(OIS) Credit Crisis Watch: Gaining Positive Traction

In order to gauge the progress being made to unclog credit markets and restore confidence in the world’s financial system, I monitor a range of financial spreads and other measures. By perusing these, as summarized in this “Credit Crisis Watch” review, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:20:04

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Are we underestimating the seriousness of the economic crisis?

Before we think about future, we should know what economic experts said before Lehman bothers collapse and share market crash in 2008 ... Pickens. 8. “There is growing evidence that parts of debt markets are coming back to life” – Peter Coy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:45:00

Bill Ayers' "Mind-Blowing" Idiocy

Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers has a post up at Huffington Post lamenting the missed opportunity of appointing Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary ... a dictatorship or a monarchy, but how? Surely school leaders in fascist Germany or communist Albania [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 04:27:00

How "Something For Nothing" Ideas Become Policy

Leaders all over the world are now in an Undeniable Shift to Keynes even though every such attempt in history has failed ... a generation with having to pay off British debt.Jürgen Stark, an executive board member of the European [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 08:49:00

Pertinent Obituary, Dimon Says Worst Not Over, Oil Producers Struggle, The Next Bubble and More!

One company to summarize all of the last 10 years… now on its deathbed Credit crisis survivor predicts “worst… not yet behind us” Oil ... more in the fourth, had a $100 million interest payment due this morning and $4.5 billion in looming debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:40:53

DrumBeat: December 27, 2008

Oil giants are itching to invade Iraq For Iraq the timing couldn’t be better. As reserves dry up around the world and national governments tighten their grip on what is left, the industry is more desperate than ever to get its hands on the Iraqi honey-pot [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 14:00:31

Sensex sheds 3.45% as US bank crisis deepens

Weak global equities and a deepening banking crisis in the United States pulled the domestic bourses lower in choppy trade. Nevertheless, the market cut sharp intraday losses as index heavyweight Reliance Industries (RIL) and IT pivotals recovered from lower level. The BSE 30-share Sensex lost 323.75 points, or 3.45%, off 100 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:32:00

Cameron offers savings tax cut plus clamp on public spending

David Cameron took the side of savers hit by tumbling interest rates yesterday and promised to abolish tax on the savings income of all basic-rate ... , he said, was facing a "catastrophic legacy of debt and disrepair"; he sometimes wanted to shake [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 00:06:23

Opinion: NZ$ the worst currency over past 24 hours

By BNZ Currency Strategist Danica Hampton Once again, the NZD has the dubious honour of being the worst performing currency over the past 24 hours. After climbing to nearly 0.5600 yesterday evening, the NZD/USD has plunged below 0.5400. Escalating fears about the global outlook and weak equities dominated currency markets overnight [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 19:48:44

Is America in Decline?

Paul Kennedy has a piece in today's WSJ, American Power Is on the Wane  that claims that America has begun its decline as a nation and empire ... - Down 43% German DAX - Down 40.4% UK FTSE 100 - Down 31.3% Japan Nikkei - Down 42% Hong Kong ... . Which is astonishing when you consider that the national debt increased (The Debt to the Penny [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 18:08:41

GRECIA DOWNGRADATA...SUL FINANCIAL TIMES SI PARLA DI USCITE DALL'EURO DEI PIGS

ARTICOLO DEL FINANCIAL TIMES DI IERIE SONO IL PESSIMISTA...ci stanno sbattendo fuori un giorno dopo l'altro.... ricordatevelo!!! ... to everyone that there is a price to pay for taking on big levels of debt.”The downgrade of Greece’ ... and Spain, which were put on credit watch by the agency this week, and Ireland, which was put [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:08:00

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS) confirmed they're merging their wealth management units into Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Morgan will pay $2.7B for a 51% stake with the option of taking full control after five years. Citi will book a pre-tax gain of $9.5B, and an after-tax gain of $5.8B [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 12:15:31

Europeans souring on Ukraine, Georgia

Europeans souring on Ukraine, GeorgiaPaul TaylorPaul Taylor, Reuters columnistFeted just a couple of years ago as heroes of democratic revolutions, ... the cut-off of Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine in a dispute over pricing and debt [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 18:18:03

As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia

“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,” ... by the conflict-ridden negotiations over Ukraine’s gas debt. And just to add to the nighmare, Ukrain’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Fake profits shake Satyam. Satyam (SAY) shares are down over 70% in Indian trading after B. Ramalinga Raju, the company's founder and chairman, resigned and admitted over $1B of Satyam's balance sheet as of Sept. 30 was inflated non-existing cash and bank balances [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 12:15:15

Warnings & Advice from a Saint, Part 3

If you wish to read or refresh before reading this, part 3, see: Warnings & Advice from a Saint, Part 1 Warnings & Advice from a Saint, Part 2 Following are some personal comments. Feel free to skip the text in blue to get straight to the “good stuff” from J. Donald Walters [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:00:16

Scrambling for guidance

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?It’s quite a hell out there ... out with its Q3 results. Infosys has reported a consolidated net profit of Rs16.41bn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:00:00

RSSIC Economic Outlook January 2009

The stock market again proved to be an accurate barometer of the economy forecasting the recession that began last year. The decline in the S&P500 beginning in the 4th quarter of 2007 foreshadowed the negative GDP performance for the U.S. economy in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2008 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:41:35

On Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Hegemony and Hate Speech: An official Protest on Pak Tea House’s Editorial Policy

This letter was written to the editor of PTH and my dear friend Raza Rumi. He was kind enough to publish an edited version of this letter.The basic aim of this letter was to highlight the fact that intellectual and progressive history shows that Fascist, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:36:51

Help Jake Understand: Is a Breakup of the Eurozone Likely?

I must admit that I am no expert in the field of International Economics (in fact I do not understand it) ... If the eurozone could find a way to deal with a member country’s national default, that might confirm the euro’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:34:00

The GOLD HAS BEEN STOLEN by neocons: NO METAL BACKED DOLLARS....Weimer fiat dollars...trouble all the way.

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/231208.phpNOTE: CLICK BLOGPOST TITLE ABOVE TO SEE GRAPHICS, CHARTS...Beyond The Tipping Point: Setting the Stage for Weimar?Metamorphosis in 2009/2010London, UK - 23rd December 2008, 02:19 GMT Dear ATCA Open & Philanthropia Friends.. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:14:00

Willem Buiter Argues Against Eurozone Breakup Worries

Predicting the demise, or at least the marginalization of the euro is a popular pastime for some writers ( ... national government.... The relevant passages from Authers’ The Short View follow in full: Greece [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 06:58:57

The Israeli War on the Gaza Strip: “The Birth Pangs of a New Palestine/Middle East”

The Israeli War on the Gaza Strip: “The Birth Pangs of a New Palestine/Middle East”by Mahdi Darius NazemroayaTo truly understand the specific you must understand the general and to master knowledge of the general you must understand the specific.What is taking place in the Palestinian Territories is related to what is taking place across the [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 14:56:29

Shatzmiller J. (1990) “The best Jew in the world”: another look at medieval Jewish usury

Joseph Shatzmiller (1990) Shylock reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society, Berkeley, University of California Press, 250p ... lenders in Marseille. In 1310 alone, they were involved in 14 trials for unpaid loans (about 25 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 02:47:49

DrumBeat: December 29, 2008

Gazprom, Once Mighty, Is Reeling MOSCOW — A year ago, Gazprom, the Russian natural gas monopoly, ... Exxon Mobil and General Electric. Today, Gazprom is deep in debt and negotiating a government bailout [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:06:30

For Those of You Who Like Charts

Well, one good turn deserves another. So if, like Paul Krugman ( ... situation is likely to be a whole cycle of debt defaults, which will certainly spread well beyond Ukraine’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 18:15:23

Mecom Offloads German Newspapers For €152 Million To Ease Debt Pressure

Mecom Offloads German Newspapers For €152 Million To Ease Debt Pressure By Patrick Smith - Tue 13 Jan 2009 02: ... million), in a move designed to ease the the company’s €650 million (£512.2 million) of net debt ... of its debt arrangements at the end of February. The offloaded titles contributed about €20 million (£15.7 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 13:07:51

Daily Market Preview (1/15/09)

1. Foreclosure is 81% more last year Foreclosure filings increased more than 81% last year compared with 2007 and 225% compared with 2006, according to a report from RealtyTrac. More than 861,000 homeowners lost their houses to foreclosure in 2008, and filings surpassed 3.1 million [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 19:16:28

IDC Nordic Directions to show tech providers effective ways to market in 2009

IDC Nordic Directions to show tech providers effective ways to market in 2009 Written by: 0 comments » Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 1:26 pm PT Laura Nurzynski, group vice president of IDC's Global Go-to-Market and Sales Enablement Services, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:26:49

Can we please just stop with all of the bullshit please

“Can we please just stop with all of the bullshit please? ... so they are forced to do something so they can pay off their college loan debt. The bulk of them however [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:16:25

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