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For the first time in a long time, I'm doing an all-day public event. It's not something I do often, and I hope you'll consider coming.
[If you know someone who might benefit, I'd appreciate it if you would forward or tweet this post].
I'm calling it Pick Yourself and it's the culmination of months of preparation. It won't be webcast or recorded, as we've tried to create something that works best precisely because it's live--not just as a result of what I'm saying on stage, but due to the people you meet and sit next to and connect with over your challenges and projects and dreams.
Digital scales, of course, because it spreads effortlessly and without cost. Real life, alas, doesn't work that way. What we've tried to do is create an event that's better precisely because you came, because you're in the room, because someone on a similar journey is sitting next to you. A beautiful big theatre filled with intimate one on one connections.
Assembling a group of six (friends, colleagues or strangers) makes it even more likely that you'll come to the event ready to share and scheme and plan, taking action after it's over.
If you're interested in coming, please read all the details and be sure to get your confirmation after you've registered in order to join the exclusive online community we're building for attendees.
You can discover the details of the event right here.
Early bird and group tickets are significantly less expensive than regular tickets will be in a week, so if you're interested, I hope you'll grab it now.
See you in Tribeca.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2012 10:43 PM PDT Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets has Two Bets with the Economist.
I side with Pettis and said so in The Dating Game: Michael Pettis Challenges The Economist to a Bet on China I came up with 2030 and with peak oil considerations I would not count on that. Now Pettis is back at it with 12 predictions. Via email ... Perhaps my bet with The Economist has caused me to throw caution to the winds, since a smart economist never makes his predictions explicit, but here they are:Collapse in Commodity Prices For years the mantra has been buy what China needs (commodities), sell what China produces. That strategy worked for a long time but that time is up or soon will be. The implication are far from pleasant for the currencies of commodity producers like Australia and Canada. Nails in the Hard Landing Coffin? One of the sillier stories making the rounds is China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin China's weekend reform of its currency regime nails shut the coffin on the last remains of doubt about whether the world's second biggest economy has successfully steered a course past a hard economic landing.The fact that China is back to the same unsustainable model certainly does not disprove the hard landing theory. Indeed, the longer China puts off rebalancing its economy, the bigger the crash later on. Moreover, widening the band on its currency is a needed part of that rebalancing, and does not preclude in any way a huge slowdown in growth. The structural imbalances in China are large and for now, still growing. However, huge cracks have appeared in real estate, and changes are coming up with a regime change. Finally, peak oil alone makes many of the growth estimates we have seen for China outright impossible. Markowski is crowing far too early. One quarter does not prove a thing. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
ECB Wants Its Pensions Adjusted For Inflation; Reflections on the Politically Entitled Class Posted: 15 Apr 2012 06:23 PM PDT The gall and arrogance of bureaucrats who should not have a job at all, let alone have a pension that no one else gets is rather stunning. Courtesy of Google translate, please consider Little faith ECB officials The personal representative of the central bank is now demanding that the employees pensions would be protected against inflation. It requires that an insurance against their own failure.Neither the ECB nor the Fed should exist at all. Both present themselves as "inflation fighters" when they are the source of inflation. Now these arrogant asswipes want to be protected from their own policies while demanding cuts in the pensions of Greece, Portugal, and Spain. Reflections on the Politically Entitled Class My friend "fedwatcher" writes ... "Nothing to see here folks! Move along."Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Posted: 15 Apr 2012 10:55 AM PDT I was "On the Edge" last week with Max Keiser discussing various can-kicking exercises, soaring yields on Spanish debt, bailouts coming up for Portugal and Spain, BRICs, reserve currencies, Obamacare, and gold. Link if video does not play European merry-go-round: Spain's debt crisis & Portugal's bailout. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Sarkozy Comeback Bid Falters as French Economy Hits the Skids; Setup Good for Gold? Posted: 14 Apr 2012 11:36 PM PDT As goes the French economy, so goes the reelection chances of French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Although Sarkozy leads in round one, polls show that lead is shrinking at a pace that suggests he will not carry round one. More importantly, Sarkozy is trailing again by double digits in polls for the decisive round two. For those not familiar with elections in France, round one pits candidates from all the parties against each other on April 22. If no one gets 50%, the top two finishers square off in round two, on May 6. Sarkozy struggles in polls as French economy sputters On April 10, Reuters reported Sarkozy struggles in polls as French economy sputters President Nicolas Sarkozy's drive to persuade voters he is the best man to lead France to economic recovery suffered a blow on Tuesday, with a survey indicating growth has ground to a halt as he struggles to make headway over his Socialist election rival.Comeback Hopes Crumble In an update on April 13, Reuters reported Sarkozy's comeback hopes crumble, polls show Four polls published in less than 24 hours showed Hollande extending his lead, with the conservative incumbent's modest gains of the past month starting to evaporate ahead of a two-round contest taking place on April 22 and May 6.Hollande Promises to Rework Merkozy Treaty Francois Hollande has campaigned on a platform of making needed changes to the fragile treaty hammered out by Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Good luck with that. Meanwhile Merkel has tremendous problems of her own. When, not if, Germany's export machine collapses, it will likely sink Merkel's chances right with it. Setup Good for Gold? A Hollande victory will add pressures on the euro vs. the US dollar and also elevate fears of a eurozone breakup. A breakup is likely regardless who wins, in my estimation, however, a Hollande victory could easily escalate the timetable. If that sentiment catches hold, don't be surprised to see gold rise while the dollar strengthens. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT The proverbial can only be kicked so far before the can rusts away to nothing. That is what Police in Stockton, California have found out and that is what the pensioners in the entire Illinois retirement system will soon find out. Stockton Can Suspend Police Accrued Vacation Payouts A California Superior Court Judge says Stockton Can Suspend Police Accrued Vacation Payouts. Stockton, the central California city trying to avert bankruptcy, can continue suspending accrued vacation and sick time payouts for its retiring and departing police officers, a state judge ruled.Stockton has already made a mistake. It lost nice parking assets because it has not yet filed for bankruptcy. It should have filed first, then missed the bond payment. Two groups should lose in this mess: city employees with untenable pension benefits and bondholders. Illinois Retirement Systems Only 36% Funded Please consider Illinois Is Pension Basket Case You Forgot About This month, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois made a dire announcement to its members. TRS, which covers most public-school teachers in Illinois outside Chicago and has more than 360,000 members, said the following:Chris Christie Willing to Sacrifice Career to Take on Teachers' Unions Link if video does not play Christie: I will Sacrifice my Career to Take on Teachers' Unions Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
Posted: 14 Apr 2012 12:06 AM PDT As Greece wonders whether its debt crisis will eventually spell its exit from the euro, one town, Volos, has formed an alternative local currency as noted by the BBC in Greece Bartering System Popular in Volos. A few months ago, an alternative currency was introduced in the Greek port city of Volos. It was a grass-roots initiative that has since grown into a network of more than 800 members, in a community struggling to afford items in euros during a deepening financial crisis."Spain Would Be Dead Without ECB Loans" Articles that appear in this blog translated from Spanish frequently appear in one of the major English news outlets a day or two later. And so it is again. As a followup to my post Black Market in Spain: Cash Transactions Exceeding 2,500 Euros Now Banned The New York Times reports Spain Targets Tax Fraud To Counter a Recession. The Spanish government approved a number of measures on Friday to crack down on tax fraud as part of its efforts to reassure investors that Madrid can replenish the public coffers by bringing to the surface some of the country's hidden wealth.Banning "bin Ladens"Cannot Possibly Work The idea that banning 500 euro notes "bin Ladens" would accomplish anything is ludicrous. Moreover, as bad a the fraud is now, it is 100% guaranteed to get worse. Unemployment is on the rise, and Spain is about to hike the VAT. With every tax hike comes more resistance to pay taxes. Spain is imploding and these measures will just make things worse. Please see Massive Jump in Bank of Spain Borrowing from ECB: Bank of Spain Balance Sheet Shows Spain Deep in Trouble, LTRO is Essentially Useless for more details. Get Money Out of Banks Now! My advice to everyone in Spain: Take your money out of the banks while you still can. Capital controls are just around the corner. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. Visit http://www.sitkapacific.com/account_management.html to learn more about wealth management and capital preservation strategies of Sitka Pacific. |
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