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US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt
in Sox First, on November 23, 2009
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Earlier this month, I did a blog entry warning of worse times ahead with the US debt hitting $12 trillion. Just how bad is it going to get? As the New York Times warns, the US is now facing wav...
Economy to get worse with debt hitting $12 trillion
in Sox First, on November 18, 2009
... than expected . The US economy is facing a long hard haul back with debt levels now topping $12 trillion . That only adds to pressure on the economy from weak bank lending, poor growth and high le...
Is China about to collapse?
in Sox First, on November 12, 2009
... sell. The big problem is China's debt. As Fortune magazine reports, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the economy. That's up 136% from the same period last year and the money ...
Seen that? - Big Sur Bonanza #2
in The Outdoor Weblog, on November 9, 2009
..., has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist David Hirst notes, it's become a case of viral bail-out mania...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...ar success has been its links with the US Government. The list includes: the treasury secretary under Bill Clinton (Robert Rubin); the treasury secretary under George Bush (Hank Paulson); the current ... ...eft the global economy in a mess. And this is someone representing a bank that has assets of $1 trillion and profits of $3.4 billion in the last quarter. Average pay there is $700,000 and the top rain...
Seen that? - BIG SUR BONANZA #3
in The Outdoor Weblog, on October 31, 2009
..., has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist David Hirst notes, it's become a case of viral bail-out mania...
Did brilliant minds create the recession?
in Sox First, on October 18, 2009
...ed after making enormously leveraged gambles with various forms of arbitrage involving more than $1 trillion dollars. According to the professors, their model was scientifically sound and could not go...
Seen that? - Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010
in Nanotechbuzz, on October 12, 2009
... Nanotech market to top $1 trillion by 2010 at Nanotechbuzz A new report from RNCOS, "World Nanotechnology Market - An Industry Update (2005)&q...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...ry news that it had raised its ratings of US banks to "attractive", claiming that these banks are under-valued. Why is Goldman Sachs talking up US banks which are about as attractive as a dead cat? ... ...that we are only in the early stages of the second half of this credit cycle. I expect another $1.5 trillion of credit-card lines to be removed from the system by the end of 2010. This includes not on...
Rich getting richer
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
... the amount of global wealth by 11.8%. In the United States, wealth has shrunk by 21.8% to US$29.3 trillion compared to 2007. But the picture is a lot more complicated than that. Some have lost a f...
Seen that? - 10 shoestring principles for business
in BootStrapMe, on October 2, 2009
...bootstrap principles at BootStrapMe Notice the points under consultant Cherilyn R. Lester's Top 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Starting a Busines... ...tstrapping principals [...] Read More Principles for Responsible Investment hit $8 trillion at Sox First Last year, I looked at the rise of ...
Writedowns reduced but bad loans to increase
in Sox First, on September 30, 2009
...ssed sales and delinquencies in the United States. European commercial real estate markets are also under pressure, especially in Ireland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, where property prices have dec... ...und has scaled back the global writedowns for banks and other financial institutions to a mere $3.4 trillion. So that's $600 billion less of writedowns. The bad news is that the number of bad loa...
Do Venture Capitalists Foster Innovation, or Just Pay For It?
in TJ's Weblog, on September 28, 2009
...hCrunch . I'm amused that the NVCA claims credit for creating 12 million jobs and generating $3 trillion in revenue (that's only 21 percent of U.S. GDP). In the software industry (which includ...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...that talks about 10 bubbles in the making: China; gold; renewable energy; the Fed snapping up $1.25 trillion of mortgage backed securities; the prices of junk financial stocks like Fannie, Freddie, AI...
Electric cars - no one will buy without Government backing
in Sox First, on September 6, 2009
...t will make a billion of something, [with an average price of] $20,000, you're looking at a $20 trillion industry rising up from nothing today within the span of 10 to 15 years." But it will...
Commercial real estate to create a new mortgage crisis
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...to keep a lid on commercial-real-estate losses by extending debt when it has matured as long as the underlying properties are generating enough cash to pay debt service." The problem is owners w... ...t's left of the banks. WSJ reporters Lingling Wei and Peter Grant write: "Banks hold $1.7 trillion of commercial mortgages and construction loans, and delinquencies on this debt already have...
Scams bigger than Bernie
in Sox First, on August 14, 2009
...New York Post reports that Markopolos is warning that there are evil-doers in the unregulated $600 trillion credit default swap market that will make Ponzi scheme perpetrators like Bernard Madoff &qu...
US banks face more losses from commercial property collapse
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...is month, Congressional Economic Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney told reporters the $3.5 trillion commercial real estate market was a "ticking time bomb" which could result in ano...
Why a carbon tax is better than cap and trade
in Sox First, on July 18, 2009
...x anyway. Thirdly, there is the risk of carbon market becoming a bubble. This market could reach $2 trillion in five years and with speculators moving in and creating risky or low-value carbon credits...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
...also playing a big role. China has increased its investments on cleantech by three-fold to RMB1.35 trillion in the past decade. According to 2Point6Billion, the business forum is organized by the Chin...
Beware the China bubble
in Sox First, on June 29, 2009
...h reports that we are seeing the creation of an asset price bubble in that market. There was 4.57 trillion yuan (or about $US670 billion) of new lending pouring into the market but most of that was ...
Logistics cost in the U.S. is dropping
in Supplychainer, on June 29, 2009
... of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), total spending on U.S. logistics dropped to $1.3 trillion last year, a decrease of $49 billion from 2007.
Logistics Management Magazine also repo...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ll involve juicy, big budget capital projects. These are the traditional targets of corruption, and under the counter deals done with a wink and a nudge. "Because corruption, by definition, happ... ...onsultancy Kroll . According to the report, corruption could swipe about $500 billion out of the $5 trillion, equivalent to Japan's national output in just 18 months, being poured into saving econ...
Krugman, Soros and Roubini: how to fix the crisis
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
...e budget deficits and increasing the public debt, we don't know whether it's going to be $5 trillion or $10 trillion of more debt. But there are only a few ways of resolving that debt problem:...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
... them? First comes its report showing that that the top 25 originators of subprime loans, the $1 trillion worth of assets that created the meltdown were owned and financed by investment banks now r...
One more step to bank nationalization
in Sox First, on April 25, 2009
...d New York Time piece . According to that piece, experts assess that US banks might still need $1 trillion in capital. "As the dust settles from the shakeout on Wall Street, the 19 banks subjec...
chinaSMACK | Hot Internet Stories, Pictures, & Videos in China
in Wangtam, on 2009-04-21
...eos in China
• Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers
• Court jails Pirate Bay founders
• MySpace员工因窃取个人机密信息被捕
• Facebook opens up vote on new terms of service
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• We Are Hunted
• TechCrunch Poll: How Much Did VC Investing Drop In The First Quarter?
• Energy jobs, environmental jobs, skilled trades jobs, green jobs : Great Green Careers...
Jewelry Sale at FredMeyerJewelers.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on April 19, 2009
... An expansion explosion began in 1995 when Fred Meyer Jewelers acquired 23 jewelry stores operating under a variety of names in California and Washington. Today, you'll find Fred Meyer Jewelers in... ...ion ring features a 10mm x 12mm oval shaped, cabochon style lavender jade set between two 4mm x 4mm trillion shaped amethysts, in 14k white gold with diamond accents.
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G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
... will be around for some time yet. Don't get too worked up about markets' celebrating the trillion dollar G20 deal. It's a sucker's rally. Why do I say that? First, there are a numb...
Bailouts total $3 trillion with no oversight
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky there were $3 trillion worth of bailout programs, the equivalent of an entire agency or three just to stop the US ...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
...The problem with this approach is that investors aren't really taking that big a risk, it's underwritten by the US Government. It's a point taken up by economist Paul Krugman this mornin... ...led "toxic assets". It will cost $500 billion with the "potential to expand up to $1 trillion over time". "The Public-Private Investment Program is better for the taxpayer th...
The politics of AIG
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
...igned to stop the building from burning down, not to build a new one. "Some people estimate a trillion dollars or more private capital sitting on the sidelines just waiting to come in. You can s...
Millionaires and fake prosperity
in Sox First, on March 12, 2009
...rillion dollars, the US Government deficit is now running at more than 11% of GDP (compared with 6% under Roosevelt) and America is now the world's biggest debtor nation. So all this talk about f... ...Gates have dropped a few billion each. Let's get this in some context. Unemployment is rising, trillions of dollars of value have been destroyed around the world, the economic impact of the reces...
Jewelry Sale at ShopNBC.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on March 8, 2009
..." La Perla Atlantic Larimar Bracelet
• One freeform 20 x 25mm Larimar cabochon
• Two trillion-cut 6mm permanently processed blue topaz
• Four round 9mm permanently processed simulated whit...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 20, 2009
The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion. It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management w...
Greenspan wants to nationalize banks
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...y to temporarily nationalise some banks in order to facilitate a swift and orderly restructuring. I understand that once in a hundred years this is what you do." Quite a nerve really coming from... ...Greenspan took over as chief of the Federal Reserve in 1987, public and private debt stood at $10.3 trillion. When he departed in 2006, it had quadrupled to $43 trillion. While William McChesney Mart...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
..., financial and non-financial corporate debt that went ballistic and wound up totaling some $36 trillion. "My summation is that American financial capitalism, at a pivotal period in the nati...
Banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...rned that total losses on loans by American financial firms and their falling value will reach $3.6 trillion. That's up substantially from his previous estimate of $2 trillion. Writing in the Wa...
IMF risks running out of cash
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
...oped world are headed deep into deficit - the US budget deficit for instance could very well top $2 trillion - to fight the global financial meltdown. They are about to be joined by the International ...
Startling predictions for 2009
in Sox First, on February 8, 2009
...S government will have to give up saving companies, the Federal deficit will balloon to at least $2 trillion, the Dow will plummet to 5500 and the real estate collapse will get worse. What we are tal...
Wall Street to Obama: the banks are insolvent
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
... has told told a conference in Dubai that US financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion. "It means the US banking system is effectively insolvent because it starts with a cap...
US economy, Pearl Harbor and Barack Obama
in Sox First, on January 21, 2009
...reign investors might balk at the US spending its way out of recession with packages of up to $1.4 trillion . To quote Obama's hero, Abraham Lincoln, you cannot escape the responsibility of ...
Barack Obama Says America Will Have To Endure Years Of Trillion Dollar Deficits
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 7, 2009
...nt-Elect Barack Obama admitted that there will be an enormous price tag for the economic recovery.
Trillion plus dollar deficits should be expected for a number of years to come; but the bright side ...
More handouts: who's next?
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
...s share, mostly in the form of Barack Obama's stimulus package which they hope will be worth $1 trillion over two years. Then, Reuters reports that newspapers are looking for government handouts...
Moissanite Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on January 1, 2009
...nd are available in round, oval, marquise, pear shape, radiant cut octagon, heart shape, triangle, trillion, brilliant cut squares, and antique squares.
14K Gold Moissanite Circle Pendant
Tre...
Are we all Keynesians now?
in Sox First, on December 30, 2008
...at such approaches are foolish. Markets are neither infallible nor dispensable. They are indeed the underpinnings of a productive economy and individual freedom. But they can also go seriously awry an... ... Obama preparing a two-year fiscal stimulus package that could end up costing something close to $1 trillion, questions are being asked whether we are all turning into followers of John Maynard Keyne...
Bush Ran Up Trillion Dollar Bill For War On Terror
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 26, 2008
...h is basically another way to describe the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is rapidly approaching the trillion dollar mark.
Some of the costs of fighting terror have been generated in places other than...
South Korea Announces Plans to Lead Global Nanotech Market
in Nanotechbuzz, on December 25, 2008
...ders a chance to dominate the growing field," the article states. "South Korea poured 1.9 trillion won ($1.4 billion) into the sector in the last eight years... as of 2005, the country ranke...
Obama Wants Mammoth Economic Stimulus Package Ready For Inauguration Day
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 19, 2008
...omic stimulus package on Inauguration Day.
This bit of economic relief, estimated to be close to a trillion dollars, will differ from the previous one in that it will benefit a broader segment of soc...
Bernanke the banker
in Sox First, on December 17, 2008
... prices forecast to fall further until end-2010 or mid-2011, the US federal deficit could top $1 trillion if the US government used the same accounting methods as private companies and worries abo...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...out, the origins of this crisis are in no small part due to two of the most destabilising decisions undertaken by the President: the Iraq war which according to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Sti... ... war which according to Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz could cost the US more than $3 trillion, and the tax cuts fed the housing bubble. "With China and other foreign countries abso...
Who's next in the bail-out bonanza?
in Sox First, on November 28, 2008
...eed more." If that's right, we are likely to see most, if not all, US financial companies under government control. And taxpayers will be footing the bill.
... ...has told Associated Press that more banks will be lining up because the finance sector needs $1.2 trillion in capital. As journalist David Hirst notes , it's become a case of viral bail-out man...
Citi slickers
in Sox First, on November 25, 2008
...al system in the future." That is seriously scary. Think about it. Citigroup has more than $3 trillion in assets - about one third is off the balance sheet. All this deal does is have government...
$40 Billion Withdrawn from Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 24, 2008
...illion in performance-based asset losses, reduced the industry capital base by $155 billion. Assets under management in the global hedge fund industry declined to $1.56 trillion at the end of October,... ...l base by $155 billion. Assets under management in the global hedge fund industry declined to $1.56 trillion at the end of October, a level last seen at the end of Q4 2006.
As of the end of Q3 2008, ...
Don't expect China to save the world
in Sox First, on November 13, 2008
...nviting comparisons of the total with a single year's GDP. Some estimates suggest that of the 4 trillion yuan of spending contained in this weeks package, "only" 500 billion represents n...
Britain to enter a worse recession than the US
in Sox First, on October 22, 2008
...se credit will continue to contract and there are warnings banks are facing losses of at least $1 trillion. And the reality is that no-one knows where and when this will end. Still, King's word...
Markets and the destruction of wealth
in Sox First, on October 11, 2008
...s. On Friday, Wall Street continued its plunge , with losses for the year reaching an amazing $8.3 trillion. But if you look at the data closely, you will see we are now seeing a decade of wealth de...
Bush Wants To Bail Out Corporate Gamblers
in The Gambling Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...;play", that is, bet on the horses, the tables, poker, and place bets on just about everything under the sun, without any guarantees that they will win.
So what does someone who "plays"... ... on a long, hard losing streak.
But the Bush Government has seen fit to underwrite this nearly one trillion dollar bad bet with your tax money.
Considering that this is the same Administration that ...
Bad mortgage bailout pain
in Sox First, on September 21, 2008
...es. And let's make no mistake about it. It will send the US into more debt, raising it to $11.3 trillion. It will boost the US trade deficit and that's bad for the market. And it creates probl...
Black Sunday fallout
in Sox First, on September 16, 2008
...day will flow into 2009, writes Kathleen Madigan from Dow Jones . "US households are already under strain from falling house prices and incomes that haven't kept pace with inflation for sev... ...irms began closing their doors. In the year ended in the first quarter, households lost more than a trillion dollars in equities and mutual funds. But unlike in 2001, when stock portfolios also fell, ...
Jewelry Bargains at Red Envelope
in The Jewelry Weblog, on September 14, 2008
...happiness and good cheer, pear-shaped Garnet for protection, square Citrine for happiness, and trillion-cut Topaz for love.
$120
Pearl Lariat Necklace
A time-honored tradition, pearls are...
Green technology boom
in Sox First, on September 12, 2008
Remember the Internet? Renewable energy and green technology will be a lot bigger than that, say Silicon Valley's venture capitalists. For a fascinating rundown about how the venture capitalists are falling over themselves to save the planet and make huge profits, check out this piece in O...
Jewelry Bargains at Amazing Finds for Less.com
in The Jewelry Weblog, on August 17, 2008
...lity. Click on the pics for more info.
14k Yellow Gold & Peridot Ring
14k Yellow Gold, Trillion-cut yellow-green Peridot, and Diamond accents
$241
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The Growth of Infrastructure Funds
in China Venture News, on August 15, 2008
...nfrastructure in emerging markets all over Asia. They quote Morgan Stanley as forecasting over $21 trillion in infrastructure spending in emerging markets over the next decade. Two-thirds of that sp...
Climate change: companies at risk
in Sox First, on August 7, 2008
...he global 300 are assessed as high or very high impact for climate change, representing over a $6.8 trillion market cap. The study also found that these companies weren't putting their money wher...
UBS and the tax cheats
in Sox First, on July 18, 2008
...ch. Now we are seeing revelations that UBS has been helping tax cheats. It helped hide about $1.5 trillion in tax, according to news reports. How many hospitals, schools and roads would that build ...
Frontier Markets Fund Launch
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on July 14, 2008
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However, there is potential for high return. With a combined market capitalisation of around $1.7 trillion, frontier markets are in the early stages of development and growing towards entry into the ...
State of the logistics in the U.S.
in Supplychainer, on July 2, 2008
... government.
- During 2007, the overall cost of U.S. logistics increased from $91 billion to $1.4 trillion, or the equivalent of 10.1 percent of GDP. As a reference point, the U.S. economy only grew...
Jewelry Bargains at Jewelry Television
in The Jewelry Weblog, on June 29, 2008
...opaz Bracelet
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Sky blue topaz approx 8x8mm.
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.48ctw round white Topaz bracelet.
This bracelet measures 5/16 inch in widt...
US recession reality check
in Sox First, on June 8, 2008
Friday's bleak US payroll data showing another drop in jobs and rising unemployment, combined with this long-term chart of US gross firing and hiring , is not just another sign of the unfolding US recession. It's also a warning for the global economy. Indeed, the Chicago Fed's N...
