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Shadowstats’ John Williams: Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression

Posted by smeddum on December 15, 2009

Shadowstats’ John Williams: Prepare For The Hyperinflationary Great Depression
Submitted by Tyler Durden to ZeroHedge

12/14/2009

John Williams, who runs the popular counter government data manipulation site Shadowstats, has thrown down the gauntlet to deflationists, and in an extensive report concludes that the probability of a hyperinflationary episode in America over the next year has reached critical levels. While the debate between deflationists and (hyper)inflationists has been a long and painful one, numerous events set off in motion by the Bernanke Fed (as a direct legacy of the Greenspan multi-decade period of cheap and boundless credit) may have well cast America as the unwilling protagonist in the sequel of the failed monetary policy economic experiment better known as Zimbabwe. Read the rest of this entry »

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Drug money saved banks in global crisis, claims UN advisor

Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2009

Guardian

13th December, 2009

Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations‘ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.

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Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says

Posted by seumasach on December 12, 2009

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — A record 37.2 million people, or about one out of every eight Americans, received food stamps in September, as the recession drove a surging jobless rate, according to a government report.

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Keiser Report with Steve Keen

Posted by smeddum on December 11, 2009

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Chinese official slams Western banks

Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2009

FT

A senior Chinese official who oversees China’s largest state-owned enterprises has publicly slammed western investment banks for “maliciously” peddling complicated derivative products that caused huge losses for Chinese companies. In Beijing’s strongest criticism on the matter to date, Li Wei, vice director of the state-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, singled out Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in a critical article in the official Communist party newspaper.

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Trickle-Up Economics

Posted by seumasach on December 7, 2009

My choice for article of the year!

Paul Craig Roberts

Global Research

7th December, 2009

Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.”

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U.K. Sovereign Debt: A ‘Fat Tail’ Risk for 2010

Posted by seumasach on December 2, 2009

Seeking Alpha

1st Decmber, 2009

As investors quickly forget about Dubai, and shield their eyes (apparently using now almost limitless US dollars or Japanese yen) from any potential sovereign road bumps ahead [Nov 27, 2009: UK Telegraph – Greece Tests the Limits of Sovereign Debt as it Grinds Toward Slump], Morgan Stanely (MS) Europe is out with an interesting report for 2010 that highlights an interesting “fat tail” risk: the UK becoming the first of the G10 to have a major fiscal crisis as elections lead to a hung parliament.

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The US dollar is slowly dying

Posted by smeddum on December 1, 2009

By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com
Tuesday, 24 November 2009

GoldSeek.com

Not in the last few years have conditions been aligned for a truly explosive upward move in the gold & silver prices. A confluence of factors simply could not be more bullish, promising, and powerful. The psychology has also been raised in awareness on a global basis, as financial centers, media networks, and common folks have coordinated their recognition of the gold bull. They comprehend perhaps two or three of the main factors why gold is rising, out my stated list in a recent article “13 Reasons For a Major Gold Breakout” in September (CLICK HERE). The trio of fundamentals, psychology, and technical chart constitute the trifecta that will push gold & silver to extreme heights, and crush the silly shorts with their myopic half-baked tactics that are certain to make them roadkill, then someone else’s lunch. The factors overlooked by most for the precious metals breakout run pertain to the broken monetary system, the Paradigm Shift away from the USDollar on both financial reserves management and commercial trade settlement, failure of the central bank franchise system, recognition of a criminal syndicate in charge of USGovt financial operations, the Black Hole of severe endless losses by firms taken under the USGovt aegis (AIG, Fannie Mae, and Wall Street firms), the hemorrhage of USGovt deficits, and lastly the dishonor of financial contract law, chronic lapses in financial market integrity, and constant intervention in those financial markets. Read the rest of this entry »

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What Happens to Citybank’s $8 Bullion Loan to Dubai?

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2009

Washington’s Blog

29th November, 2009

On Friday, I provided some specifics about who had loaned Dubai money, and the potential fallout from Dubai’s debt crisis.

But I just found another interesting tidbit.

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It may be two minutes to midnight at the oasis

Posted by seumasach on November 29, 2009

Terry Keenan

NYPost

29th November, 2009

 

It’s a fair bet that few around the Thanksgiving dinner table talked much about Dubai last week, even as that Emirate quietly rocked world financial markets with the surprise prospect of the biggest government debt default since Argentina’s back in 2001.

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Dubai’s $59 billion default sends tremor through global financial system

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2009

Alex Messenger

WSWS

28th November, 2009

 

Dubai’s announcement on Wednesday that it would be delaying by “at least” six months the maturity date of $59 billion in bonds issued by the city-state’s largest state-owned company, Dubai World, has sent global shares tumbling. The market reaction to Dubai’s massive debt default is partly explained by the exposure of European and Asian banks to DP World and its tourism subsidiary, Nakheel.

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