| Bernanke on the Economy Zacks.com A rising savings rate, while desirable in the long term, slows the rate of economic growth. "Inflation has declined, on balance, since the onset of the financial crisis, reflecting high levels of resource slack and stable longer-term inflation ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Global Imbalances without Tears Project Syndicate If G-20 governments stood back and asked themselves how to channel a much larger share of the imbalances into equity-like instruments, the global financial system that emerged just might be a lot more robust than the crisis-prone system that we have ... See all stories on this topic » |
| An Orgy of Speculation CounterPunch The fundamental problem after a financial crisis is that businesses and households stop spending money, and they remain skittish for years afterward. Consider that new-vehicle sales, which peaked at 17 million in 2005, recovered to only 12 million last ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Japan's Bernanke Hits Out at His Critics in the West Wall Street Journal Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa says he has 'a lot of frustration with simplistic criticism.' Central banks around the world have been experimenting with unorthodox policies as they struggle with the aftermath of the financial crisis. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Inflation is again a concern The Australian As higher interest rates cause the market prices of bonds to fall, many Americans, who had been keen investors in bonds during and after the global financial crisis, are switching from bonds to shares. In my view, investors are right to expect -- or, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Economic Growth and Dividend Expansion Will Lead Banks Higher Seeking Alpha The big US banks are safe, as the government helped them become too big to fail. US banks have clearly had a bad recent history. The financial crisis, recession, and poor housing market have led to losses, higher loan loss provisions, and lower returns ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Desperately crying all the way to the banks Independent Economists such as Sir John have redefined the subject around incentives, and believe those given to bankers after financial-sector deregulation played a large part in the crisis that followed. There were tax advantages in borrowing, so banks doubled ... See all stories on this topic » |
| New Derivative Instrument: Sovereign Credit-Default Swaps (CDSs) Nolan Chart LLC Let's say that the Euro zone does collapse, Greek bonds have defaulted, and your CDSs is now scheduled to pay you Billions. Before counting your haul, consider this: During the Financial Crisis, insurance giant AIG held the lion's share of the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Private sector loan growth hit 19-month high in Kingdom Arab News Bank credit in Saudi Arabia has struggled to recuperate following a downturn subsequent to the onset of the global financial crisis, which slashed loan growth rates to a fifth of what they were. The recovery continues at a moderate pace as banks vet ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Paul van Eeden: Finding Value Amidst Volatility Resource Investor He began his career in the financial and resource sectors as a stockbroker with Rick Rule's Global Resource Investments Ltd. in 1996 and has actively financed mineral exploration companies and analyzed markets ever since. Paul is well known for his ... See all stories on this topic » |
| U.S. Stock Futures Advance on Manufacturing Growth Optimism San Francisco Chronicle "We're getting a refocus back to domestic economic conditions. There are pockets of strength in areas such as manufacturing. That's providing an offset to some of the concern about the Middle East crisis." The S&P 500 rose 3.2 percent in February, ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Tax proposals in the Obama administration's fiscal year 2012 revenue budget Lexology (registration) The balance of this memorandum is divided into seven parts: Part II discusses the financial crisis responsibility fee; Part III discusses provisions relating to corporations; Part IV discusses the international tax provisions; Part V discusses the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Was financial meltdown the result of economic terrorism? « Hot Air By Ed Morrissey The rapid run-up in oil prices made the value of OPEC oil in the ground roughly $137 trillion (based on $125/barrel oil) virtually equal to the value of all other world financial assets, including every share of stock, every bond, every private ... This created a system-wide crisis, caused the collapse of the credit markets, and nearly collapsed the global financial system. The bear raids were perpetrated by naked short selling and manipulation of credit default swaps, ... Hot Air » Top Picks - http://www.hotair.com/headlines/ |
| Infidel Bloggers Alliance By midnight rider While economic analysts and a final report from the federal government's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blame the crash on such economic factors as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision , the Pentagon contractor .... The collapse in September 2008 of Lehman Brothers , the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, was the most significant event in the crash, causing an immediate credit freeze and stock market crash, the report says. ... Infidel Bloggers Alliance - http://ibloga.blogspot.com/ |
| Ben Bernanke's Full Testimony In Front Of The Senate « Finance Blog By Insurance Inflation has declined, on balance, since the onset of the financial crisis, reflecting high levels of resource slack and stable longer-term inflation expectations. Indeed, over the 12 months ending in January, prices for all of the .... See Ben S. Bernanke (2010), “Central Bank Independence, Transparency, and Accountability,” at the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies International Conference, Bank of Japan, Tokyo (May 25), for further discussion and references. ... Finance Blog - http://www.neurosoftware.ro/finance/ |
| Stingy News Article Link: "Why Koch Industries Is Speaking Out" "Looking back into the 1920s, he found that investment-grade bonds went bust with alarming frequency, often in the same year they were rated. On average, he showed, a bank that followed the new rules would end up with a third of its bond ..... Because the step change to higher energy prices played, and continues to play, such a large role in the developed world's financial crisis it's instructive to identify those US states that will struggle for years against the rising ... Stingy Investor - http://www.ndir.com/ |
| 5 Key Forces Driving Global Markets - Money and Markets By Sharon A. Daniels The ongoing sovereign debt crisis and slow growth in Europe … Growing political dissent at the federal AND state level here in the USA … All these forces are making it even more difficult for investors to navigate the financial markets. .... An investment that's as easy to buy as any stock — but could soar in value when longer-term bond prices fall … This could be the ultimate energy play for 2011! With energy prices soaring, this stock could be in the catbird seat with ... Money and Markets - http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/ |
| OMERS Earns 12% in 2010 But Deficit Swells By Leo Kolivakis OMERS is in the midst of working to shift its portfolio away from stocks and bonds towards private market investments, such as private equity, infrastructure and real estate. .... OMERS reported its 2010 financial results on Monday, showing an annual return of 12.01 per cent or $5.4-billion, up from 10.6 per cent or $4.3-billion in 2009. For the first time since the financial crisis, the fund's assets exceeded their 2007 level, and now amount to $53.3-billion. ... Pension Pulse - http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/ |
| Opening Bell: 03.01.11 « Dealbreaker: A Wall Street Tabloid ... By Dealbreaker The Treasury hopes to take back more taxpayer money through an initial public offering of the former General Motors finance arm, which received $17.2 billion during the financial crisis. ... Many of those surveyed in a poll by RBC Capital Markets have become more confident about the effect of a US economic recovery on local tax revenues. Some 27 percent of the 100 municipal bond issuers, bankers and lawyers questioned at a recent conference sponsored by The Bond Buyer ... Dealbreaker - http://dealbreaker.com/ |
| Bernanke On The Economy By Dirk Van Dijk A rising savings rate, while desirable in the long term, slows the rate of economic growth. “Inflation has declined, on balance, since the onset of the financial crisis, reflecting high levels of resource slack and stable longer- term inflation ... The bond market clearly does not see high inflation coming anytime soon. If it did, there would be no way that people would willingly lock up their money for 10 years for less than 3.5%. Ignore the inflation fearmongers . ... DailyMarkets.com - http://www.dailymarkets.com/ |
| Guggenheim's Scott Minerd On The Surprising Winner From The ... By Tyler Durden His conclusion: "After all these dominoes fall, global investors will likely find themselves in a world that looks like this: the Middle East is highly unstable, emerging market economies are slowing, and the crisis in Europe has been .... Against this landscape, the U.S. economy and dollar-denominated financial assets will look increasingly attractive on a relative value basis. By the second half of the year I expect to see a rebound in the dollar, lower bond yields, ... zero hedge - on a long enough... - http://www.zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml |
| Hedge Fund News: Peter Thiel, FrontPoint, Investing In Egypt By Insider Monkey At its peak before the financial crisis in 2008, FrontPoint managed $10 billion. Investing in Egypt After the Revolution (Reuters) Ahmed Fattouh, an Egyptian- American investor and chief executive of hedge fund and private equity firm ... a bank's capital cannot make up any more than 3% of the assets of a hedge fund. In order for JPMorgan to keep its investment in the new unit at $2 billion, then , the firm would have to raise nearly $65 billion from outside investors. ... Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/ |
| Monthly Monetary Indicators – March 2011 | SUSRIS Bank credit in Saudi Arabia has struggled to recuperate following a downturn subsequent to the onset of the global financial crisis, which slashed loan growth rates to a fifth of what they were. The recovery continues at a moderate pace ... SUSRIS - http://www.susris.com/ |
| Ben Bernanke's plan worked; what happens after? | The Associated ... By The Associated Press The move, which began in November, was unorthodox, but the logic was simple: Buying $600 billion in Treasurys would make borrowing cheaper and move investors out of low-yielding bonds into riskier investments like stocks. ... The Japanese central bank also managed to boost prices and spur economic growth through pushing money into financial markets starting in 2001. Bond yields began rising. But the benefits evaporated when the central bank pulled back. ... Examiner RSS - http://washingtonexaminer.com/feeds/all/rss.xml |
| Population Reduction Through Designed Economic Collapse :: The ... Population Reduction Through Designed Economic Collapse :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website. ... Bob Prechter's New Report: The Next Major Disaster Developing for Bond Holders ... might cause immediate solidarity in communities out of sheer necessity to cooperate, which appears to present an opportunity to start over and rebuild at the local level during the period when the centralized control system will be in crisis mode. ... The Market Oracle - http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/ |
| Text: Bernanke Monetary Policy Testimony -1- | ForexLive The most recent economic projections by. Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents, prepared in conjunction with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in late January, are for real GDP to increase 3-1/2 to 4 percent in 2011, ... financial crisis, reflecting high levels of resource slack and stable longer-term inflation expectations. Indeed, over the 12 months ending in. January, prices for all of the goods and services consumed by households ... ForexLive - http://www.forexlive.com/ |
| The big financial lie – How growing income inequality, too big to ... By mybudget360 Wall Street and the investment banks however are guilty of a larger crime by defrauding the wealth of working and middle class Americans. The fact that three years into the crisis and no serious reform has taken place causes us to pause in .... This isn't a chapter from Alice in Wonderland or 1984 but the serious financial reality of today. The stock market rally is based on fumes just like we are to believe that the $5.4 trillion in deposits at FDIC insured banks is ... My Budget 360 - http://www.mybudget360.com/ |
| Buy, Sell or Hold: UAL Confessions of a Macro Contrarian By JackHBarnes Buy, Sell or Hold: The Libya Crisis and Record Oil Prices Will Ground United Continental Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: UAL). By Jack Barnes, Contributing Writer, Money Morning The growing Middle East unrest – and the impact that the turmoil and the resulting ... The Tokyo-based investment bank said Wednesday that the loss of all oil production in Libya and Algeria (a North Africa neighbor that's also experiencing protests) could cause crude prices to skyrocket to $220 a barrel. ... Confessions of a Macro Contrarian - http://jackhbarnes.com/ |
| Jay Taylor Interviewed by the Daily Bell By Jutia Group Introduction: Jay Taylor is editor of J Taylor's Gold, Energy & Technology Stocks newsletter. Throughout his career Mr. Taylor worked as first a commercial and then as an investment banker. Most recently, he worked in the mining and ... Daily Bell: Remind us of the proximate causes of this economic crisis. Jay Taylor: Austrian economics makes it very clear that our problems have been caused by excessive amounts of credit, money that has been created out of nothing and ... Jutia Group - http://jutiagroup.com/ |
| The Flood Of Money Drowns Out The Value « Vince's Economic Blog By vinceseconomicblog Another batch of fiat currency is not going to solve the world's currency crisis , which can only be saved by gold backing. Needless to say, the mainstream media will never talk about this in realistic terms, because the elitists control them . .... The stock market in Dow terms is about 12400 due to trillions of dollars being poured into the economy via the Fed and QE1 and QE2 and via the manipulation of “The President's Working Group on Financial Markets. ... Vince's Economic Blog - http://vinceseconomicblog.wordpress.com/ |
| Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs director, accused of insider ... By Nathaniel Popper Former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta is being accused by regulators of passing along inside information about the bank to a prominent hedge fund manager. Gupta gave up his post on Goldman's board last May after being alerted that... ... The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Gupta gave information to Rajaratnam about Warren Buffett's $5-billion investment in Goldman at the height of the financial crisis, allowing Rajaratnam to make a quick one-day, ... Money & Company - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/ |
| Hong Kong's Under Secretary for Financial Services and the ... Hong Kong is part of China, yet distinct and separate from the financial market of ... in the way it overcame the global financial crisis with remarkable resilience and ... The Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong ... in Hong Kong responsible for maintaining monetary and banking stability . ... money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?... |
| Europe 2020 project bonds - a way to fund infrastructure But the global financial crisis has made it harder for companies to raise the funds ... in line with Europe 2020 – the EU's strategy to boost economic growth and jobs. The Commission would share the risks of the guarantees with the European Investment Bank (EIB). ... EUROPA · EU press room · EU News. 01/03/2011 | Top. ec.europa.eu/news/economy/110301_1_en.htm |
| UPDATE 3-SEC charges ex-Goldman director in insider case - CNBC Thursday Look Ahead: US Economic News Could Trump Europe Woes ... CNBC takes a closer look at the municipal bond crisis and shares ideas on how to ... inside information about the investment bank's results to Galleon Group hedge .... Global Business and Financial News, Stock Quotes, and Market Data and Analysis ... www.cnbc.com/id/41852280 
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