Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
Obama's Latest No Banker Left Behind Scheme / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Stephen_Lendman
On Wall Street, that is. So hyped by advance fanfare, Timothy Geithner unveiled his Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) on March 23, the latest in a growing alphabet soup of handouts topping $12.5 trillion and counting - so much in so many forms, in "gov-speak" language, with so many changing and moving parts, it's hard for experts to keep up let alone the public, except to sense something is very wrong. They're being fleeced by a finance Ponzi scheme, sheer flimflam, and here's how from what we know: Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Chinese Students Desperate and Destitute in the United States / Politics / Recession 2008 - 2010
By: Pravda
More than 140 Chinese students, who had hoped to become pilots, are trapped in a Palm Coast, Florida apartment complex without income, electricity, food or transportation. They have fallen victims of a flight school that shut down and filed bankruptcy. The school location is Palm Coast, Florida.Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
A Guide to Hiding Toxic Assets / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Oxbury_Research
Tomorrow marks an important economic decision regarding FAS 157 and marked to market accounting . This is going to be another reason to, at the very least, question government intentions. The following is a complete look into how marked to market accounting has affected the banks, and what the real intentions behind banning FAS 157 really are. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Defrauding the American Tax Payer, Geithner's $500 Billion Gift To Pimco / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
Geithner's Heist America Plan is receiving words of self-serving praise from Pimco's Bill Gross. Indeed, Geithner's Non-Recourse Gift Keeps on Giving to Bill Gross .
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to rid banks and markets of devalued assets may be a boon for Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross. Read full article... Read full article...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Madoff Ponzi Scheme Collapse in Perspective / Politics / Scams
By: Mike_Stathis
The Savings & Loan Crisis had Michael Milken. The dotcom charade had Bernie Ebbers, Kenneth Lay, and Jeffery Skilling. These men have been selected as the scapegoats to distract the public away from the real criminals that caused each crisis. And now, the world's largest real estate and banking crisis – much larger than all previous heists combined – has Bernie Madoff. He will serve the same purpose. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
GHAP- Geithner's Heist America Plan / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
The Wall Street Journal has more details on Geithner's Heist America Plan (GHAP). Please consider Treasury's Very Private Asset Fund . The Obama Administration insists it wants to "partner" with private investors for its new toxic-asset purchase plan. But the more details that emerge, the more it seems Treasury wants to work with only a select few companies. This is no way to conduct a bank clean-up.
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Defending Capitalism from Old Europe's G20 Guillotine / Politics / Economic Stimulus
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Germany and especially France have fought long and hard against the anglo-saxon model of unfettered and weakly regulated free market capitalism for the past 30 years, and as a consequence of which have seen their economic power diminish in relative terms as the anglo-saxon capitalism model was adopted world-wide following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Bank Bailouts Financial Terrorism and You / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Money_and_Markets
Sean Brodrick writes: Can we just drop the pretense and start calling the bank bailout what it is: Financial terrorism. Terrorism can be defined as achieving one's aims through fear. And it sure seems to me that bankers and their friends in government are extorting money from the taxpayers (you and me) with a threatening “or else” that goes something like this: “Give us the money or the entire financial system will implode.” Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
G20 New World Disorder and Sell the S&P 500 Index / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: The article was all over the web within minutes. It was first published on Bloomberg's site.
"We cannot see large upside for the S&P 500 above the 825–850 level," Morgan Stanley U.S. equity strategist Jason Todd wrote in a report yesterday. "In the rush to buy a cyclical recovery, it seems earnings or valuation no longer matters. We would be comfortable with this view if the earnings trough was closer, but it is not."
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
New Credit Card Rules; FDIC Borrowing Limit Upped / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Mike_Shedlock
With stiff objections coming from Republicans, a Senate Panel Approves Bill Limiting Credit-Card Rates . A Senate panel approved new restrictions on credit-card interest rates that are broader than those adopted by the Federal Reserve in December, brushing aside objections from Republicans and the banking industry.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Liquid Toxic Assets as Government Finances and Guarantees Purchasers / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
Does Kramer Finally Get to Be a Banker and Does There Have to Be Skin in the Game for CDS? - Cosmo Kramer of Seinfeld fame always wanted to be a banker. Will Treasury Secretary Geithner's Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) finally allow him to fulfill his dream? PPIP should have no shortage of private investors signing up to buy financial institutions' toxic assets - sorry, "legacy" assets. After all, the purchasers will obtain government-guaranteed financing, government-guaranteed default-risk protection and plenty of leverage to boost returns. The question is how eager will financial institutions be to sell their legacy assets. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
When Will the FBI Open an Investigation into Geithner's Racketeering Plan? / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Andrew_Butter
The best thing about the Geithner Plan is it probably won't happen. Yes all the talk will buy time and allow a period of "forebearance", which is what saved the banks (that were left standing) in the Great Depression, and the financial system after the South American fiasco the S&L and the Asian Crisis. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Bailout Economics: The Politics of Self Destruction / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: Axel_Merk
The patchwork of attempts to prop up the financial system has taken on a life of its own – we call it bailout economics. At every step, Adam Smith's “invisible hand” to guide the economy has become less evident. Back in the 18th century, the economist coined the term as a metaphor for the self-regulating nature of free markets. Economic booms and busts are as old as mankind, but each time a crisis occurs, policy makers want to ensure that the same disaster will never happen again. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Cost of Running a Global Empire / Politics / US Economy
By: James_Quinn
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of deaths construction
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
G20, United States and Germany's Diverging Economic Interests / Politics / GeoPolitics
By: STRATFOR
Three major meetings will take place in Europe over the next nine days: a meeting of the G-20, a NATO summit and a meeting of the European Union with U.S. President Barack Obama. The week will define the relationship between the United States and Europe and reveal some intra-European relationships. If not a defining moment, the week will certainly be a critical moment in dealing with economic, political and military questions. To be more precise, the meeting will be about U.S.-German relations. Not only is Germany the engine of continental Europe, its policies diverge the most sharply from those of the United States. In some ways, U.S.-German relations have been the core of the U.S.-European relationship, so this marathon of summits will focus on the United States and Germany. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Obama's Attack on the Middle Class / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_Craig_Roberts
Obama and his public relations team have made it appear that his trillion dollars in higher taxes will fall only on "the rich." Obama stresses that his tax increase is only for the richest 5 percent of Americans while the other 95 percent receive a tax cut. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Noam Chomsky on Geithner the U.S. Economy and Democracy / Politics / US Economy
By: Submissions
Video & Transcript -
Chomsky: Plan is recycled Bush/Paulson. We need nationalization and steps towards democratization. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Rescuing the United States from the Gigantic Derivatives Fraud / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Whitney
It's a bird...It's a plane...No, it's Spitzer to the Rescue - If Obama is serious about restoring confidence in the markets, he should replace current SEC chief Mary Schapiro with Eliot Spitzer. That would send a message to the world that the president is through messing around. Schapiro is another Wall Street toady who believes that the markets can regulate themselves. As the head of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or Finra, she stood by while the financial giants increased their leverage to unsustainable levels and spread their derivatives-contagion to every part of the system. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Geithner's Plan Can Succeed in Stabilising Financial System / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
I am changing my tune. Geithner's plan can succeed. Before anyone collapses on the floor or starts screaming that I have lost my mind, it's important to define what success means and what the plan is. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 30, 2009
Geithner's ‘Dirty Little Secret' Transfer Trillions to Bankrupt Mega Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis Bailouts
By: F_William_Engdahl
US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has unveiled his long-awaited plan to put the US banking system back in order. In doing so, he has refused to tell the ‘dirty little secret' of the present financial crisis. By refusing to do so, he is trying to save de facto bankrupt US banks that threaten to bring the entire global system down in a new more devastating phase of wealth destruction. Read full article... Read full article...
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