Euro climbs back to 1.30…  High Yielders bounce back…  Gold to hit $1,500?  Kurt Richebacher… And Now… Today’s Pfennig!

Well… We had a rally in the currencies yesterday and this time the rally wasn’t reversed overnight by profit taking! WOW! It’s been some time since we could say that! Maybe it was the good karma the overnight markets received by my little buddy Alex’s base hit last night to drive in 2 runs! Or, the good karma from a Cardinals pitcher going into the 9th inning of a game! WOW! Or… Maybe, just maybe, cause you never know, fundamentals are creeping back

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Notes from the Investment Underground Friday, April 17, 2009 Palermo Viejo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Here comes subprime II… 3 toxic time bombs to come… The Richebächer legacy lives on… “Scamonomics” explored… Goldman bites the hand that feeds it… TARP loses 75% of taxpayers’ money… How to get $4,201 in your pocket by June 4… Banks’ top 4 accounting gimmicks… Short squeeze pushes market higher… John O’Neill on government’s deceit… James Dale Davidson: How to grab 19% yields on Treasurys (if you’ve got government connections)…  And more!

*** Rob Parenteau, the editor of the reincarnated Richebächer Letter, warns that we are in for the second wave of these toxic mortgages ahead. The first time subprime mortgages reset at a higher rate was in 2008 and the subsequent flurry of defaults sent banks into a tailspin.

Well, get ready, warns Rob. We still have “Option ARM” and “Alt-A” loan resets

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You can’t cure a bubble by reflating it, says Bill Bonner. But that won’t stop the Obama administration from trying. Bill says we should get ready for trillion-dollar budget deficits, huge infrastructure programs, and bailouts for “brain dead” businesses. But none of this will be able to stop the economic correction that has to happen.

This from The Daily Reckoning:

Sunday afternoon, we sat down in the large leather chair in front of the fire. Its arms were shiny and worn…much lighter in color than the rest of the brown chair.

Immediately, we felt wiser. Then, a blindingly bright flash of insight seem to come out of nowhere. Suddenly, we saw into the dark heart of the beast itself – and peered into its soul. And then, we watched in horror. In our mind’s eye we saw images of recession… depression… despair… desperation… and finally upheaval…in which the whole

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