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I can't say for sure that the credit crunch is close to being over, that the March lows in the equity market will hold, or when and where oil prices will finally crack. (There is no shame for me in this, since no one else can, either. This will not stop six sets of talking heads from debating these issues during CNBC's next broadcasting day.)...keep reading

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Of late, you can't watch cable news for a day without seeing more advertisements about owning gold than you used to see in a year. That should tell you something. Because whenever an "investment" concept or idea gets so hot that it pays vendors to spend hugely increased advertising budgets--to get while the getting is good, as it were--you can be pretty sure that concept is in full-on bubble mode....keep reading

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The mice in Aesop's fable voted unanimously, without demurral or even much discussion, that a bell should be tied around the neck of the local cat, so that they would always be warned of his approach. The meeting foundered, however, when the issue became exactly which mouse or mice were to be delegated to do the belling....keep reading

By continuing to focus monochromatically on one economic variable -- the creation of new jobs -- journalism has managed both to trivialize the way we look at the economy, and to take everyone's eye off the epic strengths of the current recovery....keep reading

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