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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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From: geode0010/24/2008 8:30:11 PM
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Look Out Below...

Today may be the day for nuclear-winter bears like economist Nouriel Roubini, a.k.a. "Dr Doom." Roubini writes today:

"We have now reached a point where fundamentals and long-term valuation considerations do not matter any more for financial markets. There is a free fall as most investors are rapidly deleveraging, and we are on the verge of a capitulation collapse.

What matters now is only flows—rather than stocks and fundamentals—and flows are unidirectional as everyone is selling and no one is buying as trying to buy equities is like catching a falling knife. There are no buyers in these dysfunctional markets, only sellers. And panic is the ugly state of this destabilizing game."...

blog.wired.com

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30 years of right wing garbage economics leads to this.....

Actually, this looked somewhat more orderly in the afternoon. It's just when all of these days are strung together that it looks really ugly.

Krugman notes that a 2009 recession is baked in the cake. Obama has his work cut out for him. He has many fewer policy choices given the nasty state of the deficit ($1 T?), the state of the global economy, the state of national debt, etc.

Republikans have given him a terrible mess to sort out.
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