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When it comes to getting people’s attention, more and more I read that the story matters. And it’s true ... you that Skype helped my German exchange student friends keep in touch with their friends and family ... after using personal finance blogs to feed her love of reading and keep her credit card debt down [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 05:26:54
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The Transition Declaration of Independence
Here is something rather wonderful that emerged in late 2008 from New Zealand, thanks for Dr. Susan Krundieck (about whom more below). It is an update of the US Declaration of Independence, brought up to date for a generation facing peak oil, climate change and economic contraction, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 08:56:22
25 Hottest Women of Business
For many, the word “businessperson” connotes men in white shirts and stranglehold neckties. That stereotype may have held true in the 1950s, but since then, the appearance factor of the business world has evolved substantially. Take women. Hot women have always populated the business world in some shape or form [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:31:00
DrumBeat: December 16, 2008
Robert Bryce: OPEC Was Right About Oil Prices. Now What? Back in June, I wrote a piece for The American in which I argued that oil prices were being driven higher by the immutable law of supply and demand. Today, with prices plunging to near $40 instead of the $145 level seen in mid-July, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 13:30:26
Premiers to press Harper for infrastructure boost
“We want to get those shovels in the ground sooner rather than later,” Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said. “We don’t want the recession to be over by the time we get infrastructure dollars spent.” Indeed, that would be disastrous. But, hey, money grows on trees, right? Spend away [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 20:12:27
What Is The Level Of Deflation Risk In Germany?
Only one thing is really clear about the Germany economy at the present time, and that is that it is shrinking rapidly. In fact it contracted far more than most analysts and observers expected in the third quarter (although I, for one, was not especially surprised) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 09:13:06
Russell Kirk on Bush I's Iraq war
Last night, I came across a speech I had heard before, of Russell Kirk in 1991 in the waning months of the presidency of George H.W. Bush entitled "Political Errors at the End of the Twentieth Century." It reminded me so much of our current time in the waning days of George W. Bush’s presidency, and war in Iraq, that I had to post it up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 02:11:17
The CFR….Expecting An Obama Regime To CHANGE - Only what the CFR Allow…..Joe Biden and Co Are CFR Guys!!
The Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) And The New World Order- By William Blase For those who may be confused by the controversies surrounding the “New World Order”, a One-World-Government, and American concern over giving the UN more power; those unaware of the issues involved; and those wishing more background, I offer the following [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 12:04:02
Gas: Russia’s Damocles’ sword over Europe
Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | ... Soviet space. Recently, Russia has shut off all its gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine — the latest ... pipelines run through Belarus and Turkey. The cut-off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 02:39:57
Week 2, the second book: The Man in the High Castle
Book: The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick Grade: A- Why: The first fully successful alternative history ... has written a bestselling alternative history in which Germany lost. Fearing German reprisals ... alternative history that follows it owes Philip K. Dick a debt. By coincidence I just finished watching [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 13:33:28
Fiscal Insanity Virus Strikes Canada, Sweden, Italy, IMF
The world health organization has confirmed new cases of the extremely contagious Fiscal Insanity Virus (FIV) that is rapidly spreading the globe. Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is one of the latest victims as evidenced by the headline Flaherty gives banks deadline to lend more [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 22:38:00
New Relationships of Trust and Cooperation Are the Way to Come Out of the Crisis
Analysis of the Crisis News Report (from Financial Times) ... for governments seeking to raise record amounts of debt to stimulate slowing economies. The fate of the first ... an estimated $3,000bn in debt this year, three times more than in 2008. My Comment: We will continue [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 18:53:44
Globalisation..Who…Where…And When…
“One World or None” “Time is Running Out” Globalization Index - Peter Myers, Canberra, Australia, ph. +61 2 62475187 . August 31, 2001; update January 16, 2006. My comments in quoted text are shown {thus}. Write to me (Peter Myers) at myers@cyberone.com.au [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 11:47:46
Observations for Tuesday
WSJ.com reported, “Financial stocks pushed the broader market lower, with Citigroup and Bank of America posting double-digit percentage declines. The Dow industrials fell by 125 points.” While the airwaves were dominated by the Citi/Morgan Stanley news, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 22:15:30
Obama to gay protesters: Rick Warren's my inauguration pastor pick
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center strongly criticized Obama on Thursday for his invitation to Warren to pray with the immense crowd at the opening of ... personal debt, ex-President William J. Clinton has done all right, both for himself and for his Clinton [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 22:32:07
Opinion: NZ$ 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
The marble and fridges have been ordered
“We would expect while demand is certainly much lower today than it was a year ago, ... Economist, B.C. Real Estate Association“Regrettably, the marble and the German fridges ... the power to assume the debt, the city is stuck with the ability to do nothing. Meanwhile, the city [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 03:06:56
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
George Soros: The New Paradigm For Financial Markets
George Soros appeared in an MIT World interview where he spoke candidly for 1 hour and 23 minutes about his “theory of reflexivity” and the New ... of his life — surviving the German occupation of Hungary — “a far from equilibrium situation.” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 16:55:48
Phoenix Coyotes are an Endangered Team
Phoenix Coyotes are an Endangered Team The Desert Dogs of Wayne Gretzky are in danger of going belly up. The Great One's Phoenix Coyotes team is bleeding money like a teetering Wall Street bank. There have been a score of articles that have followed up the Globe & [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 18:32:33
The End of Trade's Golden Age
Put Bernie Madoff on the public payroll! Today, we're going to give the feds some advice. Many will find our advice repulsive ... a bigger problem. And in Spain, people are so desperate for work they're joining the army [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 22:25:25
SUNDAY, Jan. 11, 2009 - D. J. Kahn (Green's songwriting partner in old musicals / "Talk of the Nation" airer / Flier to Omsk)
Relative difficulty: MediumTHEME: "Making History" - An election / inauguration-themed puzzle with a rebus component that includes that state abbreviations of the 28 STATES WON BY BARACK OBAMA / IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (46A: With 90-Across, what the 28 circled squares in this puzzle represent)[ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 01:15:00
Gaza and the Liberal Conscience: Why We Cannot be Confused by History-Farish Noor
span.fullpost {display:inline;} SlmDear brs/sis,For those who missed the opportunity to attend the forum organized jointy by the Bar Council, MSRI and Cakap-cakap Rakyat entitled Not Just Another War: Myth and reality in Occupied Palestine at the Bar Council Auditorium, please read the following articles [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:59:00
Put Bernie Madoff at the Treasury!
Put Bernie Madoff on the public payroll! Today, we're going to give the feds some advice. Many will find our advice repulsive ... it was becoming a bigger problem. And in Spain, people are so desperate for work they're joining the army [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 04:52:06
Deals of the Day: Treasury Bails Out Merrill Lynch Acquisition
Deals of the Day, compiled by Stephen Grocer and Heidi N ... aid to Bank of America to help it close its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Treasury Secretary Paulson had been concerned that without further help the merger wouldn’t close, leaving Merrill adrift [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:29:55
Deals of the Day: Treasury Bails Out Merrill Lynch Acquisition
Deals of the Day, compiled by Stephen Grocer and Heidi N ... aid to Bank of America to help it close its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Treasury Secretary Paulson had been concerned that without further help the merger wouldn’t close, leaving Merrill adrift [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 14:43:53
Mecom sells German newspapers to help reduce debt
Mecom sells German newspapers to help reduce debt Posted by Paul McNally on 13 January 2009 at 08:53 Tags: Media Business, National Newspapers David Montgomery’s European newspaper group, Mecom, has succeeded in finding a buyer for its German titles. M DuMont Schauberg has bought the German business - including [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 08:53:39
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
Russia's gas diplomacy underlines the need for a common EU external energy security policy
Russia's use of gas as a diplomatic weapon by totally and unilaterally interrupting its gas flow to Ukraine has once again proved why we need a ... on which Russia partly turned off the taps [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:57:45
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
Mr Burris’ press conference as the official jr senator
January 13, 2009Roland Burris’ comments upon hearing he will be seated. Selected comments from the transcript ... for more than 30 years, is also owed a debt of gratitude. He also happen to be someone whose [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:55:46
Anti-Capitalism and a Childish Concept of Democracy
If no degree of moral depravity, no degree of economic stupidity, ... German correspondent tell you what we are in for: state-practiced suppression and violence of an extent [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 00:05:08
Mr Burris’ press conference as the official jr senator elect
January 13, 2009Roland Burris’ comments upon hearing he will be seated. Selected comments from the transcript ... for more than 30 years, is also owed a debt of gratitude. He also happen to be someone whose [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:55:46
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
Playstation game restricts gay words
The top ten list also includes green living, the internet, debt and military rights Top legal website predicts gay marriage to be hot topic for 2009 FindLaw, the most-visited legal site [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 11:31:27
ECB Preview: The Debate Over the Rate Cut
Of all the major central banks in the world, the ECB has been one of the least aggressive ... s downgrade of Greece’s sovereign debt rating to A- and rumors that Ireland may seek help from the IMF [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 05:32:30
Goals for 2009
After the whirlwind of a year I had in 2008, I’m looking forward to this new year ... to pay off $8,000 of debt from college. This year, I’d like to pay off and save at least as much. Help [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 04:57:23
Total truth…
Profilename: Alexander James<!–calendar «February 2007»MoTuWeThFrSaSu 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728 –>recently…@Jan 8/09: round-up of a few VERY IMPORTANT Under-Reported Headlines to stay truly informed@Dec 25/08: round-up of a few VERY IMPORTANT Under-Reported Headlines to stay truly informed*Investigating Mumbai [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:06:48
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new global order
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new global order January 09, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter ... who can say what we should do or what we should think,” he said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 06:13:05
1-15-2009 (Thu Morning) Fin. & Econ. Activity
Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, ... more government assistance on top of the $45 billion of U.S. funds that it already received - Bloomberg [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 17:01:45
DrumBeat: December 22, 2008
Pemex Oil Output Falls 6.5% to 2.711 Million Barrels a Day (Bloomberg) ... ' North Sea Still Vital Shell's UK chairman has pledged the oil major's continuing commitment [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 14:01:59
European Monetary Union under pressure
The gap in yields between the benchmark German bunds and the sovereign debt of Spain, Greece, Ireland, ... of some of the euro's members. The gap in yields between the benchmark German bunds and the sovereign debt of Spain [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 12:58:00
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
Cumberland on Currencies; Gartman on Geithner; Kotok postscript on Geithner.
Cumberland on Currencies; Gartman on Geithner; Kotok postscript on Geithner by David Kotok January 14, 2009 David R ... to just four currencies. Most of the $85 trillion of bonded debt in the world is denominated [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 17:30:30
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