2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on BoJ bazooka to spark currency war
BoJ bazooka to spark currency war
The BoJ’s stimulus blitz raises the specter of currency wars as a rapidly weakening yen threatens the competitiveness of export-driven economies.
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off The Rails
The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off The Rails
Authored by Michael Sauga, originally posted at Der Spiegel,
Six years after the Lehman disaster, the industrialized world is suffering from Japan Syndrome. Growth is minimal, another crash may be brewing and the gulf between rich and poor continues to widen. Can the global economy reinvent itself?
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on What Will Change If/When Republicans Take The Senate?
What Will Change If/When Republicans Take The Senate?
The short answer, of course, is “nothing” – Congress, or the presidency, have been irrelevant ever since the Fed fully took over the US some time in late 2008. Since then, it has been the role of the central printer of the US, working on behalf of the US banking syndicate, to “get to work”, and cover up the fact that Congress, its make up, or its decisions, are now inconsequential. Still, there are those whose job is to overanalyze everything, and those, whose ideological persuasion, is to believe that what there is a difference between the “left” and the “right.”
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on 90lbs Of Cocaine Found On Ship Owned By Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Father-in-Law
90lbs Of Cocaine Found On Ship Owned By Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Father-in-Law
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Caixin Online: Apple-Alibaba deal talk may be mostly for show
Caixin Online: Apple-Alibaba deal talk may be mostly for show
Are Apple and Alibaba’s Alipay really preparing to walk down the aisle? Or is this merely a stunt aimed at making UnionPay, Apple’s current payment partner in China, jealous?
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on Euro Suddenly Crashes On No News
Euro Suddenly Crashes On No News
Two weeks ago, this happened to the world’s allegedly most liquid On The Run bond on no news, which subsequently sent the entire market plunging before James Bullard was forced to hint at QE4 and send the market into a short-selling spasm (and a Bank of Japan hyperinflationary Hail Mary) that has since seen it hit record highs.
2 November, 2014 by The TZ Newswire Staff Comments Off on FBI To Probe Accounting Fraud At Multi-Billion REIT
FBI To Probe Accounting Fraud At Multi-Billion REIT
While the Fed and the BOJ were by far the biggest news of the past week, explicitly admitting that the world simply can not exist without one central bank passing the monetization torch to someone else, a surprising, and scare for its shareholders, development took place when REIT American Realty Capital Properties, with a then-market cap of over $10 billion, announced, under the cover of the Fed ending QE3, that it had overstated its adjusted funds from operation, a cash flow key metric used by REITs, from the first- and second-quarters of 2014.As the read more