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• John Perkins: World Financial Markets

  
  Addiction in the 21st Century — Authority: 120
  Hoodwinked: Former Economic Hit Man John Perkins Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and How to Remake Them I don’t really agree with Johns take on everything but he has been at ground zero of the nation killing business. There is really only one way to solve the worlds financial worries. Get rid of ...
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• Bankers Take Money From the Government and Use it to Speculate

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Financiers have the worlds financial system in a "doom loop," says the Bank of England. Weve thought so ourselves. The bankers take money from the government and use it to speculate, not to lend. "Excess" reserves are at a record high as consumer credit continues to decline. Most people find it both galling and ...
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• why me?

  
  Kiva Stories from the Field — Authority: 434
  By Suzy Marinkovich, KF8 Peru & KF9 Bolivia Twisted twining vining metal unrhythmic untamed unkempt and in comes the dust sweat and sticking to me tires thumping each rock unsettled plastic bag squeezed empty tossed out the window just a drop of papaya juice leaps back clings to the dirty car door parting from ...
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• Former Worker’s Confession: “I Was Hired to Stand in the Way of Health Care Reform”

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 126
  Hi, I’m Andy Cobb and I did all the damage I could being a spokesjerk for Blue Cross Blue Shield. Meet Andy Cobb, a former professional deceiver for Blue Cross Blue Shield. He’s done all the damage he could being a pretty face for Blue Cross Blue Shield’s health insurance, so now he’s branching out toward ...
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• "The World Needs a New Financial Architecture"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  George Soros says we need a new world order. After talking about the need for a new Bretton Woods conference to "establish new international rules, including treatment of financial institutions that are too big to fail and the role of capital controls," and the need for the IMF to "to reflect better the prevailing ...
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• Beyond chart porn: If history rhymed, would we hear it?

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 125
  One of the most often indulged exercises in this economic crisis is to compare it to other, previous, crises – in particular, to the big daddy of all economic crises, The Great Depression.It’s fun, educational, and a little like pornography: both a source of inspiration and a sort of how to manual.As with porn, a ...
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• Reserve Bank increases Statutory Reserve Deposit Requirement

  
  Invest in Fiji — Authority: 106
  The Reserve Bank of Fiji has announced that it will increase banks Statutory Reserve Deposits to 7%, from the current 5%. The increase will reduce the amount of funds that banks available for lending and other purposes. The move comes as inflation rates rose to 6.3% in September 2009 from 5.1% a month earlier. ...
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• "Why Do Central Banks Have Assets?"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  Nick Rowe says central banks hold assets for three reasons: Why do central banks have assets?, by Nick Rowe : If you look at the balance sheet of a central bank, you will see it has liabilities (mostly currency) and assets (normally mostly government bonds/bills). Why do central banks have assets? Do they need them? ...
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• What Is Systemic Risk, Anyway?

  
  Wall Street Pit — Authority: 644
  On October 30, the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta held a conference on Regulating Systemic Risk. The presentations mostly focused on the recent financial crisis and possible regulatory responses to those developments.Oddly enough, the term...
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• What is systemic risk, anyway?

  
  macroblog — Authority: 649
  On October 30, the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta held a conference on Regulating Systemic Risk . The presentations mostly focused on the recent financial crisis and possible regulatory responses to those developments. Oddly enough, the term systemic risk hardly ...
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• Paul Krugman: Obama Faces His Anzio

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  The failure to give the economy the fiscal stimulus it needs may be costly Democrats: Obama Faces His Anzio, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times : Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Obama’s Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an ...
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• Michael Milken On The Five Biggest Systemic Threats

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  Michael Milken , Jedi of Junk Bonds and fall-guy cum Darth Vader, weighs in on systemic threats to the US financial system. This article is a guest contribution from Tyler Durden, of the Zero Hedge Blog. Time to start loading up on those sovereign CDS. Today Michael Milken provided some insight into what the ...
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• US on the Road to Ruin, Time to Protect Your Assets

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 640
  “It’s time for another surreality check, but this time it isn’t the publicly traded companies that deserve attention, it’s the governments that have saved them,” write Eric Sprott and David Franklin in a scathing assessment of the walking-dead US government. They continue, “make no mistake – the dead ...
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• CNN just suggested that unemployment is expected to rise above 10% in a soon-to-be-released report.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  This as part of a recovery, according to this article, “well underway.” I’m happy. I have what I need right now. I’m not going to be sleeping on the street anytime soon. As far as I can tell, there is still opportunity in the marketplace for buyers, sellers, and laborers who have a decent attitude and a ...
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• Which Side on the British Financial System?

  
  Harlem Tee Shirts — Authority: 134
  We have a financial oligarchy, centered in London, but spreading throughout the world that seems ready to destroy everything. Many people have been battling this oligarchy, especially LaRouche , and now we are at the point of decision. Russia, China and India are forming the seed crystal of a new credit system to ...
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• Brad DeLong: Slouching Toward Sanity

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  Brad DeLong says government action during the crisis may have prevented another Great Depression: Slouching Toward Sanity, by J. Bradford DeLong, Commentary, Project Syndicate : In America today ... the Republican congressional caucus is just saying no: no to short-term deficit spending to put people to work, no to ...
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• OECD Graph

  
  SUBROSA — Authority: 529
  click to enlarge Source Thanks to Mr Eugedines
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• Nov 3/4 Coast to Coast A.M. – Economic Exposé (the rip-off banking bailouts)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  LISTEN ON KFI Economic Exposé Analyst of geopolitics and foreign policy, Craig B. Hulet will discuss why the banking bailouts are the biggest rip-off in history and have set the stage for a global financial system that excludes the United States. Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• "Stiglitz: U.S. Paying for Not Nationalizing Banks"

  
  Economist's View — Authority: 698
  Barry Ritholtz: Stiglitz: U.S. Paying for Not Nationalizing Banks, by Barry Ritholtz : “We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse. What we did was the wrong thing. It has weakened ...
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• Answer: 4

  
  Re: The People — Authority: 125
  Question: How many times has Washington bailed out Citigroup to keep it from going bankrupt?Posted in General Comment Tagged: Bailout, financial crisis, international financial system, Wall Street Crisis
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