On June 21st, Moody’s finally delivered on its forewarned downgrade on 15 global banks after the close of the stock market. All but four banks were cut at least two notches, and these are some of the biggest banks in the world. Those hit included Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas, UBS, and Deutsche Bank – financial powerhouses domestically and internationally
Read moreRevised ( 7 of 21) Electoral Map Projection of the 2012 presidential election, based on mundane political contest horary: “Obama vs. GOP Nominee: Who will win X – battleground state?” With 270 electoral votes needed to win, the campaign will be fought in the battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Read moreRevised (6 of 21) Electoral Map Projection of the 2012 presidential election, based on mundane political contest horary: “Obama vs. GOP Nominee: Who will win X – battleground state?” With 270 electoral votes needed to win, the campaign will be fought in the battleground states of Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Read moreJapan’s public borrowings, the world’s biggest, will balloon to 245.6% of its annual economic output in 2014, up from 67.3 percent in 1984. According Takeshi Fujimaki, former adviser to billionaire investor George …Soros, Japan may default within five years. Fujimaki said, “The yen and the JGB market are in a bubble,” Fujimaki said. “With the gigantic debt Japan has accumulated,
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WILLIAM STICKEVERS 