The French think they were right about everything. Iraq, for example. The French have deep ties to the Arab world. They knew Iraq would be a tar baby for the US – just like Algeria had been for them. You pick it up…you can’t put it down.
June 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "gordon brown"
Gordon Brown Pronounces New World Order
“Nothing very important, but the media makes a big thing of it. They kept talking about that G20 meeting – as if they were going to change the whole world – New World Order and all that…but what could they change? These hotshots at the banks took some bad bets. Now they’ve got to pay for them. What’s all the fuss about?”
April 6th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
G20 Was About Big Government Getting Bigger
“Governments know only one way of holding back recession. What do you suppose it is? Yes, the only solution they can think of is to continue the inflation. The ‘boom’ is regenerated with more bank credit and government subsidies. Companies appear to come to life again.”
April 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
IMF Gold to be Used
What’s more, Mr.Brown’s and the other top 19 world leader have agreed “not 100 billion but $250 billion of trade finance…provided over the next 2 years through export credit agencies, including $50bn through the new World Bank initiatives…”
April 3rd, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 3 comments | Continued
David Ricardo’s Economic Theory is Sound Doctrine
Gordon Brown has no intention of embarking on a new war, though he has defence commitments in Afghanistan, but he has failed to foresee that a large deficit makes it more difficult to support future deficits.
April 2nd, 2009 | William Rees-Mogg | 3 comments | Continued
Australia Ponders its Chinese Future
Let’s take a break from the great housing debate today and return to markets. What a day it was! Gordon Brown is ridiculed in the European Parliament as a U.K. bond auction fails. The U.S. Treasury Secretary is forced to consider a Chinese proposal for a new reserve currency that is not the greenback.
March 26th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Ask Not What Your Banks Can Do For You…
Everyone believes the banks need more money. Obama is likely to give them more. How? Using the “quantitative easing” technique…otherwise known as printing up money. The banks, of course, will not lend…and people will not borrow. They’re not fools. So, then, the Obama administration will begin pumping harder…like they do in Zimbabwe…
January 21st, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Gordon Brown’s Gold Sales, 10 Years On
Almost two decades after gold’s then-record top of $850 an ounce, the Nasdaq index would end the year 80% higher, discounting tech-stock earnings until A.D. 2129. Cue the FT, Economist and BusinessWeek to announce the “death of gold” as a store of value. Because who needed gold when you had Boo.com? But those British investors who saw life in the metal, however, have now tripled their money…
January 12th, 2009 | Adrian Ash | 4 comments | Continued
Obama faces huge challenges
The world’s press spoke with one voice over the weekend: “Now, the hard part… !”, “Obama faces huge challenges… ” , “Not an easy time for president-elect… ” And for once… the press is right. It won’t be an easy time for Obama’s team. But the president elect is moving fast…
November 11th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued