Entries Tagged as 'imf'

Floods and ‘Freak’ Weather Have NOTHING To Do With Economy or Finance, Keep Moving On, Nothing to See Here

August 24th, 2010 32 Comments

Stacy Summary: Beware those claiming that major weather disasters like the Moscow heatwaves and fires or the Pakistan floods have nothing to do with the economy, markets or finance. Moscow’s July and August weather has not only impacted, for example, the bond market, but also the wheat market. The floods in Pakistan have not only [...]

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Banning Wheat Exports & Impressing the IMF

August 6th, 2010 72 Comments

Stacy Summary: Good morning y’all.  I see that the Greek government is incurring more odious debt on behalf of the Greek population, so let’s place some bets here . . . how many islands will have been sold to various oligarchs and/or private equity and sovereign wealth funds by 2020?   And then, once again, [...]

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[KR59] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Denninger!

July 13th, 2010 149 Comments

Stacy Summary: We look at the latest scandals of IMF forecasts and commercial banks pawning their nations’ gold reserves. In the second half of the show, Max has a most excellent interview with The Market Ticker’s Karl Denninger about market manipulation and flash crashes.

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BIS- IMF Looting Sovereign Wealth, ‘Biggest Gold Swap in History’

July 6th, 2010 58 Comments

Stacy Summary: h/t MirrorMirror for this article on the BIS/IMF gold swaps. @snoot – it’s being done in the name of SDR’s. IMF-BIS Engaged in Gold Swaps to About 380 Tonnes; Organized Looting of Sovereign Wealth

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World’s Biggest Budget Crunch and a Very Big Ocean

May 15th, 2010 54 Comments

Stacy Summary:   The CEO of BP uses the same argument that ‘financial engineers’ used – all those derivatives and debt spills happened in such a big ocean of the US & world economies that the little spills weren’t supposed to matter. IMF says US faces one of the biggest budget crunches in the world [...]

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Silver Breaks and IMF Meets (Soon) – - – UPDATED

May 7th, 2010 62 Comments

Stacy Summary:   Lots of discussion no doubt will ensue on, “The IMF meets on May 11 in Zurich. They will be discussing alternatives to the dollar reserve schema, and there is some speculation that Russia and China will formally raise the issue of gold and silver in the currency basket based on their stated [...]

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Max Keiser interviewed in Proto Thema: The IMF is a Financial Mafia

April 28th, 2010 41 Comments

Stacy Summary: Translation via Helen Skopis of the recent interview with Max Keiser in Proto Thema newspaper in Athens. Article in Proto Thema online – April 23, 2010 By Vassili Daliani “The IMF is a financial mafia” At a time when Greece is being dragged through the mud by the international press, Max Keiser, one [...]

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Greece: Sacrificed on Europe’s Altar, or Destined by Geography?

April 26th, 2010 153 Comments

Stacy Summary: Two different takes on the Greek crisis. Your thoughts? The Greeks are about to be Sacrificed on Europe’s Altar For Greece’s Economy, Geography Was Destiny

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Max Keiser on Athens International Radio – 23 April 2010 – Greece & the IMF

April 23rd, 2010 105 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Max interviewed by Helen Skopis on Athens International Radio about Greece turning to the IMF.

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Best of the Blogs: IMF’s Bailout Facility, Run on Gold Bank & Public Records [UPDATED]

April 15th, 2010 119 Comments

Stacy Summary: What I’m reading while taking breaks from editing. Sorry if I have failed to h/t anyone! And let me know what you’re reading that hasn’t made it to this list. Zerohedge: Ron Paul Grills Bernanke On The Massive Expansion to the IMF’s New Arrangement to Borrow Jesse’s Cafe Americain: Jim Rickards: Possible Run [...]

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