Cautionary Tales

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• WSJ ~ Requiem for the Dollar

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Requiem for the Dollar By JAMES GRANT Illustration by WSJ; iStockphoto (3) Ben S. Bernanke doesnt know how lucky he is. Tongue-lashings from Bernie Sanders, the populist senator from Vermont, are one thing. The hangmans noose is another. Section 19 of this countrys founding monetary legislation, the Coinage Act ...
  6 hours ago

• No We Haven’t Forgotten

  
  hazel8500 — Authority: 112
  I was sent an Op Ed Piece written by Stevie Cameron this morning. (Thanks Wayne!) We’re about to mark yet another  National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.Stevie Asks, “Have we forgotten the dead?”It’s an excellent article, as per usual for Ms. Cameron.  However it was the public ...
  4 days ago

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  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Gold Desafio: Global Struggle by Jim Willie, CB. Editor, Hat Trick Letter The gold market has become, despite little recognition by the financial press, the battlefield for global control of the financial world. To the winner go the spoils and access to the helm. To the winner goes control of global banking, ...
  5 days ago

• Liquidity vs. Solvency: Interview with Bob Eisenbeis and David Kotok

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  The current issue of Institutional Risk Analytics features an interview with Bob and David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors. To me it is a must read, literally packed with insightful analysis about the dismal situation as concerns our fiscal and monetary affairs. In essence, “the wounded banking sector of the US is ...
  1 week ago

• Busted Palm Online Service Reminds Us Again to Backup, Backup, Backup

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 167
  Warning : file_get_contents(http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=0J51E5EDX3J5QE6XHDG2&AssociateTag=selloffmusic-20&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=All&ResponseGroup=Small,Images&Keywords=News) [ function.file-get-contents ]: failed to open stream: HTTP ...
  1 week ago

• Busted Palm Online Service Reminds Us Again to Backup, Backup, Backup

  
  The iPhone Blog — Authority: 674
  Palm recently had a problem with online profiles , and following on the infamous Sidekick failure , it becomes yet another cautionary tale and reminder for us all — backup, backup, backup. That’s right, the process so nice vitally important we repeated it thrice. Data doesn’t exist if it it isn’t in at ...
  1 week ago

• The wisdom of Calvin J Bear

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  a bit of a second coming for Gold and aussie nous and cred, imo. The Second Coming TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence ...
  1 week ago

• IMF warns second bailout would threaten democracy

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  The public will not bail out the financial services sector for a second time if another global crisis blows up in four or five years time, the managing-director of the International Monetary Fund warned this morning. Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the CBI annual conference of business leaders that another huge call on ...
  1 week ago

• Cautionary Tales

  
  Southern Fried Chicas — Authority: 462
  Hi, my name is Melissa Blue and I’m obsessive. Last year, during NaNo, it worked to my advantage. I wrote 50,000 words in 16 days. I waited another week and picked up my winner certificate. I gloated and preened.Ok. Not exactly in that order. First my brains leaked out of my ears. I slept for [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Banks drift toward being part of the problem and not the solution

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Repudiating the architects of the faux boom is a necessary but not sufficient condition for world economic recovery. From Liberal Krugman, "Government officials, perhaps influenced by spending too much time with bankers, forgot that if you want to govern effectively you have retain the trust of the people. And by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jean Bedard

  
  hazel8500 — Authority: 112
  http://m.standard-freeholder.com/article.aspx?a=2177254< Go Back Article ID: 2177254Search for missing persons expandsPosted 8 hours agoJean Bédard used to broadcast on the radio to people, now hes trying to find them through the Internet, pamphlets and, hopefully, on television.Bédard, whos created two French ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Reason to Buy (More) Gold

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Another Reason to Buy (More) Gold By Chris Mayer Gaithersburg, Maryland The age of de-leveraging is upon us. Bad news for the US economy; good news for gold. For the past 60 years, corporate debt has grown faster than the economy - 4.1% annually for debt, compared with only 2.7% for the economy as a whole. In short, ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Cash Paychecks and Irritate People

  
  http://unprofessionalfoul.com/ — Authority: 591
  A familiar pose Manchester City’s rapid rise from a mid-table, blue-collar existence to a richer, shallower big spender has been quite fun to watch. I still remember the days when grunts like Steve Lomas, Ian Bishop and Kevin Horlock trolled around the midfield, snapping legs and stupefying the masses clad in sky ...
  3 weeks ago

• Financial mess isnt even the end of the beginning.. Halligan

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  This blogger prefers Liam Halligan to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, any day.... So terrible was Gordon Browns economic stewardship during his decade as Chancellor from 1997, and so huge has been his "fiscal stimulus" since, that the UK now has the biggest structural deficit of any major country. Britain faces a 2009/10 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gold suppression is public policy and public record, not conspiracy theory ~ GATA

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Gold suppression is public policy and public record, not conspiracy theory Submitted by cpowell on Sat, 2009-11-07 18:16. Section: Essays Remarks by Chris Powell, Secretary/Treasurer Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc. International Precious Metals and Commodities Show Olympia Park, Munich, Germany Saturday, ...
  4 weeks ago

• An Object Lesson in Governmental Failure: Derivatives reform

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  If you want to understand why Congress seems completely incapable of checking the power of Wall Street, look back to a hearing on the Hill last October 7, and the subsequent events surrounding it. On that day, the House Financial Services Committee hosted a panel on reform of the market for derivatives, the financial ...
  5 weeks ago

• Those once called bonkers now point to where the madness lies

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  You talking to me, Liam? Its the coming QE driven hyperstagflation, isnt it. As a result, the argument goes, we have "no choice" but to keep the Bank of Englands printing presses in overdrive, pressing on with so-called "quantitative easing". And, clearly, any action to get the UKs disgraceful public finances under ...
  6 weeks ago

• "they have failed to address the financial sector’s overall size"

  
  News Kontent — Authority: 126
  Hat tip to Duncan Gillian Tett: “Was October 2008 just a dress rehearsal?” A lot of investors I know lamented the loss of Gillian Tett. As the Financial Times’ capital markets editor in the runup to the crisis, she had provided very insightful into some of the more arcane goings-on in the financial markets. ...
  6 weeks ago

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