Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Is the U.S. Banking System Safe? by James Quinn - Seeking Alpha; "The U.S. banking system is essentially insolvent. The Treasury, Federal Reserve, FASB, and Congress are colluding to keep the American public in the dark for as long as possible...When you see a bank CEO or a top government official tell you that everything is alright, run for the hills. They are lying."
Sat 2008-07-19 00:00 EDT
comments pertaining to uninsured small business deposits and potential bank runs
Thu 2008-07-17 00:00 EDT
Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT
"policies to avoid recessions do more damage in the long run than letting slumps run their course."
blames; Economist; Maybe; naked capitalism; Wolfgang Munchau.
Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff; long-run historical financial crises; major capital inflows are highly correlated with near-term debt crises; Yves: "we are in the same position as Thailand and Indonesia, circa 1996, except we have the reserve currency and nukes"
Fri 2008-05-30 00:00 EDT
Fear, Rumors Touched Off Fatal Run on Bear Stearns, by Kate Kelly, WSJ.com
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
Steve Waldman; commodity price run-up due to loss of faith in monetrary authorities? large-scale repudiation of financial assets; "nd of a paradigm: large scale OTC markets, lightly regulated players and instruments, dollar as reserve currency, US as the most important global economic actors"
central bankers; Commodities Spike; Confidence; naked capitalism; voting.
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
by Steve Randy Waldman; loss of confidence in central banks explains spiking commodity prices
Sun 2008-05-04 00:00 EDT
by Robert Parry | The Smirking Chimp; Reverend Sun Myung Moon "has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush's own family." Rev. Moon's lurid sex scandals, espionage, media empire, drug trafficking, gun-running
Sat 2008-04-12 00:00 EDT
Hillary's Flimsy Case, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone; Obama "running as a symbol of a new politics...But if it were to get out that he's not that...then he quickly morphs into a different kind of symbol, a symbol of how an essentially bankrupt political system can seamlessly repackage itself to a fed-up marketplace by making cosmetic changes, without altering its basic nature." "In American politics, always look for the worst possible scenario to emerge triumphant"
Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff; pdf link; Reinhert: we run our bank regulation like a banana republic's
feeling; just; naked capitalism; pain; start.
Sun 2007-11-25 00:00 EST
Fed moves irrelevant as banking system collapses; "Slashing rates to 1% was what created this mess. Cutting them to 1% again can hardly be the solution."
Liquidity Pump Runs Dry; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Fri 2007-09-14 00:00 EDT
