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‘Acts of Desperation’ & Hyperinflation Trades

Posted on May 19, 2010 by stacyherbert| 232 Comments

Stacy Summary: The ban on naked short selling in European government bonds and Germany’s 10 largest banks is apparently in place until March 31, 2011. Via @NicAbbo77 here is text of German ban on naked short selling. Regardless, the turmoil doesn’t seem as bad as post Lehman as many were warning yesterday and gold is off its all time euro high. It seems to me the argument from bankers is that we are in an Afghan poppy like corner – we have to let the warlords grow poppies or else there will be Taliban chaos! Failed states, failed markets. Or as Max says, “Without fraud there would be no markets” **UPDATE**: The final headline is from Denninger; and he says that there is also a ban on naked shorting of gold.

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Tagged carry trade, germany, gold, naked short selling

Asia Craters, Euro Bellyflops, Germans Fantasize & Bankers Try to Blend In

Posted on May 17, 2010 by stacyherbert| 27 Comments

Stacy Summary: h/t @marietta for the verbiage!

Asian markets and euro continue fall

Hundreds protest outside bankers’ houses in DC

Germans fantasize about currency bloc without the French

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Tagged asia market, bankers, euro, eurozone, finland, france, germany, monetary union

Avoiding ‘catastrophe’ and seizing the finance ministry

Posted on March 4, 2010 by stacyherbert| 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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Tagged athens, deficit, finance ministry, germany, greece

Germany’s Exports Weigh on Europe

Posted on February 27, 2010 by stacyherbert| 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 amounts of money to bankers by buying their toxic assets last year. By the way, I’m surprised Ireland is so high up on the trade surplus list; I wonder, however, if they are including all the US services that are then counted as exports?

German Export Prowess Weighs on Europe

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Tagged deficit, europe, exports, germany, greece, surplus

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

Posted on February 10, 2010 by stacyherbert| 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 has been playing out in your country; I believe the German population had to be promised that joining the euro would not leave them vulnerable to precisely this sort of event of bailing out other nations? Thanks for your opinion in comments). Merkel is denying the report, but it looks like the speculators have written the story for her.

Germany backs Greek bailout

Update:

Greece revises 2009 budget deficit from 12.2% to 16%

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‘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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Tagged bonds, debt, germany, greece

Dollar Jibber Jabber

Posted on December 8, 2009 by stacyherbert| 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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Tagged dollar, dubai, germany, greece, treasuries

Max Keiser: US Predators Sacrifice Workers as Lambs

Posted on November 5, 2009 by stacyherbert| 70 Comments

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

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Tagged germany, gm, magna, max keiser, russia, sbrebank

Global showdowns: Dollar vs Asia and EU speculators vs Germany

Posted on May 18, 2009 by stacyherbert| 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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Tagged eu, germany, gold, us dollar

Max Keiser blog: Germany bans Monsanto GM corn

Posted on April 14, 2009 by maxkeiser| 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 up. Way up. Are they helping farmers and poor people? About as much as Visa and Master Card and predatory pay check lenders. Monsanto treats seeds like a currency that can be manipulated. Do you really want Monsanto and Goldman sachs running seed banks? The last time I wrote about Monsanto, their PR machine smeared me within 24 hours.. I’ll keep you posted.

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Tagged germany, gm corn, mon 810, monsanto