Master Credit Plan of the Global Elite

By Dan Denning   The Daily Reckoning

At last. A prediction of the world’s economic future that is as bombastic and grandiose on the positive side as your editor’s is on the negative side.

Investment and urbanisation are the twin engines that will drive global GDP from $62 trillion last year to $143 trillion by 2030, according to Gerard Lyons at London’s Standard Chartered.

This is the superest of “super cycles. Continued….

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The S&P500 in 2011: What’s past is prologue?

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Let’s be honest and a little humble as we venture into the “great wide open” of 2011. Nobody really has a clue what path the markets will take.  

Given what we’ve all been through and the uncertainty and plethora of risks going into the new year, we feel a bit like Rod Taylor and Teppi Hedren mid-movie into Hitchcock’s,  The Birds.  

And those sea gulls look a lot like black swans to us. Continued…..

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Markets Rediscover the Fundamentals

By MARK GONGLOFF  The Wall Street Journal

Greed and fear no longer seem to be playing such a violent game of tug-of-war with markets.

After a long stretch in which macroeconomic hopes and fears dictated the rise and fall of stocks, bonds and commodities—known in the market as the risk-on, risk-off trade—there are tentative signs that more-traditional concerns are reasserting their power.

In recent weeks, read on…..

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Can China Learn from US Mistakes?

By Greg Canavan  The Daily Reckoning

Back in the heady days of the credit boom, nearly all markets were reaching record highs at the same time. Now, after the bust, some have recovered better than others. The ‘topping out’ thesis is not so uniform.

What we mean is that the liquidity-induced recovery in the global economy, and equity and commodity markets, may be coming to an end. Not as in running into a brick wall, but a slow dawning on investors that all is not right in the world. Continued…

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Big Tops

By Greg Canavan  The Daily Reckoning

Is the market beginning to top out? We think so.

Last night, the S&P500 fell 1 per cent, although the large cap Dow Jones Industrials index only fell a few points. Nothing too dramatic, and certainly not enough to scare the permanently bullish, but it’s probably a sign of things to come. Continued…..

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