The Illustrated Guide To 4 Years Of Currency Wars
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Category: Financial System
Financial System
Saxo’s Outrageous positions for 2014
Saxo Bank does an annual predictions report before the new year, anticipating wildcard events that might impact the markets. See the full report here: TF_OutrageousPredictions_2014 Here’s a few highlights: According to Saxo, there’s a chance that Germany falls into recession, while France’s CAC 40 index could plunge 40pc from this year’s peak. But the predictions […]
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Neofeudal financialization – what’s real and what’s not
Most investors and traders are constantly analyzing data, and painting the economic picture based on it. But far too often we forget what’s creating the data. Economics is a measure of the real economy, which is driven by real forces. Monopolies are one thing to study, but how do monopolies or oligopolies exert their economic […]
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Has banking become another marketing enterprise?
When you think of large banks, you probably don’t think of an eat what you kill approach to keeping your job. Probably it’s not commonly known that behind the scenes, most who work in financial institutions are paid very low wages, and are under constant pressure to sell financial products to customers, to earn a […]
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Apocalypse, New Jersey: A Dispatch From America’s Most Desperate Town
Just as income disparity is reaching a historic high, so are the conditions in the ‘real’ America, as expressed by conditions in Camden, New Jersey. New Jersey is one of the wealthiest states in the USA, and also home of some of the most violent, crime ridden counties. Here’s Matt Taibbi’s description of a real […]
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Chart: Goldcore’s portfolio diversification
This chart outlines main key considerations when creating a cash portfolio. It assumes the user wants to protect the portfolio from various fees and regulations such as ‘bail-ins,’ negative interest rates, counter-party risk, insolvency risk, etc.
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The IMF wants you to pay 71% income tax
When the IMF suggests increases in tax rates potentially as high as 71%, we should listen. The IMF has been at the forefront of global financial political agendas such as the one world currency (SDRs), default of the USD from the Gold standard (thus creating Forex market), and the backing of international ‘death’ loans as […]
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The Pathology of the Rich – Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself
Paul Jay, Senior Editor, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome to Reality Asserts Itself. A few weeks ago, we did a series of interviews with Chris Hedges, and one of the things we talked about was the weakness of the left, the weakness of the people’s movement, if […]
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Prepper Properties
Real Estate is one of the most discussed asset classes (if you can call it that), while not the least understood, those in the business promote certain aspects of real estate through marketing in order to sell their developments, whether they be industrial, commercial, or residential. Inside any crisis portfolio should be some land, land […]
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