By Sam VakninEditor in Chief of Global Politician Even under the best case scenario (in which banks take a 50% haircut on the credits they have extended to profligate Greece, but there is no default) French, Italian, German, and Austrian banks run a collective capital...
Cue the music, fade in:'Do, do, do ,do, do … wa, wa, wa … do, do, do, do, do … wa, wa, wa … 'Like the showdown in Clint Eastwood's classic film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the TEA Party, wearing...
opinion by Karen Hatter | 27 wks ago | updated 27 wks ago 360 views | 8 recommendations | 13 comments
These fragments of a letter were found in the hills of Montana-China in the spring of April 2125. It is A Look Back.
Beginning Fragment
July 29 & 2111 ...
" The bankruptcy of the United States is now certain Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Text Size: From Porter Stansberry in the S&A Digest: It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12...
opinion by snuffysmith | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 853 views | 39 recommendations | 19 comments
Integrated Asset Services(www.iasreo.com) today released its IAS360 House Price Index (HPI). Based upon the timeliest and most granular data available in the industry, the index for national house prices moved ahead another 1.2% in June.
With June’s gains--the...
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""The Winter of 2008-2009 will prove to be the winter of global economic discontent that marks the rejection of the flawed ideology that unregulated global financial markets promote financial innovation, market efficiency, unhampered growth and endless prosperity while...
"As discussed previously, the pooling and servicing agreement requires the servicer to forward payment to the securitized trust regardless of whether the borrower is making the mortgage payment. This must continue until the loan is removed from the trust, and that can...
Private pensions are no more in Argentina. The Senate approved the nationalisation of 10 bank-owned pension funds. This is political move which was heavily criticised by the opposition to no...
created by rahul | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 370 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Ecuador will delay a $30.6 million interest payment on its foreign debt while it investigates signs of lawbreaking in the contracts, the finance minister said Friday, prompting a quick...
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"By Mosharraf ZaidiThe News InternationalBeing of Pakistani origin qualifies an IMF employee to be as much of a Pakistani economy expert, as being of Pakistani origin qualifies a child that eats a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts to be an expert in Pakistani child nutrition....
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Taking cue from US stocks market of Wednesday, Asian stocks tumbled Thursday as fears that the world's biggest economies are shrinking sparked fresh panic, despite continued efforts by several governments to ease the financial crisis and bail out packages. The...
created by Sanjay Jha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 100 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
In the wake of ever-increasing fuel costs, the nation’s airline industry is receiving more and more attention. Today, however, that attention came in the form of grim news as two industry-focused groups warned...
created by BMCWrites | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 428 views | 0 recommendations | 7 comments
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorA statement many of us figured out, there is no Oil Shortage, just Oil speculators driving up the price of oil to bolster their profits, the trickle effect caused food...
created by Barry ORegan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 375 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
Between the information on Realitytrac.com (referenced below) and that from Forbes.com (ditto)it appears that while the housing crisis has faded from the head lines it is still running strong in reality land. Realtytrac is particularly useful because it gives a lot of hard...
created by Mikasi | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 162 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments