Alert for
the second half of 2013: Global systemic crisis II
In the face
of the coming conflagration, the main private financial players (banks, hedge
funds, etc.) are currently in “devil take the hindmost”, or rather “Goldman and
the others first”, and are trying to resell their products to unsuspecting
investors before they lose their value. These are signals that do not lie on
the impending shock. The gold mini crash in April, the rise in sovereign bond
interest rates and Goldman Sachs’ recommendation to sell US Treasury bonds,
stock exchanges which fall heavily some days, all that reflects major players’
withdrawal from the markets on the sly...
Gross
domestic product expanded at a 1.8% annual rate, the Commerce Department said
in its final estimate today. Output was previously reported to have risen at a
2.4% pace after a 0.4% stall speed in the fourth quarter...
The U.S.
Supreme Court ended its blockbuster civil-rights term pointing in opposite
directions: cutting legal protections for racial minorities even as it
bolstered them for gays...
Dans son
dernier numéro GEAB, la lettre confidentielle du Laboratoire européen
d’anticipation politique (LEAP) annonce « une explosion sociale à l’échelle
planétaire » dans les six mois qui viennent. La situation serait « hors
de contrôle». Le groupe de réflexion se dit « très pessimiste » pour la France
et l’Europe. Explications avec
sa présidente, Marie-Hélène Caillol...
European
Union finance ministers early on Thursday agreed on new rules for dealing with
failing banks, in an effort to curtail the cost of taxpayer-funded bailouts...
Euro zone
economic confidence improved by more than expected in June, rising to its
highest level in a little over a year, a sign that Europe could be emerging
from nearly three years of slump brought about by its debt and economic
crisis...
The
election of moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani as Iran's new president sets the
stage for fresh thinking on the troubled relationship between Iran and the
European Union and the subset of Tehran's ties with Paris...
C'est la fin du rêve d'indépendance gazière de la Commission
européenne. Le gazoduc Nabucco n'a pas été choisi par le consortium de gaz
azeri. C'est un gazoduc concurrent, beaucoup moins ambitieux, qui devrait
écouler le gaz de la Caspienne dans cinq ans...
In a phone
conversation with his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff on Monday, President
Xi Jinping noted that some new and complex elements have occurred in
international financial markets that deserved the BRICS nations' close
attention...
Just before
the small Rhode Island city of Central Falls filed for bankruptcy in 2011, the
state legislature quietly passed a law that gave holders of the bonds backed by
a municipality’s taxing power first pick of the city’s revenues in a
restructuring....
Soaring
bond yields across the world threaten trillion of dollars in losses for
investors and a fresh financial crisis unless banks are braced for the shock,
the Bank for International Settlements has warned...
Russian oil
major OAO Rosneft has agreed on a 25-year contract with China to deliver 365
million tons of oil to the country in a deal worth $270 billion. Russia already
supplies China with 15 million tons of oil annually...
Comme en France, l'Allemagne prévoit l'an prochain de
réduire le train de vie de l'Etat. Mais pas à dose homéopathique. Les dépenses
inscrites au budget fédéral pour 2014 sont en recul, à 295 milliards d'euros,
contre 310 milliards prévus cette année...
Egypt's
President Mohammed Morsi has said that the polarised state of the country's
politics was threatening democracy and could plunge the nation into chaos...
Investors
are driving up bond yields of Turkish companies as concern mounts that Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will take action against some for their alleged
complicity in the unrest that spread this month in the nation...
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