On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in February 18th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Financial, AIG, Bear Stearns, Brink, Collapse, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac, Financial Crisis, Freddie Mac, Global Financial System, Great Depression, Henry M Paulson, Henry M Paulson Jr, Henry Paulson, Lehman Brothers, Mayhem, Modern Memory, Newsweek, Rationale, Tenure, Treasury Secretary

Henry Paulson’s tenure from July 2006 to January 2009 was the most volatile and demanding of any Treasury secretary in modern memory. Under his watch, the government faced the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression. He presided over the bailouts of Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, yet allowed Lehman Brothers to [...]

Gary Shapiro: U.S. And China on the Brink of a Trade War – CNBC

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Trade, Brink, China Trade, Cnbc, Gary Shapiro, Global Proportions, Global Trade, Obama, Personal Level, Trade War

But brewing behind the scenes is another economic battle of global proportions, one that also impacts each American on a personal level but has received comparatively little attention from the Obama administration – U.S.-China global trade relations.
Gary Shapiro: U.S. And China on the Brink of a Trade War – CNBC

10 Looming Geopolitical Disasters

Posted by Matt in December 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Geopolitical, Argentina, Brazil, Brink, China, Credit Rating, Disasters, Global Intelligence, Greece, India, Intelligence Company, Iran, Israel, Nuclear Program, Oil Supply, Pakistan, Pakistan India, Peter Zeihan, Pipes, Russia, Strategic Analysis, Ukraine, Vp

Israel Attacks Iran
Risk: Trouble in Iran means disrupted oil supply, and the volatile country is again on the brink.
Peter Zeihan, VP of Strategic Analysis at Stratfor, a global intelligence company, says Iran’s nuclear program has “reached the point Israel feels it has to stop.” That’s serious.
10 Looming Geopolitical Disasters
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Is Britain on the brink of financial armageddon? | Mail Online

Posted by Matt in November 28th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Britain, Armageddon, Bankruptcy, Brink, Faces, Financial Mail, Investments, Reason

He’s one of our top entrepreneurs who recently put all his investments into cash. The reason: He believes Britain faces bankruptcy. You may disagree with his bleak analysis but you can’t afford NOT to read it
Is Britain on the brink of financial armageddon? | Mail Online

Tehran on the Brink of Procuring S-300 Missiles – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in October 22nd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Advance Payments, Ahead, Brink, Commercial Contract, Government Source, Interfax News Agency, Iran, Israeli Objections, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, Missiles, Political Circumstances, Russia, S 300, tehran

The Russian-Iranian deal on advanced S-300 long-range anti-aircraft missiles may go ahead despite U.S. and Israeli objections. This week the Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed government source confirming that the deal to sell Iran S-300 missiles had been “frozen” for several years, but Russia will not unilaterally legally invalidate it. According to the source, [...]

Gaffney: Iran on Brink of Having Nuclear Bomb, Using It

Posted by Matt in September 29th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Iran, Brink, Eastern Europe, Frank Gaffney, Iran Nuclear, Last Days, Missile Defense Shield, Mistake, National Security, Newsmax, Nuclear Bomb, Nuclear Weapons, Obama, Security Expert, Unprecedented Destruction

Leading national security expert Frank Gaffney tells Newsmax we could be in the “last days” before Iran obtains nuclear weapons — and he warns that, if it does, it absolutely will use them.
Iran’s weapons program is designed for “unprecedented” destruction, said Gaffney, who described the Obama administration’s decision to scrap the missile defense shield in [...]

Inside Burma’s War – TIME

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

Published in Asia, Conflict, Army, Autonomy, Brink, Burma, Civil War, Country Population, Decades, Dictatorship, Ethnic Minorities, Freedoms, Frontier, Junta, Military Regime, Militias, Patchwork, Political Groups, Relationship, Uneasy Peace, Uprisings, War Time

Two decades after Burma’s army dictatorship reached an uneasy peace with a patchwork of ethnic militias, the country is again poised on the brink of civil war. The junta has long maintained a tense relationship with the up to 40% of the country’s population that is composed of ethnic minorities. When Burma won independence from [...]

Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb? – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in August 13th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Accusations, Brink, Brutal Crackdown, Computer Model, confessions, game-theory, Iran, Nuclear Bomb, Nytimes, Portents, Protesters, Subterfuge

What does 118 mean? It means that Iran won’t make a nuclear bomb. By early 2010, according to the forecast, Iran will be at the brink of developing one, but then it will stop and go no further. If this computer model is right, all the dire portents we’ve seen in recent months — the [...]

Loan Crisis Looming in Eastern Europe?

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Asia Crisis, Banking Crisis, Brink, Central And Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Currency Reserves, Eastern Europe, Ebrd, Economists, Emerging Europe, European Bank For Reconstruction And Development, Fallout 2, Financial Crisis, Forbes, Foreign Currency, Global Financial Crisis, guardian, Neighbors, Npls, Peg, Reconstruction, Risk Loans, Western Banks

Some €180 billion in loans are ‘at risk’ in Central and Eastern Europe. If they went bad, could Western banks afford it? Should the West intervene now?
Nobody knows just how fast these “at-risk” loans are turning into NPLs, just that they are. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which warned of a potential [...]