Yesterday, the Fed announced that it will continue to keep interest rates low “until late 2014 or until we all get fired, whichever comes first.” The market immediately rallied, as hopeful investors cheered the news that the Fed&nb…
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Year of Dali
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Dec 22, 2011
Year of Dali
By Chan Akya
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”
– Salvador Dali
A realistic assessment of today is required for any assessment of the future. However, in the current hypercharged medi…
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Moody’s Downgrades Top French Banks
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December 9, 2011
Moody’s Downgrades Top French Banks
By LIZ ALDERMAN
PARIS — In another sign of how Europe’s debt crisis is rippling through the banking system, Moody’s Investors Service on Friday downgraded the three largest banks in Fra…
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Which Fiscal Time Bomb Will Explode First – Europe or U.S.?
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With fiscal time bombs ticking in both Europe and the United States, the pertinent question for now seems to be which will explode first. For much of the past few months it looked as if Europe was set to blow. But Angela Merkel’s refusal to suppo…
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German Bund Auction Fails
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German government bonds dropped after the nation missed its maximum sales target at a bund auction by 35 percent, sending the euro lower and 10-year yields higher than comparable U.S. Treasuries.
“This auction is nothing short of a disaster for Germ…
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Iceland Outperforming Euro Area
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Iceland did it right – you have to take over your own banks that went out of control, disallow their debts, throw out and then hunt down the crony politicians that were enabling them, and not least shut out the foreign banks that were involved in the s…
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Italian Debt Threatens Europe’s Savers
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NOVEMBER 11, 2011, 6:41 A.M. ET
Italian Debt Threatens Europe’s Savers .
By HESTER PLUMRIDGE
Italy could deal insurers a lethal blow. Europe’s insurers own an estimated €300 billion (about $408 billion) of Italian sovereign debt—equivalent to a l…
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Europe Might Have Blown Last Chance to End Its Crisis: View
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Europe Might Have Blown Last Chance to End Its Crisis: View
By the Editors Oct 30, 2011 7:00 PM ET 26
After an initial bounce, markets demonstrated a lack of confidence in Europe’s resolve to protect solvent governments from the financial malaise a…
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Rating cut puts Spain back on crisis radar
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Rating cut puts Spain back on crisis radar
On Friday October 14, 2011, 6:18 am EDT
MADRID (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s cut Spain’s credit rating on Friday, sending the euro briefly lower and underlining the challenges facing Europe’s major powers as…
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Cheap Money, Broken Markets and Stupidity
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Would you lend money to Spain, Italy and the US at these ridiculously low levels? The answer is no. The World has during the past years experienced an explosion of sovereign Debt, but yields have been coming off, as a result of Central Bankers buyin…
