February Economic Report

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Consumer Inflation, Economic Report, Economic Reports, Excess Liquidity, Exporting Companies, Financial Markets, First Moves, Global Economic Growth, Global Recovery, Jiangsu Province, Labour Force, Largesse, Leading Indicator, Minimum Wage, Reaching One, Rmb, Simon Hunt, Skilled Labour, Skilled Workers, World Markets

by Simon Hunt
This will be a shortened version of our usual monthly economic reports, since we have posted several short notes on the economic and financial markets.
This year is likely to be a year of surprises. Global economic growth will disappoint. The intrusion of governments into all matters financial, economic and even personal is a [...]

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A Financial Crisis That Just Keeps Moving – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve, Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Board, Countries In The Euro, Economic Problems, Economy, Euro Zone, Fair Game, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Board, Financial Crisis, Financial Leaders, Greece, Henry M Paulson, Henry M Paulson Jr, Indebted Countries, Investors, Nonsense, Portugal, Subprime Mortgage, Treasury Secretary

YOU know we’re in trouble when we’re told that the economic problems in Greece, Portugal and Spain, the most indebted countries in the euro zone, are likely to remain safely contained in those nations.
After all, we heard the same nonsense in 2007 from United States financial leaders talking about the subprime mortgage mess. Both Ben [...]

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What happens when a collapse is prevented from happening?

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Battle 1, Battleships, Collateral Damage, Contagion, Deadlier Attacks, Global Financial Crisis, Global Investors, Government Bureaucrats, Guerilla War, Hearts And Minds, Innocent Americans, Long Term Capital, Long Term Capital Management, Market Collapse, Martin D Weiss, Sea War, Stable State, System Collapse, System Feedback, Unstable State

In the article below we learn what happens when a system is prevented from collapsing. When the U.S. financial system is prevented from collapsing in 1997, we got the tech market collapse of 2000-2002. When the Fed did everything to mitigate the collapse of the tech market, then we got the housing bust of 2007-2009. [...]

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Chinese slowdown is biggest threat to prosperity, says WEF – Times Online

Posted by Matt in February 7th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Economy, Capital Markets, China, Faces, Future World, Global Commodity, Lead, Mankind, prosperity, S Trading, Sharp, Slowdown, Social Unrest, Trading Partners, Unemployment, World Economic Forum

A sharp slowdown in China is one of the biggest threats to future prosperity, the World Economic Forum said in its latest assessment of the risks that mankind faces.
A slowdown could lead to serious unemployment and social unrest in China and badly hit the country’s trading partners, as well as global commodity and capital markets,…
Chinese [...]

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Debt crisis unsettles European economy – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Europe, Asia, Crises, Debt Crisis, Economic Woes, Euro Debt, Europe, European Economy, Eurozone, Germany, Greece, Latin-America, Neighbor, Parallels, Turmoil, Value Of The Euro

The crisis unfolding in Europe has some parallels to the debt crises that hit Latin America and Asia in the past, particularly in how Greece’s problems have spread so quickly to other countries in the region with similar economic woes.
But there are major differences. Analysts said the healthy, large economies of the “eurozone” — namely, [...]

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A Bubble in Search of a Pin

Posted by Matt in February 6th, 2010 | 1 comment

Published in Economy, Financial, All Sorts, Assets, Bernanke, Biotech Stocks, Breakthrough Technology, Decade, Diseases, Employment Numbers, Genetic Revolution, Greece, Greenspan, Last Time, Medical Breakthroughs, One Of Those Guys, Otb, Pat Cox, Subscription Newsletters, Subscription Price, Technological Marvels, Technology Alert

Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can’t know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should have known, and, at the least, policy makers should no longer be [...]

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Niall Ferguson: The Next Greece? It’s The US!

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Niall Ferguson, general, Allowscriptaccess, Amp, Bailout, Economist, Embed Src, European Countries, Financial Collapse, Greece, Historian, Hl En, Http Www Youtube, inflation, Lt, Niall-Ferguson, Param Name, Safe Haven, Type Application, X Shockwave Flash

Economist and historian Niall Ferguson predicts a French-German bailout of Greece and financial collapse for other European countries. U.S. might seem like a safe haven now, but with rising nominal yields at a time of low inflation and having a very large debt, there is more trouble coming our way.
Niall Ferguson: The Next Greece? It’s [...]

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20 Reasons Why The U.S. Economy Is Dying And Is Simply Not Going To Recover

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Black Hole, Economic Growth, Economy, Nasty, People, prosperity, Recession, Total Meltdown, Truth

Even though the U.S. financial systemnearly experienced a total meltdown in late 2008, the truth is that most Americans simply have no idea what is happening to the U.S. economy. Most people seem to think that the nasty little recession that we have just been through is almost over and that we will be [...]

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Sovereign Debt Issues Threaten Global Economic Rebound

Posted by Matt in February 3rd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Debt Issues, Debts, Economic Rebound, Epoch Times, Financial Crisis, Governments, Liquidity, Public Debt, Sovereign Debt, Sovereign Nations, Stimulus, Teetering On The Edge, World Economic Forum

Some sovereign nations are teetering on the edge of another financial crisis because of debts amassed to pump massive stimulus packages into their economies.
As a result of the increased liquidity, governments increasingly have amassed more public debt, which if continued, will become unsustainable in the long term. The threat of sovereign default, or a government’s [...]

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Fiscal Death Spiral – Council on Foreign Relations

Posted by Matt in February 3rd, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Budget News, Budget Proposal, Bush Tax Cuts, Catastrophe, Congress, Council On Foreign Relations, Death Spiral, Federal Debt, Interest Payments, Next Decade, Treasury, United States, Windfall

To understand the fiscal catastrophe that awaits the United States, consider a single number from Monday’s budget proposal by President Obama: $700 billion. That is the revenue windfall to the Treasury over the next decade if Congress allows the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire, as Obama wants. Yet by 2020 that entire [...]

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