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In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris referee: Bernanke vs. Gold How accurate is the Fed Chairman’s criticism of the gold standard? Perception vs. Reality Why does the economy feel so bad when the stock market feels so good? You vs. the Herd Why now is the time for having…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris investigate: Risk “On” Painful days for those holding precious metals, bonds or the yen US Treasurys Are we seeing a game change of historic proportion? Not all numbers are trustworthy The recently-released bank stress test results insult our intelligence From now on, you’re…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris address: Holding the Bag in Europe At this point, it would take a miracle to save taxpayers from getting stuck with the bill for this mess Got Gold? All of a sudden Europe’s leaders are demanding their gold. Think it’s still a “barbarous…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish and Chris tackle: US GDP With only a little inspection, the reasons for optimism behind the latest rosy US GDP numbers wither quickly Europe The flood of free money continues. Too bad it’s going into the banks vs. the European economies that need it Threats…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Mish has the week off but Chris digs into: Greece A Depression is here – the question is how protracted will they make it? The US (and what it can learn from Greece) The markets are showing in no uncertain terms what happens when a nation’s…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish zero in on: Fuzzy Math Why are we hearing a steady drumbeat of upbeat economic news, when looking beneath the surface into the hard data shows exactly the opposite? Malincentives The US is embracing policies that favor corporations over individuals and encourages them…

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

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In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish debate:

• Rewarding Moral Hazard
  • The President’s announced Mortgage Relief Plan has little help for underwater homeowners, lots for the banks, and none for those who where prudent
• Europe
  
  • France is weakening
• 0% Interest Rates
  
  • We are bumping up against the limit of what additional liquidity can do. And it will almost undoubtedly result in a currency crisis.

Are you one of the responsible ones who didn’t overextend yourself economically during the boom, only to watch the risk-takers rewarded with bailouts? If so, there’s lots to be irritated by this week.

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish set their sights on:

• The Fed
  • 0% interest rates through 2014 (at least!). There’s not even a pretense left now about whom its policies are really directed at helping.
• Europe
  
  • In the words of Shakespeare, the latest proposals are simply “sound and fury, signifying nothing.” At this point, a deep and prolonged recession is a certainty.
• Japan
  
  • Decades of can-kicking are coming to their limit. 2012 could well be the year Japan topples into crisis.

In this week’s Off the Cuff with Mish & Chris podcast, Chris and Mish get things back in gear to talk about: Europe Just went from ‘worse’ to ‘worser.’ To the tune of one trillion euros. Derivative Risk Why we should be extremely concerned by the $100+ trillion in outstanding derivative contracts Market Exuberance How can markets…