Strauss-Kahn’s candidacy was first proposed by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy in July and the campaign soon gained momentum with the support of the EU, which collectively holds 32.09 percent of IMF voting rights, and the US, the single largest contributor with 16.83 percent.
France’s Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn
29.09.2007
The International Monetary Fund has named Frenchman Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its managing director at a time when the (...)
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Sarkozy candidate Dominique Strauss-Kahn Named New IMF Chief
30 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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Heading for the Rocks - The Economist Intelligence Unit
3 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The Economist Intelligence Unit is a specialist publisher serving companies establishing and managing operations across national borders. For 60 years it has been a source of information on business developments,
economic and political trends, government regulations and corporate practice worldwide.
The Economist Intelligence Unit delivers its information in four ways: through its digital portfolio, where the latest analysis is updated daily; through printed subscription products (...) -
Job losses spike as US mortgage firms feel downturn
23 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentJob losses spike as US mortgage firms feel downturn
08-22-2007, 17h43
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A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home, March 2007 in Miami. Mortgage industry layoffs rose Wednesday and have jumped dramatically of late as surging home foreclosures and a credit squeeze force home lenders across America to scale back business.
Mortgage industry layoffs rose Wednesday and have jumped dramatically of late as surging home foreclosures and a credit squeeze force home lenders across (...) -
The Unraveling
16 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsBy David Glenn Cox
The unraveling has begun, watching the talking heads the only thing they seem to agree on is the money being pumped in by central banks around the world isn’t getting to where it needs to go. That’s an easy one, everyone wants to help the leper’s but no one wants to go do it personally.
But for George Herbert Hoover Bush this is his moment in the sun, his hour of redemption. During hurricane Katrina Bush was accused of ignoring the suffering of the residents of (...) -
Is the Perfect Storm Forming for Ron Paul?
15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsIs the Perfect Storm Forming for Ron Paul?
by Murray Sabrin
What a week! The stock market took a dive to just over 13,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average from an all-time high of 14,000 less than a month ago. The world’s major central banks flooded the financial system with tens of billions of dollars to prop up the banks and the mortgage market.
Meanwhile, the unending wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue to drain the U.S. military; the bills for the Bush-Cheney invasion of two (...) -
US Congress Demands SOA/WHINSEC Release Names of Graduates and Instructors
8 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
On Sunday August 5, 2007 the House of Representatives approved a report accompanying the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations bill that demands the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC) release to the public the names of all students and instructors who attended the school during the fiscal years of 2005 and 2006. The directive also requires that the same information be available to the public in all future fiscal years.
Written by SOA Watch Tuesday, 07 August (...) -
The Failing
7 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The failure of the I-35 Bridge in Minneapolis was an obvious failure of infrastructure, of deferred maintenance, of it’s not in the budget for this fiscal year. But over looked is the fact that this is our second warning not our first. The levees failing in New Orleans was an identical failure. The warnings were well known and just like the I-35 Bridge and hundreds of others they fell on deaf ears.
Our politicians like recalcitrant school children refuse to learn their lessons and spend (...) -
How Rich Are You?
12 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
So just how rich are you? Are you doctor or lawyer rich? Are you CEO rich? Or perhaps pro athlete rich? Or maybe you’re just a poor shlub like me just an average Joe with an average income. The average is $46,000 but that’s for all families, if you refine it even more to traditional family average is $57,000. But now if you’re a dink (dual income no kids) it rises to $66,000 per year. I guess being childless you can travel on the job more and need less time off.
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Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes by John Christoffersen
6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Published on Thursday, July 5, 2007 by Associated Press
Fed Up With War, Some Won’t Pay Taxes
by John Christoffersen
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut, enough so he wouldn’t have to pay taxes to support the war.
“I was having a hard time looking at myself in the mirror,” Gross said. “I knew the bombs falling were in part paid with my tax dollars. I had to actually do (...) -
Liquidity Nightmare (global crash alert)
5 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The Facts Or The "Con" In Con-Game:
In 2005, Stephen King, managing director of economics at HSBC and also a columnist for the Independent.uk news site stated that there was a crisis of faith among central bankers. Two years later, we can see why this confession should have read as: central bankers must stick to their pseudo-religious tones to proliferate public delusions of invincibility.
On the American front, the worst is yet to come for the housing market declared a quite (...)