The History of the Honey Trap – By Phillip Knightley | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in March 13th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Espionage, British Banks, Businesspeople, Chinese Effort, Chinese Espionage, Chinese Intelligence, Financial Institutions, Foreign Policy, Honey Trap, Intelligence Services, London Times, Long Term Relationships, Mi5, Page Document, Phillip Knightley, Security Service, Sexual Relationships

MI5 is worried about sex. In a 14-page document distributed last year to hundreds of British banks, businesses, and financial institutions, titled “The Threat from Chinese Espionage,” the famed British security service described a wide-ranging Chinese effort to blackmail Western businesspeople over sexual relationships. The document, as the London Times reported in January, explicitly warns [...]

An Insider’s View of the Real Estate Train Wreck

Posted by Matt in January 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, U.S., Andy Miller, Apartment Communities, Collapse, Commercial Real Estate, CommercialRealEstate, Critical Sector, Critical Topic, Estate Entrepreneur, Faculty Member, Financial Institutions, Financial Intelligence, Individual Investors, Intervie, Investment Strategies, John Mauldin, Latter Category, Office Buildings, Peer Group, Periodic Interviews, Real Estate Bubble, Real Estate Loans, RealEstate, Research Investment, Research Summit, Rousing Success, S Real Estate, Train Wreck

The first time I spoke with real estate entrepreneur Andy Miller was in late 2007, when I asked him to serve on the faculty of a Casey Research Summit. As John Mauldin, a former faculty member himself, knows, we’re very selective with our speakers. And there was no one in the nation I wanted more [...]

Will Hyperinflation Hit America?

Posted by Matt in October 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Ascent, Complexities, Economic History, Economic Systems, Favorite Book, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Fiscal Deficit, Global Financial Crisis, Gold, Governmental Policy, Hyperinflation, inflation, Least Three Times, Liabilities, Mark Ups, Money Managers, Niall-Ferguson, Nine Times, Peter Bernstein, Present Day, Remarkable Book, Underlines, Ups

I have been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as interested in talking with money managers and business people who had experienced the hyperinflation of Argentina and Brazil. How could [...]

Op-Ed Contributors – The Recession Is Over — for Now – NYTimes.com

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

Published in Economy, Financial, Banks, Bernanke, Boom, Bust Cycles, Calamity, Cushions, Diagnosis, Financial Collapse, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Global Financial Crisis, Legislation, Liquid Assets, Nytimes, Recession

Mr. Bernanke commands great respect because of his impressive efforts to head off financial collapse, but his speech was deeply worrisome on the bigger questions: what caused the financial crisis, and how can we prevent another such calamity?
Mr. Bernanke still refuses to acknowledge the Fed’s role in creating financial boom-bust cycles, and therefore his diagnosis [...]

Britain faces summer of rage – police

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

Published in Europe, 1980s, Anger, Economic Crisis, Economic Downturn, Europe, Faces, Financial Institutions, Footsoldiers, guardian, Jobs, Mass Protests, Middle Class, People, Police Officer, Rage, Report Reference, Riots, Second Quarter, Spectre, Summer Of Rage, Violence

Stratfor.Com requested that I remove the report reference on the second quarter forecast. However, here is another source referencing the “Summer of Rage” in Europe.
Middle-class anger at economic crisis could erupt into violence on streets
Police are preparing for a “summer of rage” as victims of the economic downturn take to the streets to demonstrate against [...]

RGE 2009 Global Economic Outlook

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

Published in Economy, Financial, Chile, Credit Crunch, Credit Losses, Economic Consensus, Economic Contraction, Economic Downturn, Excess Capacity, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Full Swing, Global Demand, Global Economic Outlook, Global Economy, Global Financial Crisis, Global Growth, Global Recovery, Great Depression, Leading Indicators, Negative Territory, Policy Responses, Supply Chains, Trade Finance, Trade Volumes

The global economy is in the middle of a synchronized contraction that will push global growth into negative territory in 2009 for the first time in decades. . This will be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and the worst global economic downturn in decades. Global trade volumes face their sharpest contractions of [...]

More carnage is on the way for Britain, warns IMF

Posted by Matt in April 21st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Britain, Economy, Financial, Banks, British Economy, Carnage, Debts, Financial Crisis, Financial Institutions, Global Downturn, Global Financial Crisis, Global Financial Stability, Global Financial Stability Report, International Monetary Fund, Loans, Losses, Red Ink, Three Times, Tide

Banks are only a third of the way through the tortuous process of writing down their toxic debts, the International Monetary Fund warned.
The deepening global downturn and rising defaults will push bank losses on soured loans to an extraordinary £1.9trillion, three times current levels, the Washington-based Fund said in its Global Financial Stability Report.
Including all [...]

7 Reasons Why the Big, Bad Bear Will Return

Posted by Matt in April 8th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Economy, AIG, Amount Of Money, Bad Trades, Bank Bailout, Banking Crisis, Conflicts Of Interest, Credit Bubble, Cronyism, Financial Advisors, Financial Institutions, Financial Muscle, Fiscal Sanity, Global Recession, Goldman Sachs, Great Depression, Housing Market, International Monetary Fund, International Monetary Fund Imf, Jp Morgan, Rat Hole, Slippery Slope

Reason #1: The Banking Crisis Still isn’t Fixed … It’s Getting Worse!
Reason #2: Job Losses are the Worst Since the Great Depression
Reason #3: The Deleveraging of the U.S. Credit Bubble Has Already Begun. And It isn’t Pretty …
Reason #4: Credit Cards are Imploding
Reason #5: It’s Probably WA-A-A-AY Too Soon To Call a Bottom in the [...]

The global economy is at the point of maximum danger

Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2008 | no comment

Published in Economy, Currency System, Doctrines, Financial Institutions, Global Currency, Global Economy, Global Recession, Heart Attack, Imf, Insights, International Monetary Fund, Maximum, Schizophrenia, World Leader

It feels like the summer of 1931. The world’s two biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. The policy doctrines that got us into this mess are bankrupt. No world leader seems able to discern the problem, let alone forge a solution.
The International Monetary Fund has abdicated [...]

Almighty Dolor

Posted by Matt in May 10th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Financial, Baskets, Bet, Brazilian Reais, British Pounds, Canadian Dollars, Currecy Hedging, Denominations, Dolor, Everbank, Financial Institutions, Foreign CDs, Foreign Currency, High Net Worth Individuals, Indian Rupees, Jay Z, Minimum Investment, Mutual Fund, Overstatement, Single Currency, Swedish Currency, Viking Index, World Markets

Hedging the dollar with foreign-currency C.D.’s
Your choices include single-currency C.D.’s — euros, Canadian dollars, British pounds, even Brazilian reais or Indian rupees — or multicurrency C.D.’s bundling predetermined baskets of denominations. For instance, the Viking Index C.D. is made up of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish currency. Other financial institutions offer ways to, in essence, bet [...]