Investors Move Onward and Upward
Wall Street Journal
By TOM LAURICELLA Overcoming a pair of major shocks in the first quarter, global financial markets recovered amid growing optimism that the recovery from the financial crisis had become self-sustaining. It wasn't an easy ride, however. ...
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Uncertainty Mounts
American Enterprise Institute
By John H. Makin | AEI Online Hope that the global economy has shaken off the dust of the 2007-2008 financial crisis is giving way to uncertainty as the Arab Spring and disaster in Japan threaten to reverse recovery momentum. ...
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Ireland: a dead cert for default
The Guardian
Ireland seems to me a perfect microcosm of the global crisis of capitalism: ever more frenetic attempts to shore up an economic system based on financial speculation and rampant consumerism. It's broken, and now beyond fixing. ...
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How to Structure an IRA or Retirement Account
Seeking Alpha
I was a state examiner on the financial audit team for a state auditor's office, and, in my opinion, you are buying subprime debt (junk bonds) that is rated AAA to A. This is the subprime and Mortgage Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) problem all ...
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Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and US–China Bilateral Investment
Heritage.org
[1] The sale of public assets was slowed by economic duress from the Asian financial crisis and political criticism in the late 1990s. Shrinking the state sector was replaced by “reform.” This reform has been widely misconstrued. ...
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Learning to live with higher rates
Financial Post
By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent The new quarter is bringing with it a new danger for investors — the withdrawal of the easy money that saw them through the financial crisis. The European Central Bank is widely expected to raise ...
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"The Fed lent freely, but at a low rate, on dodgy collateral"
By Edward Harrison
That is why all of the investment banks have become bank holding companies and that is also why the Federal Reserve has been sued by Bloomberg News to find out just what kind of collateral these companies are using. Jun 2009 (Will banks exiting TARP take back their ... At the height of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve allowed the world's largest banks to turn more than $118 billion in junk bonds, defaulted debt, securities of unknown ratings and stocks into cash. ...
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Black Swan World: Golden Antidotes
“The pace and severity of financial crises has taken an ominous turn for the worse…. With one crisis seemingly begetting another, and the fuse between crises now getting shorter and shorter, the world economy is on a very ..... Consider Fundamental, Economic, Resource and Ecological Realities when developing an Investment Perspective. Consider, for example, that 80 Million Annual World Population Growth is going to create more Demand for Food, but supplies will be ...
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Ireland wants to hit bank creditors, ECB says no | The Daily Blitz ...
By admin_blitz
In stock markets, traders reacted to the stress tests by chasing higher the shares of the two bank survivors, while shares of Ireland's only other publicly listed bank, Irish Life & Permanent, plunged to a record low on news it will ... He contrasted that with U.S. policies that hit bondholders early in its own banking crisis. "The American way of doing things is to have burden sharing and to make creditors share in the pain. The European way is different," Noonan said . ...
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global glass onion: week ending Apr 2
By rjs
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has given no indication the central bank will deviate from its plan to buy bonds through June to spur economic growth and reduce 8.9 percent unemployment. .... The Fed injected a lot of cash into the financial system as it battled the recession and financial crisis. Banks accumulated excess reserves. Too much money in the system can excite inflation. The economic recovery has been speeding up, yet unemployment remains high. ...
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Subprime Bonds Are Back | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
Subprime and other residential mortgage bonds that helped trigger the financial crisis are back in vogue with long-term investors, in the latest sign that American credit markets are healing after the worst downturn in a generation. ... measured by campaign contributions from the mortgage industry and the share of subprime borrowers in a congressional district, influenced US government policy during in the build up to the subprime crisis and subsequent global crisis. ...
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Institute Of International Finance Wins Two Nobel Prizes « The ...
By Simon Johnson
In its citation for the economics prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the IIF won for its work on capital requirements for banks, which proved that requiring banks to fund themselves with positive equity – and .... “Created during the late 1990s, SSG bought distressed assets in the aftermath of Asia's financial crisis and profited in the Enron bankruptcy, one former employee says. A gain on an investment in Accordia Golf, Japan's largest golf course operator ...
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Irish Left Review · Burning the Economy, Not the Bondholders
By Donagh
However, at the beginning of March the Central Bank brought clarity, which considering the opacity with which almost every facet of the banking crisis is mired surprised everyone. .... UK holding back progress on global financial stability, says nef | the new economics foundation. The report, Subverting Safer Finance by think-tank nef (the new economics foundation), reveals that compared with other major financial centres, including the US, the UK is part of the problem ...
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David Apgar: Is That a Horse's Head Under the Sheets or Are You ...
By Yves Smith
Nor is the trend limited to the financial crisis – productivity rose 83% from 1983 to 2007 while median male wages rose just 5%. (Women did better but were in the midst of a huge change in workforce participation. ... folk wisdom so well established that economics graduate students get little credit for building regressions for it. Bankers charge a percentage of the value they transfer – be it the value of an acquisition target, a bond offering, or an investment account . ...
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Gold Antidote to a Black Swan World :: The Market Oracle ...
"The pace and severity of financial crises has taken an ominous turn for the worse.... With one crisis seemingly begetting another, and the fuse between crises now getting shorter and shorter, the world economy is on a very treacherous ... and raising taxes on families earning $250000 simply won't be enough finance it… Much of the $787 Billion stimulus money was squandered on pet projects that created few jobs… The biggest banks received more than $2 trillion in TARP and ...
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BETWEEN THE HEDGES: Friday Watch
By Gary
At the height of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve allowed the world's largest banks to turn more than $118 billion in junk bonds, defaulted debt, securities of unknown ratings and stocks into cash. Collateral of those asset types made up .... Overcoming a pair of major shocks in the first quarter, global financial markets recovered amid growing optimism that the recovery from the financial crisis had become self-sustaining. Report Cites Fannie, Freddie Executive ...
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XE.com - UPDATE 2-South Korea inflation races to 29-month high ...
The figure far exceeded the upper end of the central bank's target band from 2 percent to 4 percent, and was a step up from an annual reading of 4.5 percent in February. Bond futures rose as investors were relieved that inflation came in slightly below the market's ... Asia's fourth-largest economy pulled out of the shock from the 2008 global financial crisis ahead of most others and remains among the key emerging economies leading the world economic recovery. ...
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Crisis-hit Portugal buys time with bond sale | Investing ...
On the same day, President Anibal Cavaco Silva called a snap election for June 5 following the government's resignation earlier this month and warned the next administration faced an unprecedented economic crisis. ...
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Fed Accepted Nearly $1 Billion In Defaulted Debt From Banks As ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The FED and every large financial institution are inextricably linked. These institutions own the shares of the FED. They receive an automatic 6% dividend on their FED shareholdings. Who in their right mind is continuing to believe that the FED nobly ... Who buys it? Me. The banks buy stock and they get a dividend. This is hardly shocking. They have invested their money. WWE does the same thing . You buy wrestling stock, they pay you a lot more than you can get at the FED. ...
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MINING.com News – The Latest Mining News on the Web
By Financial Chronicle
The crisis at Japan's Fukushima electricity plant is the world's worst nuclear incident in 25 years, and still seems far from resolved. Four experts debate the logic of our nuclear fear. THE CONSULTANT BEN HEARD UNTIL recently I was a .... In Montreal, NDP Leader Jack Layton said he wants to eliminate $2 billion in subsidies for the oilsands, and put the money toward clean energy. The idea has been endorsed by federal Finance Department officials, the Organization for ...
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Ukraine: the hunt for corporate credit | beyondbrics | News and ...
By Stefan Wagstyl
How does a little-known Ukrainian company with big ambitions raise money when the country is still strugging with the after-effects of the global financial crisis? By paying a chunky premium, that's how. For Mriya, a farming group with ... `The share placing aside, the company has financed itself in the past largely through its own resources and Ukrainian bank credits. But Andriy Buryak, finance director, told beyondbrics that early last year Mriya decided to switch its ...
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External factors could threaten sovereign funds
Multiple crises from Libya to Japan to the dollar's decline and inflation are putting at risk both economic recovery and future prosperity. International reserves management by the central banks, including the Bank of Thailand, ... Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management, says US Treasuries "have little value" because of the growing US debt burden. He wrote in his monthly investment outlook that the US has unrecorded debt of ...
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