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German economy sparks hopes of EU recovery

Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2009

German economy sparks hopes of EU recovery
LUCIA KUBOSOVA

27.07.2009 EU Observer
Fresh data on business sentiment in Germany have sparked hopes that Europe’s biggest economy may be on the path to recovery, while the latest figures from the UK have disappointed market insiders.

The closely watched business climate index by the Munich-based Institute for Economic Research (Ifo) rose to 87.3 points in July on Friday (24 July), improving for the fourth consecutive time after reaching a seven-month high in June. Read the rest of this entry »

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Abandoned USDollar & Paradigm Shift

Posted by smeddum on July 25, 2009

By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com
— Posted Thursday, 23 July 2009 |  Source: GoldSeek.com

A paradigm shift is underway, unrecognized inside the US kettle. Its water level is falling and its temperature is rising, even as fewer foreign born cooks stir its contents. The US banking and political leaders errantly pursue a path toward a return to normalcy, when all pathways have been washed out by powerful storms that to do abate and will worsen. Several key developments point to a new global order taking shape, as the Chinese actively work to plant global seeds that result in the Yuan currency serving more of a role in global trade. They will eventually de-throne the USDollar from its primal perch. The USDollar will be used less in global trade. TheUS$-based assets are being diversified. These developments are gaining traction, power, and publicity. The foreign creditors continue to protect their core US$-denominated reserves, while clearly undermining the US$ on the margin, as alternatives are chosen. To date, the alternative choice is hard assets, commodity supplies, and properties from the resource camp. The paradigm shift will change the face of the United States permanently, but to date few recognize the changing landscape.

CORRECT TIPOFF TO DOLLAR DUMP

Last week, a tipoff came that turned out to be true, shared in last week’s article. A contact source passed word that on Sunday night, Asia would sell the USDollar down in a big way. Four to five large parties were involved. Seemingly small moves in the FOREX cause tremendous disruption, since entire continental economies are involved with price shifts. The US$ index did fall markedly, in a moderate quantum leap down. It fell from the mid-79s to the upper 78s, big in the currency world. The principal agent pushing the buck down was the Euro, which enjoyed a major 120 basis point upleg that has held all this week. The Euro now approaches the 143 level. So the tipoff was true. We await the follow-through, like from short covering by Euro traders who were wrong on bets. If the Euro can push past 143 (it is now 142+), then clear sailing to the 155 mark will be enabled, without any notable resistance.The USDollar index would fall enough to capture global attention. Maybe they would proclaim the advent of a Currency Crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

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World Prepares to Dump the Dollar

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2009

Robert Morley

The Trumpet

21st July, 2009

What do China, India, Brazil, Russia, France and Germany have in common? These countries most often can’t agree on anything. But they are united in one strange—and ominous—way. They blame the United States for wrecking the global economy. And they think the dollar is the wrecking ball.

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Radio: Jim Willie-Pretend and extend tactics

Posted by smeddum on July 21, 2009

http://www.contraryinvestorscafe.com/partners.php?pid=62242

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Obama Helps Banksters Loot American Economy

Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2009

Paul Craig Roberts

Vdare

17th July, 2009

There is no economy left to recover. The US manufacturing economy was lost to offshoring and free trade ideology. It was replaced by a mythical “New Economy.”

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Global Financial And Economic Meltdown And The Need For a Paradigm Shift

Posted by seumasach on July 20, 2009

Global Vision 2000 and the Universal Peace Federation jointly organised, on July 13th, an emergency seminar in a parliamentary Committee room to examine the underlying causes of the financial and economic crisis and the need for a fundamental paradigm shift to restore stability, prosperity, justice and peace.

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Bolivarist Academic Highlights CCD/EM Connection

Posted by smeddum on July 20, 2009

Rosa Luxemburg still saying: Peace means the worldwide revolution of the proletariat!

This article is significant not for its bombast, but for many things , mostly because this is the first academic leftist writer to declare  that  Colony Collapse Disorder  is a result of electrosmog. He is wrong to suggest it is merely a US phenomenon as it is world wide in its range. Japan for instance lost 50% of their bees this year.

VHeadline commentarist, University of Los Andes (ULA) political sciences professor, Dr. Franz J. T. Lee writes:

Sunday 19th July

For those whom the bell is already tolling now in America, it is time to be tactfully and diplomatically crystal clear about the formal logical “contradiction”: violence and peace. Since the military coup in Honduras and its seemingly diplomatic, ‘peaceful’ aftermath, we should be fore-warned of things to come under the Barak Obama ‘Democratic’ administration.

Beyond any doubt, whether we realize it or not, we are currently facing the fleeting moments of emancipatory truth, of fierce coming class struggles, that is, we are living and dying in one of the most virulent and violent epochs of world production, of exploited labor forces, of human history. Read the rest of this entry »

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Imminent Erosion of USDollar Seawall

Posted by smeddum on July 18, 2009

Imminent Erosion of USDollar Seawall
Jim Willie CB July 16, 2009

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The globe is losing patience with leadership and management of the USGovt ship at sea. They simply refuse to offer a credible solution to the primary keynote crack in the hull, falling housing prices and cratered mortgages, each of which work their destructive magic to wreck the banks. The home loan modifications are a farce, a travesty not designed to modify but rather to frame a series of loan forbearances. The motive for not fixing the mortgage mess is mysterious to the masses, but not here. Jackass claims have been consistent, that effective loan modifications would alter the underlying mortgage bonds drastically. The Powerz wanted enough time delay to rework as many mortgage bonds as possible into new securities, thus rendering impossible any legal challenges to the original mortgage package process. Charges of bond fraud still remain. The USDollar is vulnerable here and now, as a new wave of bank losses is imminent from numerous types of mortgages along with some basic types. Let’s see if the grapevine is correct, that the USDollar will begin to see a trashing initiative starting this weekend, out of Asia. They must be impatient beyond description. This autumn is expected to see some rather tumultuous events unfold, as the US financial structures are breaking across most of its ramparts even as loyalty to it is fading like a mist. There will be no return to the US of yesteryear, only a tragic march. Even the venerable Goldman Sachs seems under fire, for alleged NYSE tracking software with the potential for market manipulation. Read the rest of this entry »

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Video: Jon Stewart takes on Goldman Sachs

Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009

http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/07/jon-stewart-takes-on-goldman-sachs.html

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Max Keiser on Goldman Sachs

Posted by smeddum on July 17, 2009

http://blip.tv/file/2365186

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When Will The Recovery Begin? Never.

Posted by smeddum on July 12, 2009

When Will The Recovery Begin? Never.

THURSDAY, JULY 09, 2009

Robert Reich’s Blogspot

The so-called “green shoots” of recovery are turning brown in the scorching summer sun. In fact, the whole debate about when and how a recovery will begin is wrongly framed. On one side are the V-shapers who look back at prior recessions and conclude that the faster an economy drops, the faster it gets back on track. And because this economy fell off a cliff late last fall, they expect it to roar to life early next year. Hence the V shape.

Unfortunately, V-shapers are looking back at the wrong recessions. Focus on those that started with the bursting of a giant speculative bubble and you see slow recoveries. The reason is asset values at bottom are so low that investor confidence returns only gradually. Read the rest of this entry »

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