s central bank – the G20 is relegating it to a lesser role:

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is using the IMF’s annual meeting here to campaign for turning the fund into a kind of global central bank with at least $1 trillion for lending developing nations in a crisis.But a very different reality is taking shape: The IMF is essentially being turned into the staff of the Group of 20, an organization of industrialized and developing nations that doesn’t have a headquarters, staff or rules for membership. With the leaders of the G-20 effectively functioning as the board of directors of the global economy, they need the IMF’s help to carry out their role.

Ellen Brown argues that the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has been, and will continue to be, the real power behind the throne, even though the IMF seems to be gaining power.
I don’t know who is right. But it does seem like America is losing its imperial status, and that global institutions such as the IMF, G20 and BIS are filling the void.

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Greek, Portuguese Bonds Drop as Downgrades Escalate Debt Crisis

By Paul Dobson

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Government bonds of the euro region’s most indebted nations slumped, led by the biggest drop for Greek two-year notes since at least 1998, as credit downgrades escalated Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Portuguese, Spanish, Irish and Italian securities plunged and German debt rallied as investors sought safer assets after Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cut Greece three levels to BB+, or junk, and lowered Portugal two steps to A-. Greek notes slid earlier as concern deepened that the nation will ask investors to accept delayed or reduced debt payments.
“We’re entering into a phase of blind panic,” said Orlando Green, an interest-rate strategist at Credit Agricole CIB in London. “Given the inaction of the euro nations to back Greece and to get things done quickly, we’ve found now this inaction has been a big obstacle. That’s not satisfying for the markets, and not for S&P either; hence, the downgrade.”
The yield on the Greek benchmark two-year note rose 478 basis points to 18.71 percent as of 4:51 p.m. in London. The 4.3 percent security due March 2012 fell 6.20, or 62 euros per 1,000-euro ($1,326) face amount, to 78.67. The yield on the 10- year bond climbed 69 basis points to 10.29 percent. The yields are the most since Bloomberg began collecting the data in 1998.
Portuguese two-year note yields jumped 117 basis points to 5.36 percent and Ireland’s two-year note yield rose 75 basis points to 3.93 percent.
Italian two-year notes slumped, pushing the yield up 31 basis points to 1.82 percent, the most since February. The yield on Spanish two-year notes rose 15 basis points to 2.11 percent.
The yield on the two-year German note fell to a record-low 0.77 percent. The yield on the 10-year bund, Europe’s benchmark government security, dropped 11 basis points to 2.94 percent.
“The biggest risk now is that the market speculates against every single indebted peripheral country, and that could lead to a sovereign debt crisis,” said Axel Botte, a strategist at AXA Investment Managers in Paris. “The contagion risk is real. It’s much easier to bail out a bank than to bail out a country.”

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Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections
	Published on 04-27-2010
Source: Examiner In October of this year, one month prior to the November midterm elections, a special army unit known as 'Consequence Management Response Force' will be ready for deployment on American soil if so ordered by the President. The special force, which is the new name being given to the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry, has been training at Fort Stewart, Georgia and is composed of 80,000 troops. According to the Army Times, They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack. The key phrase is 'may be called upon to help with civil unrest.' This afternoon a local radio talk show host reported that he had been in contact with a member of the military. This military source stated that the armed forces have been alerted to the strong possibility that civil unrest may occur in the United States this summer, prior to the midterm elections of 2010. The source described this as 'our long, hot summer of discontent' that could be eerily reminiscent of the summer of 1968 when riots broke out in many of our largest cities. However, the summer of 2010 could well be much worse due to the players involved. In 1968 the major players were war protesters. This time, the outrage simmering beneath the surface of American society involves a broad cross-section of the heartland, and most of them are heavily armed. It is highly unlikely that these citizens would ever initiate armed conflict of any kind. In their view, gun rights are for self-defense--and for defense against tyrannical government, which our Founders regarded as the most dangerous force on earth. However, it has become clear that other groups may well initiate violence in order to start an 'incident' that would give Obama and a rogue Congress a reason to implement martial law, confiscate the citizens' guns, enforce curfews, and suspend all future elections until such time as it is deemed 'safe' to proceed with human liberty as encapsulated in the right to vote. Tea Party members, for example, have been warned in recent days that members of Andy Stern's SEIU union and members of the organization formerly known as ACORN plan to infiltrate Tea Party gatherings in order to incite some sort of incident that could result in armed conflict. In addition, all indications point to a humiliating defeat for the Democrats and Obama in November. Not only will the House in all likelihood transfer to Republican control, but it is increasingly possible for the Democrats to lose the Senate as well. And there are Leftwing groups in this country that would use whatever means necessary to prevent that from happening. ACORN has already gone underground, changing its name so as to fly beneath the radar screen. How many people will the group register to vote illegally? And with Obama's plan to naturalize between 10 and 20 million illegal aliens, a brand new voter base for the Democrats will be in place prior to November. Add to this the growing unrest over continued high unemployment, the coming spike in interest rates and inflation, and the still-boiling outrage over the manner in which Obama and the Democrats shoved ObamaCare down the throats of the citizens, and all of the ingredients are present for a major F-5 tornado to sweep across the heartland. To what extent would soldiers use deadly force during such 'civil unrest' should the Consequence Management Response Team be utilized? During the anti-war riots of the 1960s they killed student protesters. What about now? The military source cited by the radio host today was asked this very question. He would merely say that the culture of the U.S. military is changing--half support Obama and the other half are dead-set against him. His conclusion? There is no way to know for sure if they would obey an order to open fire on ordinary citizens. Update: The Cato Institute published this warning when the program was launched in its first phase in 2008 (the program has been updated and expanded since 2008). The Founders insisted that standing armies were never to be used against American citizens on our own soil, no matter what violations of this principle have occurred in the years following. In the spirit of the Patriots and of real journalists government must be questioned constantly and held to intense scrutiny in order to preserve liberty.

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S 510 is hissing in the grass

April 26th, 2010
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By Steve Green
S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.
“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower
It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.
Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

History

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan.
2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.
4. It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.
5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.
6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.
7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.
8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.
9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.
10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.
For further information, watch these videos:
Food Laws – Forcing people to globalize
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State Imposed Violence … to snatch resources of ordinary people
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Corporate Rule
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Reclaiming Economies
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Oak snake image at Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park, Florida
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA

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Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

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Emergency Broadcast! New World Order Ahead!

How Western society is brainwashed and crumbling

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By N2H

“The cultural embrace of illusion, and the celebrity culture that has risen up around it, have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, with its complicated and unregulated deals of turning debt into magical assets, to create fictional wealth for us, and vast wealth for our elite. Corporations, behind the smoke screen, have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. The free market became our god and government was taken hostage by corporations, the same corporations that entice us daily with illusions through the mass media, the entertainment industry, and popular culture.”

Please take some time and view these videos for they fortell of the impending future your children and grandchildren will be living. The only thing you can do now is to prepare yourself for what awaits. The second video is especially interesting because the author successfully melds all of the information and facts in plain view that most people do not see.

Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov, Юрий Безменов, now known as Tomas David Schuman (born 1939, Soviet Union – 1997), worked as a journalist for Novosti Press Agency. In this capacity, he secretly answered to the KGB. His true job was to further the aims of communist Russia. After being assigned to a station in India, Bezmenov eventually grew to love the people and culture of India, while, at the same time, he began to resent the KGB-sanctioned oppression of intellectuals who dissented from Moscow’s policies. He decided to defect to the West. Bezmenov/Schuman is best remembered for his Pro-American Anti-communist lectures and books from the 1980s.

Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.

Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

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Monday, April 26, 2010

Global View of National Debt

By Mike Mish Shedlock Apr 26, 2010 2:00 pm

The Chicago Tribune had an excellent set of charts this weekend in "A Tsunami of Red Ink" regarding US government debt and who owns it, and also a comparison of US debt to the national debt of other countries.

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Check out the full article to see foreign holders of US debt country by country. The top three US debt holders are China, Japan, and the UK.

Some will not believe those figures on debt to GDP comparisons. I don't either. For starters the numbers are from 2009.

The footnote also says, if intragovernmental debt is included the figure is 83%. That number is approximately correct in my opinion (as of 2009).

Some will want to count unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities out to 2050 or whatever. This is simply wrong. That would be like counting a car you intend to buy three years from now as part of your debt now.

Many things can happen between now and then.

You may buy a smaller car.
You may not buy the car at all, opting for public transportation.
When the time arrives, you may postpone buying a car for a couple more years.
You may save enough to pay for the car in cash so that you incur no debt.

Likewise, the plans for Social Security and Medicare might change. Costs may go up, or down. The plans may be scaled back by the next generation of US citizens who think our generation was the most greedy in history.

Things We Know:

The current path and current plans are not sustainable.
The money has not been spent, yet.
Costs may go up or down.
Political promises can easily change.
Taxes may go up dramatically, to pay for the costs.

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/the-national-debt-united-states-china/4/26/2010/id/27976

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Fund Performance

Value: $1,320,318.27

Cash: $153,084.70

Stock Value: $1,167,233.58

Total Shares: 100,000

NAV: $13.20

Fund Performance for Buy & Hold Economic Recovery Fund

April 25, 2010

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For the six month period ending December 31, 2009 your fund outperformed 60.3% of the other funds on our site. Your forum and other privileges are based on this ranking

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price history


PERF	m100	S&P 500	DJIA	Nasdaq

Graph Period: [7 Days] [30 Days] [90 Days] [6 Months] [1 Year] [2 Years] [3 Years]
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recent returns vs. major indexes

	Today	MTD	QTD	YTD
PERF	0.00%	2.90%	2.90%	5.54%
S&P 500	0.00%	4.17%	4.17%	9.78%
DOW	0.63%	3.20%	3.20%	7.44%
Nasdaq	0.00%	5.51%	5.51%	11.50%

fund positions by sectors and industries

Name	Allocation	Today	Inception Return
Financials (Diversified Financials)	49.82%	0.64%	12.10%
Materials (Precious Metals & Minerals)	22.91%	1.51%	3.15%
Information Technology	9.18%	0.00%	12.96%
Unclassified (Unclassified)	9.02%	0.56%	19.91%

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fund positions by style

Name	Allocation	Today	Inception Return
Large Cap : Growth	44.24%	-0.09%	11.50%
Micro Cap : Blend	23.83%	1.76%	8.33%
Micro Cap : Growth	22.91%	1.51%	19.95%
Mid Cap : Growth	9.02%	0.56%	40.54%

	Value	Blend	Growth
Large	0.0%	0.0%	44.2%	44.2%
Medium	0.0%	0.0%	9.0%	9.0%
Small	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%
Micro	0.0%	23.8%	22.9%	46.7%
	0.0%	23.8%	76.2%

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fund information

Fund Manager: PulseScan			Total Net Assets: 1,320,299.47
Inception: Dec 02, 2008		Ticker Symbol: PERF		# of Securities: 8

Description:
	To demonstrate that we are not in a recovery and that this is NOT the bottom. 12/02/2008

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Club Memberships

Name	Members
Strategy Lab Open	1723	Overview
Warren Buffett Fan's	884	Overview

recent returns

RETURNS

Last Week	1.43%
Last Month	3.44%
Last 3 Months	8.10%
Last 6 Months	-0.66%
Last 12 Months	37.94%
Last 2 Years	N/A
Last 3 Years	N/A
Last 5 Years	N/A
Since Inception	31.98%
(Annualized)	22.07%

S&P500 RETURNS

Last Week	2.12%
Last Month	4.35%
Last 3 Months	12.03%
Last 6 Months	13.87%
Last 12 Months	45.91%
Last 2 Years	N/A
Last 3 Years	N/A
Last 5 Years	N/A
Since Inception	48.13%
(Annualized)	32.62%

RETURNS VS S&P500

Last Week	-0.69%
Last Month	-0.91%
Last 3 Months	-3.93%
Last 6 Months	-14.53%
Last 12 Months	-7.97%
Last 2 Years	N/A
Last 3 Years	N/A
Last 5 Years	N/A
Since Inception	-16.15%
(Annualized)	-10.55%

alpha/beta vs. S&P500

Alpha	-18.99%
Beta	1.57
R-Squared	0.78

turnover

Last Month	86.69%
Last 3 Months	86.69%
Last 6 Months	174.55%
Last 12 Months	175.80%

5 best and worst returns

5 BEST

	Symbol	Inception Return
1	F	150.73%
2	QLD	89.97%
3	UXI	76.20%
4	FRE	37.90%
5	AMAT	35.61%

5 WORST

	Symbol	Inception Return
1	MTLQQ	-85.72%
2	C	-43.78%
3	SRS	-43.13%
4	GE	-19.62%
5	CMCSA	-9.35%

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5 most and least profitable

5 MOST PROFITABLE

	Symbol	Gains
1	F	$77,808.06
2	GS	$73,371.84
3	QLD	$46,507.38
4	UXI	$37,730.13
5	JPM	$24,127.94

5 LEAST PROFITABLE

	Symbol	Gains
1	MTLQQ	-$44,198.63
2	C	-$21,621.08
3	GE	-$9,915.36
4	TLT	-$6,750.57
5	CMCSA	-$4,694.08

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Eurozone edges closer to endgame as Greek contagion hits Portugal

America Is Losing Its Imperial Status, And Global Institutions Such As The IMF, G20 And BIS Are Filling The Void

Greek, Portuguese Bonds Drop as Downgrades Escalate Debt Crisis

Greek, Portuguese Bonds Drop as Downgrades Escalate Debt Crisis

Special army unit ready to be deployed on American soil just before Nov. elections

S 510 is hissing in the grass

S 510 is hissing in the grass

History

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Police State 4: The Rise of FEMA

Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

Invisible Empire A New World Order Defined

Emergency Broadcast! New World Order Ahead!

How Western society is brainwashed and crumbling

How Western society is brainwashed and crumbling

Monday, April 26, 2010

Global View of National Debt

Global View of National Debt

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