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• George Soros warns against rebuilding same Humpty Dumpty financial system

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, has warned against rebuilding the same financial system.
  2 days ago

• Baroness Vadera: I still have nightmares about the financial crisis

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Baroness Vadera, adviser to the G20 presidency, said some of Europes biggest banks have yet to "come clean" on their losses.
  3 days ago

• 2015 – the post recessionary world

  
  2ndlook - View From A Square Prism — Authority: 394
  Hobsons choice? What is on the table Two of the G-7 countries are bankrupt – US and Britain. Their industrial base was supported by raw materials and captive markets – acquired by genocide , and the loot of centuries. European banks are emerging from the credit crisis bigger than before, ...
  5 days ago

• Advisor Alert: Gold Market

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 141
  The following summaries are part of the weekly Advisor Alert produced by US Global Funds for the week ending December 4, 2009. Gold Market For the week, spot gold closed at $1,161.60 per ounce down $16.03 or 1.36 percent. Gold equities, as measured by the XAU Gold & Silver Index lost 0.85 percent for the ...
  6 days ago

• Important News - Dec. 04

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  1)  China Hints Sticking to Dollar Despite Worries “BEIJING (Reuters) - China has maintained a consistent allocation of its foreign exchange reserves across different currencies, a senior official said on Friday, suggesting that any diversification away from the dollar has been gradual.” 2) New Analysis ...
  1 week ago

• Greek bank chief takes paycut as economy fears intensify

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Greeces budget deficit is highest in EU at 12% • Concerns mount that Greece will be next focus of debt crisis Greeces central bank chief George Provopoulos has decided to take a 20% salary cut to lead by example, as the Greek government intensifies efforts to rein in public spending. "It is a symbolic gesture ...
  1 week ago

• The Collapse of Finance

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 141
  This post is a guest contribution by Bill Bonner, author of two New York Times best-selling books, Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt . Bill is also the driving force behind The Daily Reckoning . “Dubai sends markets into turmoil,” begins The Financial Times . Dubai is a financial center, built on ...
  1 week ago

• EU ministers agree wide-ranging new financial regulation regime

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Britain claims several lobbying victories after perceivedly losing out over choice of new commissioner EU finance ministers have tonight agreed an ambitious new pan-European system of market regulation aimed at taming excesses, minimising risk, and taking pre-emptive action to head off the kind of financial meltdown ...
  1 week ago

• Important News - Dec. 02

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  National debt not long ago hit $12 trillion and now has already hit $12.1 trillion? Look here and here. 1) Yen Drops After Hatoyama Says Its Strength Can’t Be Tolerated “The yen fell against all of its major counterparts after Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama was cited by the Nikkei ...
  1 week ago

• Standard & Poors predicts weak EU economic recovery

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Demand for government bonds soared to £605bn this year • Ailing industrial sectors could cut investment by up to 50% European economies have seen the worst of the recession off, although they face a "very shallow recovery next year," credit ratings agency Standard & Poors warned on Wednesday. High ...
  1 week ago

• Is The Fed Facing Margin Calls From European Banks?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  by Marla Singer and Geoffrey Batt Buried in the depths of page 26 of the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program’s (SIGTARP’s) November 17, 2009 report “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties” hidden in footnotes 33 and 34 is something of a ...
  1 week ago

• Dubai, the Financial Center Built on Sand

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 559
  "Dubai sends markets into turmoil," begins The Financial Times . Dubai is a financial center, built on sand. Probably a good thing US markets were closed for Thanksgiving when this news came out. In Europe, the Dubai affair caused the biggest drop in 7 months. European banks have lent $40 billion to Dubai. Jim ...
  1 week ago

• Great stuff from mish : “Dubai Defaults - Deflation In Action - Watched Pot Theory Revisited” -

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  excerpt: “Might the US dollar blow up? Yes it might. But so could the RMB if China floated it, and so could the British pound. No one seems to see the crisis brewing in Japan with a huge demographic problem, a shrinking population, falling exports, and no way to pay back its national debt… “There is seldom a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Important News - Nov. 26

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  1) China Losses Inevitable as Dollar Weakens, Ex-PBOC Adviser Says “Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) — China’s foreign-exchange reserves face a “triple whammy” as inflation, oversupply and the “inevitable” decline of the dollar threaten to erode the value of its holdings of U.S. Treasuries, said Yu Yongding, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• IMF Warns Of Hidden Bank Losses

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 540
  “More Quickly Than It Began, The Banking Crisis Is Over” - TIME , April 10, 2009 I wouldn’t be so sure of that. From Reuters’ Estelle Shirbon yesterday: Half of the losses suffered by banks could still be hidden in their balance sheets, more so in Europe than in the United States, the International ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sweden seeks EU cap on hedge fund and private equity pay and bonuses

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Critics argue EU proposals could leave investors worse off • The directive would cost EU finance firms €3.2bn (£2.1bn) Swedens finance ministry today intervened in the battle over European Union plans to tighten the regulation of hedge funds and private equity with proposals to cap industry bosses pay and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Financial markets: At last – a popular tax

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  An amazing thing happened this week. A New Labour politician proposed a new tax – and the sky did not fall in. Maybe that is because Gordon Browns levy would target those modern-day pantomime villains, the bankers. Maybe it is because the prime ministers suggestion came as such a bolt from the blue that criticism ...
  4 weeks ago

• Little Cargo, Loads of Debt

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  As ship owners confront plummeting charter rates from a 25 percent drop in global trade, fears have increased about the recovery of European banks with large shipping industry portfolios.
  4 weeks ago

• Rude awakening for former communist countries as financial crisis made in the west hits hardest in the east

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  New democracies that embraced the free market are facing their deepest crisis after years of rapid growth The large inflatable columns toppled one after the other in Berlin on Monday night in a play on democracys chain reaction in 1989. Twenty years on in Budapest, Daniel Bebesy has a gloomier domino theory. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Still big. Still unbeautiful | Will Hutton

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  The chance to break up UK banks has been funked – the City lobby made sure of that Thank God for the European commission and its competition chief, Neelie Kroes . Without her persistence, Britain would have one of the most concentrated and least competitive banking systems in the world. Even after yesterdays ...
  5 weeks ago

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