Posts Tagged ‘value’
2010 Meltdown?…Martial Law?…Complete »
Predictions For The Rest Of 2010 Bob ChapmanFirst 6 months of 2010, Americans will continue to live in the 'unreality'…the period between July and October is when the financial fireworks will begin. The Fed will act unilaterally for its own survival irrespective of any political implications …(source is from insider at FED meetings). [...]
Ailing Banks May Require More Aid to Keep Solvent »
Some of the nation’s large banks, according to economists and other finance experts, are like dead men walking. A sober assessment of the growing mountain of losses from bad bets, measured in today’s marketplace, would overwhelm the value of the banks’ assets, they say. The banks, in their view, are insolvent. None of the experts’ [...]
brother’s Judgeship for Congressman’s Vote »
"Whoever solicits or receives … any….thing of value, in consideration of the promise of support or use of influence in obtaining for any person any appointive office or place under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both." -- 18 USC Sec. 211 -- Bribery, Graft and Conflicts of Interest: [...]
Got This From A Friend »
Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s new “Usurper Value Meal”? A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it. Q: What does the usurper Obama call lunch with a convicted felon? A: A fund-raiser! Q: What is the difference between Obama's Cabinet and a Prison? A: Obama’s Cabinet is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers and [...]
Israel: US army to double weapons stock in Israel to »
The US military plans to double the amount of military equipment it has stockpiled in Israel under a recent agreement with Tel Aviv. "The deal will double the value of military equipment kept on Israeli soil from 400 million to 800 million dollars," a Pentagon spokesman, Major Shawn Turner told AFP. Full Story
Yuan to talk Chinese savings? »
By Phil Levy Tom Friedman tries to make the case for China as a juggernaut in today's New York Times in a piece entitled "Is China the Next Enron?" Not to worry, he writes: has a political class focused on addressing its real problems, as well as a mountain of savings with which to do so (unlike us)... Think about all the [...]
The Word ~ Part 2 ! »
To overstand how a language can be written to be used as open source coding one must comprehend that this coding will be used to explain events that have already occurred, or, events that the illustrators have planned (and prophesied) as part of their long-term business plan.First, the characters are designed as pictographs and each character is [...]
Ruminations on Labor »
I had the pleasure these past two weeks of about twenty hours of driving with only myself, the cell phone and the mp3 player for company. It is in these times when my barely conscious mind is hard at the task of driving that the really curious part of my brain takes it's own road trips. If any of you were forced, as I was, in school or college [...]
Is the Turkish-Israeli Alliance Over? Yes It Is »
RubinReportsI wrote the following article for The Turkish Analyst, Vol. 2, No. 19 published by the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute’s Silk Road Studies Program. Here is my original text which varies slightly from that version.By Barry RubinThe Turkey-Israel alliance is over. After two decades plus of close cooperation, the Turkish government is [...]
Drooping Dollar (II): Will the greenback take a »
By Phil Levy Some discussions of the dollar’s recent fall have a tone of impending doom. They worry that the 15 percent drop of the last 6 months could accelerate out of control. The first post in this series argued that the recent decline has not been the result of manipulation, but that’s not saying that the dollar has reached a new [...]
