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2013 Economic Predictions Revisited

David Haggith — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:24:00 +0000

It’s time for the mid-year audit of my 2013 economic predictions. I learned from last year and throttled back a little this year. While luminaries like Marc Faber predicted a great economic collapse in 2013, I decided the government has a lot of energy to keep powering through a bad plan. It would be almost [...]

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2013 Economic Predictions

David Haggith — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 04:10:52 +0000

As I consider my 2013 Economic Predictions, I have to take a lesson from my “Economic Predictions for 2012.” I was right in all the trends, because economic fundamentals drive the trends, but I was wrong in not seeing how denial of economic reality could maintain itself longer than I thought, slowing the speed and [...]

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Will the stock market crash in 2012 or 2013?

David Haggith — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:37:03 +0000

2012 brought a change to global stock markets we have never witnessed. The unprecedented money-mongering of central banks has caused stock exchanges to completely unhitch themselves from economic reality. Markets now react inversely to their economies, a situation that begs for a devastating stock market crash. The great stock market bubble of the Great Recession [...]

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Economic Predictions for 2012 – My end-of-year audit

David Haggith — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:28:26 +0000

It’s time to assess my own 2012 economic predictions. In looking honestly at the shortcomings in my predictions, I see something interesting. The picture of events formed a ghost image to my own forecast. It shaped up weaker than I had predicted, and yet has taken the exact form I envisioned, albeit in paler colors [...]

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When Investor Billionaire Warren Buffet Begs for Capital Gains Tax Increase, Can Republicans be Right?

David Haggith — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:43:54 +0000

How can Republicans still believe a capital gains tax increase will hurt investment and jobs when the world’s most successful, multi-billionaire, investment advisor begs to differ? Republicans may stand on the right side of the aisle, but they certainly do not stand on the right side of the argument when it comes to ending the [...]

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