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Financial Crime Is A Systemic Risk

Famed Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises wrote in his seminal work, Human Action (originally published by the Yale University Press in 1949), that “There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Tue, Oct 23 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, inflation, BRIC, Gold, IMF, OPEC, CDS, OTC derivatives, unemployment, Ben Bernanke, Brazil, debt monetization, RMB, U.S. dollar, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, ECB, Austrian economics, crude oil, LIBOR, mortgage fraud, securities fraud, Baltic Dry Index, sovereign default, state sponsored terrorism, FASB, bank failure, credit default swaps, HFT, BDI, monetary policy, money laundering, debt levels, European Monetary Union, OMT, SDRs, debt downgrade, forclosure fraud, GAAP, Australia, zero percent interest rate policy, collapse, recession, stock market crash, High-Frequency Trading, gross notional amount, Ludwig von Mises, consumers, liquidity, deficit spending, Greece, Italy. unfunded liabilities, United Arab Emirates, Russia, QE3, quantitative easing III, South America, London Interbank Offered Rate, hyperinflation. gross credit exposure, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, systemic collapse, EMU, SML. Special Drawing Rights, mark-to-market rule, Africa. Sistema de Pagamentos em Moeda Local, renminbi, ZIRP, Japan, ISDA, Human Action, sovereign debt crisis, Spain, ATS, India and China, Financial Accounting Standards Board, over the counter, Automated Trading Systems, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Iran, South Africa, Europe, depression, financial markets, Portugal, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, outright monetary transactions, Los Zetas, UAE

The War at the End of the Dollar

The history of the U.S. dollar is closely linked to U.S. involvement in a series of wars. The Bretton Woods Accord and the resulting world reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar were both byproducts of World War II (1939-1945). The Korean War (1950-1953) was followed six years later by the Vietnam...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Sun, Jul 1 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, CPI, China, Gold, Bretton Woods, Alan Greenspan, Brazil, Banking Act of 1933, Consumer Price Index, Cold War, Committee to Flood the World, BRIC nations, crude oil, Triffin Dilemma, Accord, Gibson's Paradox, Executive Order 11037, Glass–Steagall Act, Gulf War, Afghanistan, Global War on Terror

Interview: Jim Rickards on Inflation and Currency Wars

The Hera Research Newsletter (HRN) is pleased to present an eye opening interview with James G. Rickards, Senior Managing Director of Tangent Capital Partners, a merchant bank specializing in alternative asset management solutions, and also Chief Operating Officer of Oro Capital Advisors, LLC, a commercial...

Posted to Hera by Ron Hera on Fri, Feb 4 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Federal reserve, deflation, inflation, China, Hyperinflation, QE2, Ben Bernanke, Jim Rickards, Brazil, U.S. Treasuries, Brazillian real, debt monetization, quantitative easing, yuan, RMB, U.S. dollar, QE

India & Brazil

My immediate concern on all Indian Information Technology businesses I have contacted so far comes from their monolingualism. Most of my clients do not speak English, have no interest in learning English, and expect to understand the new technologies with full telephone support in their own language...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Wed, Mar 24 2010
Filed under: Filed under: India, Brazil, software, Portuguese, monolingualism, highway, French, rainforest, Spanish, World Cup

Two hours for Japan and Venezuela

Through the LinkedIn online professional platform, in Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, North America, Europe, South Africa, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and especially in India I have had the opportunity of establishing interesting contacts for future commercial opportunities. On the contrary...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Sun, Dec 6 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Venezuela, linkedin, India, Japan, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Argentina, Colombia, North America, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Europe

Establishing further ties between Africa and South America

A long term goal could be to expand direct scheduled commercial airline and ocean freight service between South American and African countries through private investors willing to establish a true global infrastructure. Help from governments is certainly useful, but our political systems are generally...

Posted to Rubén Rivero Capriles by Rubén on Thu, Nov 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Venezuela, genealogy, tourism, Africa, Brazil, Nigeria, slavery, freight, South America, South Africa