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• A Man-Made Financial Disaster

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 550
  By Alan Caruba You will recall that, shortly before the end of the 2008 political campaign, the White House announced a threat to the entire financial system and called on Congress to enact emergency spending powers. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was enacted on October 3, 2008. Just eighteen ...
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• Is the world ending more often now?

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 563
  With the release of 2012 today, were now at the peak of the apocalyptic movie season.  Soon to come will be the big-screen adaptation of The Road , which looks like yet another barrel of laughs.  This comes on the heels of animated apocalypse movies like 9 and WALL*E .  This raises an ...
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• Enforce the Sherman Anti-trust Act and Regulate the Shadow Banks

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 626
  I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating.  Monopoly power and rent-seeking behavior are anathema to market systems. Politics should stay out of economic decisions and government should provide the framework that makes the market honest, transparent, and open to all interests.  Republican and Democratic pols ...
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• Max Keiser: There will be a Violent Revolution in America

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Must See:US Collapse: Economist Predicts Second Crises Wave Will Shatter U.S. in 2010, Shattered Union To Begin with TexasRon Paul: Be Prepared for the WorstNo Recovery. It’s a Cover up! Recession To Worsen ­ Revolution To Follow Video: 2 Million people march on Washington. The Second American ...
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• Dodd circulates financial overhaul bill

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Senate Banking Committee chairman, on Tuesday called for sweeping new government powers to prevent another economic collapse, protect consumers and dismantle failing institutions. Mr. Dodds 1,100-page draft would strip the Federal Reserve and other regulators of their powers to regulate banks ...
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• EXCLUSIVE: Warner: Obama misplayed health care debate

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 502
  EXCLUSIVE: Freshman Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, said Tuesday that President Obama has misplayed his attempt to reform U.S. heath care by focusing on insurance coverage instead of explaining that the current system is headed toward a financial meltdown. "I wish the president would have started the debate by ...
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• US Collapse: Economist Predicts Second Crises Wave Will Shatter U.S. in 2010, Shattered Union To Begin with Texas

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Russian economist and academic Igor Panarin says that there is a strong possibility that the United States will break into six pieces by June 2010, which he says will be the result of a second economic crisis in late November. After Texas Governor Rick Perry mentioned the possibility of his state seceding from the ...
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• Dollar Will be Utterly Destroyed: Global Currency, New World Order

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  The dollar will get “utterly destroyed” and become “virtually worthless”, said Damon Vickers, chief investment officer of Nine Points Capital Partners. Due to the huge wage disparities between the United States and emerging markets like China, Vickers said that may resolve itself in some type of a global ...
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• Windfall Is Seen as Bank Bonuses Are Paid in Stock

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  Bankers are likely to make unusually large gains on the stock grants and options they received after shares in their companies fell sharply during the financial meltdown.
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• The mother of all bail-outs

  
  A World to Win — Authority: 124
  In the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics, the New Labour government has put in a credible bid for victory in the financial events with the sums spent on bailing out the banks. The increasing size of the bail-outs shows one thing – the crisis is getting worse rather than better. The Royal Bank of Scotland has so ...
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• Will the Financial Meltdown Lead to an Investment Revolution

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 164
  Not much good has come of the Great Recession, but a recent day-long event showed that investors are at least starting to think more thoroughly about risk and sustainability in their portfolios.
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• Indian Economy’s integration with rest of the world poses new challenges: Pranab Mukherjee (Part II)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  (Cont.)“On the domestic front, this year we have had sub-normal Southwest monsoons, which have obvious implications for agriculture growth and food prices. At the same time there have been widespread floods in some parts of the country. The wanton acts of terrorism in different parts of the country have kept the ...
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• Indian Economy’s integration with rest of the world poses new challenges: Pranab Mukherjee (Part I)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi, Nov.3 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said that while a growing integration of the Indian economy with the rest of the world has created new opportunities, it has also brought new challenges and made it more complex to sustain high growth.Addressing the Economic Editors’ ...
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• The Canary in the Financial Coal Mine Was a Woman

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 524
  I’ve written about the financial meltdown from a couple of different angles. I even talked about Brooksley Born who was the canary in the financial coal mine. She tried to warn us against unfettered greed and scant if any regulation. My friend, Linda Monk , has picked up on this association and has an ...
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• Marc Faber: The Collapse Of Capitalism Is Now Inevitable

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Capitalism has been the engine driving America and the global economies for over two centuries. Faber predicts its collapse will trigger global “wars, massive government-debt defaults, and the impoverishment of large segments of Western society.” Faber knows that capitalism is not working, capitalism has peaked, ...
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• Trade pact, climate change, terror to top India-EU summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) India and the 27-nation European Union will Friday hold their 10th summit that is expected to give a much-needed impetus to a proposed trade pact and expand cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism and the global financial crisis to energy security and climate change.The daylong ...
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• Ron Paul: Be Prepared for the Worst

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Ron PaulForbesOctober 31, 2009The large-scale government intervention in the economy is going to end badly.Any number of pundits claim that we have now passed the worst of the recession. Green shoots of recovery are supposedly popping up all around the country, and the economy is expected to resume growing soon at an ...
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• Britain poised to sell off three nationalised banks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  London, Nov 1 (DPA) The British government is poised to sell off some of the country’s struggling banks bailed out and nationalised in the wake of the global financial meltdown, it was reported Sunday.Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Bank are all set to be sold to the private sector, creating ...
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• US Rich-Poor Income Gap World’s Most Extreme

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  Dullophob.com10-29-9Income inequality in the US is now the most extreme of all countries. The 2008 OECD report ‘Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries’ concludes that the US is the country with the highest inequality and poverty rate across the OECD and that since 2000 nowhere has there been such a ...
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• Recovery? More Than 100 Bank Failures in 2009, Jobless Number Soars

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 554
  New York – Two more banks were taken over late Friday by US regulators, bring to 101 the number of bank failures so far this year. The latest financial institutions to fall amid the longest recession since the 1930s were regional banks in Florida and Georgia. After the highly publicized failure of Wall Street ...
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