Financial Crisis

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• "No one seems to be able to resist a straight line equity curve even at the expense of lower returns...."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 145
  “No one seems to be able to resist a straight line equity curve even at the expense of lower returns. The straighter the equity curve the less questions people ask about how the returns were generated. Many strategies secretly contain non-linear payoffs such as risk arbitrage or selling options, or ponzi schemes.” ...
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• Is this bye-bye Dubai?

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  The emirate dazzled the world with its extravagance but now wants to defer its debts. What happened, asks Richard Spencer.
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• Dubais ruling family moves to calm debt fears as global markets slide

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 972
  Dubais ruling family has attempted to calm international fears over its economic stability, saying its rescue package for its most indebted state company was "carefully planned".
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• Feldman Law Center – The Specifics of President Obama’s Plan

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 154
  President Obama’s historic presidency began in the midst of possibly the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.  The housing and real estate markets seemingly jumped off of a cliff, taking with it the financial stability of every other industry.  Obama passed sweeping legislation to help ...
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• China Takes a New Look at Marxism

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 631
  In Asia Times , Francesco Sisci writes about a renewed faith in Marxism in China, in the wake of the global financial crisis: The strong emphasis on Marxism has been echoed by headlines in recent months. The current economic crisis places in question the faith, previously almost blind in China, in the capitalist ...
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• >>Dubai request for debt ’standstill’ raises fear. Is this a first shot ?

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 143
  Dubai request for debt ’standstill’ raises fear – Yahoo! News This story may or may not have large consequences for the United States.  I don’t know, but  it was a large red flag when I read it so I am passing it on to you for what you may make of it.  US firms are very much involved in the stupendous ...
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• RBI plans to set up working group to revisit the draft guidelines on credit default swaps (CDS)

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 451
  “We are setting up a group in the RBI and they will interact with market participants,” Gopinath said at a banking seminar here. A credit default swap is a swap contract in which the buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...
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• Dubai Bites The Dust

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 131
  Fast Company had a great article in September on Dubai fast collapsing economy, called Bye, Bye Dubai. “So what they have been able to produce is a miracle.” Or was it a mirage? Today, an estimated 50% of the slated developments are frozen or canceled. Banks have stopped lending. Housing prices fell 41% in the ...
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• WFP: CRISIS IN THE HORN OF AFRICA – Food Crisis + Financial Crisis

  
  Truth Seeker — Authority: 127
  —————————————–—————————————–—————————————–—————————————–——-FOR MORE: IMPACTFOR MORE ON HOW YOU CAN HELP: VISIT A BILLION FOR A BILLION + WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME—–The food price crisis, dubbed a ...
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• Dubai Defaults, Deflation In Action & “The Watched Pot” Theory Revisited

  
  Veritas Vos Liberabit — Authority: 433
  Dubai Defaults – Deflation In Action – Watched Pot Theory Revisited by Michael Shedlock Last night after a 10 hour drive I was up at 5:00AM watching the futures plunge but not knowing why. Now we know: Dubai default fears spook investors Global stock markets endured heavy selling on Thursday as investors ...
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• In His Gloomiest Prediction Yet, Marc Faber Sees Big Financial Bust Leading To World War

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Business Intelligence -Middle EastMarc Faber, the Swiss fund manager and Gloom Boom & Doom editor, said eventually there will be a big bust and then the whole credit expansion will come to an end. Before that happens, governments will continue printing money which in time will lead to a very high inflation rate, ...
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• Our Funny Money

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  Atif F. Qureshi“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” – Henry FordThe curse of price inflation haunts us. There seems to be no respite for the common man. Everything is ...
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• Whew.

  
  CaroLINES — Authority: 140
  Whew. That was a *lot* of writing! It took me about 3 or 4 hours, and I should have cut it into "chapters". Sorry about that. :-) I was quite flattened at the end, and not a little tired. It was totally unplanned; I sat down and thought "what shall I write about?" and that floated to the top of the list. I ...
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• Gold sets new record as dollar falls further

  
  In These New Times — Authority: 139
  PressTV26th November, 2009 Gold hits a record high for the third time this week as the dollar index falls to its lowest in 15 months, stimulating investors to find an alternative.Gold advanced to a record high of around $1,195 an ounce, raising hopes that central banks would jump in to buy more gold in their effort ...
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• The Right Path for The World Economy

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 552
  As we know the world especially the west is  facing huge financial problems which also threaten to change the world into a bipolar world again. It can be seen that whenever a capitalist country faces recession it quickly adopts some socialist policies to get back on track. Of socialism, there isn’t much left to ...
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• Name, shame, blame the bankers, if you like. But theyre the wrong target | Simon Jenkins

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Regulators have long been suckered by too big to fail. The Walker report has all the power of a feather duster Oh, Mr Brown, I loved that. Tickle me again, Mr Darling. Just there. A back rub, please, Sir David. A little oil here, Lord Phillips; a teeny whiplash from you, Lord Myners. And you, Mervyn King, perhaps ...
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• Lloyds gets OK for record $22.5 billion cash call (Reuters)

  
  Blogger — Authority: 167
  Reuters – Lloyds Banking Group investors on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the bank’s record rights issue but gave executives a grilling for mistakes made during the financial crisis. View original here:  (Reuters)"> (Reuters)">Lloyds gets OK for record $22.5 billion cash call (Reuters)
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• The Economic Crisis and What Must be Done

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 528
  by Richard C. CookThe United States does not control its own destiny. Rather it is controlled by an international financial elite, of which the American branch works out of big New York banks like J.P. Morgan Chase, Wall Street investment firms such as Goldman Sachs, and the Federal Reserve System. They in turn [...]
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• Do the Arab states really care about the Palestinians?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  For all their talk of standing by the Palestinians, the Arab regimes sure have a strange way of showing it. Despite reaping an oil-driven windfall last year of unprecedented proportions, few Arab states seem willing to dig very deep into their own pockets to back up their concern with cash. Indeed, the hollowness of ...
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• A must-read: Thanksgiving Story Resonates in Post-Crisis Age: Caroline Baum

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ar_eY28ZfKCc ” Commentary by Caroline Baum Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) — It is the tradition of this column every year at this time to recount the story of Thanksgiving. This year, with capitalism under attack from all quarters, it’s more important than ever ...
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