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Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe”
Wikileaks Reveals IMF Plan To “Cause A Credit Event In Greece And Destabilize Europe” One of the recurring concerns involving Europe’s seemingly perpetual economic, financial and social crises, is that these have been largely predetermined, “scripted” and deliberate acts. This is something the former head of the Bank of England admitted one month ago when Mervyn King […]
Krugman Goes To Japan, Scolds Abe For Worrying About Quadrillion Yen Debt Pile, Leaves
Krugman Goes To Japan, Scolds Abe For Worrying About Quadrillion Yen Debt Pile, Leaves Much like BoJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda, Paul Krugman thinks that the key for Japan when it comes to overcoming decades of deflation is a positive outlook. “Japan needs to reach a point where everyone believes that it has pulled out of […]
Which Countries Have The Highest Default Risk: A Global CDS Heatmap
Which Countries Have The Highest Default Risk: A Global CDS Heatmap Sweden beats USA and Germany as the least likely to default on its bonds but at the other end of the global sovereign risk spectrum lie two socialist utopias – Venezuela (CDS just shy of 6000bps) and Greece (CDS around 1800bps) are the nations most likely to […]
2008 Revisited?
2008 Revisited? NEW YORK – The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is a straightforward no, but that the recent episode of global financial market turmoil is likely to be more serious than any period of volatility and […]
Striking Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A “Deliberate” Act
Striking Admission By Former Bank Of England Head: The European Depression Was A “Deliberate” Act Once again we find that it is only after they leave their official posts that central bankers finally tell the truth. Last night, it was Alan Greenspan who blasted the state of the economy, saying that “we’re in trouble basically because […]
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown
Satyajit Das: This Is Why You Can Expect Another Global Stock Market Meltdown Authored by Satyajit Das’, author of the new book “The Age Of Stagnation” (via MarketWatch), The mispricing of assets across world markets has reached epidemic proportions. Stock prices have made strong advances over the past several years, yet market analysts see further gains, arguing that […]
European Disunion
European Disunion Greece vs. Austria: Non-Friendly Acts Two days ago we came across a headline at Reuters, informing us that “Greece rages at neighbors as fears migrants could be halted”. Say what? What the hell is this supposed to mean? Is this even English? Possibly Reuters employs the same headline editor as Bloomberg….he or she is definitely […]
“We Are Heading Into Anarchy”: Official Says EU Will “Completely Break Down In 10 Days”
“We Are Heading Into Anarchy”: Official Says EU Will “Completely Break Down In 10 Days” Norwegian PM Erna Solberg doesn’t want to have to skirt her country’s responsibilities under the Geneva Convention and she doesn’t want to trample over human rights either, but she will if she has to. “It is a force majeure proposals […]
The Balkanization of Europe
The Balkanization of Europe Danae Stratou, Ilargi, Yanis Varoufakis and Steve Keen Feb 16 2016When my mate Steve Keen took me to meet Yanis Varoufakis for dinner last week when we all happened to find ourselves in Athens together, I at least sort of regretted not having the time and space to talk to Yanis about […]
How Italy will fail and drag down the European Project
How Italy will fail and drag down the European Project Italy is big enough to matter (it is the eight largest economy on the planet), but so uneventful that most does not pay any attention to what is going on there. We contend that Italy will, during the next year or two, be on everyone’s […]
Greek Attempt To Force Use Of Electronic Money Instead Of Physical Cash Fails
Greek Attempt To Force Use Of Electronic Money Instead Of Physical Cash Fails While the “developed world” is only now starting its aggressive push to slowly at first, then very fast ban the use of physical cash as the key gating factor to the global adoption of NIRP (by first eliminating high-denomination bills because they […]
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit
A Contagious Crisis Of Confidence In Corporate Credit Credit is not innately good or bad. Simplistically, productive Credit is constructive, while non-productive Credit is inevitably problematic. This crucial distinction tends to be masked throughout the boom period. Worse yet, a prolonged boom in “productive” Credit – surely fueled by some type of underlying monetary disorder – can […]
10,000 Greek Farmers Stage Massive Revolt In Athens, Destroy Police Cars
10,000 Greek Farmers Stage Massive Revolt In Athens, Destroy Police Cars On Friday, some 800 angry Greek farmers marched on the Agriculture Ministry in Athens and beat police with Shepherd’s crooks. No, really: The farmers are understandably upset with Alexis Tsipras and the government for a proposal to triple the social security burden and double income taxes […]
Greece Slides Back Into Recession Amid Riots, Rewewed “Grexit” Calls
Greece Slides Back Into Recession Amid Riots, Rewewed “Grexit” Calls It was just over a year ago that Greece elected Alexis Tsipras and Syriza amid a flurry of anti-austerity sentiment. Things didn’t exactly go as planned. The new PM and his “radical” finance minister Yanis Varoufakis thought they could shake things up in Brussels […]
Meanwhile In Greece, Familiar Scenes Are Back: General Strike, Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas
Meanwhile In Greece, Familiar Scenes Are Back: General Strike, Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas Greece was fixed for a few months, when the so-called “anti-austerity” government of PM Tsipras which came to power just over a year ago did what each on its predecessors did by kicking the can and trading off what little sovereignty Greece […]
