How Greece’s Debt Crisis Affects America – US News and World Report

Posted by Matt in March 11th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Area Exports, Brown Brothers Harriman, Council Of Economic Advisers, Currency, Debt Crisis, Economic Downturns, Economic Report, Financial Crisis, Gaps, Global Head, Greece, Interest Rates, Investment Firm, News World, Recession, S Council, Us News And World Report, White House

If Greece defaults, “it risks exacerbating the economic downturns and could even reignite an acute financial crisis” through higher interest rates, Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, wrote in a report.
A Greek default would hit Americans hard in one major area: exports. According to the Economic Report of [...]

New Market Bubble Is Brewing | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in October 31st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Asian Cities, Australian Markets, Bestselling Author, Case Shiller Index, Cities Real Estate, Crash, Debt Levels, Employment, Gaps, House Prices, Irrational Exuberance, Market Bubble, New Business, Newsweek, Public Debt, Record Highs, Robert Shiller, Turnaround, Yale Professor

Where is Robert Shiller (the bestselling author of Irrational Exuberance) when you need him? In fact, the Yale professor, who accurately foretold the crash of 2001, has just finished tallying the latest Case-Shiller index of top U.S. housing markets, which shows that home prices fell 7.2 percent between December and April, before rising 5 percent [...]

Buying Night Vision, Nuke Gear? Too Easy, Investigators Find

Posted by Matt in June 5th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Military Tech, Body Armor, Chips, Danger Room, Digital Radios, Electronic Sensors, Explosive Devices, Gaps, Government Accountability Office, Investigators, Military Armor, Military Gear, Military Radios, Missile Guidance, Night Vision Goggles, Nuclear Weapons, Nuke, Special Forces

Night vision goggles. Missile guidance chips. Triggered spark gaps used to detonate nuclear weapons. Electronic sensors used in improvised explosive devices. Military-grade body armor. Digital radios employed by U.S. Special Forces. Tags, to let troops identify one another in the dark. That’s just some of the sensitive military gear that investigators from the Government Accountability [...]

When the Mexican Drug Trade Hits the Border

Posted by Matt in April 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Mexico, Cartel, Drug Traffickers, Fred Burton, Gang Involvement, Gangs, Gaps, Interdiction, Latin American, Mexican Cartels, Move Product, Narcotics, Parcels, Retail Distribution, Retail Level, Retail Market, Smuggler, Southern Mexico, Tonnage, Trafficking, Violence In Mexico, Wholesale Shipments

By Fred Burton and Ben West at Stratfor.Com
For several years now, STRATFOR has been closely monitoring the growing violence in Mexico and its links to the drug trade. In December, our cartel report assessed the situation in Mexico, and two weeks ago we looked closely at the networks that control the flow of drugs through [...]

Russia Prepares for Local Wars (and the US)

Posted by Matt in December 25th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, Airfields, Airports, Alma Ata, Anaconda, Belarus, Chinese Borders, Emergency Cases, Gaps, Kabul, kazakhstan, Leonid Ivashov, Map, Military Aircraft, Military Forces, Pentagon, Perimeter, Russia, Strategic Plan, U.S. Surrounds Russia, Ukraine, Vice President

Echoing Makarov’s concern, Leonid Ivashov, Vice President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, stated: “America is actively implementing strategic plan “Anaconda” around Russia. Around the perimeter of our borders, there is a tightening loop of hostile military forces. At present, there are gaps – Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. Regarding Kazakhstan, it seems this matter is [...]