What’s Up, Doc?
By Bud Conrad
Chief Economist, Casey Research
The Casey Report
Under Bernanke’s direction, the Federal Reserve has completely rewritten its mission. Many articles in the International Speculator and The Casey Report have reported the strange growth in the loans they have made and explained that Bernanke has, for a long time, espoused unconventional actions to avert [...]

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Casey Research’s chief economist Bud Conrad was interviewed on New Zealand TV. He talks about the incoming President Elect Obama (”Hussein”) and the unfathomable deficits the U.S. Government is running.
Bud Conrad on Inflation and Obama
Currently, we are seeing some deflation, but that will end says Bud Conrad and turn into raging inflation from runaway deficits [...]

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Unintended Consequences
By David Galland
Managing Editor
The Casey Report
As you may know, here at Casey Research we are not optimistic about the outlook for real estate, that lynchpin of the U.S. economy. This pessimism is evoked by a number of factors, starting with the simple fact that residential housing increased by about 50% between 1992 and 2007, [...]

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The World as We See It
4 reasons why this may be the worst crisis since the 1930s - and 4 projections for what’s going to happen

by Bud Conrad
The Casey Report Webinar- Casey Research

I identify the foundational forces now driving our economy to establish a basis for the investment recommendations you’ll read in this [...]

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Thanks to Casey Chart’s for providing this graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average quarterly earnings. As you can see, this is the first time EVER that the Dow has posted a loss. The Price to Earnings, or P/E, ratio is now listed at “Nil”. So much for one of Wall Streets favorite metrics.
So who [...]

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Where Is the Economy Going in the Next Six Months?
By Bud Conrad
Chief Economist,
The Casey Report - Casey Research
As investors, the question we have to focus most of our attention on just now is what impact the credit crisis, the bursting housing bubble and the actions of the U.S. government will have on the [...]

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Yahoo! Finance ran an article on the banking problem in light of IndyMac’s failure. Which bank could be next?
Months ago some of these morons in the banking industry were saying the worst was behind, their Ok, blah, blah. And the talking heads were happy to nod their bleach blond hair and tell you to buy [...]

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Inflation or Deflation?

An interview with Bud Conrad, Casey Research chief economist
The following interview, conducted by Louis James, a senior analyst and editor with Casey Research, appeared in the March 08’ edition of Casey’s International Speculator.
Louis James (LJ): The first question we think most readers will want to know about is this: if the [...]

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Recession, GDP and Inflation: Conventional Wisdom or Data
By Bud Conrad, Casey Research
 That we are moving into – or already are – in a recession is practically a given. But what will it be: inflationary or deflationary? Casey Research’s Chief Economist Bud Conrad weighs in with his findings…
 The debate is coming to a head over whether [...]

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The Stock market is heading down. Losses anyone?
Now is definitely the time to be shorting certain stocks or even the market as a whole, but who knows what to do?
Casey Research has a team of experts, and it isn’t just precious metals stocks and resource stocks that they know. Casey’s own Bud Conrad gave us [...]

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