Category: Global Debt Crisis 2013
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, December 05, 2013
Fiat Currencies, Debt, Liquidity Become Credit and Credit is Debt / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Gordon_T_Long
Perceptions of FLOWS have now taken control of the global financial market. Investors must carefully consider where the Risks are looming and rapidly growing.
In the new world dominated by Fiat Currencies and Debt, Liquidity has become Credit and Credit is Debt.
Credit and Debt are often used interchangeably as simply the opposite sides of the same coin, but there are important differences and the distinctions are critical to understanding when this game will end and why.
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Friday, November 22, 2013
Today’s Wealth Destruction Is Hidden by Government Debt / Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Philipp_Bagus
Still unnoticed by a large part of the population is that we have been living through a period of relative impoverishment. Money has been squandered in welfare spending, bailing out banks or even — as in Europe — of fellow governments. But many people still do not feel the pain.
Sunday, November 03, 2013
Economic Coup d’Etat: Debt and Deficit as Shock Therapy / Politics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Global_Research
Ismael Hossein-zadeh writes: When Naomi Klein published her ground-breaking book The Shock Doctrine (2007), which compellingly demonstrated how neoliberal policy makers take advantage of overwhelming crisis times to privatize public property and carry out austerity programs, most economists and media pundits scoffed at her arguments as overstating her case. Real world economic developments have since strongly reinforced her views.
Monday, October 28, 2013
The Debt Situation in Europe and the U.S. Video / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: EWI
In this video clip from Steve Hochberg's "Don't Get Caught Holding the Bag" presentation, recorded at the San Francisco MoneyShow, Elliott Wave International's Chief Market Analyst addresses a popular question we get at EWI. Enjoy this insight from Hochberg, then take a few minutes to learn how you can get Elliott Wave International's newest free report: How to Protect Your Money When the U.S. Debt Bill Comes Due.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
There Is Life after Debt Default / Politics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Peter_G_Klein
In following the debates over raising the US debt ceiling, I’m struck by the frequent claim that defaulting on public debt is unthinkable because of the “signal” that would send. If you can’t rely on the T-bill, what can you rely on? Debt instruments backed by the “full faith and credit” of the United States are supposed to be risk-free — almost magically so — somehow transcending the vagaries of ordinary debt markets. The Treasury bill, in other words, has become a myth and symbol, just like the US Constitution.
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
Will Russia Survive U.S. Debt Default? / Politics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Pravda
U.S. President Barack Obama said that the conservative wing of the Republican Party could lead the U.S. to a default on public debt. Experts agree that this is an internal political crisis, but it will affect the countries that have invested in U.S. Treasuries. Since 2009 Russia has been consistently reducing the share of this investment in its state currency reserves.
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Sunday, October 06, 2013
John Frum And The Cargo Cult Of Debt / Politics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Andrew_McKillop
JOHN FRUM WHERE?
Wikipedia tells us the Melanesian cargo cult called John Frum arose in the late 1930s, in Vanuatu which was then known as the New Hebrides. The movement was heavily influenced by the existing cult practice of worshipping Keraperamun, a god associated with Vanuatu's highest mountain, Mount Tukosmera. Here, we can already wheel on the Japanese cult of calling anybody friendly and worthy “Fuji San”, or my soul brother Fuji – named for Japan's Mount Fuji which has magical powers.
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Debt, Income and Economy - Trying To Stay Sane In An Insane World / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: James_Quinn
“I mean—hell, I been surprised how sane you guys all are. As near as I can tell you’re not any crazier than the average asshole on the street.” – R.P. McMurphy – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
"Years ago, it meant something to be crazy. Now everyone's crazy." - Charles Manson
"In America, the criminally insane rule and the rest of us, or the vast majority of the rest of us, either do not care, do not know, or are distracted and properly brainwashed into acquiescence." - Kurt Nimmo
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Gold, Silver and the Coming Complete Wipeout of All Debt - Video / Stock-Markets / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Videos
Bix Weir is a tireless advocate for manipulation-free gold and silver markets. Weir says, “They are printing money, and the reason to control the price of gold is to control the perception the U.S. dollar is a sound currency.” The manipulation game is not going to go on much longer. Weir proclaims, “We’re at a point in our system and in the manipulation where people within the Fed and within our government are ready to pull the plug on the game and basically crash the system.” Weir goes on to say, “You’re looking at a complete wipeout of all debt in all banks, all virtual assets, virtual assets meaning electronic blips on a 401k statement and checking and savings accounts.”
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
END GAME Singularity: The System Will Be Purged through Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Charlie_Tarango
Interest
Interest Rates represent the Balance Between Capital and Labor.
Economic History revolves around that Balance Moving from one extreme to the other.
Human Nature and Mathematics Drive those Swings. No Group or Force can Stop that. Any Machination or Manipulation, Individually or Collectively can only Elongate, Not Alter that Outcome.
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Sunday, May 26, 2013
High Risk of Japan Economic Instability as Rates Rise Even With 70% Debt Monetization / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Mike_Shedlock
When political leaders do out of there way to make make mollifying statements on the economy, it's a sure thing the opposite is about to happen. Platitudes are flowing in Japan as Haruhiko Kuroda, Japan’s central bank governor, says the risk of systemic instability is “not large”.
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Japan Debt Crisis Is 30 Times Bigger Than Greece! / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Graham_Summers
Japan has fueled much of this latest rally in stocks, driving the marketing first with promises of money printing by the Prime Minister in November 2012, and then a massive $1.2 trillion QE program announced by the Bank of Japan last month.
The result of this has been a collapse in the Yen and a 70%+ rally in the Nikkei in the last six months.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The Return of the Bond Vigilante... in Japan / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Jeff_Berwick
On April 11th we went public stating that shorting Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) was an effective means of, "Profiting from The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It" (TEOTMSAWKI).
Less than a month later, on May 10th, after a month replete with numerous halts of the market over intraday crashes JBGs had their worst day in the last five years. Yields rose higher by 11bps to 70bps in the 10 year bond and ended up 10 basis points higher on the day.
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Monday, May 06, 2013
The Eurozone Crisis Goes Viral / Currencies / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Andrew_McKillop
END OF AUSTERITY - END OF THE EURO
Oskar Lafontaine, Germany's Economy minister in 1999 when the euro was introduced, said this weekend on the parliamentary website of Germany's Left Party that Angela Merkel will "awake from her self-righteous slumber" once the deeply troubled PIIGS countries unite, possibly led by France's Francois Hollande, to wrest control of the Eurozone's crisis policy, at Germany's expense.
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Debt, Economic Growth, and the Austerity Debate / Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: John_Mauldin
Two weeks ago I wrote about the current debate over the 2010 paper by Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart (hereinafter referred to as RR) on the correlation between debt and GDP growth. I said that the most important part of their work, which is the construction of an enormous database on debt and financial crises over the last few hundred years, was to be found in their book This Time Is Different and elsewhere. And their fundamental conclusion: debt is not a problem until it becomes one. And then it reaches a critical mass and you have what they called the Bang! moment.
Friday, April 05, 2013
The First Crack In The Bond Market Is A Fact / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: GoldSilverWorlds
There are two main issues in the Cypriot banking crisis. The first one is related to the general principle of loans: it is axiomatic that all loans get paid either by the borrower or by the lender. This is the fundamental relationship that anyone has with the bank. When you deposit money into the bank, in your mind it is your money. In the bank’s mind, and from a legal point of view, it is a loan to the bank. If the bank makes foolish investments and loses money [including (y)ours], someone has to pay it.
Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Japan's Monetary Madness in Times of Unsustainable Deficits / Interest-Rates / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Axel_Merk
Unsustainable debt. Depression-era fiscal policy. Monetary madness. Welcome to Japan. You may not live or invest in Japan, but your investments may well be affected by what is unfolding in the Land of the Rising Sun. Be prepared.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Economic Collape of the Something for Nothing Societies! / Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Ty_Andros
The developed world has now become a fully operational Something-for-Nothing society. Once a Something-for-Nothing psychology has been fully implemented the majority of its citizens have become the functional equivalent of LOCUSTS!
Unable and unwilling ( they no longer have the skills to make the wages they believe they are entitled to ) to produce more than they consume and support themselves they set off the consume those that do to FEED on and SUPPORT themselves. The TAKERS or WEALTH EAT the MAKERS of WEALTH, Cannibalism of the worst sort.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Greece Gathering Political and Social Storm Threatens Europe and America / Politics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: EWI
The similarities between Greece and pre-WWII Germany are striking.
- Nazi salutes.
- Praise for Adolf Hitler.
- Swastika-like banners.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Usury, Greed, Disorganized Capital and The Playtime Economy / Economics / Global Debt Crisis 2013
By: Andrew_McKillop
USURY
The French law No 737 of July 2010 relating to and defining usury for consumer credit loans, and applied by the Bank of France on credit supplying establishments, defines the rate at which loans of less than 1524 euros become "usurious" and illegal at 20.30%. For loans of more than 1524 euros, usury starts at 19.89% annual, for loans from 1 January 2013. The less you borrow, the more you pay in interest - this is economics in motion, for example the notion that it is"logical" that borrowing less produces more risk for the lender! The European Central Bank, which at any time can lend to the Bank of France, for loans from July 2012, from its highest rate Marginal Lending Facility, presently charges 1.50% per year for these "higher risk" loans, which BoF can then distribute or on-lend to private banks at "advantageous rates". Obviously an interesting business.