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Trump: Titan of Corporate Tax Cuts

Posted September 24, 2016 By David Haggith
Trump's corporate tax cut is a gift to himself like his corporate jet.

Trump’s corporate tax cut is supply-side stimulus I could agree with if done right, even though it primarily helps the rich. Trump wants to cut the top corporate tax rate from its current 35% to 15% (which is currently the bottom bracket in US corporate income tax structure). That makes the Trump corporate tax cut the largest of […]

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Trump Tax Plan Turns the Donald into Trickle-Down King

Posted September 21, 2016 By David Haggith
Trump Tax Plan v Reagan Tax Plan (By George (16 - 1 (1)) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons)

If George Bush Senior thought Reaganomics was “voodoo economics,” he’d think the Trump tax plan was its kachina doll, and if GB Minor had been smoking weed while popping magic mushrooms when he made his eponymous tax cuts, the Bush Tax Cuts might have come out looking like the Wall-Street tax Fantasia that Trump’s peeps have brewed up — a […]

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Trump: Trojan Horse for the Establishment or Mighty Mouth for Mankind?

Posted September 18, 2016 By David Haggith
Donald Trump - Brazenly Antiestablishment or Neocon Trojan Horse? Art by DonkeyHotey [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

I crave the opportunity to see an antiestablishment candidate win the election. I would exult in seeing our corrupt establishment shattered. So, while I do not like Trump the man (as it would appear he has never done anything that didn’t entirely serve his own self-interest and pompous ego), I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing him upset establishment Republicans and establishment […]

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Whirled Politics: Would you rather be Trumped or Pillaried?

Posted August 22, 2016 By David Haggith
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I’ve never seen anything so surreal as the United States’ current political circus of unelectable and undelectable candidates offered as each party’s top of the crop. I can’t stop wondering if the Trump is Clinton’s decoy, gathering all the Republiducks into one place so the Democats can slaughter them. Yet, as surely as Trump looks like he’s trying to throw the […]

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Books that Readers of The Great Recession Blog Have Favored Most

Posted August 15, 2016 By David Haggith
Books for the Great Recession

The following is a short reading list of books that readers of The Great Recession Blog have shown the most interest in — books suited for times of economic collapse or geared toward thinking outside the box as well as few on the history of the Great Depression and the making of the Great Recession: […]

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Professional Stupid-People Consultant: A Personal Perspective on Why Corporate Culture is in Decline

Posted August 14, 2016 By David Haggith
The decline of corporate culture

I’m working on a new Linked-in profile and wanted to get your thoughts on it. I’m sure others have similar experience in the decline of corporate culture to share here, too. If I wanted to stay employed in the current corporate climate, I’d update my profile as follows to make it fit what corporations are […]

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This graph says it all — US 2016 Recession Already Here!

Posted August 4, 2016 By David Haggith
US recession 2016

This graph by 720Global shows how spot on my pronouncement of a US 2016 recession is and how precarious the path ahead. In spite of the lack of any official declaration by the US government or its economic priesthood, I’ve stated more than once in 2016 that the US is already in recession. Several interesting observations can be made […]

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Slippery Oil Prices Plunge Over Cliff into Bear Market

Posted August 1, 2016 By David Haggith
By fernost (Self-photographed) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Oil today plunged quickly below $40 per barrel, taking oil prices down more than 20% from their high a little over a month ago. That officially defines a bear market in oil. As of today, oil has also moved below its 50-day, 100-day and 200-day moving averages. July has again turned out to be a huge disappointment for oil producers […]

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Something Dark Emerges from the Tar Pits and Oil Sands, Destroying Crude Oil Price Rally

Posted July 26, 2016 By David Haggith
Crude oil price predictions for summer 2016 are for heavy storms as we move into the Year of the Epocalypse.

The crude oil price rally has been completely crushed, though I’ll admit I was wrong when I predicted crude oil prices would plummet in March or April as the perfect storm developed against oil prices. Instead, they rallied. In spite of that, I continued to believe my error was in timing and not in fact […]

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  • Knave_Dave posted on September 9, 2016
    Thanks for the evidence. Since it is happening there, it is nearly certain to be happening in other nations, too.…
  • Ruy posted on September 7, 2016
    It's in Spanish but here is your evidence: http://www.expansion.com/mercados/2016/07/18/578d0758e5fdeada168b45f6.html It says that the Spanish Central Bank, with the acknowledgement of…
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Beware of Good News That Puts Lipstick on a Hillary

Posted July 15, 2016 By David Haggith
Is Hillary Clinton crazy?

… or hair coloring on Donald Trump. Neither one helps. Do you scratch your head as I do, when you read one story in the news that says retail sales grew in June and then read another that says retail sales sucked like a drain hole? Often things are not what they seem.

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Has a Stock Market Melt-Up Begun for a Stock Market Crash in 2016?

Posted July 15, 2016 By David Haggith
1929 stock market crash

Melt-ups precede a major stock market crash, and by all appearances we may be in a melt-up right now that could cause a stock market crash in 2016. First, a small bit of euphoria kicked up permabull adrenaline in the US market when Brexit didn’t make the American sky fall overnight. At the same time, central banks scurried to buy stocks all over the […]

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Central Bank Wonderland is Complete and Now Open for Business — The Epocalypse Has Fully Begun

Posted July 13, 2016 By David Haggith
The Epocalypse has arrived

Summer vacation is here, and the whole global family has arrived at Central-Bank Wonderland, the upside-down, inside-out world that banksters and their puppet politicians call “recovery.” Everyone is talking about it as wizened traders puzzle over how stocks and bonds soared, hand-in-hand, in face of the following list of economic thrills:

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Brexit-Beleaguered Bankers Back to Begging for Bailouts!

Posted July 10, 2016 By David Haggith
By Lucian.amarii (Jup) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons

Nothing is more shameless in a bedazzling sort of way than rich banksters standing on the public curb with their hands out. First, we had the admission this past week by a major French bank that Italian banks are so sick (and so too big to fail) they could cause systemic banking failure throughout Europe if not bailed out […]

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Economic Predictions for Summer 2016: The Epocalypse Keeps Crashing

Posted June 27, 2016 By David Haggith
Oso Landslide, Washington

Brexit — the second major landslide in the Year of the Epocalypse — has bankers all over the world scrambling to pick up and prop up their crumbled facades this week. This is one more jolt in the developing global economic collapse that I predicted for 2016.

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