Disaster Ahead, Says Reagan’s Budget Director

David Stockman was Ronald Reagan’s first budget director. He resigned because he thought Reagan’s program would produce a huge deficit. He was right. Reagan is the father of the triple-hundred-billion dollar deficit. He thinks the U.S. federal debt is a disaster. It will produce an economic disaster. Stocks will fall. Bonds will fall. Taxes will [...]

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Half of Britain’s Leading Bankers Fear a Major Crisis Soon

We remember the weekend collapse of Lehman Brothers’ investment bank in October 2008. A recent survey of Britain’s senior bankers reveals that over half of them fear a Lehman-like event in Europe. [Note: "City" refers to the banking section of London that exists as a separate legal jurisdiction. It is shorthand for "Wall Street."] A [...]

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