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 [...]

The Top 10 Financial Collapses

Posted by Matt in July 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Financial, American Auto, Auction Rate, Auto Companies, Ayn Rand, Bailout, Ben Bernanke, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Credit Default Swaps, Fannie Mae, Fed Chairman, Financial Storm, Freddie Mac, Hank Paulson, Hedge Fund Managers, Hedge Funds, Money Policy, Mortgage Buyers, Quality Gap, Sandy Weill

Losing Lehman
Of all the decisions made by Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the one to let Lehman go under stands as the most pivotal …
AIG’s Credit Default Swaps
What’s a mild-mannered insurance company doing selling exotic derivatives to everyone in sight? Merely setting the stage for a $100 billion bailout by the …
The [...]

The great bailout – Europe’s best-kept secret

Posted by Matt in June 6th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Europe, Financial, Bailout, Baltic State, Best Kept Secret, Centenary Celebrations, Confluence, Credit Crunch, democracy, Devastation, Economic Crises, Europe, European Election, Freedom, German People, Heart, Isaiah Berlin, Jewish Philosopher, Perfect Storm, Secret Germany, Vote

Germany is at the heart of a huge plan to prop up crippled EU economies – not that the German people would ever know
I will not vote in today’s European election. Instead, I am doing something much more interesting and relevant to the future of Europe and Britain. I am travelling to Riga to speak [...]

Current Crisis Shows Uncanny Parallels to Great Depression

Posted by Matt in April 29th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, American Hegemony, Bailout, Capitalism, Consequences, Crash, Current, Donating Sperm, Economic Downturn, Full Coverage, Global Downturn, Great Depression, Photo Gallery, Rise Of Hitler, Spiegel, Uncanny Parallels

Is history repeating itself? The current global downturn has many parallels to the Great Depression. And if the current massive bailout packages fail, the effect on the world’s economies could be similarly drastic. By SPIEGEL Staff more…

Photo Gallery: 2009 and 1929: History Repeating?
SPIEGEL 360: Our Full Coverage of the Global Economic Downturn

Part 2: [...]

Why the Meltdown Should Have Surprised No One

Posted by Matt in March 17th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Auburn Alabama, Audio Visual Equipment, Austrian School, Bailout, Bastions, Bbc, Bbc Tv, Cbc, Cbc Tv, Cnn, Cnn Tv, Consequences, Countless Discussions, Economic Devastation, Exposed, Financial Crisis, Fox, Fox Tv, Global Financial Crisis, Global Strategist, Hard Truths, Keynote Speech, Little Chance, Ludwig Von Mises, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Mainstream Economists, Meltdown, Perceptions, Peter Schiff, Realities, Scholars Conference, Sowing The Seeds, Straight Answers, Tv Channel, Uninterrupted Time, Video Check, Von Mises Institute, Warm Southern Hospitality

Link to video.
Check out this article that I posted in December, 2007: 100% Probability of U.S. Recession in 2008?
More articles on the global financial crisis.
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Russian Oligarchs and their Fight for Survival—An Investigative Report

Posted by Matt in March 16th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Bailout, Boeing Jets, Clansmen, Collapses, External Debts, Extinction, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Investigative Report, Kickback, kremlin, Money Flow, Nationalization, Oil Company, Oleg Deripaska, Oligarchs, President Vladimir Putin, Properties In Spain, Ruble, Russian Oligarchs, Russian Stock Market, Vladimir Putin

Will Russia’s few remaining oligarchs, those who silently submitted to then-President Vladimir Putin’s brutal nationalization of Yukos Oil Company, survive as a privileged clan; or are they doomed to extinction during the world financial crisis? How will they manage to keep buying properties in Spain, Germany, and on the Cote d’Azure, ordering new Boeing jets [...]

Surprises of Globalization

Posted by Matt in March 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, general, Authoritarian Government, Bailout, Culprits, Economic Change, Europeans, Financial Crisis, Food Prices, Foreign Aid, Foreign Policy, Global Financial Crisis, Global Food Fight, Globalization, Gongo, hypocrisy, Ipods, Middle Class, Missing Links, Pandemic, Saudi-Arabia, Seven Long Years, Surprises of Globalization, Trade Talks

Missing Links: An Intellectual Bailout

January/February 2009
We must add another profession to the list of those in need of rescuing—economics itself.

Missing Links: After the Fall

November/December 2008
What the lessons of 9/11 could teach the world about the financial crisis.

Missing Links: The Hypocrisy Audit

September/October 2008
Double standards have always been a part of U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to [...]

The field of economics needs a bailout

Posted by Matt in March 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Bailout, Catastrophe, Economics Profession, Economists, Evolution, Field Of Economics, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Science, Wall Street

We must add another field to the list of those in need of rescuing—economics itself.
The financial crisis has killed the claim that economics deserves to be treated as a science. The measure of a science is its capacity to explain, predict, and prescribe. And most economists not only failed to anticipate the nature and evolution [...]

1913 Intel Brief 2-11-2009

Posted by Matt in February 11th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Brief, 1913 Intel, Bailout, Civic Society, Civil Defense, Defense Spending, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Deficit, Future Years, Military Leaders, Mr Chavez, Mullahs, Nuclear Weapon, Oil Exports, Risk Report, Sans Serif, Style Definitions, Style Name, Theme Font, Times New Roman, Washington Times

Analysis: U.S. can’t afford its military
Washington (UPI) Feb 11, 2009
With the combined cost of the economic stimulus package and the Wall Street bailout now projected by some estimates to top $2 trillion, and the federal deficit spiraling, U.S. officials are fretting that current levels of defense [...]

Popular Rage Grows as Global Crisis Worsens

Posted by Matt in February 10th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Bailout, beijing, Big Crunch, British Trade Unions, Credit Crunch, Economic Downturn, Financial Crisis, Full Coverage, Germany, Global Crisis, Global Economic Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iceland, Organizing, Rage, Spiegel, Strikes, Takeover, Tempers

As the global economic crisis deepens, tempers around the world are getting shorter. French and British trade unions are organizing strikes, Putin is sending troops into the streets and Beijing is trying to buy itself calm. By SPIEGEL Staff more…

The State’s Silent Takeover: Germany’s Big Banking Bailout
The Credit Crunch Lab: Iceland’s Warning to the World
SPIEGEL [...]