Tags: Bailout + China + Gulf. Dollar. US Dollar + Lehman + moral hazard + Russia + Treasury + US Deficit
With the bailouts of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the shotgun marriage of Bear Stearns to Chase, the Highway Trust Fund re-capitalization, and the ensuing takeover of investment bank Lehman, we have realized the consequences of “moral hazard” and it does not bode well for the future. Sources report that the Fed and Treasury are making contacts for Lehman to get […]
September 12, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: + Bush + Energy + Georgia + investing + NATO + Oil + Putin + Russia + South Ossetia
Geo-Politics is about power and and hegemony–when circumstances permit the nation with the advantage exercises its power to achieve domination. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union the new Bush Administration realized this was the American moment. And with that realization American foreign policy was remade from something to idealize into something to despise without legitimacy. It began with overt efforts to co-opt […]
August 10, 2008 - Economy, Markets, Politics - 0 Comments
Tags: Bush + Economy + G8 Summit + Hokkaido + investing + Medvedev + Oil + Putin + Russia
President Bush will meet with his counterparts at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan this week—a combination what-a-we-do-now and “hey, I did my best guys” meeting. Atop the Summit’s agenda will surely be the catapulting price of oil, rising inflation, the imploding financial system, and the slowing global economy. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will attend […]
July 7, 2008 - Economy, Politics - 0 Comments
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