Thu 2008-05-29 00:00 EDT
debunking Michael Master's testimony regarding commodity speculation; tacit cartel on the producer side, accommodating speculative futures prices, while managing spot supply? Steve Randy Waldman
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
review of Jamie Galbraith's "The Predator State" by L. Randall Wray; "market solutions are designed to enrich a favored oligarchy through a spoils system administered through the states structure"
Conservatives Abandoned; Economist's View; free market; liberalism; Predator state.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
by The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; real short-term interest rates should consider actual inflation relative to Fed target, economic activity relative to "full employment", and short-term rate considered consistent with full employment
Sun 2008-05-25 00:00 EDT
Fraud Probe; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; Moody's.
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Silver Price Manipulation through 'Naked Shorting'; CFTC protecting silver short interest; crony capitialism corrupting public markets
Jesse's Café Américain; Naked Short; Silver Price Manipulation.
Thu 2008-05-22 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Moody's Stock Craters on Revelations it Marked Dodgy Debt Aaa for Sale to Europe - Blames a Computer; "appearance of a collusion to defraud European investors"
blames; computers; Europe; Jesse's Café Américain; Marked Dodgy Debt Aaa; Moody's Stock Craters; revelations; sales.
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
"From AAA to Junk in two months!"
Calculated Risk; CIFG Guaranty's Bond Insurer Ratings; cliff diving.
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: The Worst Is Still Ahead Says Meredith Whitney; "Credit Crisis Will Extend Into 2009"
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: The Shadow Exchanges Gather Their Forces; Goldman, UBS and Morgan Stanley agree on dark pools; secret market for big players
Sun 2008-05-18 00:00 EDT
"nventory of homes is now beyond a two year supply and growing, while prices are falling off the cliff." "at least a third of todays builders will be bankrupt within the next 18 months."largest source of inventory is the homes moving through the foreclosure process" "The snakes have moved out of the mortgage business and into the REO disposition business."
Decession; Depression; Mike Morgan; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Sat 2008-05-17 00:00 EDT
inflation is increase of money and credit; rising prices are symptom not cause; rising prices symptoms of "past" monetary inflation
