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Strategies & Market Trends : Heinz Blasnik- Views You Can Use -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: LLCF who wrote (3342)7/31/2003 4:44:00 PM
From: Eva  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4907
 
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 13:28
trotsky (GDP) ID#377387:
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so, that fraudulent number grew mostly due to "government-related expenditures and personal consumption". in other words, what increased was WASTE and EATING OF THE SEED CORN.
i'd say it's nothing short of a disaster...even though the stock market temporarily doesn't seem to think so.
the data however confirms that the fiscal and monetary insanity that currently reigns produces exactly the predicted effects: the economy continues to be hollowed out structurally, while the debt mountain grows and grows.
the handful of analysts that fears we might see a surprise MCHV illiquidity event in the fall may well be right...the market won't be conned forever.
note that the truly massive pump priming courtesy of the economic illitarates at the Fed has recently gone into unprecedented overdrive:
click here ...

at the same time, the ongoing fiscal catastrophe is speeding up...iow, the morons in charge of 'economic policy' are doing their best to ensure an economic disaster of epic proportions.