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Entries Tagged as 'Economy'

Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis

February 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Wall Street tactics akin to the ones that fostered subprime mortgages in America have worsened the financial crisis shaking Greece and undermining the euro by enabling European governments to hide their mounting debts.

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Tags: Economy · Europe

US banks facing $1.4tn crisis over commercial property loans

February 14th, 2010 · No Comments

America’s fragile high street banks are bracing themselves for a fresh financial crunch as a wave of commercial property mortgages go sour on offices, shops and factories, causing losses of up to $300bn (£192bn) hitting nearly 3,000 small- and medium-sized financial institutions.

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Tags: Economy

Fears of ‘Lehman-style’ tsunami as crisis hits Spain and Portugal

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments

The Greek debt crisis has spread to Spain and Portugal in a dangerous escalation as global markets test whether Europe is willing to shore up monetary union with muscle rather than mere words

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Tags: Economy · Europe

Secret summit of top bankers in Sydney Australia

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank landed in Sydney to meet tomorrow at a secret location, the Herald Sun reports.

Organised by the Bank for International Settlements last year, the two-day talks are shrouded in secrecy with high-level security believed to have been invoked by law enforcement agencies.

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Tags: Economy

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments

A lot of people are very upset about the rapidly increasing U.S. national debt these days and they are demanding a solution. What they don’t realize is that there simply is not a solution under the current U.S. financial system. It is now mathematically impossible for the U.S. government to pay off the U.S. national debt.

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Tags: Corruption · Economy

Britain Faces New Debt Crisis As Big Investor Pimco Pulls Out

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

US-based investment group Pimco, one of the world’s leading bond houses, said it will sell its UK government gilts this year.
It will be a hammer blow to the Treasury’s attempt to raise up to £200billion of government borrowing amid the deficit crisis.

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Tags: Economy · Europe

Carbon Derivatives same scheme as the Credit Default Swaps causing the current crisis

December 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The banks are preparing to do with carbon what they’ve done before: design and market derivatives contracts that will help client companies hedge their price risk over the long term. They’re also ready to sell carbon-related financial products to outside investors.

[Blythe] Masters says banks must be allowed to lead the way if a mandatory carbon-trading system is going to help save the planet at the lowest possible cost. And derivatives related to carbon must be part of the mix, she says. Derivatives are securities whose value is derived from the value of an underlying commodity — in this case, CO2 and other greenhouse gases…

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Tags: Climategate · Economy · Globalization

Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit — a city in despair

November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

After years of gross mismanagement by the city’s leaders and the big three car manufacturers of General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, who continued to make vehicles that Americans no longer wanted to buy, Detroit today has an unemployment rate of 28 per cent, higher even than the worst years of the Great Depression.

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Tags: Economy · Poverty

Latin America plans US dollar replacement

October 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on using a new intra- regional trading currency, dubbed as Sucre, instead of the US dollar. Bolivian President Evo Morales, who hosted leaders of the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA), said that the “document is approved.”

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Tags: Economy · Latin America

Russia and Iran Officially Talking of Dumping Dollar for International Trade

October 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Russia is ready to consider using the Russian and Chinese national currencies instead of the dollar in bilateral oil and gas dealings. Russia and Iran Officially Talking of Dumping Dollar for International Trade

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Tags: Economy · Iran · Russia

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