John Mauldin

John Mauldin: An Unpayable Deficit?

John Mauldin‘s latest newsletter, entitled This Way Be Dragons (Thoughts from the Frontline), tackles the big problem that the bulls don’t want to think about yet: How will the $1.2 trillion deficit we’ve got in the oven ever be paid off? While Obama gives lip service to cutting the deficit in half, his actual budget…

Droppin' Knowledge: John Mauldin on Green Shoots

I’m going to give you the first paragraph of John Mauldin‘s latest Thoughts from the Frontline newsletter, and then I’m going to insist that you go read the rest when you get the time. Go to Google. Type in “green shoots.” In about a 10th of a second you will find 28,900,000 references. Scrolling through…

Things To Do Instead Of Attending Your Neighbor's Tea Party Rally

Tea Party The Tea Party movement has been spared my ridicule thus far…Until now. I caught a Fox News town hall-esque State of the Tea Party program hosted by Glenn Beck this weekend and my abdominal muscles ached from all the cringing this broadcast induced. This was a nationally-televised moron-a-thon in the round. Its not…

More Hot Links: Original Dow 30 & Marc Dreier

More Hot Links for Weekend Reading Here’s the story about a lawyer you will hate even more than all of the other lawyers you already despise.  Marc Dreier was a powerhouse bi-coastal player, ripping off hedge funds, real estate developers and possibly one of my favorite rock bands in the world, Wilco.  New York Magazine…