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10/11/2012  Will Iran Weather the Economic Storm? -- The depreciation of the rial is unlikely to change Iran's foreign-policy calculations.
The conventional wisdom that the collapse of the Iranian rial will have disastrous consequences for the Islamic Republic has it wrong: On the contrary, it could be the best thing that has happened to the Iranian economy in years. Iran is a classic case of the resource curse. OPEC founder Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, who served as Venezuela's oil minister, called oil "the devil's excrement" for the pernicious impact petroleum revenues had on his country's economy. The same is true for Iran, which faces the challenge of becoming a country that produces goods, not merely consumes them. Unfortunately, the current Iranian government shows few indications it will meet this challenge. Rather, history suggests that Tehran will instead persist in its populist policies, including its confrontation with the international community about its nuclear program. (Foreign Policy)
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7/21/2012  £13tn hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
Study estimates staggering size of offshore economy; Private banks help wealthiest to move cash into havens - A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore -- as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together -- according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network. James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert on tax havens, has compiled the most detailed estimates yet of the size of the offshore economy in a new report, The Price of Offshore Revisited, released exclusively to the Observer. He shows that at least £13tn -- perhaps up to £20tn -- has leaked out of scores of countries into secretive jurisdictions such as Switzerland and the Cayman Islands with the help of private banks, which vie to attract the assets of so-called high net-worth individuals. Their wealth is, as Henry puts it, "protected by a highly paid, industrious bevy of professional enablers in the private banking, legal, accounting and investment industries taking advantage of the increasingly borderless, frictionless global economy". According to Henry's research, the top 10 private banks, which include UBS and Credit Suisse in Switzerland, as well as the US investment bank Goldman Sachs, managed more than £4tn in 2010, a sharp rise from £1.5tn five years earlier. (London Guardian)
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6/5/2010  Bilderberg 2010: Between the sword and the wall
The Catalan police are refreshingly friendly. But if the time for action comes, whose side will they be on? - "Do you know how much this is costing?" asked Hannah. "Do you think the Spanish economy can afford all this?" Grimly, the enormous bald detective started deleting images of his comrades with his giant thumb. "Your opinion," he growled, "is right." (London Guardian)
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6/4/2010  Bilderberg 2010: Why the protesters are your very best friends
The people who are being detained, searched and questioned are not playing some game. They are deadly serious, and they are worried to death - The head of the IMF (and Bilderberger), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, looks at the world and declares: "Crisis is an opportunity." He sees the precarious global economy and floats the idea for "a new global currency issued by a global central bank". (London Guardian)
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5/31/2010  German president resigns after remarks about military, creating new headache for Merkel
German president quits over military remarks - That was taken by many as relating to Germany's unpopular mission in Afghanistan, although his office later said that he was referring to anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia. Germans are often uneasy about deployments abroad, given the country's militaristic past, and the mission in Afghanistan makes many particularly uncomfortable. (Associated Press)
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5/27/2010  Is Europe heading for a meltdown?
This financial crisis is worse than the sub-prime crash of 2008 because the sums are so much bigger and it is governments that are in dire straits. Edmund Conway explains the dangers. (London Telegraph)
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4/27/2010  A List of Goldman Sachs People in the Obama Government: Names Attached to the Giant Squid’s Tentacles
Here you will find, I believe, the most comprehensive list of people-groups yet available to show how Obama’s administration has really become the Goldman Sachs administration. The Obama administration is not the first administration that Goldman has infiltrated, although it is perhaps the one that has been most completely co-opted from top to bottom. (Fire Dog Lake)
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4/26/2010  Global Governance Today
Jean-Claude Trichet, President, European Central Bank, New York - It was an unexpected crisis -- largely unexpected in its dimension and in its global nature -- even if it was clear that a number of academics; a number of central banks, I have to say; and also, a number of at his own institution very, very clearly -- the BIS -- had signaled that we were living in a world of general under appreciation of risks in the financial markets. And I have to say I was, myself, on record for having said that quite a time before the first turbulences erupted. But that being said, what we have observed is really something which was very big -- bigger than was expected. And with a number of features that were really also unique. - “A set of rules, institutions, informal groupings and cooperation mechanisms that we call “global governance”. (Council on Foreign Relations)
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4/25/2010  US prepares to push for global capital rules
The G20 communiqué on Friday said: “We recommitted to developing by end-2010 internationally agreed rules to improve both the quantity and quality of bank capital and to discourage excessive leverage.” (Financial Times)
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1/8/2010  Securitization, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Collateralized Debt Obligations, and Credit Default Swaps
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Securitization is a structured finance process that distributes risk by aggregating debt instruments in a pool, then issues new securities backed by the pool. The term “Securitisation” is derived from the fact that the form of financial instruments used to obtain funds from the investors are securities. As a portfolio risk backed by amortizing cash flows – and unlike general corporate debt – the credit quality of securitized debt is non-stationary due to changes in volatility that are time- and structure-dependent. If the transaction is properly structured and the pool performs as expected, the credit risk of all tranches of structured debt improves; if improperly structured, the affected tranches will experience dramatic credit deterioration and loss.[1] All assets can be securitized so long as they are associated with cash flow. Hence, the securities which are the outcome of Securitisation processes are termed asset-backed securities (ABS). From this perspective, Securitisation could also be defined as a financial process leading to an issue of an ABS. (Foreclosure Fraud)
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11/5/2009  The IMF and Our Increased Dependence on Faux-Experts
I was in Korea last week with a collection of suit-wearing hotshots. On a panel sat Takatoshi Kato, IMF Deputy Managing Director. Before the discussion he gave us a powerpoint lecture showing the IMF projections for 2010, 2011, ..., 2014. I could not control myself and got into a state of rage. I told the audience that the next time someone from the IMF shows you projections for some dates in the future, to show us what they PROJECTED for 2008 and 2009 in 2004, 2005, ..., and 2007. They would then verify that Mr. Takatoshi and his colleagues provide a prime illustration to the "expert problem": they serve as experts while offering the scientific reliability of astrologers. Anyone relying on them is a turkey. (Huffington Post)
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8/8/2009  Obama’s Embrace of a Bush Tactic Riles Congress
President Obama has issued signing statements claiming the authority to bypass dozens of provisions of bills enacted into law since he took office, provoking mounting criticism by lawmakers from both parties (New York Times)
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8/3/2009  Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve
Global Power and Global Government: Part 3 (Global Research)
posted: 8/21/09                   0       23
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7/21/2009  Ron Paul answers questions about Bernake and HR1207 (CNBC)
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7/16/2009  Max Keiser takes offense to Goldman Sachs story (2 of 2) (France 24)
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7/15/2009  Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations by Hillary Rodham Clinton
“We get a lot of advice from the Council, so this will mean I won’t have as far to go to be told what we should be doing and how we should think about the future.” (Department of State)
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7/9/2009  The Great American Bubble Machine
From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they're about to do it again - But then, any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy. (Rolling Stone)
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6/27/2009  The Emperor's Seven Signing Statements
"[P]rovisions of this bill within sections 1110 to 1112 of title XI, and sections 1403 and 1404 of title XIV, would interfere with my constitutional authority to conduct foreign relations by directing the Executive to take certain positions in negotiations or discussions with international organizations and foreign governments, or by requiring consultation with the congress prior to such negotiations or discussions. I will not treat these provisions as limiting my ability to engage in foreign diplomacy or negotiations." ... vs candidate Obama, "I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law." (American Chronicle)
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6/26/2009  Obama issues signing statement on $106B war bill
The Obama administration announced in the statement it would disregard provisions of the legislation that, among other things, would compel the Obama administration to pressure the World Bank to strengthen labor and environmental standards and require the Treasury department to report to Congress on the activities of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) (The Hill)
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6/23/2009  Ron Paul: Obama’s ‘goal’ is economic collapse
“From their spending habits, an economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration,” (The Raw Story)
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6/17/2009  U.S. House Approves War-Spending Bill Amid Dispute Over IMF
A $106 billion bill funding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan won approval in the U.S. House, overcoming nearly unified opposition from Republicans who opposed the measure’s aid to the International Monetary Fund (Bloomberg)
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6/16/2009  House approves war bill with IMF funds
Down to the wire Tuesday, Obama and his top aides had to intercede to hold Democrats together in the face of anti-war liberal blogs and conservative attacks on new financing for the International Monetary Fund (Politico)
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6/9/2009  No one talking about dumping dollar: China minister (Reuters)
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6/8/2009  NWO Conference Montreal June 8, 2009 (Prison Planet)
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6/6/2009  Russia: New world reserve currency a decade away
Moscow's finance minister says China's Yuan the 'shortest path' to new world reserve; predicts 'new major currency unions' not soon to emerge (The Raw Story)
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6/4/2009  A Tale of Two Depressions
World industrial production, trade, and stock markets are diving faster now than during 1929-30 (Vox)
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6/3/2009  Ron Paul on House floor, "Congress Doesn't Care About Cause Of Crisis/No End To Secret Prisons" (CSPAN)
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6/2/2009  Democrats agree to IMF money in U.S. war bill
reached a deal to boost support to the International Monetary Fund, lawmakers' aides said on Tuesday, a victory for President Barack Obama who pledged to help the lender assist countries in the global economic crisis (Reuters)
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6/2/2009  War funding fight gets complicated
a wartime spending bill could soon exceed $100 billion, adding to the risks of an already tense fight in the House over the addition of new financing for the International Monetary Fund (Politico)
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6/1/2009  Bilderberg Agenda Exposed
a keen interest in persuading the United States to surrender sovereignty to the International Criminal Court, or ICC (American Free Press)
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5/30/2009  Zoellick Warns Stimulus ‘Sugar High’ Won’t Stem Unemployment (Bloomberg)
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5/18/2009  Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar
will work towards using their own currencies in trade transactions rather than the US dollar (Financial Times)
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5/15/2009  The Alex Jones Show interviews Jim Tucker at Bilderberg 2009
Alex talks with intrepid Bilderberg hound and journalist Jim Tucker, who is in Greece covering the elitist confab to be held at the Astir Palace Hotel Resort in Athens. Alex also welcomes London Guardian writer Charlie Skelton to discuss being detained by police in Greece for taking a photograph outside Bilderberg's hotel. (Prison Planet)
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5/6/2009  Naomi Klein, columnist for The Nation, author of "The Shock Doctrine", and joins Rachel Maddow to analyze the financial sector bailouts as "disaster capitalism" (MSNBC)
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4/30/2009  Top Senate Democrat: bankers "own" the U.S. Congress
Former Barney Frank staffer now top Goldman Sachs lobbyist (Salon)
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4/20/2009  A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF
Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run (Washington Post)
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4/20/2009  Obama proposes US loan $100 billion to International Monetary Fund
The president made the request in several letters to Democratic and Republican congressional leaders Monday, pointing out that the fund didn’t require an extra financial outlay from the U.S. (The Raw Story)
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4/19/2009  G20: additional funding will benefit Western European banks
tripling of the IMF's resources to $750 billion and an increase of $100 billion in the multilateral development banks' lending capacity (Banking Business Review)
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4/9/2009  Why Supplanting the Dollar Would Be Good for America (Time Magazine)
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4/3/2009  The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency
The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity (London Telegraph)
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4/1/2009  G20: Gordon Brown woos China with offer of greater voting powers (London Guardian)
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4/1/2009  Growth to slow down hitting hard the poor countries
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in the developing world will slow to a projected 2.1 per cent in 2009 from 5.8 per cent in 2008 (Financial Express)
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3/26/2009  UN panel touts new global currency reserve system
A UN panel of expert economists pressed Thursday for a new global currency reserve scheme to replace the volatile, dollar-based system and for coordinated steps by rich countries to stimulate their economies (Agence France-Presse)
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3/25/2009  Geithner 'open' to China proposal, at the Council on Foreign Relations
"We're actually quite open to that suggestion, you should see it as rather evolutionary rather building on the current architecture rather than moving us to global monetary union," (Politico)
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3/24/2009  Geithner Plan Will Rob US Taxpayers: Stiglitz
The U.S. government is basically using the taxpayer to guarantee against downside risk on the value of these assets, while giving the upside, or potential profits, to private investors (CNBC)
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3/24/2009  Obama: No need for a 'global currency'
Australian PM voices support for the dollar, says new currency not on G20's agenda (The Raw Story)
posted: 5/14/09                   2       27
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3/24/2009  US defends dollar as reserve currency
Both Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said that they would not allow the dollar to be stripped of the premier status as suggested by Beijing (The Raw Story)
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3/19/2009  IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'
The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis. (London Telegraph)
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3/13/2009  IMF poised to print billions of dollars in 'global quantitative easing'
The International Monetary Fund is poised to embark on what analysts have described as "global quantitative easing" by printing billions of dollars worth of a global "super-currency" in an unprecedented new effort to address the economic crisis (London Telegraph)
posted: 6/23/09                   2       15
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3/3/2009  France, Germany Want Global Black List for Tax Havens
In the future, no country, no institution and no financial product should be allowed to remain beyond regulation (Deutsche Welle)
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