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The Chinese government had wanted to act as early as 2007 to reduce the economy's overdependence on investment to drive growth. The outbreak of the global financial crisis, however, not only delayed economic reforms but also worsened the structural ...
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Portugal's And Ireland's Bond Yields Soar, But VIX Remains Low
By John J. Xenakis
When the economic news was good, the stock market went up because the news was good. When the economic news was bad, it meant that the Fed would have to lower interest rates again, so it was really good news, and the stock market would ... From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, the real financial crisis has not yet occurred. I've been truly impressed by the ability of governments and central banks to always find a way to avoid dealing with any problem with some ...
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Goldman Gives Blankfein $5.4 Million Cash Bonus - First Since ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
However, Goldman's reputation took a beating during the financial crisis. Considered the leading Wall Street bank, Goldman has usually outdistanced its rivals with its trading and investmentbanking operations. But it was sharply criticized for its ... In 2010, the bank's net income fell 37 percent to $7.71 billion due to sharp declines in its bond trading and investment banking businesses. Revenue slid 13 percent to $39.16 billion. The stock remained flat at about $168. ...
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Money, Financial Stability and Efficiency | PoliEcon
By repec
What is required is that the central bank accommodates the demands of the private sector for fiatmoney. Variations in the price level allow full sharing of aggregate risks. An interbank market allows the sharing of idiosyncratic ... Both the equilibrium interest rate and the equity premium, as well as risk premiums of risky investments are all important quantities in cost-benefit analyses. In the light of the current (2008 -) financial crisis, it is of interest to study ...
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BoJ may revise economic view, mull more easing | The Financial Daily
By admin
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan is expected to revise down its economic assessment next week in the wake of rolling blackouts and the nuclear crisis, sources say, putting it under pressure to ease again to contain the damage from last month's ...
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End the Fed? Herman Cain says not so fast! | The Right Scoop
By The Right Scoop
That in the 2008 collapse the Fed lent more money to international banks than our own. Now we're starting to see rampant inflation and oil is going to get out of control. We can't serve two masters. In fact, I predict $10 a gallon gas, .... I have not clue. BUT anything would be better than what is in place right now. Well, just about anything. Throw out the investors in the fed. Cain saying this is hard to believe. His stock just took a dive as far as I am concerned. ...
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Strategies: Line Dancing With the Markets | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
From copper to stocks, several world markets are dancing with key technical support levels and the way they break could set the tone for investors' fortunes for the rest of the year. Markets dancing in September. ... Discover Safe Investment Strategies for Today's Markets Due to the rapid change inglobal financial markets brought on by the worldwide economic crisis, investors have increasingly been looking for ways to protect their portfolios. We are nearing the end of a ...
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Bailing out Euro countries | The Economic Voice
By Jeff Taylor
Conservative MEP for North East England, Martin Callanan, said “Any steps to force the UK to join in by handing over money through the euro Financial Stability Mechanism should be challenged politically, and if necessary legally as well”. ... The real issue is that a globalised financial sector means that if one bank or country goes down the rest follows like a house of cards or a set of dominoes. Every country, state, local council, and the people in them have borrowed ...
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Magnetar Strikes Again: JP Morgan Negotiating Settlement with SEC ...
By Yves Smith
A Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission document shows the hedge fund Magnetar selected hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of assets that went into a billion dollar Merrill Lynch mortgage securities deal, despite having long asserted ... It might be socially productive in a world where speculators used their own money and absorbed their own losses. In a world of bank counterfeiting enabled by a FRS you can measure social productivity by the economic loss suffered by the ...
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Guest Post: The RJS Aggregator - Government deficits and MMT
By Angry Bear
Introduction: Here's another timely compilation of economic commentary by Rj from the GlobalGlas... ... Let me say at the outset that I sympathize with the goals of Jamie Galbraith and others who would like to see the Fed finance Great Depression-type jobs programs, education, and otherinvestments in human and physical capital. It is what the country needs. ..... Stock Quotes · Job Listings ...
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The Daily Planet, Vol. 42 | PlanetPOV
By Chernynkaya
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. .... It is widely known that the 2008 financial crisis resulted in the vaporization of trillions of dollars in household wealth. But Federal Reserve officials said Thursday thenew report offers a look at exactly how hard the recession hit families, ...
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Bernanke shows his cards to the WSJ (again) | zero hedge
By Bruce Krasting
If you are right, liquidity will become more scarce, the price of money will increase, interest rates will rise, capital will begin to move from stocks to higher-paying fixed income, the dollar will rise, commodities will fall, and precious ..... ZIRP in perpetuity is probably more accurate ZIRP is simply a tacit admission that the banks specifcally and the financial sector in general is insolvent. ZIRP is the cheapest alternative (from the perspective of the banks) to ...
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - European Tribune ...
By European Tribune
Unless there is a major change of direction among global economic and financial officialdom, we are at risk of ending up with a world in which liquidity provision is privatised and insolvency risk forbanks is socialised. This would be the exact opposite of what makes sense: solvency .... Officials at the Reserve resisted naming which lenders made use of the overnight loan facility, because they say that if there's another crisis, the banks "won't seek help when needed." ...
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