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9-17-08: Buying the Bottom in a Recession 9-18-08: The Panic Begins 9-19-08: Credit Tightens, SEC Bans Shorts 9-24-08: Buying Opportunities in a Recession 9-29-08: Tarp's first vote 9-30-08: Limit Orders, Manipulating Google 10-6-08: Tarp Fails, Panic Ensues 10-7-08: Tarp Passes, Panic Ensues 10-11-08: Lehman was the First Domino 10-13-08: Bear Market Rally 10-19-08: GM drops, Buffet Buys Stocks 10-25-08: Capitalism and the Bradley Effect 10-30-08: Google and GM 10-31-08: Stock Market Myths 11-5-08: Election Results v. Poll Predictions 11-7-08: Detroit Bleeds Real Blood 11-14-08: Hedge Funds, CDOs, Tarps, and Pensions 11-17-08: Social Security Benefits 11-21-08: Earthquakes and Bear Market Rallys 11-26-08: The Hot Dog Stand Theorem 12-5-08: The Total Cost of the Bailouts 12-12-08: Sub-Primes and Bailouts 12-23-08: Oil and Gasoline Prices 12-31-08: Capitalism, Post-Modernism and Global Warming 1-6-09: Banking Crises 1-9-09: Economic Theories and Depressions 1-13-09: A Simple Desultory Philippic 1-17-09: Zombies and the Fed 1-24-09: Fiat and DTV are coming! 1-27-09: Money Part I: What is it? 1-31-09: January Myths, GM, Aliens Among Us 2-6-09: A New Hope, California Deficit & Illegals 2-10-09: Money Part II: Interest and Growth 2-14-09: Bad Banks and Cheap Oil on Valentine's Day 2-16-09: Money Part III: Money Utility and Risk 2-20-09: Bears awaken, life expectency 2-25-09: Recession news 3-8-09: The long ride down 3-11-09: Money Part IV: Trade Deficits and Asset Inflation 3-14-09: Spring forward, international valuation problems 3-21-09: Budget Deficits into Perpetuity 3-28-09: New Cars! Market Moves Up! 4-4-09: First Quarter results, JPMorgan, TARP, executive pay 4-8-09: Drug Subs and Defense Economics 4-10-09: Bold Prediction: The End is Nigh 4-18-09: The Best Six Weeks Since 1938 4-22-09: Cars and Green Electricity in 2020 4-25-09: Breaking out of the Channel 4-30-09: Swine Flu & Chrysler 5-3-09: Unemployment and Unfilled Jobs 5-17-09: How to be Dumb 5-20-09: Money part V: Income Distribution in the US 5-24-09: Market Uncertainty and Shorting 5-31-09: GM goes bankrupt. 6-6-09: Markets, Unemployment, Foreclosures: Everything's Up! 6-11-09: Money Part VI: Home Ownership 6-14-09: Oil, Mortgage Rates, Trade Deficit, Citi Stock: All Up! 6-17-09: A Decade of Deficits 6-22-09: Green Shoots or Desolation? 6-25-09: Money part VII: Wealth Distribution in the US 7-6-09: Stock Market Head and Shoulders 7-11-09: Green Shoots Everywhere 7-15-09: That 70's Show: Stagflation 7-25-09: The Eye of the Hurricane 7-31-09: Small Business Bankruptcies 8-8-09: The Recession is Over! 8-15-09: Stocks up, confidence and spending down 8-22-09: The Housing Market 8-29-09: Insider Trading and Meth 9-4-09: Women in the Workplace 9-9-09: Malthus and Africa 9-13-09: Unemployment and the False Housing Recovery 9-18-09: The World's 100 Largest Entities 9-26-09: Balloons and Ketchup 10-2-09: Lord Sidious, Lloyd C. Blankfein 10-11-09: Inflation, Food, Flash Trading 10-17-09: Tarp Oversight Criticisms 10-23-09: House Prices and Consumer Confidence 10-30-09: AIG & The Best Places To Live 11-6-09: The Bubble Returns to Expansion 11-14-09: The Government Hires Everyone! 11-21-09: ObamaCare ready for debate 11-27-09: Black Friday; Dubai Sinking??? 12-5-09: Jobs!!!! 12-12-09: Unemployment!!! 12-19-09: Climate Conferance Breakthrough! 12-25-09: Health Care passes the Senate! 1-1-10: Mark's Fearless Predictions for 2010 1-8-10: China buys jobs from the US 1-16-10: Massachusetts Special Election 1-23-10: Women, jobs and marriage 2-6-10: Market adjustment? Or the next leg down? 2-13-10: Politics in the Euro Zone 2-20-10: Health care will bankrupt us 2-27-10: Regulate the Markets, Volcanoes, and the Climate! 3-6-10: Sovereign Debt 3-12-10: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb... Bomb Bomb Iran. 3-18-10: Hispanics in the US 3-20-10: Conspiracy Theories 3-27-10: Irrational Exuberance 4-4-10: Chinese Demographics 4-10-10: Public Pensions 4-16-10: Fraud at Goldman 4-24-10: Inflation and Taxes: All Hail the VAT! 5-1-10: Sovereign Defaults on the Horizon 5-7-10: Greece and the PIIGS: the dominoes of Europe 5-15-10: The State of the Housing Market 5-22-10: Man Creates Life!!! 5-30-10: Governments and Great Depression II 6-4-10: The Death Spiral of the Welfare State 6-12-10: Unemployment and Education 6-18-10: Obama Proposes State Pension Bailouts 6-22-10: Depression Economics: The Dismal Science 6-26-10: Double Dip, Anyone? 7-2-10: Microsoft and Viagra 7-10-10: Retire in Spain! 7-17-10: Unemployment and the new Unspeakable Truth 7-24-10: 3rd World Government, Coming Soon to a City Near You 7-31-10: We the People (plus the Press) 8-7-10: Obesity, the New Epidemic 8-14-10: Ending the Great Recession 8-21-10: India: Emerging power or train wreck? 8-28-10: Unemployment & Job Creation 9-4-10: Obama's Waning Popularity 9-11-10: Governments Look Bad. 9-17-10: Trade war coming. Buckle up. 9-24-10: The Market that Won't Die. 10-1-10: Trade War. 10-9-10: Drugs and Education: Mark on a Soap Box. 10-16-10: Foreclosuregate. 10-23-10: The Government Supports (Half of) Everyone. 10-27-10: Google Invents Skynet. 10-30-10: Trick or Treat: It's Republicans! 11-6-10: Bernanke Puts the Pedal to the Metal 11-13-10: Deficit Reduction and The Republican Agenda 11-20-10: Whip Inflation Now!!! 11-27-10: North Korea v. The World 12-4-10: Real estate bubbles in the US and China 12-11-10: Inflation, Bankruptcy, Debtor's Prison 12-18-10: States in Crisis 12-24-10: Property Taxes 1-5-11: Mark's Bold Predictions for 2011 1-19-11: Inflation! 1-29-11: Egypt in flames 2-26-11: Libya in flames 3-5-11: As GM goes, so goes the Nation 3-11-11: Tsunami in Japan 3-18-11: Nuclear Fallout in Japan 3-26-11: More radiation, more earthquakes, more arab revolts. 4-2-11: More radiation, more earthquakes, more arab revolts. 4-9-11: Gas and Oil prices. Up. Who coulda guessed? 4-16-11: European Bailouts. 4-23-11: Chinese Inflation. 4-30-11: Public Pensions again. 5-7-11: The Silver bubble bursts. 5-14-11: Europe looks shaky. 5-21-11: The World Is Still Here!! 5-29-11: Europe smolders 6-8-11: Third world chaos 6-13-11: Running out of Oil, Water, Food, Government 6-19-11: Greece 6-25-11: The Future of Europe 7-3-11: Egalia 7-9-11: Unemployment 7-16-11: Sovereign Debt 7-22-11: US Default? 7-30-11: US Default Part II? 8-2-11: Europe starts to go. 8-5-11: The Age of China? I think not. 8-13-11: Your government in action (or was that "inaction") 8-20-11: The world is running out of options. 8-27-11: Too Big To Fail tested again. 9-3-11: Europe in crisis. 9-11-11: Greece teeters on the edge 9-17-11: Greece still teeters on the edge 9-24-11: Europe teeters on the edge 9-30-11: Europe Is Saved! (or not) 10-8-11: Steve Jobs 10-16-11: Manufacturing, Aspergers, and the Coming Malthusian Industrial Crisis 10-22-11: France v. S&P 10-29-11: Euro Faith Healing - EUphoria 11-5-11: Seven Billion. 11-11-11: The Death of Democracy. 11-18-11: OWS: Coming Soon to a Town Near You 11-25-11: Houston, we have a Rumor 12-2-11: Europe, tout jours Europe 12-9-11: Europe Solves the Next Crisis! 12-16-11: Occupy closes West Coast ports. 12-23-11: Merry Christmas! 12-30-11: Mark's Bold Predictions for 2012 1-6-11: And the New Year starts. 1-13-12: S&P Downgrades Europe. 1-31-12: Birthers v. Obama. 2-10-12: Germany Fiddles while Greece Burns 2-17-12: Long Term Disability 4-15-12: Greece Burns and Spain Smolders 4-22-12: Dinosaurs Debate and Hold Elections 5-6-12: Election Day Special 5-13-12: Greece and California in Crisis. Again. 5-20-12: Eclipse! 5-27-12: The Biggest (Government) Loser 6-3-12: The Fear Factor Increases 6-10-12: Spain Is Fixed! (for today) 6-17-12: Greek Elections 6-22-12: Europe is Fixed!!! (again) 7-1-12: Europe is Fixed!!! (again) 7-8-12: Is Europe Fixed? 7-15-12: Bankruptcy: coming soon to a city near you. 7-22-12: Food prices skyrocket. 7-29-12: Super Mario To The Rescue! 8-5-12: Jobs. 8-12-12: Drought. 8-19-12: Food Shortages Ahead. 8-26-12: Vacations almost over. 9-3-12: Divorce American Style. 9-9-12: Jobs? We don't need no stinkin' jobs! 9-16-12: Inflation Causes Price Stability! 9-23-12: Israel threatens. 9-30-12: Rain in Spain. 10-7-12: The end of Israel 10-14-12: Food, gas, inflation. 10-21-12: Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. 10-28-12: The End of Israel. 11-2-12: America Elects a President. Probably. 11-11-12: It's over. 11-18-12: The Middle East heats up. 11-25-12: Thanksgiving, a thankfully slow week. 12-2-12: The Fiscal Cliff Looms... 12-9-12: The Fiscal Cliff Still Looms... 12-16-12: Still the Fiscal Cliff... 12-23-12: Merry Christmas. 1-1-13: Mark's Bold Predictions. 1-6-13: We Missed The Fiscal Cliff! 1-13-13: The Corvette C7! 1-20-13: War in Asia? 1-27-13: The End of Republicans? 2-4-13: Currency Wars 2-10-13: Progressives take over the world. 2-17-13: A New Nuclear Arms Race. 2-24-13: No news this week. 3-3-13: Sequestration! The End Of Life! 3-10-13: Unemployment and Workforce participation decline. 3-17-13: The EU plays with fire... 3-24-13: The EU is broken. 3-31-13: Korea? 4-7-13: Korea! 4-14-13: Gold enters Bear Market Territory 4-21-13: Slow: Speed Trap Ahead! 4-28-13: The market searches for direction. 5-12-13: Bread and Cell Phones. 5-19-13: The market spikes upwards. 5-27-13: The bond market intimidates everyone. 6-2-13: The bond market continues to intimidate. 6-9-13: The NSA is watching you. 6-16-13: Asia is the next problem?

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