 Examiner.com Jim Rogers Interview on Australia Financial News Network As you can see, the outlook for markets in the West are not good for a recovery from the current spending and debt cycle that governments and central banks are using as policy for economies and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| IMF says expects January talks with Egypt Reuters Because of worsening economic conditions the country may now need as much as $15 billion to stave off a full-blown financial crisis, some economists say. Dozens of protesters have died in clashes with the army, the budget deficit has mushroomed, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Modern Monetary Theory and Austrian Economy CNBC.com Perhaps under some version of the Austrian-optimum financial system—no central bank, gold coin as money, free banking or no fractional reservebanking—we wouldn't tend toward crisis. But that is not the system we have. The MMTers aren't engaged with ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tough economic times ahead Herald Sun Dr Oliver is upbeat the ECB will eventually come up with a formula that meets the markets' approval and be enough to avert a financial crisis. But he says the key to Australia's economy next year will be whether China has a soft or hard landing. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Experts' Top Stock Picks for 2012 Forbes That's the question posed to 10 money managers, market experts and financialjournalists. And their lineup of stocks might surprise you. There are industrial giants, consumer names — even a European bank! Investor and CBS MoneyWatch columnist Dan ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Global banks face rough year ahead Business Spectator Although the US economy is growing, new regulations aimed at curbing the abuses that led to the 2007-2008 financial crisis, and new consumer protection rules, are cutting back business areas that were strong sources of pre-crisis banking profits. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Eurozone crisis: recovery recedes, recession looms Peninsula On-line Growth was higher, recessions were few and far between, and there were nofinancial crises. Governments were able to pursue domestic policy goals without the constant threat from destabilising flows of hot money. Even so, its assessment of the current ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Trading places - wouldn't we like to be doing that now Sydney Morning Herald The past 12 months were supposed to see an acceleration in the recovery from the global financial crisis but have in fact been characterised by a slowdown in activity in the developed and developing parts of the world. Policymakers give the impression ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| KBN review of the year 2011 Huddersfield Examiner THE meltdown in the eurozone was felt by households and businesses across Britain as the nation faced up to what Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King called the most serious financial crisis “since the 1930s, if not ever”. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Reflections From a Year of Tumult Wall Street Journal You can almost hear Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing" playing in the background. In banking, the storm of regulation that has been brewing since the end of thefinancial crisis will unleash its full force in the next few months. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| US Businesses Shop Europe Wall Street Pit By John Mason Dec 27, 2011, 12:16 PM Author's Website “As Europe struggles with its debt crisis, American businesses and financial firms are swooping in amid the distress, making loans and snapping up assets owned by banks there—from the mortgage on a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| The 'black money' problem is bigger than perceived! Equitymaster.com Popularly known as 'black money' laundering, the system of sending out illicit funds to foreign shores has hit developing economies like India the hardest in the past decade. As per the findings of Global Financial Integrity, an agency which promotes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| A New Gold Standard? - OpEd Eurasia Review There is no reason why it should not return globally, and after the currentfinancial/banking crisis may well do so. 5. Is the gold standard really practical in today's age with instant electronic money transfers and the huge numbers offinancial ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Going With The Flow Resource Investor Whereas nearly ten million ounce of the yellow metal flowed into such vehicles in 2010 (307+ tonnes), the tally for 2011 shows only 135 tonnes going into warehouses catering to them (this, according to Canada's Financial Post). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Dollar Replaced by China, Japan –Gold Positive! Gold Seek The central banks of the developed world have had to create new money to fill the holes left by the dropping value of financial assets and try to hold such moneyprinting at those levels or see inflation take off; there will, however, come a time when ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Stocks Little Changed as Consumer Confidence Offsets Europe BusinessWeek Financial shares had the biggest decline in the S&P 500 among 10 industries, dropping 0.2 percent as a group. The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 0.2 percent to 1267.33 at 12:41 pm New York time. It added 5 percent over the previous four days.... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wonkbook: On debt, the conventional wisdom vs. the markets Washington Post (blog) Starting in late 2008, as a response to our financial crisis, the Fed bought government and mortgage securities from banks on a very large scale. Bankreserves at the Fed rose from virtually nothing to more than $1.6 trillion. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bank Of America: An Attractive Play For A Diversified Long-Term Investor Seeking Alpha Book value is a good way to compare banks because most financial assets are marked-to-market or marked-to-model. Here is a comparison of Bank of America to other money center banks: Barclays (BCS), Citigroup (C), JP Morgan (JPM), and Wells Fargo (WFC). ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Rest in pieces: UK prepares for eurozone breakup RT “The banks would of course have problems. If there were to be a major default, if the euro collapsed, of course there would be less money going into those banks, but other financial assets would rise. And if there were to be a breakup of the euro, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011 Huffington Post (blog) Cameron's austerity budget had a shattering effect on the already-struggling Britisheconomy. His government's financial stability was downgraded five times during his first year in power and retail sales had fallen 2.5 percent. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ethan Harris: 2012 Weaker Than 2011 With 3 Major Headwinds: Europe, Tightening ... Seeking Alpha EH: A mild recession in Europe would have a mild impact on the US economy. In our baseline forecast we assume weakness in Europe reduces US growth in 2012 by about half a percent, but if the more dire, full blown financial crisis occurs in Europe it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Liquidity And Asset Bubbles, But Only If The Dam Holds Seeking Alpha They care more about financial protection of their asset. They want the centralbank to establish a floor price, not just to protect their investment but also to insure that the borrowing government's cost of money does not rise above the threshold of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FATCA Fallout: Multinational Banks Respond, Canada Enters Negotiations with ... JD Supra (press release) The old adage of "show me the money" is often wise advice. It's going to be very hard to get FATCA repealed when it's promising so much revenue to a federal government dealing with a severe economic crisis. Additionally, Congress passed this law as a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Three Gorges' acquisition of EDP stake is an injection of capital and ... Macauhub According to Diário de NotÃcias it is now clear that privatisations in the near future will not remain in Portuguese hands and the CTG deal shows that, “the results of Asia's economic and financial ascension on a global scale, have now reached ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| 2012 Macroeconomic Forecast: Expect Continued Stagnation Unless Drastic ... Seeking Alpha Concentrating their efforts on helping the big financial trading houses such as Goldman Sachs (GS) and AIG and naively assuming their resulting prosperity and trading profits will trickle down to the deposit-seeking commercial banks and on to their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Economic pain not felt by members of Congress Honolulu Star-Advertiser Both linked high-level briefings that congressional leaders received on the 2008financial crisis and on health care to their purchase and sale of certain stocks. Members insisted that they never traded on information that was not public, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Outlook for the Economy Morningstar.com The issue isn't so much that a softening in European growth prospects and austerity could kill worldwide economic growth. Instead, the concern is related to the crisis's potential to wreck havoc on the worldwide financial system. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| SR690bn Saudi budget to spur growth Arab News King Abdullah has issued a royal decree that allows the finance minister to allocate money from the surplus of 2011 to pay for housing projects and increase the capital of Public Investment Fund to cover the cost of Haramain Railway that will link the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| City Incomes Sink Across Nation as Property Values Reflect Housing Crisis The Ledger Thomas Fitzpatrick, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland who co-authored a recent study called "Municipal Finance in the Face of Falling Property Values," said many cities will have little choice but to make deep cuts. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Stocks Advance as Crude Oil Rises While Copper, Gold Slump BusinessWeek ... notes to less than 0.2 percent for the first time since Bloomberg began collecting the data in 1990, after International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the world economy is in danger because of Europe'sfinancial crisis. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Farming helps make Midlands 'a world apart' Omaha World-Herald But there are risks ahead for 2012, especially Europe's financial crisis and China's rate of growth. "If the euro goes and there's a banking calamity because of it, all bets are off on commodity prices," Babcock said. Uncertainty over international ... See all stories on this topic » |
| XE.com - UPDATE 1-IMF says expects January talks with Egypt The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it planned to meet with Egyptian authorities to discuss the country's economic problems but added that any funding would have to be based on benchmarks that had broad political support. ... News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters... Because of worsening economic conditions the country may now need as much as $15 billion to stave off a full-blown financial crisis, some economists say. Dozens ... XE Forex News |
| Euro zone IMF loan target in danger as UK ... - Yahoo! Finance Finance: Euro zone ministers agreed on Monday to boost IMF resources by 150 billion euros to ward off the debt crisis and won support for more money from EU... Economic and Financial Committee, looks on during a news conference in Rome ... France hopes banks will use the money to buy euro zone bonds but with... finance.yahoo.com/.../eurozone-pursue-crisis-action-fitch-011.. |
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