Tag Archives: bonds

[OTE128] On the Edge with Ed Harrison

Posted on October 23, 2011 by stacyherbert| 23 Comments

We interview Ed Harrison of Credit Writedowns about the Greek debt crisis and about the bond market.

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Posted in On the Edge

Tagged bond market, bonds, ed harrison, greece, treasuries

Greece: The IMF Flag Reads ECONOMIC SLAVERY . . . and Inflation Maximizing Fund

Posted on April 9, 2010 by stacyherbert| 149 Comments

Stacy Summary: Greece will dominate the news for the next few days. The first article is the original Greek version of the article you have read translated; it has only just made it to this online version below. The second article I re-post because the journalist for the first piece is going to write an article about Matt Taibbi’s article on No Payment.

The IMF Flag Reads ECONOMIC SLAVERY (in Greek)

Re-post: The No Payment Movement

Bundesbank attacks Greek rescue; says IMF is “Inflation Maximizing Fund”

Fear of collapse drives investors to rush to sell Greek bonds

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Posted in Headlines

Tagged bonds, bundesbank, greece, imf

‘Fatal’ Greece? Speculative attacks and fleeing funds

Posted on January 29, 2010 by stacyherbert| 96 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning.

Greek PM warns of speculators are attacking Greece as weak link in euro

Funds flee Greece as Germany warns of ‘fatal’ Eurozone crisis

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Posted in Headlines

Tagged bonds, debt, germany, greece

Unhinged from Reality & Credit Where It Isn’t Due

Posted on November 6, 2009 by stacyherbert| 65 Comments

Stacy Summary: Reminds me of the opening clip in this promo taken from the Oracle where Max talks about the Bermuda Triangle of debt.

Valuing Bonds, Dollar is Crazy in a World Gone Mad

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Posted in Headlines

Tagged bonds, dollar, gold

$134.5 billion in US bonds seized at Italian-Swiss border

Posted on June 11, 2009 by stacyherbert| 50 Comments

Stacy Summary: Here are the links for the biggest story of today . . . that hasn’t made it to one single main stream media news outlet in US or UK as far as I can tell. That’s pretty amazing in itself.

US government securities worth $134.5 billion seized from Japanese nationals at Italian border

What caught the policemen’s attention were the billion dollar securities. Such a large denomination is not available in regular financial and banking markets. Only states handle such amounts of money.