Ekonomi, värt att veta.

[tomas]

The Independent reportern Robert Fisk (en som har lite "koll") som skapat en hel del "turbulens" med sina artiklar på sistone, tror nog att han har rätt i det han skriver/säger, iofs finns mycket starka intressen för att förhindra detta.

Robert Fisk on the Gulf 'ditching the dollar' in oil trade	DQ

The demise of the dollar,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise-of-the-dollar-1798175.html

The demise of the dollar
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
By Robert Fisk

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.



Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars.

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.......mera

-Tomas

[tomas]

Lite mera trist, men eventuellt kanske mera "matnyttigt" än vad man hittar i våra media,

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Bob Chapman en gammal räv som har järnkoll på verkligheten IMO,

Failed Economic Policies and Rising Unemployment in the United States of America,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15580

Failed Economic Policies and Rising Unemployment in the United States of America
by Bob Chapman

This past week the BLS released the September unemployment statistics and they worsened as usual, as America enjoys its recovery.

U-1–Those unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force was 5.4%.

U-2-Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the labor force was 6.8%.

U-3-Total unemployed, as a percentage of the civilian labor force, the official unemployment rate, 9.8%.

U-4-Discouraged workers 10.2%.

U-5-Total unemployed plus discharged workers, plus marginally attached workers 11.1%.

U-6-Total unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force 17%.
 
If the birth/death ratio is removed, U-6 is in reality 21.3% total US unemployment. The estimate is that 824,000, more jobs may be extracted from the payroll count for the 12-months ended next March. Such a revision would be the biggest since 1991. The BLS is underestimating job losses deliberately and has been for a long time. That would mean September’s loss would be some 300,000 not 263,000.

Such a revision would put job losses not at 4.8 million but 5.6 million jobs.........mera

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs,
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091008/NEWS01/910080326/GE++10+000+applications+for+90+factory+jobs

10,000 apply for 90 factory jobs
By Jere Downs - October 8, 2009

In the latest sign of weakness in Louisville-area employment, about 10,000 people applied over three days for 90 jobs building washing machines at General Electric for about $27,000 per year and hefty benefits.

The jobs dangle medical, eye care, prescription and dental benefit packages, as well as pension, disability, tuition assistance and more, said GE spokeswoman Kim Freeman. And despite the recession, no union workers have been laid off from Appliance Park since the company negotiated lower wages with workers in 2005.......mera

Commercial Real Estate: The Shoe Dropped In California,
(företagsfastigheter, nästa stora i görningen)
http://www.businessinsider.com/commercial-real-estate-the-shoe-dropped-in-california-2009-10

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Den eftersatta infrastrukturen, (trailer från history channel)

The Crumbling of America	DQ

Mera runt Robert Fisk och vad han skrev, från olika håll,

Oil no longed traded in Dollars? Deficit Spending, Printing, Monetizing Debt, The Dollars Demise	DQ

Gerald Celente - Economic Collapse	DQ

Max Keiser US Dollar is Finished	DQ

OCTOBER 09 ECONOMIC CRASH EXPECTED !!! GLOBAL RECOVERY NOT GONNA HAPPEN !!! BANK HOLIDAY	DQ

-Tomas

[tomas]

Lite om Neil Barofsky nya rapport om TARP och dess användning, (troubled asset relief fund)
(Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general to the Troubled Assets Relief Program)

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Where Oh Where Has Our Little TARP Gone?	DQ

Wall Street Bailout	DQ

SIGTARP Neil Barofsky Discusses New Report with Wolf Blitzer	DQ

$23,7 Trillion är $23,7 Billioner på svenska,
http://www.google.se/#hl=sv&q=bloomberg+23.7+trillion

-Tomas

[tomas]

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash,
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/economy/story/77791.html

How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009

WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

Goldman's sales and its clandestine wagers, completed at the brink of the housing market meltdown, enabled the nation's premier investment bank to pass most of its potential losses to others before a flood of mortgage defaults staggered the U.S. and global economies.

Only later did investors discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk.

Now, pension funds, insurance companies, labor unions and foreign financial institutions that bought those dicey mortgage securities are facing large losses, and a five-month McClatchy investigation has found that Goldman's failure to disclose that it made secret, exotic bets on an imminent housing crash may have violated securities laws.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission should be very interested in any financial company that secretly decides a financial product is a loser and then goes out and actively markets that product or very similar products to unsuspecting customers without disclosing its true opinion," said Laurence Kotlikoff, a Boston University economics professor who's proposed a massive overhaul of the nation's banks. "This is fraud and should be prosecuted."......mera

Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag,
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/economy/story/77844.html

Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009

NEW YORK — Inside the thick Goldman Sachs investment circular were the details of a secret, $2 billion deal channeled through a Caribbean tax haven.

The Sept. 26, 2006, document offered sophisticated U.S. and European investors an opportunity to buy into a pool of supposedly high-grade bonds backed by residential, commercial and student loans. The transaction was registered through a shell company in the Cayman Islands.

Few of the potential investors knew it, but the ratings of many of the mortgage securities hid their true risks and, in some cases, Goldman's descriptions exaggerated their quality.

The Cayman offering — one of perhaps dozens made through the British territory — occurred as Goldman began to ditch the subprime mortgage business before the U.S. housing market collapsed under an avalanche of homeowner defaults.

In all, Goldman sold more than $57 billion in risky mortgage-backed securities during a 14-month period in 2006 and 2007, including nearly $39 billion issued from mortgages it purchased. Meanwhile, the firm peddled billions of dollars in complex deals, many of them tied to subprime mortgages, in the Caymans and other offshore locations.,,,,,mera

-Tomas

[tomas]

Kolla in den här videon,
Titta noga på Al Gore's ansiktsutryck när dom kommer till Enron's storskurk Ken Lay en bit in i videon,


Al Gores lies Exposed By Congress,
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=8499


Det som gäller för USA ekonomiskt när det gäller det som dom pratar om gäller också för Australien, Kanada och Europa, och som jag ser det borde man åtminstone kika på ClimateGate.
Om man nu bara använder den där gråklumpen för en sekund så kan man undra varför miljön skulle bli bättre genom att tvinga iväg den tillverkande industrin med stor arbetslöshet som följd till alla de delar som har sämre eller ingen lagstiftning alls på området för det blir helt klart konsekvensen av detta, varav en borde vara ökade utsläpp och nedsmutsning.

Finns lite att läsa om ClimateGate i den här tråden,
http://www.scooterforum.se/forum/index.php/topic,127.0.html


-Tomas

[tomas]

Huffingtonpost - EU, IMF Revolt: Greece, Iceland, Latvia May Lead the Way,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellen-brown/eu-imf-revolt-greece-icel_b_389409.html

Bloomberg - Food Stamps Go to a Record 37.2 Million, USDA Says,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601068&sid=aXv9ILnj1fkM

Bloomberg - U.S. Foreclosures to Reach Record 3.9 Million in 2009,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20603037&sid=a6aLuu9zxbcM

CBS - U.S. National Debt Tops Debt Limit,
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/16/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5987341.shtml


-Tomas

[tomas]

Jim Rogers - UK in Big Trouble, Obama is an Economic Illiterate,
http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=9397

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America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6962632/America-slides-deeper-into-depression-as-Wall-Street-revels.html

America slides deeper into depression as Wall Street revels
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Published: 6:35PM GMT 10 Jan 2010


History repeating itself? President Obama has been accused by some economists of making the same mistakes policymakers in the US made in the Great Depression, which followed the Wall Street crash of 1929, pictured  Photo: AP  

December was the worst month for US unemployment since the Great Recession began.

The labour force contracted by 661,000. This did not show up in the headline jobless rate because so many Americans dropped out of the system. The broad U6 category of unemployment rose to 17.3pc. That is the one that matters.

Wall Street rallied. Bulls hope that weak jobs data will postpone monetary tightening: a silver lining in every catastrophe, or perhaps a further exhibit of market infantilism.

The home foreclosure guillotine usually drops a year or so after people lose their job, and exhaust their savings. The local sheriff will escort them out of the door, often with some sympathy –– just like the police in 1932, mostly Irish Catholics who tithed 1pc of their pay for soup kitchens.

Realtytrac says defaults and repossessions have been running at over 300,000 a month since February. One million American families lost their homes in the fourth quarter. Moody's Economy.com expects another 2.4m homes to go this year. Taken together, this looks awfully like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath....mera

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What Is The True Unemployment Number?
http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/blogs/investorcentric/2010/01/what-is-true-unemployment-number.html

What Is The True Unemployment Number?
Monday, January 11, 2010

The US Bureau of Labor reports an unchanged unemployment rate of 10% for December, but just how accurate is this number? When we add the pushed-aside category of unemployed people who have given up looking for work and the involuntary part-time workers to the equation we arrive at a much more realistic figure, and it’s not a pretty picture. See the following post from Expected Returns.

This is a very weak unemployment report as every important qualitative measure of unemployment showed further weakness. There is no recovery based on the data. From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:...mera

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-Tomas

[tomas]

Har inte skrivit i den här tråden på ett tag, inte för att det saknas "material" men bara för att det är rätt deprimerande.

Men här kommer en artikel i alla fall,
Bloomberg - Rigged-Market Theory Scores a Perfect Quarter,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ax0kTsl0dBXw

I ämnet från en google sökning,
http://www.google.se/#hl=sv&source=hp&q=high+speed+trading

-Tomas

[tomas]

Ser rätt tufft ut.

Unemployment Benefits: The 99ers,

Unemployment Benefits: The 99ers	DQ

The REAL unemployment rate is 17.1%, 18.6% or 23% and rising. BLS makes 366,000 jobs disappear,
http://www.examiner.com/unemployment-in-rochester/the-real-unemployment-rate-is-17-1-18-6-or-23-and-rising-bls-makes-366-000-jobs-disappear

..........When both discouraged workers and the underemployed are considered in the unemployment rate, you end up with the U6 rate, or the “real” unemployment rate. That rate increased from 16.7% to 17.1% in September.........mera

7 banks closed in Fla., Ga., Ill., Kan., Ariz.
Regulators close 7 banks in Fla., Ga., Ill., Kan., Ariz.; 139 US bank failures this year,
http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/7-banks-closed-in-Fla-Ga-Ill-apf-1135619637.html?x=0

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators on Friday shut down a total of seven banks in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas and Arizona, lifting to 139 the number of U.S. banks that have fallen this year as soured loans have mounted and the economy has sputtered.....mera


-Tomas

[tomas]

CNBC - Martin Weiss U.S. Ranks 33rd Out Of 47 Nations For Credit Risk,
(reklam i början)
http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1906604265

About 1 in 7 in U.S. Receive Food Stamps,
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/05/03/about-1-in-7-americans-receive-food-stamps/


-Tomas

[tomas]

Deppad?
Ingen uppmuntrande lyssning, så skippa detta.

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En intressant "inlaga" om de nu pågående ekonomiska problemen i världen.
Är beredd att hålla med, och "rynka" nu inte på näsan åt RT som enligt min mening för vad den är värd efter att ägnat många timmar varje dag (under många år) åt vad som händer i världen så håller dom numera god klass och man hittar mycket info som inte återfinns någon annanstans.

Viss "upprepning" av innehåll mellan klippen, men väl värda att lyssna på alla tre.

Gerald Celente RT America - 03 November 2011

Gerald Celente - The Gary Null Show -2011.11.02

Gerald Celente - Talk Radio Europe, the evening show with Lisa Grant - 01 Nov 2011

Men våra Svenska media då?
Tja dom "faller" under kategorin som jag skrivit om här tidigare som jag ser det,
http://www.scooterforum.se/forum/index.php/topic,136.0.html

Som alltid, använd eget sunt förnuft.


-Tomas

[tomas]

Några biljoner dollar här och några biljoner där, snart talar vi om en hygglig "slant"


America's Next TARP Model - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
(ett roligt klipp väl värt att se, om hur $700 miljarder blev $7700 miljarder)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-1-2011/america-s-next-tarp-model

Mera info om man är intresserad,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income.html

Dvs, 7,7 ggr. bilden nedan omsatt i $100 sedlar
Referens personen i nedre västra hörnet.


(svenska biljon = trillion på engelska
svenska miljard = billion på engelska)


-Tomas