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Euro area official sector exposures to Greece in excess of EUR 290bn Total; EUR 84bn Germany, EUR 63bn France, EUR 55bn Italy, EUR 37bn Spain
Via email I received an interesting set of facts
Via email I received an interesting set of facts[Continue]
We Are Watching The Greek Banking System Die Right In Front Of Our Eyes
Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an
Money is being pulled out of Greek banks at an[Continue]
Nationalized Spanish Bank Plummets On News Of Bank Run
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2012 07:21
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2012 07:21[Continue]
The Housing Fall Isn’t Over
By A. Gary Shilling Don’t buy your first
By A. Gary Shilling Don’t buy your first[Continue]
The wrecking ball of hidden inflation and Fed based strategies – food inflation far outpacing overall inflation and eating away at the purchasing power of 46,000,000 Americans on food stamps.
Posted by mybudget360 The Federal Reserve has
Posted by mybudget360 The Federal Reserve has[Continue]
A Defense of the Morg
Man-o man did the Morg screw up! Let me count
Man-o man did the Morg screw up! Let me count[Continue]
The 2 Billion Dollar Loss By JP Morgan Is Just A Preview Of The Coming Collapse Of The Derivatives Market
When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading
When news broke of a 2 billion dollar trading[Continue]
Gay Marriage – It May Destroy Western Civilization, But It Sure is a Wonderful Fundraiser
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN It started with lesbian
by ALEXANDER COCKBURN It started with lesbian[Continue]
An Ex-LTCM Trader Will Be Overseeing $70 Trillion In Derivatives
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/14/2012 09:53
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/14/2012 09:53[Continue]
Long and the Short of JPMorgan
Submitted by rcwhalen on 05/11/2012 06:43 -0400
Submitted by rcwhalen on 05/11/2012 06:43 -0400[Continue]
Europe: Big Problems Remain For Markets
May 11, 2012 In December 2011, the European
May 11, 2012 In December 2011, the European[Continue]
Germany unmoved by anti-austerity votes in Europe
By Noah Barkin and Stephen Brown
By Noah Barkin and Stephen Brown[Continue]
Frightening Revelations About Where Our Food Comes From
Ashley Lutz | May 7, 2012, 1:28
Ashley Lutz | May 7, 2012, 1:28[Continue]
The Empire vs. Iran (and Syria): A New World War for a New World Order?
BY JOONEED KHAN Confronted with a
BY JOONEED KHAN Confronted with a[Continue]
The chicanery between the Fed and ECB – twin balance sheets near peak levels and many European nations back in recession. Methods of understating US unemployment rates.
The Fed and ECB (European Central Bank) have
The Fed and ECB (European Central Bank) have[Continue]
DANGER ALERT: Penson Clearing House May be Going Down
MF Global 2.0 May Be Unfolding Now Posted by Ann
MF Global 2.0 May Be Unfolding Now Posted by Ann[Continue]
The Inflation’s In The Poverty
The United States Department of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture[Continue]
The designer baby factory: Eggs from beautiful Eastern Europeans, sperm from wealthy Westerners and embryos implanted in desperate women
By DAVID JONES PUBLISHED: 16:12 EST, 4 May
By DAVID JONES PUBLISHED: 16:12 EST, 4 May[Continue]
There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs
The unemployment crisis in America is much worse
The unemployment crisis in America is much worse[Continue]
ART CASHIN: Here Are The 2 Things That Should Scare The Crap Out Of Everybody
Eric Platt | May 4, 2012, 10:01
Eric Platt | May 4, 2012, 10:01[Continue]
- Celebrating our “Warrior President”
- The Two Scariest Charts From Today’s NFP Report, Or The Real “New Part-Time Normal”
- Comments from Brazil on Brazil and China: Nonperforming Loans Soar, Recession in Brazil Arrived, China will Follow
- Spotlight Australia: Collapse in Service Sector; Unrelenting Discount Wars; Catastrophic Decline in Profits; Stranded Merchandise in Warehouses
- Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson caught padding his resume
- Dallas Fed Proposes Ending “Too Big To Fail”, Urges Removal of Failed CEOs, Breakup of Banks
- Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike
- Russia threatens ‘pre-emptive force’, raises ante on US missile plan
- No place like home: Cave in the Utah desert where man who has given up money lives
- 95 Percent Of The Jobs Lost During The Recession Were Middle Class Jobs
- Russia prepares for a US-Israeli military strike against Iran
- These 10 Companies Control Enormous Number Of Consumer Brands
- Economic Nostradamus: We Are Literally Witnessing a Collapse
- As the Mutiny Spreads, It’s Clear: Europeans Have Had Enough!
- US Companies Are Furiously Creating Jobs… Abroad
- Depression in Spain: Unemployment Rate Up .5 Percentage Points to 23.6%; Expect Much Higher Rates Later This Year; When is the Breaking Point?
- The Family Farm Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America
- 5 New Lies That The Federal Reserve Is Telling The American People
- Chart Of The Day: Change In Q1 American Debt And GDP
- NOTIONAL AMOUNT OF DERIVATIVE CONTRACTS
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Gold Welcomes Its New CTRL+Ping Overlords
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/17/2012 10:23 -0400 After days and weeks and months of pounding, gold reacted like a stung dog, soaring over $20 upon the realization that following the Philly Fed [Continue]
Doug Wead: Ron Paul is not OUT! He is UP! 5-14-12
MAY 15, 2012 “We are absolutely not dropping out of this race! We are focusing our efforts squarely on winning delegates and party leadership positions at state conventions.” - Jesse [Continue]
Waving the White Flag
Waving the White Flag By John Mauldin Waving the White Flag Viva Los Rescates Financieros de los Bancos Contagion is Real It Doesn’t End With Spain New York, Atlanta, and Philadelphia A common [Continue]
Euro zone turmoil boosts London property stampede
By Tom Bill LONDON (Reuters) – Worsening financial and political turmoil in southern Europe caused a surge of interest in London property last month with buyers from Greece and Spain showing [Continue]
Spanish and Italian Bond Yields Increase
by CalculatedRisk on 5/14/2012 08:54:00 AM From the WSJ: Global Stocks Hit by Greece Worries Worries about what a Greek exit would mean for other euro-zone nations with hefty deficits pushed [Continue]
Credit Vs Equity: Spot The Odd One Out
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/11/2012 10:50 -0400 When it comes to question of “who is right” in the market, the debate usually ends with credit (investment grade) or equity (and its [Continue]
The Man With Messianic Tendencies
A Putsch Against War by URI AVNERY GENERALS AND secret police chiefs get together for an attack on the politicians. In some countries, they arrest the president, occupy government offices and TV [Continue]
Ron Paul backers dominate Iowa GOP nominees for national convention
MAY 6, 2012 By Jennifer Jacobs The majority of Iowans on the list to go to Tampa for the GOP national convention could be aligned with Ron Paul, a presidential candidate who represents a movement [Continue]
“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant
Posted by Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio, Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable sources told him the U.S. Department of [Continue]
Forget the “if”… it’s just a matter of when.
A version of this article originally appeared on our US site, Fool.com. Forget the talk of “if Spain defaults”. It’s just a matter of time now until the world’s [Continue]
More Than Half Of Retailers Miss April Sales Estimates
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/03/2012 09:42 -0400 This is not the way to start a new GDP quarter in which consumer expenditures are supposed to pick up following a weak Q1 GDP driven higher by [Continue]
U.S. Officials Continue To Shift Focus To “Homegrown Extremists”
Thursday, 03 May 2012 00:57 Madison Ruppert This article was written by Madison Ruppert and originally published at The Intel Hub Last year I broke down a report from the Homeland Security [Continue]
Fed Watch: Bernanke’s Shift
Tim Duy: Bernanke’s Shift, by Tim Duy: There has been a fierce counterattack to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s assertion that he is indeed the same Professor Bernanke that [Continue]
Austerity Around the World
By Bill Bonner 04/24/12 Baltimore, Maryland – When things are going well, people vote for the status quo. When they aren’t going so well, they move farther out on the political spectrum. [Continue]
53 Percent Of All Young College Graduates In America Are Either Unemployed Or Underemployed
If you are in college right now, you will most likely either be unemployed or working a job that only requires a high school degree when you graduate. The truth is that the U.S. economy [Continue]
Apple Angst As Expectations Remain Extreme
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/24/2012 08:56 -0400 Apple Apple is down 1.5% pre-market and comfortably back below its 50DMA on a top-line (and notably activations) miss from AT&T among other [Continue]
European Splintering Escalates: Dutch Government Falls; Slovakia Government Collapsed in March; Czech Government Collapse Coming Right Up
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Think The US Student Loan Bubble Is Bad? You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/23/2012 12:36 -0400 By now virtually everyone has seen some combination of the two charts, showing the magnitude of the student loan bubble, a topic which even [Continue]
How The Fed Could Blow Everyone’s Mind This Week
Joe Weisenthal | Apr. 23, 2012, 9:16 AM | 2,629 | 10 The strongly held consensus is that the Fed won’t announce any policy changes at its meeting this week (which wraps up Wednesday). Instead, [Continue]
MF Global Roundup: the [so-far] Great Escape of “Teflon Don” Corzine; Bankruptcy Shenanigans Exposed; the “F” Word Revisited
Submitted by EB on 04/23/2012 09:25 -0400 Submitted by EconomicPolicyJournal.com Ahead of Tuesday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing on MF Global, we present the April 20 installment [Continue]
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McCulley: Monetary and Fiscal policy must be “irresponsible” in a liquidity trap
by CalculatedRisk on 4/01/2012 09:45:00 AM I’ve been reading former PIMCO managing director Paul McCulley for years (great insights). The following piece discusses the current liquidity trap and the failure of austerity in Europe: “Fiscal austerity does not work in a liquidity trap and makes as much sense as putting an anorexic on a diet.” From Paul McCulley [Continue]- World Renown Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease
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