Dear CIGAs, JB Slear asks what is in your garage? Jim Sinclair’s Commentary There are green shoots here. I know it. Just a minute now, I will find them. Jim Sinclair’s Commentary States are bracing for shutdowns. Other states are right behind California. The Formula of 2006 is so far on the money, yet few will yet accept the final outcome as it pertains to the US dollar. Despite the Formula being correct so far, many still doubt its position on the US dolla

A few days ago, I published my most recent extended essay for this blog on American foreign policy . I put it on here with the full knowledge that hardly anyone would read it, given its length. However, there are certain parts of it that I hope to have some discussion on because I think I have put forward some ideas worth talking about. The following is an excerpt from my paper on the financial crisis, a crisis with plenty of foreign policy implications. Global

Although more than $ 80 billion in granting the free flow of money sent each year, only a fraction of how the credits available to individuals for personal use. However, the new owners may be the occasion, thousands of dollars in tax incentives or unanticipated demand some of these scholarships, awards for himself. Applications for a scholarship is not, and the request for a loan or mortgage. This is due to the fact that subsidies are not usually with interest rates and should not be reimburse

Wishing that the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) had issued its annual report 2009 a day earlier - when Vienna drowned in torrential rain - I nevertheless attempt to provide readers with an executive summary that the central bank of central banks has omitted in its version. This leads me to the first conclusion that world finance must have become really complicated when not even several dozen BIS economists with months of preparation time can sum up 250 pages of data and events. P

Socialist Unity reported : Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney… The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel. I posted a comment noting that: –Haaretz reported the Israeli army said “humanitarian goods found on board the boat would be transferred to the Gaza

Could the great recession of 2008 have been prevented by better risk management software? Would these programs have exposed the deepening dangers of complex derivatives, such as credit default swaps? The answer is perhaps. Most likely they would have helped mitigate the fall. “I think (the turn down) could have been different,” says Sam Savage, a consulting professor at Stanford University and the brainchild of new probability-management program . “The more transparent we make probability,

« FINRA Announces Initiatives Involving Municipal Securities | Main | Merkin's Art Collection to be Sold and Funds Placed in Escrow Pending Resolution of New York AG's Suit » FINRA announced that it has fined ICAP Corporates LLC, of Jersey City, $2.8 million and sanctioned a former broker for numerous improper communications with other interdealer brokerage firms about customers' proposed brokerage rate reductions in the wholesale credit default swap (CDS) market. Jennifer Joan James, a f

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I met Stowe Boyd, of Microsyntax.org at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference which convened in the middle of a perfect storm for t he State of NOW (more mundanely known as the real time web) as thousands of tiny Twitter pipes became a vital conduit for the historic events occurring in Iran (picture on left, Stowe Boyd, from Brian Solis ‘ Flickr here , and on the right, Bruce Sterling, presenting at reboot11 from scriptingnews ‘ Flickr here) . But, as Clay Shirky pointed out,

Amidst the ongoing financial crisis, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz writes that in the modern era of globalization it is developing countries which provided important engines for economic growth, and therefore any global recovery will only be achieved in which they play a central role. The G20 continues to lack the political legitimacy required to represent so many citizens outwith their own borders, in which they channel their recovery packages through the IMF, an organisation wh