Salon
Mortgage troubles at Citi, defunct investment bank Bear Stearns and elsewhere exposed cracks in the financial system. In late 2007 and throughout 2008, those fissures grew into a full-fledged credit crisis that crippled the global economy. ...
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Why I Recommend Zero Bond Exposure in Your Retirement Portfolio
Seeking Alpha
The credit crisis is not over now, just as it was not over in 1931. When Bernanke announced the implementation of QE2 last November 3rd, the second major round of publicized Fed money printing to buy an additional $600 billion long term Treasury Bonds ...
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Chou Funds Annual Report—Excellent Commentary as Per Usual
GuruFocus.com
In the financial crisis of 2008, when money was tight, many companies faced liquidity issues. When companies need financing or refinancing, they are in a bind and require strong, competent managers who can run the operation while navigating the ...
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Gold & Silver Higher as Eurozone Downgrades
Resource Investor
In its annual outlook reported released today, the New York-based company said that "continuedeconomic problems following the financial crisis which began in 2008 and political issues worldwide" also spurred gold demand. Investors added 33.8 million ...
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Company aims to offer 'green' dividend to investors
Montreal Gazette
The investment world has reached a major inflection point following the financial crisis and severe recession of 2008-2009, Read said. Unemployment is high, investors are less flush than they used to be, governments are carrying huge debt, ...
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Dollar Receives its Clearest Policy Boost in Months
FXstreet.com
Over the past 24 hours we were met with yet another disturbing round of concerning developments that suggest the EU is diving deeper into a financial crisis that will carry dramatic costs to recover from. Perhaps the least surprising development for ...
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Treasury Select Committee hears from George Osborne on the Budget 2011
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)
Ms Leadsom raised concerns that the concentration of SME lending was in the hands of the five biggest banks. Explaining that a consequence of the banking crisis had been a concentration of the industry, Mr Osborne asked the Committee to wait for the ...
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Wall Street Journal: Why the Dollar's Reign Is Near an End ...
By Transition Now
Just as we have learned that in a world of open networks there is room for more than one operating system for personal computers, there is room in the global economic and financial system for more than one international currency. ... with long-term deficit reduction, something about which they have shown more resolve than the U.S. And they will issue “e-bonds”—bonds backed by the full faith and credit of euro-area governments as a group—as a step in solving their crisis. ...
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Developing economies' lead over rivals poses risks - 21 News Now ...
The shakeup in the world's economic order has taken 30 years. The developing world's share ofglobal economic output has risen from 18 percent in 1980 to 26 percent last year, the World Banksays. So growth in emerging markets now has a ... Rich countries continue to lag because of their devastating financial crisis . Their banks are still writing off bad debts. Their governments are saddled with gaping deficits - the result of shrunken tax revenue, the cost of bailing out ...
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1934-1937 vs. 2008-2011: The Striking Similarity
By Michael Lombardi, MBA
When the stock market started falling off the cliff during the credit crisis of 2008, one of the most common questions Michael was asked back then was, “Is this the start of the next depression?” So, what's his answer? ... The money supply was tight in the 1930s; during the 2008-2009 recession, the Fed and the U.S. Treasury made it so easy to access that it bailed out the big banks, Wall Street , and even General Motors. The above is the good news. Now, here's the bad news ...
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USD Under Threat | Live Stock Trading News | Equities, Forex, Gold ...
By Shayne Heffernan
The US faces a lukewarm economic recovery, with heavy toxic financial assets and a high jobless rate. “That may drive the US to take some special means to shift its domestic crisis,” said Yang Bin, an Economist with the Chinese Academy of ... Be extremely careful, investing in securities carries a high degree of risk; you may likely lose some or all of the investment. You must also accept that opinions on stock markets change minute to minute, opinions expressed my change ...
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Banking supervision and corporate governance in the European ...
By Mariah Jen
It steered its way successfully through the financial crisis. The Bank of Russia became a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and of the Financial Stability Board. The European Central Bank, meanwhile, marked the tenth ... Thinking that a specific category of assets – such as senior bank bonds – can be treated in a specific way without immediately affecting all other assets, or that certain banks can be treated in a way that does not impact the whole ...
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Globalisation 4, gold, the dollar, Squanderville and Thriftville ...
By Andrew
It is almost three years since the collapse of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the global financial crisis that followed that I have been speaking publicly and writing about 'A Robust Regulator – A Fundamental Ingredient in a Market Economy '. But, as with anything else, even in France or ...Buffett cried wolf as far back as 2003 when he backed his words with Berkshire Hathaway's moneyby investing for the first time in several currencies other than the US dollar. ...
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Federal Reserve Report: Central Bank's Record $82 Billion "Profit ...
By Martin Hutchinson
And when the U.S. Federal Reserve reported an $82 billion "profit" last week, Money Morning guru Martin Hutchinson said the nation's central bank did essentially the same thing: In today's essay, Hutchinson, a former global merchant banker, ... However, the U.S. central bank does possess one capability that private-sector investment banks lack (or, that investment banks believed that they possessed until the credit-default-swap crisis of a few years ago): The Fed can ...
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The PIIGS "Extend And Pretend" Period Is Winding Down
By Jeff Snider
This was absolutely necessary because, as the thinking goes, any credit restructuring and bondholder losses would lock Greece out of the financial markets. That would be the end of this attempt at crisis avoidance since Greece, ... We find this simple assumption in every single government/central bank plan. There is this implicit assumption that economic growth will return and it will take the burden off of some really tough decisions. .... Stock Quotes · Job Listings ...
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Citigroup Sells 3-Year Senior Notes | FavStocks
By Zacks Research
Business News. Following last week's declaration of reverse stock split and dividend payment reinstatement,Citigroup Inc. (C) sold 3-year senior notes worth $750 million on Tuesday, according to Thomson Reuters. ... Though Citigroup and Bank of America Corp. (BAC), the biggest recipients of the bailout money during the height of the financial crisis, cleared off their dues, they did not announce any dividend increase immediately due to their fundamental weakness compared ...
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Is the Stock Market a Screaming Buy?
But we can see the tumbles snapping into place one by one. Somehow there is a global food crisis. We predict sooner or later there will be a water crisis as well. The elites are beginning to squeeze the fundamental building blocks of survival. ..... The banksters make money during choas so it is a good way to shoreup their balance sheets waiting for the next part of the economic cycle. Anyone that supports a central bank is either a banker or an idiot. ...
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OMG, Greenspan Claims Financial Rent Seeking Promotes Prosperity ...
By Yves Smith
The total market capitalisation of the largest global banks is currently only around $1.2 trillion. Fully internalising the output costs of financial crises would risk putting banks on the same trajectory as the dinosaurs, with the levy ...... QE3 was thought to be necessary to bail out the municipal bondmarket. Wile Coyote may continue his fall once the stock market recognizes the game is over. Everyone seems to think they can get out at the right time. Also the banks ...
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Stingy News Article Link: "Ontario's search for a solar system"
"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 ...
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A Decade of Debt 2008-2017: Implications for growth in the ...
Irish/Ireland Business News, Internationa, Global, World, European Union, Financial Information - Irish Finance and Business Portal - providing Irish, European and global market information including mortgages, pensions, investment , property. ... The authors of 'This Time It's Different: Eight centuries of financial folly; conceit and money,' say the scale of the bank debt buildup in Ireland and Iceland prior to the crisis, is in their view without parallel in the long ...
Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance... - http://www.finfacts.com/irishfinancenews/
The unbelievable truth about Ireland and its banks - BBC - Homepage
By Robert Peston (BBC News)
So some of the guilty parties, namely the wholesale creditors of Ireland's banks - including banksand investors in Germany, France, Spain and the UK - have got away without taking their share of losses. All those losses have fallen on ... The 2008 financial crisis forced them to apply for Euro membership as their currency (Icelandic Krona) is basically worthless. This will allow them to benefit from certain economic benefit in turbulent times (ECB lending etc..) ...
BBC NEWS | Peston's Picks - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/
Bullish forecasts for Dubai on back of Asia growth (AFP) | www ...
By marketmaker
Share prices in the United Arab Emirates were battered again on Wednesday over Dubai's worsening debt woes, as the Gulf country insisted it was coping with the global economic crisis.The main index on the Dubai Financial Market ... On the first trading day after state-owned Dubai World's shock request for a debt repayment extension, shares tumbled on the Dubai and Abu Dhabi stockmarkets as Dubai property dealer Nakheel asked for a trading suspension of its Islamic bonds. ...
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Can bonds survive the Fed's exit? | Gavyn Davies | Insight into ...
By FT writers
Gavyn Davies blogs for the Financial Times on macroeconomics, economic policymaking and thefinancial markets. Gavyn Davies is a macroeconomist who was the head of the global economics department at Goldman Sachs from 1987-2001 and was chairman of the BBC ... When QE ends, the flow of bond purchases will drop to zero, but the stock of bonds held by the Fed will stay broadly the same. Consequently, on this argument, the immediate effect on bond yields will not be large. ...
Money Supply - http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/
This Fed Governor ADMITS the Federal Reserve is Anti-Capitalistic ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
The walls between commercial and investment banks have been demolished, Hoenig argued, and the two functions within banks (NYSE:XLF) are now joined at the hip. In the wake of this crisis, Hoeing said we did the same things we did after previous crises: added ... In the midst of the 2008financial crisis, to prevent the freezing up of the US financial system and possible bank runs, the Fed put in place QE1 – it purchased over a trillion dollars of mortgage and agency debt. ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet - http://wallstcheatsheet.com/
The Greanville Post » FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH: Tax the Super Rich ...
By shorty
Farrell was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley; executive vice president of the Financial News Network; executive vice president of Mercury Entertainment Corp; and associate editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. ... South America and the Rise of the New Left" Dateline: January 22, 2010 03:06 PM [print_link] WATCH THE U.S. MEDIA and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with ...
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Newspaper Briefing, Including RBS Chief warns against over-regulation
In response, on Tuesday yet another tax was introduced to try to cool it: now local companies are being told to pay 6% on international loans and bonds with an average minimum maturity of up to 360 days. .... *Aussie rules bear fruit for banking Former bank Chief points out lack of Australian issues: *Sir Peter Burt said it was “just not true” the financial crisis was created by banks in every country, and emphasised the one big Scottish player to avoid difficulties was ...
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