Investors pay to lend money to UK

The Government has sold bonds at a negative interest rate as investors effectively paid to lend money to the UK. For only the second time ever, the Treasury sold government bonds — known as gilts — that...

‘Reverse Bonus Checks’ Drain Wall Street Bank Accounts

New York -- The global economic crisis has finally caught up with Wall Street insiders who triggered it. They are discovering that their traditional year-end compensation is lowering the balance on their bank...

Diplimatic and Military Solutions

One frequent claim made about Clinton is that he stood for America's weakness.Nothing could be further from the truth. Clinton stood for win-win scenarios. Hewanted Americans, in all the different states of America, to do well, and that included the people in the South who...

Will the New Foreclosure Prevention Method Prevent a Million Fore

You may have heard recently about the data that shows approximately one million homes that were supposed to be foreclosed on in 2011 weren’t due to slow or stalled foreclosure processingon the part of...

Ron Paul’s obsession valid or just Ron Paul?

Ron Paul’s obsession Valid or just Ron Paul? First, I asked the US Mint, what’s up with the gold? " “The United States Bullion Depository Fort Knox, Kentucky Amount of present gold holdings: 147.3 million...

Libya: Get’m with Geithner

I have reported before that the most effective person in the Obama Administration might be Timothy Geithner. The Obama Administration uses him as a tiger to go after bad guys. He puts the lock on their assets. ...

HIRE Act will continue economic recovery

According to Treasury Chief Economist Alan Krueger: ·         Nationally, from February 2010 to July 2010, businesses have hired an estimated 6.9 million new workers who...

The US Government is out of control

As I wrote in my book, Smart Data, Enterprise Performance Optimization Strategy © 2010 James A. George and James A. Rodger, Wiley Publishing, the US government is very poorly managed. Departments and systems roll...

Action phrases: the US Federal Reserve, Department of subtlety

Action phrases Here is an analysis of a story about the US Federal Reserve contemplating what to do about a sluggish and maybe faltering recovery. First, consider what the Federal Reserve System is. " “The...

Iran-Warning off the starboard bow

Secretary of State Tim Geithner today levied the hammer on Iran. Oh, scratch that, he is not the Secretary of State that is Hillary Clinton. Where are you Hillary? What’s happening in the State Department?...

This has to be good: Casino or Card Club Risk-Based Compliance

Casino or Card Club Risk-Based Compliance Indicators I get a lot of information coming my way about diverse subjects. I particularly like the Financial Crimes Network information. Suffice it to say that the...

Protesting too much – quietly exploiting nurturing innovation

American Treasury Secretary Geithner is out there pounding the Chinese on various currency and trade disputes. He deserves respect for trying to engage. Guys like Steve Ballmer at Microsoft will fight for every...

New Labour - UK Treasury – PURPOSE IS?.

News 04 12 2009: A NAO report confirms a mammoth £131 billion is expected in total taxpayer outlay on bank bailouts by the end of this year, including last year's Northern Rock nationalisation. An investment bank is being paid up to £300,000-a-month to provide financial...

The bankruptcy of the United States is now certain

" 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...

It Will Take a Miracle for GM to Pay U.S. Back

I was impressed by What I Learned Today about the “bill of goods” that is being sold to the American taxpayer in the form of the government rescue of General Motors: $30.1 billion = 60 percent stake in New...

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