When Will China Stop Subsidizing US Consumers?
How Chairman Mao must be spinning in his grave. Stepping back from the statistical noise surrounding China's trade and reserves, ... via the 'crawling' currency peg. China's central bank has been forced to purchase huge volumes ... huge currency reserves must continually expand their losses by purchasing more dollars to hide [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:25:00
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Economic Potpourri December 26, 2008
The barrage of noteworthy economic news continues unabated. I took a lot of time off posting Christmas Eve and Christmas. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days that have been stacking up.MetLife Drops as Commercial Mortgage Defaults LoomMetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc., the largest U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 11:26:00
As The Politicians Battle It Out Ukraine’s Economy Tunnels South In Search Of Australia
“In Ukraine, the evidence is still that policymakers do not quite understand the seriousness of the challenges they face,”. Timothy Ash, analyst at the Royal Bank of Scotland. “There is a burgeoning economic crisis in the European periphery,” Krugman said on the ABC network Dec. 14. “The money has dried up [more...]
Date: 2008-12-25 16:06:18
Feminist Following Karl Marx Agenda!! Distruction of English Family life…………
MANY WILL KNOW THIS LADY HERE IN THE UK-MANY WON’T BUT SHE WAS VERY RESPECTED INDEED- SHE WENT VERY QUIET -AFTER READING THIS I GUESS THE ANSWER LIES WITHIN……………JUST AS I THOUGHT FEMANISM THE HARD CORE HARD FACED TYPES ARE JUST FOLLOWING THE MARXIST AGENDA SO RIFE IN THE WESTERN WQORLD TODAY AND OVER QUITE A FEW YEARS NOW UNDER ALL HUES OF [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:07:14
How to Prepare for the Economic Worst
How to Prepare for the Economic Worstby Gary KahIt has been a hectic time for both our family and ministry. Ever since September’s financial collapse, we have been receiving phone calls from people wanting to know what to do with their money. They are also very concerned about the direction of our world politically and spiritually [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 23:17:00
"Should We Fear a Trade Backlash?"
More and more I have been asked why we should allow immigration when there is so much domestic unemployment ... to do this, but when all countries follow suit and retaliate with their own set of trade restrictions, it makes everyone worse off. Will governments repeat the "Smoot-Hawley-like backlash against trade [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:44:00
Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/4/2009
The overwhelming evidence of global warming continues to accumulate — as does the level of ice and snow in Greenland’s central ice cap, which increases at a rate of about two inches a year.Shhh! Don’t tell Al Gore…Thanks to Abu Elvis, Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni, heroyalwhyness, JD, Lexington, LN, RRW, VH, and all the other tipsters [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:27:00
Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction
by NAOMI KLEINLookoutThe Nation It's time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa. In July 2005 a huge coalition of Palestinian groups laid out plans to do just that [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:20:00
Guest Post: "How Can No One See An Imminent Fall in Chinese GDP and a Secular Slowdown Thereafter?"
I am now wondering if Google censors posts (I use Blogger), I put this post up at 1:33 AM, and even had a reader e-mail me that the post had disappeared (with no listing in "Recent Posts" which happens if I put up a post and then remove it). I have a record that it was indeed posted, but it was nowhere to be found as of 8:30 AM in my post archive [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 13:52:19
Secretary Rice's "Foundation for History's Judgment"
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave an end-of-term interview this morning to Rita Braver of CBS Sunday Morning ... and more. But early in the interview is a very telling exchange: QUESTION: Looking at the big picture of what's the whole foreign policy of this Administration - you come out of the academic tradition [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 04:52:33
Fear gains power!
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.The market is all set to drift further down in the wake of renewed weakness in global markets. US stocks fell on Friday after a government report painted a grim picture for the labour market there. Asian markets have opened lower this morning [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 03:40:00
EXTRA:Ukraine is sending its own gas to EU states, Kiev says
EXTRA:Ukraine is sending its own gas to EU states, Kiev says Kiev/Brussels - Ukraine is sending gas from its own reserves to EU states Romania and ... in Madoff fallout comes under state control - Summary » South Korea logs 2008 trade deficit, car ... payment in foreign currency Harare - Public hospitals in Zimbabwe will start accepting payment [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 12:44:56
carlos latuffi am not one to blame the victims in any situation. this is, of course, what israeli terrorists’ propaganda does. the story that has been playing over and over and over again in my head all day long ... into one house.The following day they shelled and dropped missiles around the house.Witnesses say at least [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 02:32:04
Ambrose Evans-Prichard Explains the Bond Bubble
Ambrose Evans-Prichard nails it.The tricky part, as always, is the timing of it all ... about an exodus of hot money – disguised as foreign investment in plant. The exchange regulator is muttering ... are betting too that debt deflation will overwhelm the effects of near-zero interest rates across the G10 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:00:00
Ten Forex Brokers To Change Your Stars
by Rod Soto The trickiest trading market is currency exchange market and you require all types of weapons in your archery to succeed in this trade ... more in the forex trading market than any other because of the markets volatile nature. Some forex brokers ... . The most important single resource required to play in a forex market is huge money and to [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 08:31:05
That Bastion of American Socialism
Over the past few months the American mainstream chatter has experienced a sudden spike in the gratuitous use of the term "Socialist." It was prompted by the attempts of the federal government to resuscitate insolvent financial institutions. These attempts included offers of guarantees to their clients, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 22:15:00
WHO IS BARACK OBAMA & HOW TO DEAL WITH HIM
WE PROUDLY PUBLISH THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PAKISTANI SPECTATOR BY PROF. DR ... MORE FROM PROF. DR. MICHAEL BRENNER THROUGH EXCHANGE OF COMMENTS. THANKS. (TPS) The Obama administration’s foreign policy promises to be little changed from that of its predecessor. This holds [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 14:28:54
Gherardini is the Face of the Global Game
Maurizio Gherardini has been lauded with praise during his impressive career in professional basketball ... that the number of foreign-born NBA players could be tallied on one hand. Further, the infusion of foreign talent on the floor needn’t be correlated with a rise in foreign scouting and executive talent [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 16:48:58
Can China Avoid a Post-Olympic Economic Downturn?
By Adam Kritzer Economic analysis indicates that countries that host the Olympic Games typically suffer from economic decline and currency depreciation in the months following its conclusion. The "so-called ‘Valley Effect’ is mainly caused by a dramatic increase in investment in the pre-Olympics stage, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 14:39:56
Indian vs Chinese Navy: Aden, Chahbahar, Gwader….
Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | новости рупии | 卢比新闻 | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ルピーニュース | Notizie di Rupia | PAKISTAN LEDGER | پاکستاني کھاتا | RUPEE NEWS | November 24th, 2008 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ |China is back in the Arabian Sea, the Gulf and the Asian Ocean (aka Indian Ocean) [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 02:45:29
New Year's Day Economic Potpourri
Heading into the new year, the news is finally slowing down. Here are a few headline news reports of interest from the past couple days.Massive Layoffs Coming For MicrosoftMicrosoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staffThe rumor that Microsoft was set to lay off people on January 15th, 2009 is no longer a rumor but a fact [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 00:46:00
Bretton Woods II - let’s remember the last time
Click here to view the embedded video. In last month’s New Atlantic, James Fallows had a fascinating interview with Gao Xiqing, Chief Investment Officer at China’s sovereign investment fund, and the man responsible for a significant chunk of China’s huge holdings of American dollars [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 19:46:43
The Global Financial Crisis: A Short Course on Commodity Trading
Due to all the recent global financial strife, DBKP wanted to look at one segment of the global financial sector, commodity trading, and how it fits into the world’s economy. Commodities What is a commodity? Lets start ... products, metals, petroleum, gasoline, heating oil, and natural gas. The term commodity may refer [more...]
Date: 2009-01-03 21:18:59
January 10 2009: Hornswoggled Absquatulation
Russell Lee Tobaccy Candy 1940 Pool hall, Shasta County, California Ilargi: The revolving doors between Washington and Wall Street are swinging like never before. Lawrence Summers and Robert Rubin are the finance powerhouses in the upcoming Obama administration. They were in the exact same place 10 years ago [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 16:28:00
Steady Diet of Chinese Currency
by The Mogambo Guru I keep watching the steady march of China towards world domination, and their currency (the yuan) ... . Now, "China has said it is to allow some trade with its neighbours to be settled with its currency ... of China's foreign trade is settled in U.S. dollars or the euro, leaving exporters vulnerable [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 21:30:34
2009 Forecast: The U.S. Dollar
Like most markets, the Forex market has been incredibly volatile over the last year. Currency expert Kathy Lien lists possible courses for the economy and the U.S. dollar and the Euro in 2009 in her blog post below. 2008 Price Action: It has been an exceptionally active year in the foreign exchange market as currency volatilities hit record highs [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 18:34:52
What Is The Level Of Deflation Risk In Germany?
Only one thing is really clear about the Germany economy at the present time, and that is that it is shrinking rapidly. In fact it contracted far more than most analysts and observers expected in the third quarter (although I, for one, was not especially surprised) [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 09:13:06
Why China Purchases US Debt
To understand why China purchases US debt one has to look at the manufacturing and distribution model. A totally vertically integrated company, or for that matter, a country would manufacture and sell its products directly to the consumer.Each stage of the process would have a cost and would require a profit [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 11:05:00
Review Of EverBank Online Savings and High Interest Checking Accounts
Since 2000, Everbank has quietly grown and emerged as a top tier banking institution, ... and have been generally pleased with the annual percentage yield (APY) interest rates I’ve received over many months ... to its word over the last few years. Despite market fluctuations in bank interest rates, EverBank [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 18:39:29
Currency Trading With Forex Futures
by Mark Alison The spot foreign exchange (forex or FX) market is the world’s largest market, with over one trillion U.S. dollars traded per day ... t. Trading forex futures is true speculation and appeals to many people. There is more than 4 trillion ... . One derivative of this market is the forex futures market, which is only 1/100th the size [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 15:49:13
Words from the (investment) wise 12.28.08
Investors spent the holiday-shortened Christmas week in an un-merry mood, digesting more gloomy economic data and taking stock of a tumultuous 2008. With the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Index down by 35.8% and 40.6% respectively for the year to date, many investors would be anxious to wave the old year goodbye [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 12:31:33
More Bad News Out of China, Including Capital Flight
Reader Michael sent a host of updates on China, which might collectively be called, "Lousy China News Wrap." And I don't think he was cherry picking The eye-catching one was a coded story on capital flight from China, "China warns of risks from "abnormal" cross-border capital flow," from Xinhua [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 06:22:43
Mapping: Infrastructure and flow
I love airline route maps. I’ve fallen asleep staring at the tangle of possible journeys so often that I sometimes confuse the capilaries I see with ... and trade ties between Mongolia and Berlin? Or an accident of history, airport capacity or other [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 23:59:51
Chinese Central Bank to Test Program to Settle Trade in Yuan Rather Than Dollars
While it would be easy to dismiss this move by the People's Bank of China to inch away from dollar based invoicing, the fact is that the use of other currencies for denominating trade transactions ... the shiny gems in a currency other than the U.S. dollar. That comment, from the head of the world's [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 07:03:40
Even Great Tips Can Go Badly Wrong
The third week of December, I put on the April Gold/Platinum spread. At the start of the trade, I felt less than $4 ... s, MONEX, or just playing one side of the spread instead of using the futures markets. Not doing the trade using gold and platinum futures has caused those friends to lose money as the spread wasn’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 15:12:18
LET THEM EAT KETUPAT!
Life will never again be the same after March 8th, 2008 ... , the upper echelons of well-heeled Malayans and, of course, the foreign industrialists ... Communism. It tolerated a limited amount of pinkness in the form of strictly regulated trade unions [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 05:42:00
Fundamental Rules for Forex Trading. Dos and Don'ts Guide for Currency Investing. A Foreign Exchange Primer for Everyone.
Golden Rules for Forex Trading.Here are ten rules that I think are important for trading forex. I divide the list into five Dos and five Don'ts.Dos1 ... the Odds in Forex Trading, How to Achieve Over 100 Trades in a Row Without a Loss. ... of money, before you commit more money to it.2. Always keep a record of each of your trades [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 03:46:00
Czech Republic reports slight gas drop amid Russia-Ukraine row
Czech Republic reports slight gas drop amid Russia-Ukraine row Prague - The Czech Republic on Sunday received 5 per cent less gas than ordered ... more » Business News India | UK | US China 2008 trade surplus rises despite slowdown China 2008 trade surplus rises despite slowdown [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 16:30:13
Mandy can’t see the irony- He stood for election has new labour- yet he’s a Fabian-Then speaks of Deceit
Mandelson: Make social justice case for European reform Monday, ... -ranging vision for how European debates about economic reform and the future of Europe’s social model ... . There have been many such crises before, and doubtless there will be more in the future. For make no mistake [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:38:06
Speaks of Deceit- The irony- Mandy stands as New Labour covers the fact he’s a fabian……….
Mandelson: Make social justice case for European reform Monday, ... -ranging vision for how European debates about economic reform and the future of Europe’s social model ... . There have been many such crises before, and doubtless there will be more in the future. For make no mistake [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 14:46:37
Feminists’ Following The Karl Marx Manifesto- Destroy Western Family Life- Well Done Westminster!!!
THE PLANNED DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILYby ERIN PIZZEYJust recently a ‘battered woman,’ for that is how she saw herself, came to me for help. Her lover, who lived apart from her and her children, had beaten her up badly and she was forced to go to the hospital [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:40:14
Trade Holder - Tradeholder.com
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Date: 2009-01-12 06:14:30
Gaza, Naomi Klein the Guardian: It’s time for a boycott
Enough. It’s time for a boycott The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in ... Israelis, dozens of them well-known artists and scholars, sent a letter to foreign ambassadors in Israel [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 16:33:25
Enough. It’s time for a boycott of Israel
The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa Naomi Klein The ... to foreign ambassadors in Israel. It calls for “the adoption of immediate restrictive measures [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 11:44:00
Enough. It’s time for a boycott of Israel
The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa Naomi Klein The Guardian, Saturday 10 January 2009 It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 10:00:27
The Basic Traits Of A Successful Foreign Exchange Traders
by Rod Soto The basic character of a successful foreign exchange dealer is the most important aspects of foreign exchange transactions. Foreign exchange or foreign exchange trading is one of the largest foreign exchange market ... market in the world, and includes trading between large banks, currency speculators, multinational [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 11:18:39
Obama Reports on Contacts With Blagojevich
Obama Reports on Contacts With Blagojevich President-elect Barack Obama's transition team released a report of contacts between its operation and that of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. The full report is below. And,while there doesn't appear to be any smoking gun in the report, it's not by accident that it was released at 4:30 p.m [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 22:40:35
2008 Terrorism
As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world. We also wonder what the new year will bring under Barack Obama's leadership. Will he favor the far Left and close Guantanamo Bay? Where will the detainees go? [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07
Russia's gas diplomacy underlines the need for a common EU external energy security policy
Russia's use of gas as a diplomatic weapon by totally and unilaterally interrupting its gas flow to Ukraine has once again proved why we need a common EU external energy security policy. Also why we need to diversify our own energy sources both geographically and the mix, [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 22:57:45
Jim Cramer - Balanced Thinker But Wrong On China
Editor's Note: This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about issues and topics discussed on Television and other media ... , that we like how Jim Cramer thinks about investing. We watch his show regularly and find his views [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 20:39:20
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