
The Redline: A Tale Of Collapse
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Make no mistake; while the characters and events in this story are products of imagination, the issues presented and their probable consequences are anything but fantasy.
As I have observed the mainstream media (MSM, to the cognoscenti) over the past few decades, I have noted a growing infatuation with the words moderate and extremist.
I've enjoyed teaching all of my online Mises Academy classes, but I have never been more excited than I am to teach the upcoming class Money, Monopoly, and Market Intervention.
When Julie Veilleux discovered she was American, she went to the nearest US embassy to renounce her citizenship.
This is not helping French bank stocks today. PIMCO's Mohammed El-Erian has a dramatic post up at FT on the various signs of trouble in French bank land.
Here’s a letter to The American Conservative:
Consumer credit increased at an annual rate of 6 percent in July 2011. Revolving credit decreased at an annual rate of 5-1/4 percent, while nonrevolving credit increased at an annual rate of 11-1/4 percent.
The prospect of Europe falling back into recession came a step closer Thursday following the latest batch of dire economic data.
The Dow Jones industrial average opened down nearly 3 percent after the Federal Reserve took steps Wednesday to help revive the economy. Here’s a look at the five biggest single-day gains and losses in the index’s history.
Stocks and commodities tumbled, Treasury 30-year yields dropped to a record and the Dollar Index climbed to a seven-month high amid concern central banks are running out of tools to prevent another recession.
The Federal Reserve took a dramatic step Wednesday to help revive the economy, resuming its unconventional efforts at stimulating growth nearly a year after embarking on an initiative that ultimately failed to deliver a healthy recovery.
The U.S. central bank is launching a program that will tilt its $2.85 trillion balance sheet more heavily toward longer-term securities, in an effort to boost a fragile economic recovery.
The new Federal Reserve program to lower long-term interest rates means banks and brokerages are at risk for depressed earnings, with no real solution, and their shares reacted accordingly on Thursday.
India has lowered its exposure to America's ballooning debt for three consecutive months, as its holding of the US Treasury bonds fell by USD 4.2 billion (more than Rs 20,000 crore) between May and July this year.
US stocks tumbled on Thursday, extending losses for a fourth straight session, as the Federal Reserve's weak outlook for the US economy and disappointing data from China heightened fears about a global recession.
Will global financial markets reach a breaking point during the month of October? Right now there are all kinds of signs that the financial world is about to experience a nervous breakdown.
If you think the U.S. economy is bad now, just wait for a few months. Things are about to become absolutely nightmarish.
For a moment, imagine that there is a privately-owned organization in the United States that can create U.S. dollars out of thin air whenever it wants and can loan that money to whoever it wants to.
Stocks tumbled on Thursday, extending losses for a fourth straight session, as the Federal Reserve's weak outlook for the U.S. economy and disappointing data China heightened fears about a global recession.
Billionaire investor George Soros said he believed the United States was already experiencing the pain of a double dip recession and that Republican opposition to Obama's fiscal stimulus plans was to blame for sluggish growth.
Throughout the financial crisis, many national economies have looked to their government and foreign lenders for financial support...
Nouriel Roubini is calling it this morning, following a bout of dismal economic data around the world. Europe and the U.S. are "effectively in recession" and there's nothing policy makers can do to save them.
Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them t
The world economy has entered a “dangerous new phase” of declining growth that will require policymakers to take action, the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Tuesday.
PBS NewsHour Markets on Monday continued to show anxiety over the European debt crisis as Greece held an emergency conference with creditors, trying to calm fears of default. Speaking with Judy Woodruff, World Bank President Robert Zoellick ur
The world economy has entered a "dangerous new phase," according to the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. As a result, the international lending organization has sharply downgraded its economic outlook for the United States and Euro
Angela Merkel's government suffered a humiliating defeat to the opposition Social Democrats and Greens in key city state elections in Berlin last night as divisions within her coalition over the Greek debt and the future of the euro deepened further.
“Due to financial trading relationships and off-balance sheet exposure to European banks, the U.S. banking system will not go unscathed,” said Michelle Meyer, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist, in a note to clients Friday.
"It is an open secret that numerous European banks would not survive having to revalue sovereign debt held on the banking book at market levels." Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackerman
Fabian Socialist Keynesian economics is about to destroy the world economy.