Geopolitics
Aug 10th, 2010 |
By Rob
It’s becoming clearer by day that there is little sanity left in the realm that had once been hailed a “free market”. Traders suck up the “good news” of more QE from the Federal Reserve in the U.S., like a junky celebrating one more smack filled syringe he hopes will be soon smuggled in by his big brother. How much longer can the lunacy persist?
Posted in DS Feature, Geopolitics |
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Tags: America, Bernanke, Economic Poison, FOMC Tuesday, GSE Asset Purchases, Long Term Debt Purchases, MBS repo, MBS reverse repo, recession, Socialism, stimulus, U.S.
Jun 11th, 2010 |
By Rob
The Washington D.C. summit in 2008 crowned the Group of Twenty Nations (G20) as the official global economic summit of industrialized countries. Two years in, Korea is proud to have been chosen to Chair the 2010 G20 summit, which was kicked off in Busan last week for a meeting of the group’s finance ministers. Hosting the G20 certainly represents a milestone on Korea’s global economic ascent; however, the communiqué out of Busan begs a dissimilar fate for the unification of the group…
Posted in Asia, DS Feature, Geopolitics, Global Slice, Korea, Uncategorized |
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Tags: Busan G20 Communique, G20 austerity, G20 Busan, G20 Communique, G20 Finance, G20 Finance ministers, G20 Seoul, G20 Stimulus, Korea, Korea economic analysis, Korea economic data, Korea economic outlook, Korea Economic Slice, Korea Economy, Korea G20, Korea G20 Busan, Korea G20 Seoul, Korea Household Loans, Korea Household Loans by Depository institutions, Korea weekly outlook, Korean Economy
Feb 26th, 2010 |
By Rob
Even after the TARP fund liquidity injections in the U.S. financial sector in 2008, the E.U. has decided to bail out one of it’s member states, Greece, from insolvency. How can this even be considered? Yes, the EU constitution is a whopping 7 years young and therefore demands a minuscule thread of adherence by member states,
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Posted in Europe, Geopolitics, Soap Box |
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Tags: bailout, bankrupt, Bond, bond market, deficit, Dominique-Strauss Kahn, economic woes, ETF, EU, European Union, federal deficit, free trade, Geitner, global economy, Goldman Sachs, Greece, Greek Bailout, GS, Hank Paulson, insolvency, italy, Macro Analysis, Obama, Paulson, portugal, Sarkozy, sovereign debt, spain, stock, stock market, systemic risk, trade, Zapatero
Dec 29th, 2009 |
By Rob
With the autumn comes the brisk northern air that reminds us of the fragility of life and the strict laws of nature; lessons which most years occupy a few thousand microns of brain tissue as such trivial metaphysical notions pass under the radar of consciousness. Yet it seems that we humans subscribe to a separate reality
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Posted in Geopolitics, Global Slice |
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Tags: Bernanke, bonds, commodity, crude oil, equities, ETF, Fannie Mae, Fed Funds, Freddie Mac, markets, Obama, Security, stock market, Treasury, Treasury Debt, U.S. dollar, U.S. Government, USD, valuation