
Rating Agency Worker: 'I Am Genuinely Frightened'
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Joris LuyendijkWe are meeting in the heart of the City after the banking blog called on rating agency employees to talk about their experiences.
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We are meeting in the heart of the City after the banking blog called on rating agency employees to talk about their experiences.
For years the region’s mantra has been to boost trade with China. But now the slowing dragon could drag down growth in Latin America.
If we're going to associate the Money Power to other groups than the group they are, the Money Power, we should be more accurate in our associations, unscientific correlations without causation, and bigoted stereotyping.
Mounting fears about Spain's financial health help illustrate why the global economy is in its worst shape since 2009. Six of the 17 countries that use the euro currency are in recession. The U.S. economy is struggling again.
the waste we can't see: Superfund sites, greenhouse gases, radioactive waste, vagrant chemicals; and the social waste we don't want to think about: homelessness, crime, drug addiction, our forgotten infirm and elderly.
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The Seen and the Unseen The Lion in the Grass Black Swan or Hidden Lion? The Lions of Europe What If the US Trade Balance Became a Surplus? The Bug that Roared Up in the Clouds, or How Do I Stay Connected?
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The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install
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Spain's government just sold a bunch of short-term debt this morning.
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
Regulators are investigating Credit Agricole, HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale over the Libor manipulation scandal that claimed the boss of British bank Barclays, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
The average Canadian household is worth about $40,000 more than their American counterparts
Today's video is a conversation between our own Alex Daley and David Stockman – David gives a startlingly blunt assessment of the US's economic outlook and how it came to this precipice.
The European Union is at risk of being destroyed by the euro.
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If you were involved in Icelandic high finance in the run-up to the recession, you might want to start watching your back.
The free market responds to demand. When a government breaks down, free markets respond. This is happening in Greece.
Though we've written a number of positive articles about Iceland, we're rapidly getting over the idea of Iceland as a courageous "mighty mite" standing up against Europe's "banksters."
The mainstream media attempted to write off the implosion of the index as a fluke tied to the “overproductions of cargo ships” instead of a warning sign of deteriorating demand. The past six months have proven that assertion to be entirely false.
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"The most serious consequence of this scandal, which is under investigation, is that it undermines the certainty and the trust that markets have in benchmarks," said Jose Vinals, director of the IMF's Monetary and Capital Markets Department.
Yes, the power elite that wants to run the world seems to set up crisis after crisis, economic or military, in order to reinforce the idea that only a handful of politicos are important and that everyone else is a kind of spectator.
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What can Europe learn from the United States?
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In France, the libertarian movement is small. Many people turn to socialism, communism or nationalism according to the result of the last presidential election.
While the attention of the financial world and the business press have been focused so completely on the daily developments in Europe – though there's not a game changer among them - other economic news from around the world has been largely crowded
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