dimelab dimelab: shrinking the gap between talk and action.

British Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

British banks (2); British Banks Deemed (1); British condition (1); British imperial decline (1); British pounds (1); imitating British decline (1).

Jesse's Café Américain Wed 2010-04-07 19:00 EDT

"How to Corner the Gold Market" By Janet Tavakoli

Janet Tavakoli wrote an interesting essay that was just posted over at the Huffington Post called "How to Corner the Gold Market" which can be read in its entirety from her website here...What struck me as odd is that I just wrote a blog piece along similar lines on the same topic today, raising many of the same issues, but that is from the opposite perspective...there is little evidence that anyone is willing to take on the exchanges, even the big players, and try and force a corner or even a squeeze against what they perceive as mispricing, such as Soros and so many other big players did with the British Pound , and most recently other big hedge funds did with mispriced products from the latest bubble in the debt markets, and financial stocks...The piece I wrote today and reference above is about a situation in the precious metals markets which has the potential to become another serious problem for almost the same basic reasons as the debt markets in our most recent financial crisis: excessive leverage concentrated in a few TBTF institutions, lack of transparency, regulatory laxity, and a mispricing of risk...

corner; gold market; Janet Tavakoli; Jesse's Café Américain.

Fri 2010-04-02 19:53 EDT

Homage To Haiti: A War Nerd Classic - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled

Haiti popped into the news again, and I decided it was time to tell the whole military history of the place. It's got to be the most amazing, bloodsoaked, heroic, messed-up story in the Western Hemisphere: slave armies defeating Napoleon's troops, huge castles built in the middle of the jungle, endless three-cornered war between whites, blacks and mulattos...Haiti's history isn't just a lot of killing, either. A lot of Haitian leaders were brilliant guys who weren't afraid of anybody -- not Napoleon, not Jesus, not nobody. These guys were self-made black Roman Emperors. They came up the hard way, out of slavery in the cane fields, and beat the European armies that tried to take the place back. All comers--French, British, Spanish -- the Haitians took them all on and put the fear into them.

exiled; Gary Brecher; Haiti; homage; War Nerd Classic.

The Guardian World News Fri 2009-11-20 09:45 EST

US pressure distorted oil figures, says whistleblower

Exclusive: Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says top official The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying. The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves. The allegations raise serious questions about the accuracy of the organisation's latest World Energy Outlook on oil demand and supply to be published tomorrow -- which is used by the British and many other governments to help guide their wider energy and climate change policies.

Guardian World News; pressure distorted oil figures; says whistleblowers.

Wed 2009-02-11 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: British Banks Deemed "Technically Insolvent"

British Banks Deemed; naked capitalism; technical insolvency.

Wed 2009-02-11 00:00 EST

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: British banks are 'technically insolvent' (and other secrecies)

British banks; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; secrecy; technical insolvency.

Fri 2007-12-21 00:00 EST

War And Peace: The Truth About Economic Tsunamis: Shifts In Global Power

by Elaine Meinel Supkis; British imperial decline; Smoot-Hartley beneficial to US; US imitating British decline after WW II

economic tsunami; Global Power; peace; shifted; truth; war.

Thu 2007-12-06 00:00 EST

Bear In Mind > Too Much Like 1929

Bear In Mind > Too Much Like 1929 (2007-04); chinese-american economic interconnections; similarities to pre-depression US-British conditions

1929; Bear; mind.