Archive - Jul 6, 2011 - Blog entry

What do Hu Jintao, David Cameron, Warren Buffett, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Alan Greenspan, Robert Shiller, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich and Mark Thoma - and both conservatives and liberals - all agree on?

What one shipper thinks might happen next.

Who Framed Greece?

According to Oxford Analytica, there are fifteen "Global Stress Points" ranging from medium to extreme high impact to the entire world. And hate to disappoint China Bears, it seems whatever problems China has, it is not the one that'll tank the world like the Dollar and Euro.

Consider that $10 billion of Fed money today is worth just over half (62%) the market gains of $10 billion in Fed money back in 2009. Put another way, every new injection of $10 billion from the Fed is producing less and less results. If we step back and look at this plainly, we will see that reality does not in any way match the view that the Fed’s liquidity will solve the financial world’s problems. In fact, we see that each Fed move is having a smaller and smaller impact on the financial markets. Extend this idea out a bit further and you find that we will reach a point at which the Fed will no longer have any control over the financial markets.

In the last 100 years we’ve seen the US Dollar lose well over 95% of its purchasing power. However, once the world collectively dropped the Gold standard (the last hold out, Switzerland, officially went off it in 2000) permitting the creation of endless credit and money printing, the financial system entered a period of relative value. That is, all currencies (which are used to denominate other asset classes) are entirely paper-based and consequently trade relative to each other based on the money printing each central bank engages in.

I invite, if not challenge those who question the utility of the higher end of the blogoshpere to compare this opinion/analysis (as biting, cynical and hard hitting as it may be) to that of the mainstream media and the sell side analyst community of Wall Street to determine if independent, proprietarry research in the form of a blog is something that this country and the global investment community is in need of... or not!

Investment firms spend billions on back-middle-front office systems which often don't meet their needs. Read this guest commentary from an industry expert who knows all about the technology trap of systems and how it may be costing investment firms and taxpayers billions...

From the Ponzi System...

All you need to know.

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