Jesse's Café Américain Mon 2009-12-28 16:27 EST

Monetization: Treasury Adds $400 Billion in Bailouts for Fannie and Freddie

Jesse

What's another $400 Billion in monetization so that Fannie and Freddie can keep buying up mortgage debt? Timmy and Ben can continue to distribute dollars even as they approach a virtual insolvency because they can create them, seemingly out of nothing. The payment for their dollar debt is their creature -- dollars. But they cannot hand out endless amounts of nature's wealth, things like oil, gold, grains, and silver except as they may possess them by industry, force, or fraud.

400; Bailout; Fannie; Freddie; Jesse's Café Américain; monetize; Treasury Adds.

Thu 2008-06-05 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Big Investors Running to Agriculture Plays

NYT reports big-money players buying farmland and grain elevators

Agriculture Plays; Big Investors Running; naked capitalism.

Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Berserker Funds in Commodities

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Berserker Funds in Commodities; Michael Masters testifies on commodity speculation; "f investors (or whatever) held a stable currency with accurately rated (rather than bogus) investment grade financial instruments, with a positive real rate of return, against a truthful inflation number, would they be loaded to the gills with everything from grains to oil to cattle?"

Berserkers Funds; Commodities; economic; Market; watch; winter.

Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Some Big Grain Exporters Halt Foreign Sales; More on Ethanol Subsidies

Big Grain Exporters Halt Foreign Sales; Ethanol Subsidies; naked capitalism.

Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT

Mysterious discrepancies in grain prices baffle experts - International Herald Tribune

Mysterious discrepancies in grain prices baffle experts, by Diana B. Henriques, International Herald Tribune; disparities between futures, cash markets; question "whether farmers, who rely almost exclusively on the cash market, are being shortchanged by cash prices that are lower than the derivatives market says they should be."

grain prices baffle experts; International Herald Tribune; Mysterious discrepancies.

Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT

Grain prices soar globally | csmonitor.com

Grain prices soar globally, by Daniel Ten Kate | csmonitor.com; Asian rice shortages

com; CSMonitor; Grain prices soar globally.