We pick up sword and shield, ready to fight for Goldman, after reading The Financial Times. The FT has devoted a whole page to Goldman bashing.
November 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "U.S. government"
China Will Rule the Business World While America Finds Itself Heavily in Debt
The 19th century belonged to Britain, the 20th century belonged to America and in the 21st century, China will rule the business world. Whether you like it or not, this transition is already underway…
November 18th, 2009 | Puru Saxena | 10 comments | Continued
Dollar Rally the Sort of Thing that Will Lead to Correction in Gold Price
House prices were up 6.2% in the third quarter over the same time last year, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. House prices in the capital cities are surging. Stocks are surging. Gold and oil are surging.
November 17th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Finding Assets that Out Run Inflation as Bond Yields Move Up
The week began with your editor wondering how the bond market would choke down another $81 billion in U.S. Treasury debt. On Monday, it swallowed $40 billion in three-year notes with gusto, and even belched in satisfaction. Demand, analysts said, hadn’t been that strong since 1990-when the bond vigilantes used the bond market as a weapon to discipline government spending.
November 13th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
What’s the Best Way to Get Through a Debt Crisis?
For at least a thousand years, the business cycle went round and round without help from central bankers or economists. It is only since these geniuses have been on the case that really serious problems have arisen.
November 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
The Kind of World the Next Generation Will Inherit
Then, on top of an increasingly worthless currency, Generation iPod also inherits about a quarter of a million dollars each in unfunded Social Security and healthcare obligations…
November 2nd, 2009 | Joel Bowman | 38 comments | Continued
Rally in Stocks and Rise in Aussie Dollar is a Result of the Carry Trade
That’s just what happened last year. Only then, it was both a dollar and yen carry trade that led to a rise in Aussie assets. Once the credit crisis set in, the yen carry got dropped and investors fled risk assets and piled right back into the greenback and U.S. Treasuries.
October 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 9 comments | Continued
Banks Could Face Larger Asset Writedowns and Losses than IMF has Modelled
Next time around, though, we reckon the losses – when they come – will be on domestic real estate assets. And with so much exposure to domestic real estate (mortgage loans), the assets could face a world of hurt. But even if bank asset quality doesn’t crash (housing prices don’t crash), an external shock affects Aussie bank liabilities.
October 28th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
Government Debt
And that assumes there is no big increase in interest rates…and that the economy recovers as planned. If either of those things fails to happen, the situation will degrade fast.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Investment Banks Making Money Thanks to US Government Bailouts
Meanwhile, the Bank of America is a real bank. With real mom and pop customers. And the poor moms and the poor pops are going bust. They can’t pay their bills.
October 20th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued