Category: Global Financial System
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Bretton Woods II- Roadmap Towards a New Financial System / Stock-Markets / Global Financial System
By: Axel_Merk
Following calls by European leaders for a "Bretton Woods II", the Bush administration has invited the " G-20 " countries to come to Washington with the lofty goal to reform the world financial system. Will the way we do business change November 15?
The first Bretton Woods conference, held in 1944, gave birth to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and - albeit with half a century delay - the World Trade Organization.
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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Time to Bunker Down as the Global Debt Mountain Implodes / Economics / Global Financial System
By: Dr_William_R_Swagell
Global Panic Spreads - The largest debt bubble in the history of mankind is on the verge of deflating and collapsing as world leaders and central bankers fly around the globe to one crisis meeting after another. No sooner is one panic quelled or some hasty band-aid fix slapped into place to stop a financial collapse than another breaks out somewhere else. The bad news just keeps on coming; Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The United States, Europe and Bretton Woods II to Avoid Economic Depression / Economics / Global Financial System
By: STRATFOR
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and U.S. President George W. Bush met Oct. 18 to discuss the possibility of a global financial summit. The meeting ended with an American offer to host a global summit in December modeled on the 1944 Bretton Woods system that founded the modern economic system. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 20, 2008
The End of Friedmanite Economics / Economics / Global Financial System
By: Mike_Whitney
Monday last week, the stock market recorded its biggest one day gain in history on news that the G-7 had settled on a plan to recapitalize the banking system. The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BOE) all agreed to make direct capital injections into "systemically important" banks so they could resume lending and reduce stress in the credit markets. They also decided to insure deposits and to guarantee interbank lending. Do you think that these unprecedented steps will be enough to avert a meltdown of the financial system?Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 20, 2008
The End Game- Greatest Ponzi Scheme in History Part2 / Politics / Global Financial System
By: David_Chu
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Unprecedented Global Coordinated Interest Rate Cut / Interest-Rates / Global Financial System
By: Joseph_Brusuelas
The US Federal Reserve along with the Bank of Canada, Bank of England, the European Central Bank, Sweden Riksbank and the Swiss National Bank acted in concert to reduce short term lending rates in pre-market hours this morning.Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Fear Grips Stock Markets as Economies Tip Into Recession / Stock-Markets / Global Financial System
By: Prieur_du_Plessis
Whew – what a wild week! Global stock markets and commodities tumbled, whereas government bonds and the US dollar surged amid mounting fears that the ongoing turmoil in financial markets was foreshadowing a hard landing for the US and Europe.
The first-ever trillion-dollar loss (as measured by the Dow Jones Willshire 5000 Index) on Wall Street came on Monday in the wake of the US House of Representatives failing to gather enough votes to pass the $700 billion bank rescue package. Globally, more than $1.7 trillion got wiped off the MSCI World Index.
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Mega-Trend: End of the Era of Falling Interest Rates / Interest-Rates / Global Financial System
By: Boris_Chikvashvili
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Friday, September 05, 2008
Russo-Georgian War Aftermath Impact on Financial Markets / Politics / Global Financial System
By: STRATFOR
A redefinition of Russia has taken place — rather jarringly — following its war with Georgia, and the entire world is reassessing its position and relations with the resurgent power. This reassessment includes financial factors — a much more tender area for today's Russia than for the Soviet Union, because Russia's large economy is tied into the global economy. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The Greatest Transfer of Wealth in History is About to Unfold / Stock-Markets / Global Financial System
By: Ty_Andros
As we look out over the next six months what we see will be extraordinary. The opportunities for prepared investors have never been brighter as the unfolding volatility will be incredible. “Volatility is Opportunity ” for the prepared investor and it will arrive in spades. After a short period of corrective activity I believe explosive moves in almost ALL SECTORS (interest rates, stocks, commodities, natural resources, currencies, and more) lay on the near horizon. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
G8 Fail to Address Growing Global Instability / Economics / Global Financial System
By: John_Browne
With market watchers the world over feeling increasingly alarmed by spreading economic problems, much hope and attention was focused on Japan last weekend as finance ministers and central bankers of the G-8 (Group of Eight) nations gathered to apparently map out a coordinated global response. In particular, all hoped that the delegates would conjure a plan to save the dollar from the dustbin and stop the price of oil and food from pushing the world into crisis.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Will We See the End of Empire in Our Time? / Politics / Global Financial System
By: Richard_C_Cook
The following is based on a talk given by the author at the “End of Empire” session of the “Building a New World” Conference of the Prout World Assembly at Radford University, Radford, Virginia, on May 22, 2008.
I believe we have had two Americas. One started with the imperialist state which Alexander Hamilton tried to put into place in the 1790s with the First Bank of the United States. Thomas Jefferson overthrew this early expression of empire in the Civic Revolution of 1800 and created a strong and free America which lasted until 1913 in spite of the convulsion of the Civil War.
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the USA - Part 2 / Politics / Global Financial System
By: Richard_C_Cook
Part 1“End Times”
Can it be that the last stage of the U.S. takedown is “The Project for the New American Century”? Is this ambitious plan for “global leadership” through military might that was seemingly invented by the “neocons”—many with dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship—a Trojan Horse?
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Extraordinary Times, Intentional Collapse, and Takedown of the USA - Part 1 / Politics / Global Financial System
By: Richard_C_Cook
Much has been written about whether a worldwide plan exists to control events and steer them in the direction profitable to an elite of the rich and powerful. Is this a “conspiracy theory”? While it is difficult to be specific about who exactly may be behind such a conspiracy, if it exists, it is at least clear that the privately-managed system of global financial capitalism gives ample opportunity for the world’s richest people to combine for their mutual benefit. Further, global financial capitalism itself is based on the monopolization of money-creation by a world banking system that is largely privately owned, even while working through the central banks of the largest and most prosperous nations.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, March 03, 2008
Epic Paradigm Shift Looms Against the Acceptance of Fiat Money / Stock-Markets / Global Financial System
By: Joseph_Russo
Adaptive Trading and Investment Perspectives Since we first began offering our market forecasting and analysis services to the public some two years ago, Elliott Wave Technology has been strident in directing our clients focus and attention to the negative wealth effects that eroding fiat-currency's impose - along with the plausibility of epic consequence, if and when an inevitable paradigm shift against the acceptance of fiat-money were to ever reach critical mass. No matter where we are in a given investment cycle, we must first recognize the inherent nature of that environment, and then adapt our various investment postures with fitting perspective.Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, February 29, 2008
Currencies Crises- Two Days in September / Currencies / Global Financial System
By: Adrian_Ash
"...The US Dollar's hoped-for decline had now become a rout, driving the greenback down to new all-time lows on its trade-weighted index..."
Saturday, 19th Sept. 1931 - Montagu Norman – governor of the Bank of England – is sailing back to London from a vacation in Canada . He'd felt "under the harrow" since February, and one day in late July had gone home early "feeling queer".
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Friday, February 29, 2008
The Anti-Gold Standard Gospel According to Barron Smith / Commodities / Global Financial System
By: Professor_Emeritus
Barron Young Smith is a financial journalist whose piece What Would Happen If We Adopted the Gold Standard? is appended below. He describes Ron Paul's campaign to restore Constitutional money in the U.S. as being "populist". He adds insult to injury in saying that "Ron Paul... is on a crusade to resurrect a great symbol of Wall Street-Washington dominance over the individual". Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The Coming Collapse of International Credit Ratings Agencies - Moody's, Standard & Poor, and Fitch / Stock-Markets / Global Financial System
By: Alex_Wallenwein
So you thought the Ambac/MBIA bond insurers crisis was bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet
The problem, the challenge, the scandal, is not that the bond insurers are about to be downgraded. The real scandal lies in the fact that they haven't been downgraded a long time ago - and much deeper than from "AAA" to "AA". In fact, what needs to be downgraded are the major international credit ratings agencies, Moody's, Standard & Poor, and Fitch.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Iran's Notice to Crude Oil Importers Results in Monetary Contraction of $500 billion of PetroDollar Reserves / Commodities / Global Financial System
By: Rob_Kirby
Much was made of Iran's announcement back in December, 2007 – that they would no longer be accepting U.S. Dollars as payment for their chief export, crude oil:
Iran stops selling oil in dollars - Tehran moves closer to confrontation with U.S.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Stock and Financial Market Forecasts 2008 - Currencies - Part 3 / Currencies / Global Financial System
By: Ty_Andros
Introduction
This is the master thread to which all economic analysis must be held up due to the fiat monetary systems practiced UNIVERSALLY around the world. Just like a game of musical chairs, or rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic everyone will go down sooner or later. The central reality is that Currencies don't float, they just sink at different rates .
Currencies are no longer backed by gold or silver and are no one else's liability; they are all now IOU's and are the liability of the central bank and country that issues them. The principle reserves of the world's central banks consist of other country's promises to pay (currency and bonds). As we all know, public servants rarely deliver on their promises, and their “promises to pay” are made of the same timber.
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