During the 2008-2009 banking crisis the FDIC website experienced a surge in traffic. Plenty of observers have kept a ‘weather eye’ on the site since. It listed and continues to list failed banks and financial institutions in the USA whose depositors and investors required assistance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The late 2000s financial […]
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There's been a subtle change on the high streets of the UK over recent years. Previously betting shops were mysterious smoke filled denizens where the errant uncle, father or grandfather wasted a proportion of his wages each week, (in between visits to the local pub), they're now clean, open inviting places offering a massive range
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The United States is the world’s largest producer of ethanol fuel. The U.S. produced 50.0 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2010. Ethanol fuel is mainly used in the U.S. as an oxygenate to gasoline. In 2009, from all the ethanol fuel consumed in the country, 99% was consumed as ethanol in gasohol. Most U.S.
“We’re taking no lectures from you” was the polite message European finance ministers and policy makers subtly delivered to USA treasury secretary Geithner on Friday during their meeting in Poland. Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter found it “peculiar” to be lectured by the USA, a country with higher aggregate debt than the euro area. When
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On October 5th 2010 there was an audible gasp in the French courtroom at the historic Palais de Justice when the 'rogue trader' Jérôme Kerviel was convicted of a breach of trust, computer abuse and forgery. The 33-year-old was convicted of all three charges and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, with two years suspended.
The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has a plan and it’s backed by a string of high profile figures as a ‘rescue plan’ for the debt crisis Euroland and moreover the major European banks face. The plan is to issue “eurobonds” as a crude method to ‘mop up’ all the pain and share the
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There is a phenomena occurring throughout Europe that is being hushed, the topic is money flight and it belongs in the same Pandora’s box of discussion subjects governments and central banks would rather not be part of lunch or dinner table ‘investment discussions’ amongst the masses.. “So I rushed down to Barclays at lunch time,
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There were respected economists such as Nouriel Roubini who, as early as 2005-2006, spotted the dangers the shadow banking system were potentially causing the credit markets. When the cardiac arrest came in 2007-2008, perpetuated by Bear Sterns and ultimately leading to the collapse of Lehman, economists such as Nouriel did not bask in ill timed
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Equities received a modest boost in USA in late trading on Monday evening as news emerged that Italy is apparently courting China trying to get it to buy as much of it’s ‘junk’ as possible. Apparently these negotiations have been conducted ‘in camera’ for weeks but only now the news has leaked. Desperation or inspiration,
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Throughout the global financial maelstrom which has existed since 2007-2008 Australia has continually bucked the trend. Even the devastating series of floods experienced in Jan this year (2011) appeared to only temporarily knock the vast country from it’s gyroscopic reliance as a major world powerhouse. Australia’s per-capita GDP is higher than that of the UK,
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