Friday 30 April 2010


Drill, Baby, Drill, Dead in the Water as Obama Puts Hold on all New Offshore Projects

April 30th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  Oops.  Drill, baby, drill, dead in water.  Four weeks ago, Obama reversed campaign promise and approved offshore drilling, today he is putting all projects on hold.  Update:  Morgan Stanley pays $14 million to settle accusations of hiding complex oil trades.  There is that word ‘complex’ again and yet again (as per the banana republicanization trend) a select group of oligarchs get to ’settle’ claims without having to admit guilt or face any real consequence.

More Signs of Great Depression: Unwanted Homes or Unwanted Deflation?

April 30th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  h/t @NicAbbo77.   This is, of course, the exact same policy that happened during the 1930’s when the US government plowed under fields of crops in order to try to prevent deflation in crop prices.

Last Dance in the Land of Fraudonomics & Show Trials

April 30th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: We are interviewing the author of the first piece, Michael Krieger, for next Thursday’s Keiser Report. Re: the second article, Fraudonomics, it reminds me of what Max has said several times, “without fraud there would be no US economy.”

[KR38] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Scandal! – & Max Fraad Wolff

April 29th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: In this episode, we look at the scandals of bailout buffets for Too Big to Fail banks; selling complexity to very profitable unsophisticated investors; the IMF is ‘there to help Greece’ . . . in a Dr. Kervorkian kind of way. In the second half of the show, Max interviews economist Max Fraad Wolff about US government debt.


Broadband Access in US is Even Worse Than You Think

April 29th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  I really wish the global media would stop referring to the US as ‘free market capitalist;’ as you can see it has nothing of the sort.  It is rigged market capitalism with abusive monopolies in most key sectors of the economy from health care to banking to telecommunications, a few giants extract huge profits for really shoddy service.

‘Ratings surveillance’ fees and the UK rating ‘mystery’

April 29th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: Apparently, it’s a mystery as to why the UK has not been downgraded.

Fannie Mae & Cantor Own Patent on Residential Cap & Trade Exchange

April 28th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:   Just sent this article by Robert F.   Here isinfo on the patent referred to in the article.  Thoughts????

. . . passage of the legislation would create an artificial, government-mandated, trillion-dollar carbon trading market that would drive up the price of energy, indirectly making housing more expensive.[Read more →]

Controlled Demolition! Now S & P Downgrades Spain!

April 28th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary:  Standard and Poor’s is on all out assault mode against European sovereign debt this week.  Floor by floor by floor.  It’s just downgraded Spain.   No doubt the turmoil following on these downgrades is conveniently distracting from their central role in the CDO frauds that are presently being investigated inside the US . . .    Gold soars, euro tumbles on Spain downgrade

Handcuffs for Timmy? If So, Can A Presidential Pardon Be Far Behind?

April 28th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: The blogosphere is abuzz with hope that Barofsky intends to perp walk Timmy out of the Treasury building. No doubt, as with all banana republics, a presidential pardon would prevent any justice from actually being served.

Goldman Sachs, Market Makers and Max Keiser

April 28th, 2010 bystacyherbert
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Stacy Summary: RT’s coverage of what I like to call Goldman Sachs show trial/hearing in Congress. Stay tuned for Max Keiser at 3.10!