Entries Tagged as 'germany'

Avoiding ‘catastrophe’ and seizing the finance ministry

March 4th, 2010 28 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Good morning . . . ?

Greece passes new deficit cuts to avoid ‘catastrophe’

Germany snubs Greek aid plea; protesters seize finance ministry in Athens

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Germany’s Exports Weigh on Europe

February 27th, 2010 33 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Lots of German bashing in the comments.  And some Greek bashing.  Hopefully we can discuss more economic issues surrounding how to get out of the massive trade imbalances that have marked the past few decades and also the fiscal issues of many of these governments having expanded their deficits when they transferred massive [...]

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Germany backs bailout of Greece: yields plummet on Greek & Club Med bonds, euro rallies; Merkel denies the report [UPDATED]

February 10th, 2010 179 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Of course, all the hedge funds and Goldman Sachs’ of the world knew they could count on the German government ultimately capitulating and paying off these debts to them; I am sure they had fun playing yet another game of chicken.  (@Phil/Germany and others from Germany, I’d like to know how this story [...]

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‘Fatal’ Greece? Speculative attacks and fleeing funds

January 29th, 2010 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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Dollar Jibber Jabber

December 8th, 2009 157 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Phase two starting to pick up?  Turmoil coming from Dubai, Germany & Greece.  1 month treasuries at 0.000%!

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Max Keiser: US Predators Sacrifice Workers as Lambs

November 5th, 2009 70 Comments

Stacy Summary: Max on Russia Today only a few minutes ago.

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Global showdowns: Dollar vs Asia and EU speculators vs Germany

May 18th, 2009 55 Comments

Stacy Summary:   The standoffs grow more tense.  Which sides are going to win?

China & Japan growing increasingly worried about US dollar devaluation policy

China’s gold reserves may back yuan internationalization (h/t snoopdiddy)

Gold at $930 a bargain

Europe waits for Germany to come to the rescue

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Max Keiser blog: Germany bans Monsanto GM corn

April 14th, 2009 12 Comments

Headline:  Germany bans cultivation of GM corn

My comments: Monsanto is as much of copyright abuser as Disney. Monsanto, as I’ve written many times before, uses abusive copyright and patent laws to monopolize seeds; introducing ‘terminator seeds’ that are eunuchs incapable of reproduction along with other equally destructive products. This means prices for food go [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 14 April 2009 [Updated]

April 14th, 2009 23 Comments

Stacy Summary: Another day, another headline outlining the devastating consequences of monopoly and monoculture. First the ‘too big to fail’ banks wiped out the financial system, now the identikit towns across the UK (and US no doubt) are threatening the spread of ‘ghost towns.’

Retail monopolies warn of UK ‘ghost towns’ if they don’t [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 11 April 2009

April 11th, 2009 18 Comments

Stacy Summary: Goldman Sachs begins exerting their Executive Privilege.  Out go the dissenters and the interest rate raisers.

Goldman Sachs tries to shut down blogger’s site using IP laws

Paul Volcker marginalized in Obama administration

China’s money supply increases by 25.5 percent; new lending up six fold from last year

Financial war against Iceland (must read!)

Germany capitulates, plans ‘bad [...]

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