David Stockman

David Stockman
David Alan Stockmanis a former businessman and U.S. politician who served as a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Michiganand as the Director of the Office of Management and Budgetunder President Ronald Reagan...
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none numbers understand
None of us really understand what's going on with all these numbers
brighter future passed rebuilding storm
Now that the storm has passed and rebuilding will restart, the future is even brighter for Biloxi,
wall years elephants
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Street and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.
water gold batteries
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy including Gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries....
cutting republican politician
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.
horse trojan-horse trojans
Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.
jobs thinking long
I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.
guy political other-guys
I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
insanity world central-banks
Insanity has infected all the central banks of the world.
cutting hair overcoming
A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth.
home dollars debt
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.
party lasts republican
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
pain party republican
The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
war japan advice
The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war (Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling) that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.