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Latest Articles: Business/Finance
I’m Not Buying It——Not The Wall Street Rip, Nor The Keynesian Rap
Post Date: 2014-12-19 07:33:22 by Ada
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First comes production. Then comes income. Spending and savings follow. All the rest is debt…….unless you believe in a magic Keynesian ether called “aggregate demand” and a blatant stab-in-the-dark called “potential GDP”.I don’t. So let’s start with a pretty startling contrast between two bellwether data trends since the pre-crisis peak in late 2007—debt versus production.Not surprisingly, we have racked up a lot more debt—notwithstanding all the phony palaver about “deleveraging”. In fact, total credit market debt outstanding—-government, business, household and finance—-is up by 16% since the last peak—from $50 ...
Oil Prices Rise as Saudi Petroleum Minister Predicts Increased Demand
Post Date: 2014-12-19 07:08:22 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, December 19 (Sputnik) — Oil prices are on the rise as Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Naimi has predicted growth in the global oil demand. “The global economy, particularly the economies of emerging countries, will resume growth steadily, and then demand for oil will also grow,” Naimi told the Saudi Press Agency Thursday. At 9:10 Moscow time (06:10 GMT), the price of WTI light sweet crude oil January futures had increased by 0.98 percent to $54.64 per barrel, while Brent crude futures for February were trading at $59.55 per barrel, rising 0.47 percent. Oil prices have been declining since the summer amid oversupply in the market. ...
(Silver Knockout, Pt. 2): The Dragon’s Source of Power, Revealed! (Fascinating read)
Post Date: 2014-12-18 17:47:26 by christine
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The Rise of the Dragon Warriors in our camp routinely say, “gold is money”, and that’s true, but gold is also something else entirely, and the elites know it. It is this knowledge that spurs them to endlessly barrage the West with anti-gold propaganda, so that they may more easily keep it to themselves. In order to understand why the BRICS nations are buying larger quantities of gold, instead of silver, we first have to understand their bankster opponents. Now, I’ll bet you didn’t realize that dragons existed in our world, but they do. For in the early 1600’s, a dark power started to take shape in the Olde World. The current HQ of this dark power had ...
China to build high-speed train link between Serbia, Hungary
Post Date: 2014-12-18 08:40:47 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... China aims to construct a 400-kilometer railway that connects Serbian capital Belgrade to Hungarian capital Budapest. On the sidelines of an economic summit in Belgrade on Wednesday, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang signed a deal with the premiers of Serbia and Hungary to construct a high-speed train link between the two European countries. The railway is expected to decrease the travel time between the Serbian and Hungarian capitals from eight to less than three hours. The railway, which is to be completed by mid-2017, will facilitate the delivery of Chinese goods to central Europe. "This will put in place a new corridor between China and Europe and we hope to see an ...
FINANCIAL MARKET MANIPULATION IS THE NEW TREND: CAN IT CONTINUE?
Post Date: 2014-12-18 07:00:07 by Ada
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Financial Imperialists Attack Russia A dangerous new trend is the successful manipulation of the financial markets by the Federal Reserve, other central banks, private banks, and the US Treasury. The Federal Reserve reduced real interest rates on US government debt obligations first to zero and then pushed real interest rates into negative territory. Today the government charges you for the privilege of purchasing its bonds. People pay to park their money in Treasury debt obligations, because they do not trust the banks and they know that the government can print the money to pay off the bonds. Today Treasury bond investors pay a fee in order to guarantee that they will receive the ...
Webianr: Where are precious metals headed for 2015?
Post Date: 2014-12-17 17:20:59 by BTP Holdings
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Announcing... Monday, Dec 29, 2014 @ 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM Eastern Time Where are precious metals headed for 2015? Are the miners dead or is there big money to be made when they come back? To find out the answers to these questions and more, join David Morgan, Kerry Lutz and Robert Ian for a LIVE Webinar on December 29, 2014 at 9pm. After the presentation there will be a LIVE Q&A with Webinar participants. Space is limited. Click here to Register Free! clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l...&b=bp4FT7vnZz9hKEJXP9pFFA
The $4 LED Trend You Don’t Want to Miss
Post Date: 2014-12-17 16:51:33 by BTP Holdings
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Chris Mayer recently returned from an investment conference in Los Angeles, where he stumbled on a massively profitable trend called "the LED curve." For years, this technology wasn't developed enough to go mainstream. Today, it is. Chris showed his Special Situations readers how to pick up shares of an innovative LED company very close to where insiders are purchasing them. Here's the full story from Chris: Chris MayerThe opportunity to sell and install LEDs is enormous. We're talking about over a billion lighting fixtures. And the areas with the largest potential -- like parking lots -- have barely begun to change. While in Los Angeles, a CEO referred to this ...
The B Word
Post Date: 2014-12-17 07:32:54 by Ada
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Jeremy Warner at telegraph.co.uk summed it up best when he wrote “To still be running massive budget and current account deficits at what may well be the top of the cycle is a truly dangerous place to be. Hang onto your hats.” I gotta admit that I stopped reading right there, as I was instantly reminded of Bette Davis saying almost the same thing in a movie, adding, with that famous smirk of hers, that “It’s going to be a bumpy ride.” Hahaha! A bumpy ride indeed! Although Mr. Warner was referring to the well-deserved economic and fiscal misery of Britain, one finds that a well-deserved “truly dangerous place to be” is also Here, There and Everywhere, ...
Sputnik Special Financial Analysis: Ruble, What Are You Doing? Please Stop!
Post Date: 2014-12-17 00:32:58 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik's Financial and Executive Editors discuss the turbulance Russia's ruble is going throught in the wake of the ongoing devaluation of the national currency. December 16 (Sputnik) – The Russian ruble nosedived to a historic low on Tuesday afternoon trading at 80 rubles to the dollar and 100 to the euro, losing 20 to 26 percent in the course of just one day on Moscow's trading. While the currency rates are creating utter panic on the market, Sputnik's Financial and Executive Editors sat down to discuss the causes of this fiscal whirlpool – and give you a simple and readable digest of what is happening with the ruble. Executive Editor: Russia's Central ...
Find Out What the Banks Don't Want You to Know
Post Date: 2014-12-16 17:06:00 by BTP Holdings
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Russia melts down [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2014-12-16 16:21:02 by BTP Holdings
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We begin today with news out of Russia. The ruble is "getting beat up pretty bad," comments our partner-in-crime Pete Coyne. Bloomberg puts it, more stolidly, this way: "In a surprise announcement just before 1 a.m. in Moscow, the Russian central bank said it would raise its key interest rate to 17%, from 10.5%, effective today. The move was the largest single increase since 1998, when Russian rates soared past 100% and the government defaulted on debt." And yet the ruble still lost 2.5% against the dollar by noon today, wiping out an early gain prompted by the rate hike. Can you imagine interest rates at 17% in the U.S. today? You would have had to have been trying ...
Plummeting Oil Prices
Post Date: 2014-12-16 15:33:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Plummeting Oil Prices by Stephen Lendman As this is written, West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude down to below $56 a barrel. Brent at $61. From a high of $115 in January. Heading for $40 or lower, some analysts believe. Shaking market stability. Reflecting global economic weakness. Market manipulation. Saudi overproduction a big contributor. Protecting its market share. Targeting US shale oil production. Hitting Russia hard. Per secret agreement between John Kerry and Saudi King Abdullah. Washington wanting Moscow's economy to scream. Urging other nations cut economic ties. Abdullah likely angry about Putin declining a major 2013 arms purchase. Worth around $15 billion. ...
Why oil is down by half, what it means for you
Post Date: 2014-12-16 07:57:01 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil has fallen by nearly half in just six months, a surprising and steep plunge that has consumers cheering, producers howling and economists wringing their hands over whether this is a good or bad thing. The price of a barrel of oil is just under $56, down from a summer high of $107, and lower than at any time since the U.S. was still in recession in the spring of 2009. So what's going on? A global imbalance of supply and demand that is rippling across the world economy, for better and worse. SUPPLIES GO BOOM Years of high oil prices, interrupted briefly by the recession, inspired drillers around the world to scour the earth's crust ...
Black Gold Loses Glitter
Post Date: 2014-12-16 07:34:48 by Ada
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The stunning 40% drop in the price of oil over the past few months has scrambled global economic forecasts, changed the geo-political landscape, and has severely pressured many energy sector investments. Economists are scratching their heads to determine if the drop is good or bad for the economy or whether cheap oil will add to or decrease unemployment, or complicate the global effort to “defeat” deflation. While all of these issues merit detailed discussions, the first question to address is if the steep drop is here to stay and whether energy prices will stay low enough, for long enough, to seriously reshuffle the economic deck. Based on a variety of factors, this is not ...
HOW CHANGE IS STYMIED
Post Date: 2014-12-16 06:59:30 by Ada
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The gangsters who run the US financial system have determined opponents The gangsters who run the US financial system have determined opponents. Among them are Elizabeth Warren, Nomi Prins, Pam and Russ Martens, Michael Hudson, and David Stockman. I have often expressed my admiration for Warren, Prins, Martens, and Hudson. In his latest column, David Stockman has earned my admiration and forgiveness. I say forgiveness because in my opinion Stockman came close to sabotaging President Reagan’s economic program. None of us on whom the president was relying expected that Stockman would be the weak link. Stockman, a member of the House, was an advocate of the new policy and a friend ...
Sales of macadamias soar in Korea after nut rage
Post Date: 2014-12-16 06:12:54 by Tatarewicz
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Fox... Nut rage imploded the career of a Korean Air Lines executive and embarrassed her family and country. Now South Korean retailers are experiencing the unexpected upside: a boom in sales of macadamias. The flavorful macadamia nut was unfamiliar to many South Koreans until Cho Hyun-ah, the daughter of Korean Air's chairman, ordered a flight attendant off a Dec. 5 flight from New York City after she was served them in a bag, instead of on a plate. She resigned from executive roles including head of cabin service last week amid a storm of criticism about the tantrum that forced the flight to return to the gate. But macadamias are now a household name in South Korea and with ...
Central Bank Decision to Raise Key Rates to 17% Necessary, Correct: Kudrin
Post Date: 2014-12-16 04:03:42 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, December 16 (Sputnik) – The decision by Russia’s Central Bank to raise key rates to 17 percent was necessary and the correct thing to do, ex-Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Tuesday. “The Central Bank’s decision to raise rates to 17 percent in the current conditions was necessary and correct. Government decisions should follow these measures in increasing trust by investors to the Russian economy,” Kudrin said on his Twitter account. According to official figures from the central bank, the value of the dollar rose from $54.79 on Friday to $56.89 on Saturday, while the euro rose from Friday's $68.29 to $70.53 for Saturday. © Sputnik/ ...
Shocking: Banker Caught Divulging Wall Street Secrets
Post Date: 2014-12-15 16:36:56 by BTP Holdings
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Shocking: Banker Caught Divulging Wall Street Secrets Dear Rude Awakening Reader, You might hate this... But the fact is the world’s most elite bankers have access to information way over our heads. So when you meet one who’s willing to share his secrets, you stop everything you’re doing and pay attention. Why do I bring this up? Because in two days, a former “elite banker” himself will start spilling the beans on one of Wall Street’s biggest moneymaking strategies. It’s a strategy he used to help banks rake in millions in profits... and has been quietly using for the last decade to potentially turn every $10,000 into $289,254 annualized. However, ...
Nigerian oil workers to strike starting Monday
Post Date: 2014-12-15 06:52:34 by Tatarewicz
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Lagos (AFP) - Nigeria's two main oil workers' unions said they would launch an indefinite strike on Monday, threatening to hurt the output of Africa's largest oil producer. "The strike will affect all operations in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, as members will be withdrawn from all oil and gas installations," the unions said in a joint statement on Sunday. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) said the action was aimed at forcing the passage of a new law and meeting several other longstanding demands. These include the adoption of the ...
OPEC won’t change output even if price drops to $40: UAE
Post Date: 2014-12-15 05:29:32 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei says the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will not cut its output or hold an emergency meeting even if oil prices fall as low as $40 a barrel. “We are not going to change our minds because the prices went to $60 or to $40,” Mazrouei said at a conference in Dubai. Noting that the dramatic fall in oil prices do not justify an extraordinary OPEC meeting, he said, “We’re not targeting a price; the market will stabilize itself.” “We need to wait for at least a quarter” to consider an urgent session, he said. Some oil ministers have said that the organization has no fear of oil prices ...
Memo To Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat: Does Your Crony Capitalist Plunder Know No Shame?
Post Date: 2014-12-13 18:50:28 by Ada
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The times are few and far between that I am in agreement with Senator Elizabeth Warren’s brand of Big Government liberalism. But I do applaud her willingness to stand up to the Wall Street lobby machine; her capacity to recognize and call- out the egregious gambling dens that have metastasized there; and her insistence that never again should the hard-pressed taxpayers of America be forced to bailout the crony capitalist plunder that is enabled by the Fed’s free money madness. But now comes a naked Wall Street raid on the taxpayers that’s beyond the pale; and it would have sailed right through in the dead of night absent Elizabeth Warren’s intrepid opposition. Bravo, ...
Market Euphoria: The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes
Post Date: 2014-12-13 14:51:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Market Euphoria: The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes by Stephen Lendman The bubble of all bubbles. A house of cards waiting to collapse, says Paul Craig Roberts. A great unraveling looms. America's economy based on market manipulation. Rigging things one way. Smoke and mirrors deception. Money printing madness. Privatizing profits. Socializing losses. Upside down reality. Shifting wealth in unprecedented amounts. More than what's comprehensible. To monied interests. From ordinary folks. Stealing them blind. Creating ruler/serf societies. Notably in America. Enforced with police state harshness. Why things haven't collapsed so far postmortems alone may best explain. It's ...
Forget Bicoin!
Post Date: 2014-12-13 11:32:06 by BTP Holdings
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An alternative currency – already in circulation across America – could soon explode in value. As you’re about to discover, it could hand you as much as $56,700 over the next 9-12 months. Some people are already calling it the “next Bitcoin.” And that’s saying a lot. As you may know, Bitcoin is the digital “cryptocurrency” that has disrupted economies worldwide. It has also made some investors a fortune along the way. Over the course of just three years, Bitcoin’s value skyrocketed more than 1,632,316%. You could have bought $10,000 worth of Bitcoin… and exchanged it for $163.2 million (in U.S. dollars) just 36 months later! The value ...
Is There Limit to China’s Purchasing Power?
Post Date: 2014-12-13 07:52:23 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... In a highly globalized world countries buy and sell abroad, but when it comes to national assets, does it work the same way or are there strings attached? Sweden, Britain, Italy and recently France have become China’s targets in Europe, with France selling a 308 million euro stake in the firm that manages Toulouse airport to a Chinese group. 00:00 / 00:00 Vladimir Rojankovsky, head of research at Nord Capital and Mark Thornton, a Senior Fellow at Ludwig von Mises Institute debate China’s purchasing power. In an attempt to make ends meet austerity-hit Europe is selling off its assets to China. Was it purely a business deal? What long-term consequences will it have for ...
Saudi Conspiracy to Depress Oil Prices ‘Low Blow’ to Iran: Analyst
Post Date: 2014-12-12 06:30:42 by Tatarewicz
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A political analyst and expert on Iranian-Arab relations commented on Rouhani's Wednesday address to parliament where he had blamed the sharp decline in prices on a Saudi conspiracy. ran will not succumb to US and Saudi Arabian pressure on its energy sector in the wake of record low crude prices since Tehran has been weaning itself off oil revenues, Iranian Energy Commission spokesman Hossein Amiri Khamkani said Tuesday. © Fotolia/ marrakeshh Tehran Unfazed by US-Saudi Scheme to Depress Oil Prices MOSCOW, December 11 (Sputnik) — The steep fall in oil prices following Saudi Arabia's increase in oil output signals a covert economic war against Iran which depends on crude ...
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