thestatedtruth.com | March 11, 2010
From Art Cashin on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange………A little color on state bankruptcy procedures.  California And Bankruptcy – Earlier this week Slate ran an informative piece explaining why California can’t go into bankruptcy. The simple reason is that there is no law to allow it to do so. Here’s a […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2010
Pimco’s El-Erian Says Public Finance Shock May Deepen By Garfield Reynolds March 11 (Bloomberg) — Mohamed A. El-Erian, whose company runs the world’s biggest mutual fund, said deteriorating public finances around the world may affect the global economy more than is currently realized. “The importance of the shock to public finances in advanced economies is […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2010
The response to slumping gasoline use would likely mean higher prices for drivers.   Some of the nation’s biggest oil companies are looking at permanently reducing how much gasoline and diesel fuel they make, a move that analysts say would almost certainly trigger higher prices for drivers. Energy companies are suffering huge losses from refining […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 10, 2010
There are two considerations here……. 1. Wall Street owns Washington and derivatives are their main source of income. That makes it doubtful that meaningful changes will occur. Â 2. The argument will be that they did not play the euro short via CDS pressure on debt. They are correct. They played the debt itself short. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2010
China’s Challenge March 9, 2010 | 0958 GMT  By Jennifer Richmond and Rodger Baker China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) remains in session. As usual, the meeting has provided Beijing an opportunity to highlight the past year’s successes and lay out the problems that lie ahead. On the surface at least, China has shown remarkable […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2010
It is happening everywhere. There is no way out that supports political expedience other than “QE to infinity.” If the Fed doesn’t play ball they are history. The shot caller is political expediency.          Jim Sinclair Top Bell aide says Toledo likely to face ‘fiscal emergency’ Potential strategy to secure labor concessions disputed. By IGNAZIO […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2010
EU, Merkel Urge Swap Regulation as Greece Takes Plea to U.S. By Rainer Buergin and Ben Moshinsky March 9 (Bloomberg) — The European Union’s top regulatory official said the bloc will consider banning “purely speculative†credit-default swaps as German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a crackdown on derivatives trading to prevent a rerun of the […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 9, 2010
SULTANS OF SWAP:  Fearing the Gearing! Ever imagine getting your tie caught in a mechanical set of gears (sorry ladies – but I will spare you). The results are nasty! Now you know what the Sultans of Swap in the $695 Trillion global OTC derivatives market feel like. Every day the slow moving gears of […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2010
This will probably start to “spread like wildfire” to courts around the State of California and the country for that matter in the next few months. L.A. County Superior Court to lay off 329 staffers April 1 March 8, 2010 | 11:38 am In the first of a series of projected cuts, the Los Angeles County Superior Court […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 8, 2010
Credit markets are showing (irrational) exuberance again……hard to believe, but that’s the direction we’re heading in! Looks like the governments hand is in everything, quite literally. You may ask how is this possible, well……before the fall of Rome, did anyone pay attention to the fingers of trouble, nope, greed overtook common sense. I think that pretty much […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2010
From Jim Sinclair…..Credit default swap OTC derivatives are weapons of real warfare. (Credit-default swaps, where you insure your neighbor’s house just to destroy it and make money from it, that’s exactly what we have to curb, according to Paul Volcker)   They are already operating against US state debt. Soon states will be falling like bowling pins. […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2010
Squeezing the Last Drop of Productivity from the American Working Class – 18 Percent National Underemployment and why Wall Street and the Government are Cheering Your Financial Failure. Posted: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:04:47 +0000 The American financial press cheered on Friday when “only†36,000 jobs were lost in February. This if you haven’t noticed […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2010
Paul Volcker……..Volcker used his speech to lay out the reasoning behind the so-called Volcker Rule that underpins the legislation sent by President Barack Obama to Congress this past week. He also pointed to the “abuse†of derivatives to massage Greece’s budget deficit as a reason to tighten regulation of the securities.“Surely the recent revelations about […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 7, 2010
Does that make them (you know the old saying)…. indian traders?  This doesn’t sound good, to say the least!   It will also likely effect aspects of world markets in commodities, real estate and stock markets because they’ve been a large part of world growth.    China plans to nullify all guarantees local governments have provided for loans taken by […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
Anybody notice how hard it is to slow down deficit spending habits. it causes riots and all kinds of mischief!  Debt has to come down. How do we explain this to the average person who’s been taught to borrow and spend? Speculators Eye Next Prey How Safe Is Britain’s Proud Pound? By Carsten Volkery in […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
Oh, the poor poor banks, they never thought it would come to this!  First they are asked, then they will be told to do these “push-backs”. Fannie, Freddie Ask Banks To Eat Soured Mortgages By Bradley Keoun March 5 (Bloomberg) — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may force lenders including Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
Consumer Credit in U.S. Increases for First Time in a Year By Vincent Del Giudice March 5 (Bloomberg) — Borrowing by U.S. consumers unexpectedly rose in January for the first time in a year, led by auto loans and indicating Americans are gaining confidence in the economy. Consumer credit increased $5 billion, or 2.4 percent […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
U.S. Treasury’s Krueger Says Job Market Still Faces Stresses By Rebecca Christie  March 5 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. economy remains under strain even though the labor market is showing signs of improvement, said Alan Krueger, assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy. The Labor Department report that U.S. employers cut 36,000 jobs last month was […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 5, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist A Word From The Wise By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 5, 2010 I was traveling via Los Angeles International Airport — LAX — last week. Walking through its faded, cramped domestic terminal, I got the feeling of a place that once thought of itself as modern but has had one too many […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 4, 2010
Not “unexpected surprise” except to the government maybe……………last week showed unexpected declines in purchases of new and existing homes.  Foreclosures pose another threat. Foreclosure filings rose 15 percent in January compared with a year earlier and exceeded 300,000 for the 11th straight month, RealtyTrac Inc. said Feb. 11.Toll Brothers Inc. Chief Executive Officer Robert […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
The middle class is finding itself struggling to keep what was once seen as staples of a burgeoning working class in our country. Part of this battle has come from a system that has rewarded easy finance on the backs of the working class. Take for example residential real estate. For decades, this was probably […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
NY State Cuts Revenue Estimate By $850 Million Posted March 3, 2010 NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York Governor David Paterson and the state legislature have agreed to reduce their revenue forecast by $850 million for the next 13 months, a state report said on Tuesday. The Democratic governor in February cut $750 million from […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
Indiana Puts 17th Notch In Revenue Shortfall Belt By Eric Bradner Posted March 2, 2010 at 11:45 p.m. INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana now has had 17 consecutive months of bad fiscal news. The latest revenue report on Tuesday showed the state took in $85.5 million less in taxes in February than was predicted less than three […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
The Los Angeles Unified School District’s board voted Tuesday to send notices of possible layoffs to nearly 5,200 teachers and other workers while urging union leaders to negotiate concessions that could make some of the cuts unnecessary. Members on Tuesday discussed cutting the pay of its nearly 40,000 full-time workers and shortening the school year […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer Wednesday, March 3, 2010 More than 15,000 San Francisco city workers across all departments will receive layoff notices Friday, and most of them will have the option of being rehired to work a shorter week, Mayor Gavin Newsom said Tuesday. Newsom’s controversial plan to help reduce the city’s $522 million […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 3, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 From……Cashin’s Comments on the floor of The New York Stock Exchange More On The Iran Quandary – In Tuesday’s Comments, we alluded to an evaluation of the U.S./Iran standoff by Stratfor. We thought their essay good enough to revisit. Here’s a bit of the assessment: Iraq, not nuclear weapons, is the […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
This program has been a total failure at a radical cost to us the tax payers. FHFA has reviewed the current market situation and the state of mortgage insurance availability and has determined that the market conditions that necessitated the actions taken last year have not materially changed. Fannie, Freddie and FHA are broke. FHA […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
 Pimco’s El-Erian: We’re half-way through a ‘multiyear resetting of the global economy’   By Drew Carter March 2, 2010  The world is in the middle of a multiyear resetting of the global economy, Mohamed El-Erian, PIMCO CEO and co-chief investment officer, said at a news conference in London today.He said it will take […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
In The Times – The Abu Dhabi media website “The National†ran the following report under the headline “That was a war council in Damascusâ€: The three-party meeting that took place in Damascus on Friday gathering the Syrian president Bashar al Assad, the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was a […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
Jim Sinclair has always spoken his mind, let’s pay attention to what he’s saying! He is a firm believer that derivatives are the world’s biggest risk unless contained and made transparent (nearly happened already, just read Henry Paulson’s book On The Brink)…..also, let’s not forget, Warren Buffett has said over and over “unregulated derivatives are financial  weapons of mass […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
On this day (-1) in 1917, markets were roiled by news about Mexico. The news also helped to decide World War I (or so some think). Now don’t get upset you little historian, you. We know that you know that America had not yet even entered the war (or even officially picked a side). But […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 2, 2010
  March 1, 2010 | 1703 GMT By George Friedman The United States apparently has reached the point where it must either accept that Iran will develop nuclear weapons at some point if it wishes, or take military action to prevent this. There is a third strategy, however: Washington can seek to redefine the […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2010
Senate Democrats Unveil New Plan to Extend Unemployment Aid By Brian Faler March 1 (Bloomberg) — Senate Democrats unveiled a $150 billion plan to reinstate unemployment benefits that expired yesterday as part of lawmakers’ second major effort this year to boost the economy. The bill would spend $81 billion to extend unemployment benefits, including so-called […]
thestatedtruth.com | March 1, 2010
A Crash Course in Historic Market Crashes  Ron Coby MAR 01, 2010 9:10 AM        Today’s market peak looks eerily similar to the ones in 1929, 1930, 1987, and 2007.       Talking head after talking head appear on the TV daily telling everyone […]
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