Ideas were not in short supply, but some ideas were more common than others. More than a few speakers spoke well of gold and oil. Most had dim views of the economy and the stock market. And there were at least a handful whose best ideas hailed from some emerging market.
August 18th, 2010 | Chris Mayer | 3 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "dubai"
Economists With Their One-stop Solution: Stimulate Consumer Spending
But $150 oil warned us: continue down that road and you will run out of gas. There isn’t enough oil in the world to allow US-style consumption for everyone.
December 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 14 comments | Continued
Copenhagen Climate Talks Possibly Sent the Market Higher
The S&P 500 hit a 14-month high overnight. The conventional wisdom is that two news events are responsible. This is probably wrong. But let’s look at both events anyway and see what happened.
The first is that Abu Dhabi extended a $10 billion in financing to debt-distressed Dubai. Hossanah! Remember, Dubai is not Lehman. It’s Bear Stearns.
December 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
Greek Banks Playing the Carry Trade and Investing in Government Bonds
Another day, another country looks to be heading towards bankruptcy.
Greece was last night downgraded by ratings agency Fitch from A- to BBB+ and was placed on negative credit watch. That means there could be more downgrades to come.
The Greek budget deficit is currently 12% of GDP.
December 9th, 2009 | Murray Dawes | 3 comments | Continued
Global Warming Getting Bad Press
Is the planet heating up? If so, is human activity the cause of it? No one knows. But thousands…millions…of people make their reputations, their careers and their fortunes by promising to do something about it.
December 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 24 comments | Continued
Gold and Stocks Going in the Same Direction
Here is a quick answer: no. We’re still a long way from gold’s ultimate destination. Our ‘Trade of the Decade’ was to buy gold on dips and sell stocks on rallies.
December 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
US Consumers Have Slacked Off
So, who’s going to do the consuming? Where’s the growth going to come from to keep Chinese factories polluting the atmosphere and Indian call centers confusing the customers?
December 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
A Date for an Aussie House Price Collapse
But we’ve done plenty of homework on the Aussie housing market. We’re either right or we’re wrong. Our forecast is not an option. There is no time decay. True, there may be people out there who are weighing up whether now is a good time to buy a house based on predictions about the direction of prices.
December 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 251 comments | Continued
Dubai, the Financial Center Built on Sand
No on is sure what is going on. Most people take from this story what we knew all along: lending to shady characters in sunny places is not an easy way to make money.
December 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Dubai, Built on Debt and Sand
Dubai was the great success story of the Near East. With nothing but rich sheiks behind it, this patch of desert had set itself the goal of becoming a major financial and tourism center.
December 1st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Dubai Debt Story More Like Bear Stearns Less Like Lehman Brothers
But first things first. Dubai World is not nearly large, leveraged, or systemically important as either Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers when both those firms failed. For those reasons, it’s unlikely that the failure of Dubai World (and we’re not saying it will fail) would, by itself, cause a global deleveraging.
November 30th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
The Trouble With a Sovereign Debt Crisis
The trouble with a sovereign debt crisis is that you just never know what the tipping point is going to be. Things can be travelling along nicely with apparent stability and suddenly you find yourself in the middle of a crisis. For the last month we’ve been warning about a sovereign debt crisis in the Western Welfare states.
November 27th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 17 comments | Continued
Bureaucracy and Corruption Holds India Back
“Can a democracy be a dictatorship at the same time?” an op-ed asked in this morning’s Times Of India in response to the draconian efforts the Maharashtra state had taken to boost voter turnout.
October 21st, 2009 | Addison Wiggin | 5 comments | Continued
Dubai and Abu Dhabi: Newcomers to the Global Finance and Trade
Still, our friend Peter Cooper recalls a time in his own family history when Dubai was nothing but a backwater of the British Empire, a port full of smugglers, nomads and thieves.
October 14th, 2009 | Addison Wiggin | 6 comments | Continued
Arab Wealth Pours Back into Dubai
“The real boom in Dubai really only kicked off recently. After spending some time here and chatting with those who live here, I would boil down the more important ingredients to these:…
October 14th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
