Archive - 2011 - Blog entry

Goldman's Jim O'Neill said in a recent interview that the world's future prosperity depends on China's growth. If he's is right, then don't count on that much world prosperity, at least in 2012. 

A new era of increasing instability is opening in East Asia.

What do we do with the story of Edna?

“God bless Bankstas, each and every one of em!” --Tiny Timmah

So Merry F'Ing Christmas to all the Corporate crooks and their pet politicians.

Santa brought a pretty box, but the gift is coated in lead paint

MERSy Christmas to Everyone at ZeroHedge!

A modern Christmas classic updated...

Democrats deserve a C-, the Republicans get a D-.

If anybody knows exactly what this collateral is, I’d love to know.

I knew you were going to say that ...

Consider the Central Banks’ coordinated intervention to lower the cost of borrowing Dollars three weeks ago. Remember, this was a coordinated effort, not the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank acting alone.

And yet, here we are, less than one month later, and European banks have wiped out MOST if not ALL of the gains the intervention produced.

Cash is King for the day. 

Android clearly challenges notebooks, smartphones, netbooks, tablets, media, telecomm and enterprise software and services - all because the competition foolishly thought Google was a search engine!

A major inflection point?