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“(Venezuela, according to a report someone forwarded me recently, needs an astonishing $97 per barrel of oil to meet Hugo’s financial obligations…Iran and Nigeria require something like $75…not that I think it’s going back to these prices, but the margin …. A rally in stock markets engendered by the Fed’s rate cuts could alone reignite concerns about inflation, but if not, if it starts to fail, I expect gold will be ready to begin move to my $1200-1400 target. …

Easter Linkfest Okay, its Easter, and I know many readers have other things to do — but since this was such a topsy turvy week, with so much going on, I thought we needed to do at least post an abbreviated linkfest: Day by day, the week gave credence to the belief that markets have no memory: Down 150 most of Mond… Read the full post from The Big Picture Tags: pdf , NYT , WSJ , Financial Press , ft , gmsv via Blogdigger blog search for stock market, recession, depression, stock market video, depression video, recession video, .

Kyl Spikes Schumer’s Bush=Hoover Shtick With Eliot Spitzer gone, Chuck Schumer moves to the head of the list of smugly self-righteous New York pols. So it was particularly satisfying to see Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ] put Schumer is his place on This Week with George Stephanopoulos today.

Since the Great Depression, history is on the side of the Fed in stabilizing the economy during a monetary crisis, whether it be the 1987 stock market crash, the 1997 Asian currency crisis, or the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Fed learned a hard lesson in … The Fed is making some serious mistakes, especially cutting interest rates too far below the “natural rate ” of interest, and thus further weakening the dollar and encouraging gold and oil prices to rise even more. …

These moves were the latest in a series of initiatives by the Federal Reserve over the past week or so to tame the persistent turmoil in credit markets that is threatening a financial meltdown in the United States. … The S&P 500 fell 2.1 percent on Friday on fears that the credit market turmoil will pull down more victims in its wake. The fall on Friday left the S&P 500 down 0.4 percent for the week. European stock markets also fell on Friday, dragging key indices into …

Investors and others hope for even more, a three-quarters cut or perhaps a full point, given the turmoil on Wall Street. It will be a close call, Fed watchers say. Gold Prices: On Thursday gold prices passed the $1000 mark. ….. It’s almost $4/gallon out here in California and people are STILL lined up at the pumps. If you’re so concerned about oil prices, then quit complaining and by stock . Oil stock is available to every U.S. citizen, including you. …

The telegraph.uk article continues: Researchers at Leeds University believe their findings could have important applications, notably in the management of disasters… with the global financial meltdown around the corner, how cynical is that? … 6, had a simple explanation for the stock market’s mixed outcome, suggesting that rising inflation might prevent the Fed from making further interest rate cuts . Back to the market . This means that stock market players have not …

Return of the Linkfest ! Another rough week in the markets. The parade of bad news was virtually non-stop

The gold market is signaling higher inflation, too. The “barbarous relic” has been hitting one new all-time high after another lately. And it’s not just a short-term phenomenon. Gold is up more than 225% over the last eight years. … But don’t bail on your stock portfolio. If you jump out of the market , where will you put all that money to work? In Treasuries yielding less than 4.5%? In money markets whose yields drop with every rate cut by the Fed ? …