First they inflate, then there is a Boom, Then Price InflationThe Market Oracle
So Thursday evening's short-covering panic in the yen forex markets, and the subsequent panicked response by the central banks, wasn't just a low frequency outlier – the equivalent of an 8.9 event on the financial Richter scale. ...
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Flight to safety, sure, but where is it?
Equitymaster.com
The stock of global financial assets is a multiple of global GDP, perhaps 4 times. This stock earns a return from the growth of global GDP. When global investors perceive problems, as after the tsunami in Japan, they fly to safety, usually repatriating ...
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Economic danger signs mountinh
American Thinker (blog)
This resilience has been largely underpinned by the efforts of the central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, to pump unprecedented and massive amounts of money into the financial system. These same institutions are arbitrarily keeping interest at near ...
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Book Review: Epic Recession - How Did It Happen, How Bad will It Get?
truthout
Rasmus cites 2006 statistics that reveal the relative value of global financial assets, as well as the infinite forms those assets assume: he covers cash, stocks, bonds, options, certificates of deposit, commercial paper, money funds, foreign currency, ...
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Enjoying a Low-Volume Levitation
Barron's
Yet it remains telling that—more than two years after the financial crisis peaked, and after a decade of stagnation in world equity markets—the product-development folks are still trying to exploit the tendency of investors to play arcane angles or ...
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NATO's Role, Japan's Scramble, AT&T's Deal
Wall Street Journal
The move comes after the Fed allowed some banks to resume dividends for the first time since the financial crisis. Bank of America was the first lender to acknowledge that it didn't receive approval to raise its dividend. This copy is for your personal ...
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Weekly Review of Events Involving Slovenia, 19-25 March
STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija (subscription)
The measures touch on four fields: promotion of competitiveness and employment, improving the sustainability of public finances and strengthening financial stability. The adoption marks the start of bipartisan consultations that are expected to result ...
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Fed Ponders Actions While Global Economy Reels | International ...
Over the past 11 years the Fed and other central banks have increased money and credit by several devices and in the last three years more aggressively by purchasing bonds and via using swaps. .... They are being covered by the Middle East smokescreen, as are US financial and economic problems; the elitists received a bonus when disaster struck Japan. They all have rolling debt crises and with the exception of Greece and Ireland the rest of the nations say they have no ...
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China's central bank sees European debt crisis threat to global ...
By CBN
Europe's debt crisis is a threat to the global economic recovery and sovereign risks in some countries could still emerge, China's central bank said today. Concerns about European government debt and geopolitical risks may provide support to a “relatively weak” U.S. dollar this year, the People's Bank of China said in an outlook on international financial markets posted on its website today. The central bank's report reflects concerns that European governments may ...
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Could There Really Be a Bernanke Put? :: The Market Oracle ...
Back in 1998, the U.S. stock market had become overbought and was in a normal correction, while Asian markets were plunging due to a currency crisis. When on top of those situations, giant hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management collapsed , ... With that in mind, it was understandable that Japan's central bank, the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve, acted quickly to flood massive amounts of money into the Japanese financial system, in an effort to limit damage to the ...
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Shaw Capital Management Headlines : Shaw Capital Management August ...
Shaw Capital Management Korea: Financial Markets. There was further evidence that the global economic. We provide the information, insight and expertise that you need to make the right investment choices. Shaw Capital Management ... and the situation has been made worse by the latest warning from the Fitch Ratings agency that it may take further massive asset purchases by the European Central Bank to prevent the sovereign debt crisis in the area escalating out of control. ...
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business and Finances: Flight to safety, sure, but where is it?
By business
The stock of global financial assets is a multiple of global GDP, perhaps 4 times. This stock earns a return from the growth of global GDP. When global investors perceive problems, as after the tsunami in Japan, they fly to safety, ... The infrastructure bond issues of IDFC, PFC and others did not get a good response as domestic investors thought the interest rate too low (lower than bank deposit) and the tax benefit, restricted to Rs 20000 investment, not attractive ...
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Icelandic government announces capital account liberalisation ...
By External
The strategy was developed by the Central Bank of Iceland in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance and the Financial Supervisory Authority. Furthermore, consultations were carried out with the International ... government bonds or in Icelandic enterprises for a set period of time. Current owners of legally obtained offshore krona will also be able to channel them into investments in Icelandic enterprises, subject to similar requirements. ...
IceNews - Daily News - http://www.icenews.is/
Buffett Says Avoid Long-Term Bonds Tied to Eroding Dollar | CFOworld
By rharris
The Fed and U.S. Treasury Department have pumped money into the economy since the financial crisis through bank bailouts, government stimulus and near-zero interest rates. Buffett said in an August 2009 op-ed in the New York Times that the government ... Buffett has shunned technology investments in favor of industrial, financial and consumer-goods holdings in his four decades at Berkshire. As of Dec. 31, the company owned about $61.5 billion of stocks, $34.9 billion of ...
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Why You Should be Freaked Out About the Stock Market | zero hedge
By Phoenix Capital Research
I call it The Financial Crisis “Round Two” Survival Kit. And its 17 pages contain a wealth of information about portfolio protection, which investments to own and how to take out Catastrophe Insurance on the stock market (this “ insurance” paid ..... Ben is flooding MENA, Japan with swaps. Afghan warlords want 100% more in protection money. Ben is printing secretly for EU bond bailouts so EU doesn't have to. IMF has run out of money so Ben is giving them a 1 year advance ...
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What If "What Everyone Knows To Be True" Is Wrong?
By Charles Hugh Smith
I am a fan of gold for the simple reason that it won't go to zero--something that cannot be said of purely financial assets. But as a technical observer, I can't help but notice just how lopsided the trade in gold has become. ... if the rebuilding and insurance claims will end up costing $300 billion, a significant chunk of that will come from insurers and re-insurers who will have to liquidate globally distributed assets such as stocks and bonds to raise the cash. ...
oftwominds - http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/
Gold and Money, II | The Moral Liberal
By admin
We have a crisis of a different sort at present, featuring unprecedented levels of public and private debt rather than inflation. In addition, global trade has advanced significantly and worldwide financial markets are tightly linked. Many new financial innovations .... The need for a new global currency may be an opportunity for some enterprising central bank—China's perhaps—or some private firm to establish a new international form of gold-linked money or near-money. ...
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Pension Pulse: Sun Setting on Greece and Eurozone?
By Leo Kolivakis
Meanwhile, European leaders failed to produce the much-anticipated anti-crisis package and delayed until June a final decision on increasing the 27-member bloc's temporary bailout facility, the European Financial Stability Facility. .... and global funds, government organizations, institutional organizations, advisors and vendors, broker dealers & investment banks, documents to pension plan governance, assets and liabilities, links to conferences, geopolitical news , ...
Pension Pulse - http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/
SNOW JOB: THE CIA, COCAINE, AND BILL CLINTON | Omasiali's Blog
By omasiali
Former Mena pilot Terry Reed has testified that large sums of money were being laundered through leading Arkansas banks and bond brokers (a pattern of investment also being examined by a federal investigator just as his researches ... The governor appoints the board and has the right to approve or disapprove every bond issue. There is virtually no limit on the value of bonds that can be issued. One financial advisor described this scenario as a “prescription for abuse”. ...
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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: FDIC "Cash for Keys ...
By noreply@blogger.com (Michael Shedlock)
The five biggest US mortgage servicers were told this week at a private meeting with regulators to consider paying delinquent borrowers up to $21000 each as part of a broader settlement of the foreclosure crisis. People who attended the meeting, ... Banks would pay borrowers who are more than 90 days behind on mortgage payments up to $1000 to seek independent financial advice and up to $20000 in cash as a “fresh start” payment towards living costs in a new home. ...
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State Department Issues Background Note on Syrian Arab Republic
TMC Net
The Bashar al-Asad government started its reform efforts by changing the regulatory environment in the financial sector, including the introduction of private banks and the opening of a stock exchange in March 2009. In 2001, Syria legalized private ...
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Will Financial Problems In Portugal Cause The European Debt Crisis ...
By Michael Snyder
For example, a while back Moody's Investors Service cut Ireland's bond rating by five levels. Up until now Europe has weathered all of this financial instability fairly well, but now huge new financial problems in Portugal threaten to send ... As I discussed in a previous article, people need to start preparing for economic disaster. The entire global financial system is coming apart. The U.S. economy is crumbling, Europe is dealing with an unprecedented debt crisis and ...
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Solution to the U.S. Budget Crisis: Keeping the State's Money in ...
Rather, it is funded by premiums that banks and thrift institutions pay for deposit insurance coverage and from earnings on investments in U.S. Treasury securities.) North Dakota prefers to maintain its financial independence. ... Other states could realize similar benefits, if they were to form banks on the BND model. Paying interest to coupon clippers on state and municipal bonds means sending money out of the state on a one-way trip to Wall Street. ...
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WRAPUP 2-Latin America pressed on rising inflation | Stock Market News
By apons80
to financial instability and weak global economic growth. “That's where one can make pretty big mistakes and delay too much, both on the monetary side, or on the pretty fundamental structural reforms,” he said. ... UPDATE 1-Bank of Canada warns on capital flows, prices; * Carney says commodity boom could last decades * Says a mistake for policymakers to wait out the cycle * Dynamics of prices, capital flows create major risks * Asset bubbles could form if policies. ...
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A Modest Proposal for Ending Debt Limit Gridlock
By Randall Wray
Treasury then either cuts a check or directly credits a recipient's bank account . While our Constitution vests in Congress the power to create money, in practice the Treasury uses our central bank, the Fed, to handle its payments. .... With Levy Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, he is working to publish, or republish, the work of the late financial economist Hyman P. Minsky, and is using Minsky's approach to analyze the current global financial crisis. ...
Credit Writedowns - http://www.creditwritedowns.com/
CHARLIE ENGLE: In Jail For "Mortgage Fraud"
By Henry Blodget
You really, REALLY need to read "The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced American... and Spawned a Global Crisis" to understand just how widespread the doctoring of documents really was. .... homeowners" for this engineered financial collapse and letting these much savvier, timeless predators ("free-market Capitalists!" you insist) off the hook for their much larger role since they own our Congressional whores lock, stock and barrel. ...
Money Game - http://www.businessinsider.com/moneygame
Buffett Cautions Against Buying Long Term USD Bonds | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
Due to the credit crisis the federal reserve is shifting hundreds of billions of dollars from savers to bankers to allow banks to make up for losses they experienced (both in losses on bad loans and huge cash payments made to hundreds ... government bond yields from 2005-2010 by Curious Cat Investing Economics Blog, Creative Commons Attribution, data from the Federal Reserve. Bond yields have dropped even lower over the last 6 months, dramatically so for treasury bonds. ...
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A week to focus on central bank tightening | Gavyn Davies ...
By Gavyn Davies
Gavyn Davies blogs for the Financial Times on macroeconomics, economic policymaking and the financial markets. Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001 and was ... The not-so-grand bargain which was agreed last week does give the EU sufficient firepower to handle more liquidity crises among the troubled peripheral economies, but it has not, to my mind, really solved the sovereign debt problem. ...
Gavyn Davies - http://blogs.ft.com/gavyndavies/
Keeping The State's Money In The State: An Alternative Solution To ...
By dandelionsalad
Rather, it is funded by premiums that banks and thrift institutions pay for deposit insurance coverage and from earnings on investments in U.S. Treasury securities.) North Dakota prefers to maintain its financial independence. 4. BND officials stress that the ... Keeping The State's Money In The State: An Alternative Solution To The Budget Crisis by Ellen Brown (via Dandelion Salad) « The Diary of a Lost Soul, on March 26, 2011 at 4:31 PM said: [...] Keeping The State's ...
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 27 - European ...
By European Tribune
Prospects for investment and economic co-operation were high on the agenda during Putin's visit as well. He confirmed that Russian companies will help Serbia build railroads. Serbian construction workers, meanwhile, will take part in ... Since the early days of the financial crisis in 2008, the European Central Bank, the U.S. Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have all been forced to adopt policies that just a few years ago they would have dismissed as preposterous. ...
European Tribune - http://www.eurotrib.com/
Politics, Economy, Society: The pension debate - part 2
By student SGH
In the case of pension funds this rule has been broken, as many times those who stand up for status quo draw measurable financial benefits from the reform, by having cushy jobs in supervisory boards of PTEs or being in charge of ... The contributions there are not safe, as my savings in stocks, bonds, bank deposits, investment funds are and assertion that transferring money into pension funds under state-owned system increases security of our pensions is a daydream… ...
Politics, Economy, Society - http://student-sgh.blogspot.com/
Pension Pulse: 1999 Or 2008 All Over Again?
By Leo Kolivakis
This doesn't mean that it will continue or that some serious sovereign default can't rock the global financial system again, but it speaks volumes to the amount of liquidity out there ready to soak up any major macro event. .... to Canadian and global funds, government organizations, institutional organizations , advisors and vendors, broker dealers & investment banks, documents to pension plan governance, assets and liabilities, links to conferences, geopolitical news , ...
Pension Pulse - http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/
Marc Faber on FOX Business News 03-24-11 | Marc Faber Blog
By The Admin
I think what we could see in the next few months a rebound of the U.S. Dollar, weakness in asset markets,in equities and also a correction in commodities, and maybe a rebound in U.S. treasury bonds. ... He correctly predicted the collapse in US gaming stocks in 1993; and he foresaw the Asia-Pacific financial crisis of 1997/98 and the resulting global volatility. Dr Doom motto is "Follow the course opposite to custom and you will almost be right" ...
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