With choices from European and American roulette and now the online versions offer unrivaled convenience. First of all, I would like to make my updated visual roulette system more widely available as it is the perfect place to start and also the best way to see and test the validity of the Jafco roulette playing principles. And there’s nothing like a surging stock market to incite optimistic analysis and embolden the bulls. Like tech stocks that could never go down and home prices that could only go up, the view took hold that bond yields would only go lower. Coming off of a spectacular stock market rally and 5.0% GDP growth in Q4 2009, the consensus view was calling for the type of typically robust recovery that would follow a steep economic pullback. A housing recovery was expected to work wonders on the financial sector and real economy. Financial conditions were abnormally loose and mortgage rates unusually low, seemingly implying a strong recovery for our nation’s battered housing markets. Concerted global fiscal and monetary stimulus was supposed to have ensured highly-liquid markets and a sustainable recovery. Yet fragile underpinnings – for global economies, Credit systems and markets – ensured acute vulnerability and the return to crisis conditions in the event of faltering confidence in marketplace liquidity conditions or waning faith in government stimulus measures.

And the unprecedented expansion of the Fed’s (and global central banks’) balance sheet ensured the type of liquidity overabundance necessary for the marketplace to accommodate our government’s insatiable borrowing appetite. From my bearish perspective, the marketplace has been disregarding some important developments. What was , though, was that the Federal Reserve had completely scrapped the notion of removing crisis-period stimulus – and was instead content to solidify the markets’ premise that the Fed had become a steadfast backstop for marketplace liquidity. The Credit default swap (CDS) market for European sovereign debt dislocated and the entire debt marketplace was hit with another destabilizing bout of illiquidity. This wasn’t supposed to happen; governments couldn’t actually be shut out of the debt market and, perhaps, even default – could they? December 28 – Bloomberg (Darrell Preston): “The cost of insuring Illinois’s bonds against default rose to the highest level in five months as the state headed for the new year without a plan to finance a $3.7 billion pension-fund contribution. December 28 – Bloomberg (Tim Jones and Darrell Preston): “Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is considering borrowing $15 billion to pay overdue bills and balance the biggest budget deficit in the state’s history. The plan is among a range of proposals that Quinn is discussing with state lawmakers as they prepare to return to Springfield Jan. 3 for the final days of the legislative session…

The return of Bubble Dynamics was the overriding thesis coming into 2010. The extraordinary global fiscal and monetary response to the 2008 bursting of the mortgage/Wall Street finance Bubble had unleashed the “global government finance Bubble.” This Bubble analysis implied bi-polar outcome possibilities: the Bubble would gain further momentum – or it would burst. is the nature of Bubbles that, if accommodated by loose finance, they expand, broaden and gain increasing momentum. And I would add that, in this matter, size didn’t really matter all that much. The first part presents the health workers’ perceptions of the influence of the P4P bonus modality on interpersonal, inter-departmental and work relations. December 28 – Bond Buyer (Caitlin Devitt): “Detroit has filed its annual audit on time for the first time in five years. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority fare hike for riding the city’s subways, buses and commuter rails is increasing for the third time in three years. December 30 – Associated Press: “New York commuters are facing a double-whammy: a blizzard that paralyzed the transit system and fare increases that have left some riders fuming.

This will be paid if you reserve your Top Four ad spaces on the right or left hand column for Pajamas Media, and do not wish to display the more extensive ads referred to above. The Federal Reserve began discussing – and later implementing – a second massive monetization of U.S. There was a lingering problem, however, in that the Federal Reserve expected to actually begin unwinding its crisis-period liquidity operations. For starters, despite the massive $4 trillion increase in government liabilities in just nine quarters, an extended period of near zero interest rates, and unprecedented Federal Reserve quantitative easing, the unemployment rate will end the year near 9.8%. And despite extremely low mortgage yields, our nation’s housing market is barely treading water. As a single zero game, this version of the game gives you the best chances of winning. They are about your best bet at this time of year if you want to tangle with a big fish. The CRB commodities index closed the year at the high since 2008. And by the end of the year it was clear that China, India and greater Asia had serious inflation and “hot money” issues.