Excessive leverage and risk in the financial system, e.g., using customer funds to speculate, never ends well. Stock market crashes, bank and investment firm failures or economic recessions are all potential consequences. Following the failure of the United States to regulate over the counter (OTC) derivatives...
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Ron Hera
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Fri, Nov 16 2012
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Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, deflation, inflation, GDP, IMF, Great Depression, CDS, unemployment, debt monetization, too big to fail, International Monetary Fund, Gross Domestic Product, Consumer Price Index, MBS, mortgage backed securities, over the counter derivatives, European Central Bank, ECB, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, bank failure, credit default swaps, BDI, monetary policy, OMT, recession, stock market crash, liquidity, QE3, quantitative easing III, systemic collapse, outright monetary transactions, market intervention, stagflation, tax increases, austerity measures, savings, U.S. Treasury, bank credit, stagnation, economic opportunity, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, instability, entrepreneurship, public funds, jobs, financial crisis, operation twist, bond yields, living standards, financial repression, Carmen M. Reinhart, OTC derivatives. Glass-Steagall Act, interest rates, net loss, middle class, consumer incomes, innovation, economic recovery
What a suprise a new bubble is growing. According to a German Magazine the prices for land are soaring. Within just a few years a hectare has seen an increase in price from 5000 USD to 30000 USD. That's a raise or 600 % and you can bet this is the next bubble. Fueled and fired by the ever expanding...
I'm not a Republican. But I am a conservative. I'm not a member of any political party. It isn't because I don't care, however. Quite the contrary, I am terribly concerned about the direction this nation is taking. I just don't have the time and energy. Like many Americans that have...
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Not-a-Lemming
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FutbolGuru
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Wed, Jun 24 2009
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Filed under: wealth, Liberal, Conservative, Republican, democrat, middle class, Mark Sanford, argentina, Georgia, Rush Limbaugh
The Agitator linked to this Drew Carey video about the conditions of America's middle class. I was unsatisfied with how the video explained the decline in morale among the economically thriving middle class. It seems to blame the media - misery sells...