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• Chiles presidential election

  
  LATICONOMICS — Authority: 529
  Piñera flies the flag Sebastián Piñera, an airline tycoon, is well placed to break his country’s political mould. But he promises less change than meets the eye THE mood at Sebastián Piñera’s final campaign rally was hardly triumphant. The turnout on the Alameda, the main avenue in the centre of ...
  2 days ago

• chart-o-doom:The World’s Most Profitable CompaniesChart O’...

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  chart-o-doom : The World’s Most Profitable Companies Chart O’ Doom: Where Your Money Goes Edition!
  2 days ago

• "Residential delinquencies are up 1.2% just in the last quarter, and now stand at a stunning 9%."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Residential delinquencies are up 1.2% just in the last quarter, and now stand at a stunning 9%.” - John Mauldin in The Age of Deleveraging - Credit Writedowns
  3 days ago

• Detroits Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50%

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  Detroits Unemployment Rate Is Nearly 50% : nonolet : unsolicitedanalysis : (via soupsoup ) This is how areas of the country will collapse.  Detroit will provide a blueprint for the imminent decay of entire swaths of suburbia.  It teaches us key, counterintuitive concepts: 1.)  The value of land can, in ...
  6 days ago

• chart-o-doom:“Despite the downward trend of personal savings...

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  chart-o-doom : “ Despite the downward trend of personal savings rate in America, a change in money mindset has emerged from this recession.  Personal savings rate has climbed to its highest level in the past 15 years while U.S. consumer outstanding credit plunged in recent months.  Having directly seen the ...
  1 week ago

• "The trendy W Hotel in Manhattan’s Union Square was auctioned off yesterday for just $2..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “The trendy W Hotel in Manhattan’s Union Square was auctioned off yesterday for just $2 million. The purchase price is cheap, but the new owner of the hotel, LEM Mezzaine, will also be responsible for any defaulted loans that are in line ahead of its debt. The hotel was owned by Dubai World’s private-equity arm, ...
  1 week ago

• Americans Have Accepted The Big Lies As Truth

  
  Jutia Group — Authority: 585
  Make no mistake, we are in a depression now, but it is going to get a lot worse. Why? Because Americans have accepted the big lies as truth. That lie straight from the lips of Keynes told us we can get rich by working less and spending more!  Keynesian economics has delivered us into tyranny. It was a nice ...
  1 week ago

• chart-o-doom:Even as the BLS and the administration are trying...

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  chart-o-doom : Even as the BLS and the administration are trying to cover up the real state of unemployment affairs using assorted semantic gimmicks of just what it means to be unemployed, and as companies provide adjusted EPS numbers, while actual earnings continue to collapse, the true barometer of spending, ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Today, one in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can’t make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Similarly, the expansion of debt [in China] is also proving less effective in generating GDP growth...."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Similarly, the expansion of debt [in China] is also proving less effective in generating GDP growth. From 2000 to 2008, it required $1.5 in debt to produce $1 of GDP. By contrast, credit efficiency in the US became poor right before our bubble imploded, with it taking $4 of credit to produce $1 of GDP. China now is ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Increased demand for their products was noted by makers of food products, apparel, furniture,..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Increased demand for their products was noted by makers of food products, apparel, furniture, chemicals, and electrical equipment. Declining demand was noted by makers of lumber and wood products, metal and metals products, and industrial materials.” - FRB: Beige Book—Philadelphia—December 2, 2009 (via ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Whatever place the ‘credit crunch’ eventually finds in economic history, one certain victim of the..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Whatever place the ‘credit crunch’ eventually finds in economic history, one certain victim of the crisis has been free market economics. It is impossible any more to hold that economies will prosper only if markets are freed from political bondage. Attacks on the economists by politicians and journalists have ...
  3 weeks ago

• "The Chinese and American economies are mirror images of each other. The American economy revolves..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “The Chinese and American economies are mirror images of each other. The American economy revolves around the consumer. Low prices trump all, and enhancing consumer welfare is the ultimate goal. In China, by contrast, the producer is sovereign: investment trumps all, and building is what matters most. Just consider ...
  3 weeks ago

• "Here’s a stat to wake you up this morning: 23% of all mortgage borrowers in the US are underwater"

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “Here’s a stat to wake you up this morning: 23% of all mortgage borrowers in the US are underwater” - Barry Ritholtz in  CoreLogic: 1 in 4 Borrowers Are Underwater | The Big Picture
  3 weeks ago

• "If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than six months, the highest level since the 1930s. ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Real Economy and the Bubble Economy

  
  Ensaios Imperfeitos — Authority: 150
  We recently received a very thoughtful letter from Ted Trainer, an Australian ecological socialist (author of Abandon Affluence! and Saving the Environment ) who teaches at the University of New South Wales, asking us about the “surplus problem” and its relation to borrowing in the present economic crisis. We ...
  3 weeks ago

• "In a properly functioning capitalist economy, rich people dont create jobs for workers; workers, upon having jobs, create rich people."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  "In a properly functioning capitalist economy, rich people dont create jobs for workers; workers, upon having jobs, create rich people." : ourtropes : City Paper (via, The Awl and Dollars and Sense )
  3 weeks ago

• "The structural logic is rather compelling. A company can discharge people—and turn around and “hire”..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “The structural logic is rather compelling. A company can discharge people—and turn around and “hire” them back under other arrangements, as contractors, say. In this process the employer (1) eliminates overhead (space, furniture), (2) no longer needs to pay half of the Social Security tax it pays to ...
  4 weeks ago

• "This vividly shows the risk of entering into interest- rate swap agreements. The world’s got to see..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “This vividly shows the risk of entering into interest- rate swap agreements. The world’s got to see what stupidity even the sophisticated investors like the transportation fund can get into.” - Christopher Taylor, former executive director of the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board in Alexandria, Virginia, ...
  4 weeks ago

• "My interpretation of the data goes to income inequality. I see this as evidence that the last decade..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “My interpretation of the data goes to income inequality. I see this as evidence that the last decade of growth in the U.S. has not been beneficial for poorer Americans. However, I would go further in saying that the downturn in the U.S. and rising unemployment, bankruptcy and foreclosure in the middle class has ...
  4 weeks ago

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