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Feb
★
How The Money Traders got us in this Mess and became the Masters of the
Univerve Satyajit
Das @ ABC
Feb ★The
Euro: The Dumbest Decision Europe ever Made - No Painless Way Out
Felix Zulauf @ Financial Sense Newshour.
Feb
Germany's
$130 billion Solar Malinvestment Bjørn Lomborg @
project-syndicate
Feb Republican
Candidate Ron Paul and the Youth Revolution The Lew Rockwell
Show
Feb Unintended
Consequences of well Intended Environmentalism David
Owen @ EconTalk
Jan Fed's
Financial Repression through Low Rates is Hurting Savers & Pension
Funds Michael Cloherty @ Bloomberg
Jan ★★
Five keys to World Prosperity - John Taylor (Stanford) advises Limited
Government and Sound Money Bloomberg
Jan ★
Sri-Kumar Predicts 'Domino Effect' in European Crisis and Greek default
between now and March 20s Bloomberg
Jan ★★
Leverage: How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World Karl
Denninger @ Financial Sense
Jan Flaws
in current U.S. Government Economic Data John Williams of
Shadow Statistics @ McAlvany Weekly Comment
Jan Jim
Puplava's 2012 Outlook - What could go wrong, what could go
right Financial Sense Newshour
Jan The
Financial Oligarchy behind the MF-Global Scandal - Whole Financial
System at Risk Ann Barnhardt @ Financial Sense
Dec ★★
Milton Friedman: Why the Role of Government should be Limited
Am.Conservative University
Dec A
closer Look at the Eurozone Austerity Pact - How long can the Euro
Survive? BBC
Dec More
fallout from the MF-Global Bankruptcy: the Rehypothecation Scandal
Zerohedge: Apocalyptic
Consequences?
Dec Will
the Friday 9th EU Summit of
the very last chance save the Euro? LSE Prof. Howard Davies @
Bloomberg
Dec How
would the Practicalities of an Euro-Break-up look like ?
BBC Business Daily
Dec An
investigation into the Motivation and Effects of the Co-ordinated
Central Bank Action - BBC
Nov Practical
Steps towards a Reform of our Monetary System Ron Paul @ Cato's
Monetary
Conference
Nov Greens
Hate Mankind - The CO2 indoctrination is back James Delingpole @
Lew Rockwell.com
Nov ★The
Debacle of MF-GLOBALunveils Systemic Risks in Futures and Derivatives
Trade Gerald Celente @Financial
Sense
Nov ★
Europe's Solvency Problem - The unsustainable Path of Debt, Money
Printing & Inflation Mc Alvany Commentary
Nov Italian
Public Debt losing Investment Grade - Contagion Spreading to France
Peterson Institute
Nov The
Practical Complications of an orderly Euro Exit vs a disorderly
Currency Union Collapse NPR - Planet Money
Nov Investing
Alternatives during a Crisis The Economist
Nov G20
Meeting - Euro Exit(s) no longer Taboo George Grodski @
Bloomberg
Nov "Voluntary"
Haircut dangerous precedent for CDS reliability - Greek Economy
Collapsing John Mauldin @ Bloomberg
Oct ★
The Euro-Rescue Plan: Financial engineering and Wishful Aspirations
without Funding The Economist
Oct Eurozone
Deal is a Menace for National Sovereignty - Concerns about rising
Anti-German
Sentiment in Greece NPR
Oct Vatican
calls for a Global Economic Authority and.... One World Currency
Korelin Economics Report
Oct ★
The New Road to Serfdom: Daniel Hannan warns America for European Style
Wellfare Utopia ACU Podcasts
Oct ★★
The (destructive) Effect of Stimulus Plans and Taxation on Real Jobs
and Growth - Valerie Ramey @ Econtalk
Oct Europe
disagrees about the Transfer Union - Final Solution for Banking and
Sovereign Debt Crisis still very Far Off BBC
Oct ★
Keynes vs. Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics and Public
Policy - Wapshott @ EconTalk
Oct The
Price Of Default - Lessons from Argentina NPR
Oct ★
The
Euro Debate:Why Debt Monetization Seems the Likely Outcome
Louis-Vincent @ FSN
Oct Europe
Has No Solution and no Funding for the Euro Crisis S Weinberg @
Bloomberg
Oct The
best Buy in Precious
Metals: Beware for the Premiums of Coin, EFT and Mine Stocks over
Bullion
Sep ★
Thirty Years of Financial Alchemy now reached the Limits of Debt
Satyajit Das @ NPR
Sep Greece
cannot but default and leave the Euro Bloomberg
Sep Europe's
2 Trillion rescue plan, the flight to liquidity and the selloff in
Gold Mc Alvany Commentary
Sep ★★
Do Keynesian Stimulus Programs really create Jobs? - Statistical
Evidence - Garett Jones @ Econtalk
Sep How
the US introduces Capital Controlls through the back door -
Financial Sense
Sep The
Euro-Crisis: where do we stand? Eurobonds, French bank problems
etc.. - BBC 15-09-2011
Sep The
Global Financial Crisis and the
struggle between the Haves, the Have Nots, and the Have Not Paid what
they Haves
Sep ★
Satyajit Das tells about his Financial Career and uncovers the Deceit
in the
Derivatives
Business ABC Australia
Aug Solving
Europe's Debt problem with more Debt? Europe's EFSF
Stabilization
Fund is a Ponzi Scheme NPR Planet Money
Aug Lessons
from Argentina's Monetary History and Debt Defaults McAlvany Reports
Aug Moody's
Downgrades Japan - NPR
Aug The
Real Problem of the Euro is
Productivity Differentials; Debt
is only the Symptom" Martin Feldstein @ Jackson Hole
Aug The
Fallacy of Virtual Service Industries & Desindustrialisation -
Reforms will slow Growth & Trade
Satyajit Das @ABC
Aug Marc
Faber's Investment Advice for Times of Zero Interest Rates
Bloomberg
Aug Our
Flawed Monetary System distorts World Trade and destroys Progres and
Stability R.Duncan @ Sound Money podcasts
Aug EUROBONDS:
The end of National Sovereignty - EU Tyranny via the Back Door
BBC World Service
Aug The
Perverse Effects of Zero Interest Rates The Hays Advantage
Aug The
Virtue of Free Market Capitalism and Immorality of State Intervention
Cato Institute
Aug The
FED has run out of Bazookas but may have some Small Arms Amunition left
NPR
Aug The
End of Debt Stimulus: When Consumers and Sovereigns all run out of
Credit Financial Sense
Aug Why
Worldwide Stocks are likely perform poorly in the coming quarters.
-NPR News
Aug How
Republicans won the Debt Ceiling Debate -
Reasons behind The Tea Party's Rising Influence - John R. Raper@NPR
Jul How
Much Public Debt Is Too Much Debt ? The famous Reinhart
and Rogoff Study discussed @ NPR.
Jul ★Monetary
Expert John Taylor: Return to Monetary Normalcy! Rates Delusion,
Stimulus Programs & QE all Failed Econtalk
Jul Lower
the Debt Ceiling ! Mises Institute
Jul What
do the EU's 2011 Banks Stress Tests Tell us? Peterson
Institute ♦
Bank Stress Test Results here ♦
Jul Kansas
Fed President Hoenig says it's Time For Rates To Go Up - NPR
Jul Tour
of the PIGS - A look at the Mess " the Grand Euro Project " created for
Joe
Sixpack and Sally Housewife - BBC
Jul ★★
The
"Good Ship Euro" is sinking under its Debt Load - Painful Deleveraging
will take years. McAlvany Commentary
Jul EU
Bailouts and EMU perpetuate
PIGS' Current Account Deficits and will
take Europe to its Knees -H.W. Sinn
Jul
-Martin Feldstein @ Project Syndicate
Jun ★
Prepare for a Credit Crunch, Shortage & Turmoil when Europe's Debt
Edifice
eventually Collapses
Jun Greek
Austerity simply can't work: Euro Distorts Trade and European
Economies
-Charles
Dumas@Bloomberg
Jun Bank
Lobbyists made Basel III norms way too soft. TBTF Banks need 30% Equity
- S.Johnson @ The Hays
Advantage
Jun USA
and EU are
over indebted. They need
deleveraging, not another spending (stimulus) round.-Chris
Martenson@FSN
Jun Europe's
Naked Banks - Simon Johnson @ Project Syndicate
Jun Peter
Schiff says it is a bad idea to sell Strategic Oil Reserves
http://www.schiffradio.com
Jun Greece:
Three Expert Views on the ultimate Outcome of Easy Money and
Reckless Spending - BBC
Jun Greece
will Eventually Default if it stays Within the Euro
Framework -John Greenwood @ Bloomberg
Jun ★
Greek Problems are twice as bad as Argentinean - ECB & IMF Remedies
destroy Greek Tax Base
Jun FED
policy jeopardizes America's Exorbitant Privilege of issuing the
Reserve Currency - Barry Eichengreen @ Econtalk.
Jun ★ Trichet
calls for Single Euro Finance Ministry (hence Bankers' total Control
over Europe) - Korelin Econ. Report
Jun Moody's
downgrade Greek Debt to Caa1 from B1; Implication and Consequences
-Vincent
Truglia@The Hays Advantage
Jun Watch
out as QE2 nears end. -Paul Nolte @ Bloomberg
Jun The
IMF should be conserving its funds for the possible Euro zone Collapse
-Swaminathan Aiyar @ BBC.
Mai Marilyn
Cohen warns the Investor for Rising Inflation and a Secular Bear Bond
Market -FSN
Mai Martin
Feldstein says only (temporary) Euro-exit can restore Greek
competitivity -Project Syndicate
Mai Greece
needs Debt Restructuring and Privatisations within Weeks, Not Months
- William Rhodes @ The Hays Advantage
Mai European
Tax Payers contest more bailouts and more "big bank" rescues Marc
Grant @ Bloomberg
Mai The
Moral Implications of Deficits and Debt -Cato Institute
Mai Black
Swans: Debt, Globalisation & oversized Institutions make us
Vulnerable
to Errors and Extreme Events -Nassim Taleb
Mai -Lars Svede @ The Motley Fool
Mai Dr.
Carl Weinberg (HFE) says Greek Default Would Imperil Banks
-Bloomberg
Mai Nouriel
Roubini says Europe
cannot afford to continue throwing money at the PIIGS' problem
(Project Syndicate)
Mai PIMCO's
Crescenzi Says QEII End Means Higher Bond Yields (Bloomberg)
Mai Crash
Course: How over-consumption lead to unsustainable debt, peak oil and
peak resources (Chris Martenson@FSN)
Mai Greek
Endgame Closing in: Unable to meet austerity plans, Greece considers
Default and Euro-Exit Options. (Bloomberg)
Mai Why
Debt Restructuring became inevitable in the PIGS countries and how the
ECB made things worse
Mai Euro-Emergency
Meeting in Luxemburg: Will Greece exit the Euro or
Restructure its Debt? (BBC)
Mai A
Multidisciplinary Approach of Boom-Bust Cycles (V.
Mansharamani @ FSN)
Apr One
Year after the European Bailout, Greece is closer to Default than
ever (BBC)
Apr Algae
transform wastewater and CO2 to an abundant, carbon-neutral energy
supply. (FSN) - Algae
plant
Apr Why
Election Results in Finland put the Euro zone’s Bailout System and even
the Euro at Risk (BBC)
Apr ( Cato Institute )
Apr China’s
Bad Growth Policy is heading for a Hard Landing ( Nouriel Roubini )
Apr Spontaneous
Order vs. Government
Coercion: comparing the Track
Record and Quality of Life (John Stossel Show)
Apr ★
Hyperinflation
comes after Pimco, China & Japan fled Treasury Market; leaving
FED as sole Buyer- Gonz.Lira@FSN Financial Sense Satyajit
Das@NPR -Nicole Foss@FSN
Apr Three
Paths for Indebted Democracies (Raghuram Rajan
@ProjectSyndicate )
Apr Dr.
Marc Faber's investment advise in Times of Uncertainty (King World
News)
Apr Europe’s
mistakes in resolving the EMU crisis: the Default Taboo & Weak
Stress
Tests. (Daniel
Gros)
Apr ENDGAME
- The final Stage of the Debt Super-Cycle ( John Mauldin @ FSN )
Apr EMU
2.0 - Can a simple update correct the bugs in the European Monetary
Union?
(J. Pisani@ProjectSyndicate)
Apr The
Green Regulation Machine: Saving The Planet or Killing Jobs?
(Reason TV)
Apr Productivity
of the US Economy: How a nation of Makers became a nation of Takers
Stephen Moore (WSJ)
Mar The
effects of China’s Five-Year Plan on Global Interest Rates (Martin
Feldstein @ Project Syndicate)
Mar ★
Fractional Reserve Banking: The sole cause of Recessions - Banking
Reform (Jesús H. de Soto)
Mar Public
Debt
& the Implicit Corruption in the Public Decision Making Process
(Diane Coyle @ Econtalk)
Mar California:
How the Tax System, Wellfare and Ecologism bankrupted America's most
productive State
Mar European
Stress Tests & Bailouts: Can Europe still avoid Default?
(Charles Wyplosz @ Bloomberg)
Mar Spontaneous
Order: Why even the "best and brightest" cannot plan the economy
(Reason TV)
Mar The
race to Hunger - About immoral subsidies for bio-fuels and solar cells
( Bjorn Lomborg)
Mar Why
Easy Money & State Intervention cannot provide sustainable growth.
(Rajan @ Project Syndicate)
Mar ★Policy
coordination & competitivity pacts are no solutions for the euro
crisis ( Daniel Gros )
Mar ★How
the West was lost. About good political intentions and
unfortunate outcomes D.Moyon@ForaTV
Mar Effects
of US inflation on China's Housing Bubble & likely outcome when it
bursts (P.Saxena@Fin.Sense)
Feb How
the FED dictates Global Monetary Policy and causes Inflation around the
World (Rajan @ Bloomberg)
Feb Practical
Lessons in Budget Cuts: How Canada got out of its 90's debt mess
(Capitol Hill Campus)
Feb Fair
Tax - The Advantage of a Consumption Sales tax over Income taxes
Jim Bennett - Fairtax.org
Feb Why
California is Broke and Wyoming is not ( ;-) The G. Gordon
Liddy
Show)
Feb Ireland's
Woes: Increasing Public Anger against EU Dictates ahead of Irish
Election (The Economist)
Feb Tax
Revolts during the Great Depression ( Lew
Rockwell )
Feb The
False Promise of Green Jobs ( Bjorn Lomborg @ Project Syndicate )
Feb Why
the FED or at least Legal Tender Laws should be abolished
(Ron Paul @ BBC World service)
Feb Why
European Bonds won't reduce the PIIGS' public funding cost (Daniel
Gros @ project Syndicate)
Feb Gerald
Celente's 2011 Trends: Spreading youth Uprising & New Energy: Cold
Fusion (King
World News)
Jan Davos'
World Economic Forum + Marc Faber's investment advice (BBC Business
Weekly)
Jan The
Economic Failure Of
The Euro ( Paul
Krugman @ NPR )
Jan Financial
markets will force several countries to abandon the Euro (Charles
Calomiris @ BBC)
Jan When
Europe's Liquidity problems turn into a Solvency Crisis (D.Howden @
Cobden Centre)
Jan Monetary
Policy: The FED's irrational fear for Productivity driven Deflation
(Boudreaux @ Econtalk)
Jan Look
at the Year Ahead: Debt, Rates, Stocks, China;
US, Euro... (Puplava, Dohmen & Weldon @ Fin.Sence)
Jan Unsustainable
PIIGS Debt: Better a big haircut now than a larger one later
(The Economist)
Jan The
Life and Works of Friedrich Hayek (Bruce Caldwell @ Econtalk)
Jan (Government)
Coercion is the Root of all Evel ( poverty, indoctrination, hate…)
Stefan Molyneux
Jan Private-Public-Partnerships(PPP's):
Consumer vs Political wants & Eminent Domain Abuse (M.Scribner)
Jan The
Euro Crisis: Is the EFSF- Fire Exit wide enough ?
(Daniel Gros @ project Syndicate)
Jan The
European Currency Crisis explained in layman's Language (Bob
Chapman @ G. Gordon Law School)
Jan ★
Monetary Policy & Trade Wars caused the Great Depression| Keynesian
vs Austrian Analysis-Econtalk
Jan The
EFSF: The European Bailout Fund without Funds (NPR) ★ EFSF
structure
here ★
Jan How
Fractional Reserve Banking under a Central Bank system robs Joe Sixpack
(Loren Howe)
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2010
Podcasts ▼
Dec ★
The
Euro: Who is prepared to bare the burden of Europe's Credit Losses?
(Columbia University)
Dec Europe’s
Financial Alchemy: Is the EFSF the ultimate CDO? (Luigi
Zingales) ★ EFSF structure
here ★
Dec Irish
Prof. Gerard Casey explains how the Euro fatally crippled the
Celtic Tiger (Cobden Centre)
Dec How
to break-up the Euro now the political gamble with people's wealth went
so wrong. (David Kuo)
Dec Lord
Monkton unveils the inside story behind the Euro Crisis (The
Diciplined Investor)
Dec The
Dollar-Euro Rate. If You don't own Gold yet You'll rush to the Bank
after hearing Gonzalo Lira (FSN)
Dec All
Voluntary Trade is Fair Trade by definition
(Cato
Institute)
Dec Europe’s
Inevitable Haircut ( Barry Eichengreen @ ProjectSyndicate)
Dec The
Path to Tyranny ( Michael E Newton @ FSN )
Dec ★
Why an EMU can't work and why the Euro will be so hard to rescue
(Martin Wolf @ Financial Times)
Dec Carl
Weinberg Sees European Banks at Risk (Bloomberg)
Dec Depressing
Consequences of Stringent Austerity Plans in Ireland and Periferal
Europe (Deutsche Welle)
Dec Assessing
the Fed's performance as lender of last resort and as smoother of
business cycles (Econtalk)
Dec Is
the breakup of the Euro likely and Technically feasible? (The
Economist)
Dec Ken.
Rogoff says a
30% haircut on public debt is the best solution for the Euro-Crisis
(ProjectSyndicate)
Nov MEP
Nigel Farage on the Euro Crisis & Democratic deficit in European
Institutions (Erik
King Interviews)
Nov Is
a Greec Bailout a good idea ? (Dave Ramsey @ NPR )
Nov An
in-depth analysis of the Euro Crisis (The guardian)
Nov Should
Ireland trade in its fiscal autonomy in exchange for a bailout ?
(The Economist)
Nov Ben
Bernanke's Frankfurt Speach- Will QE2 work? (Bloomberg) - ★ Must
see Video: QE for dummies ★
Nov Progressive
consumption taxes: The ideal solution for mitigating both
inequality and envy (EconTalk)
Nov Big
Government: The devastating effect of the nanny state on liberty
and wealth (Michelle Caruso @FSN)
Oct ★
RATIONAL OPTIMISM: The only threat to mankind & nature is Statism
... and Ecologism (Econtalk)
Oct Nouriel
Roubini thinks the risk of a global currency and trade war is rising
(Project
Syndicate)
Oct ★
Did Frensh Mercantilism cause the Great Depression? (Douglas
Irwin @ Econtalk)
Oct Assessing
Systemic Risk in Europe and the US after Basel
III (Peterson Institute)
Oct Joseph
E. Stiglitz about the incapacitated FED & ECB and disabled Stimulus
Programs
(Project
Syndicate)
Oct Raghuram
Rajan analyses capital s and the present Currency Manipulation
(Project Syndicate)
Oct 10.000$
Gold ? Kenneth Rogoff analyses the gold market. (Project
Syndicate)
Oct Truth,
Myths and damned Lies about Climate Change (Dr. Tim Ball -
Lew Rockwell)
Oct ★
Can the US still deflect from the European road to Serfdom? (Daniel
Hannan MEP @ Cato Institute)
Sep ★
Epstein
discusses the devastating effects of Excessive Regulation &
Interventionism (Econtalk)
Sep The
fundamental flaws of the Euro Zone remain unresolved ( Nouriel
Roubini )
Sep The
Basel accord on capital reserves falls short of safeguarding the system
against future crises
Sep Michael
Pinto discusses the (sovereign) Bond Market Bubble ( Erik
King Interviews )
Sep The
virtue of Selfishness - Life, Writings and Philosophy of Ayn Rand
(The Invisible Hand )
Aug Smarter
Thinking on Climate Change ( Bjørn
Lomborg)
Aug Generational
Accounting: Which Generation is to bear the Burden of
our
Public Debt? (Economist)
Aug ★★
The
Immorality of Regulatory Taking and Big Government (Cato)
Aug What
does the European Bank Stress Test really tell us ? (Peterson
Institute)
Jul Nouriel
Roubini fears a Double-Dip recession (project-syndicate)
Jul John
Taylor analyses Monetary and Fiscal Policy including Stimulus Packages
(Econtalk)
Jul Jim
Puplava debates the End of the Stimulus Programs with James Turk and
Peter Schiff
Jul Marc
Faber says inflation is the only way out from excessive debt and
advises to avoid bonds
ALL
TIME TOP RATED PODCASTS
Mai ★★
Chronicle
of a Currency Crisis- The fundamental flaws of the Euro. (Martin
Feldstein)
Mai ★
Europe's
sovereign-debt crisis (The Economist)
Apr ★★
Former
IMF Senior D.Lachman says Euro Zone is an unsustainable Currency Area
(The Economist)
Apr ★
The
Inflationary Path to Despotism - How Fractional Reserve Banking really
works (Mises Inst.)
Mar ★
The
Euro Zone’s Default Position (Simon Johnson)
Feb ★
Public
Debt: The smooth path to slow growth and Sovereign Failure (Reinhart @
the Economist)
Feb ★★
An Australian economist gives of his contrarian view on Debt
Deflation (Steve Keen)
Feb ★
Too
Big to Fail is Too Big to Live (Joseph Stiglitz)
Feb ★★
Hayek's ideas on the business cycle and Monetary Policy
(Larry
White at EconTalk)
Jan ★★
2010
The year of Sovereign Failures? ( Bloomberg )
★★★
Can
the Euro Zone Survive Economic Recovery? (Martin Feldstein)
★ An
Austrian view on Business cycles. Lessons from the great depression
(Financial sense)
★★
The
role of labor, capital, trade, raw materials, knowledge and
institutions in Prosperity ( Econtalk )
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