Friday, February 13, 2009

More economic issues

PAPER: Large banks on edge of insolvency...
PAPER: Stimulus? Economists say no...


ABCNEWS: CATERPILLAR CEO contradicts Obama: 'We're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again'...

The Recovery Plan From Hell

What Wall Street Wants

By Michael Hudson

Tuesday’s announcement of the Obama-Geithner recovery plan is basically an extension of the Bush-Paulson plan – yet more giveaways to financial insiders, with a view to concentrating the U.S. banking system into a cartel of just a few large banks. Continue


Fixing the Economy: Of Fences and Futures

By Robert Freeman

To attract the money to run the government, the Treasury will have to raise interest rates on government bonds to stratospheric levels. This will kill off any possible recovery, consigning the U.S. economy to a self-reinforcing downward spiral of insufficient demand, inadequate investment, crumbling infrastructure, declining productivity, and competitive obsolescence. Continue

Mafia millions buoying banks: UN : Cash-rich Mafia groups have been channelling funds into banks desperate to survive the global credit crisis, the UN anti-crime chief said on Monday.

China exports continue to plunge: China's exports plunged by a massive 17.5 per cent in January, the biggest year-on-year decline in more than a decade and threatening more job losses in an already slowing economy

France: Aid does not break EU rules: Paris defends loans to car industry as Peugeot-Citroen says it will cut 11,000 jobs.

GM to cut 10,000 jobs: Most remaining US staff will see pay cuts of between 3 and 7 per cent for the year while executive pay would be cut by 10 per cent, GM said..

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'People Really Hate You' US Bankers Told

700 Merrill Execs Get $1M Plus Bonuses

US Bankers Yield Demands

Econ & Finan Systems Deliberately Destabilized

UK Bankers Rewarded By Brown, Blair

BoE - UK Economy May Shrink 6%

BoE To Print Money - UK 'Deep Recession'

S Korea Cuts Interest Rates To 2%

France Puts Limits On Bank Bonuses

Pioneer Cuts 10,000 Jobs

After Huge Profits, Big Oil Wants Tax Breaks

Deluge Of Financial Calamities By Mid-March

The Financial Recovery Plan From Hell

How Popular Anger Grew, 1929 and 2009

House, Senate Agree On 'Stimulus'

Credit Suisse Slides To $5.2B Loss

UK Banking Inquisition Intensifies

Pimco World Econ Crisis 'Second Wave' Due

US Will Default On Debt Or Hyperinflate - Vid

Euro Banks May Need $32 Trillion Bailout

RBS, Morgan Stanley, UBS To Cut 6,500 Jobs

Oil Demand To Fall Fastest Since 1982

China Exports Lowest In A Decade

Sweden Slashes Rates To 1%

$5 Trillion Run On Banks

Engdahl - 2 Years Recession Or 10 Years Of Hell - Vid

Wholesale Inventories Plunge Most In 17 Yrs




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