US company turns plastic waste into oil
By : Solve et Coagula - Wednesday April 15, 2009 US company turns plastic waste into oil Could lead to 20 per cent cut in crude oil demand Posted by Aharon Etengoff at 05:48 AM GMT on Mar 18, 2009 OREGON-BASED Agri-Plas has managed to successfully convert discarded agricultural plastic into crude oil. The company recently delivered its first full tanker (8,200 gallons) of oil to a Washington state refinery for further processing. "This technology allows us to continually reuse petroleum-based products over and over again," Dari (...)
read more, comments... The imbecility of financial markets
By : Solve et Coagula - Tuesday April 14, 2009 The imbecility of financial markets By Dr.-Ing. Artur P. Schmidt Tuesday, 14 April 2009 The U.S. sold 27 trillion USD in toxic credit-bundling products all over the world. The success was based to the fact that every minute a new idiot as a buyer was found - to finance the ailing U.S. empire. The process of globalization was the Idiotisierung of internationalized financial markets. Today, many banks are still houses the morgue. Continue to read: (...)
read more, comments... Cooperation or Competition?
By : Solve et Coagula - Monday April 13, 2009 Cooperation or Competition? Major economic crises had in the past, the outbreak of war encouraged, or at least they were usually preceded. It is not clear whether the war was followed by the crisis to the incompetence of those responsible, and deflect the anger of the victim to steer to the outside, or whether the crisis of the leaders was staged, with the war to make their political ideas forward. If the former, the opinion is widespread, the latter seems to me on closer inspection, the (...)
read more, comments... The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
By : Solve et Coagula - Tuesday April 7, 2009 http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...
read more, comments... Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default?
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday April 2, 2009 Did the ECB Save COMEX from Gold Default? April 02, 2009 On Tuesday morning, gold derivatives dealers, who had sold short in the face of a fast rising gold price, faced a serious predicament. Some 27,000 + contracts, representing about 15% of the April COMEX gold futures contracts remained open. Technically, short sellers are required to give “notice” of delivery to long buyers. However, in reality, buyers are the ones who control the amount of gold to be delivered. They (...)
read more, comments... What Now, America?
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday April 2, 2009 What Now, America? Jill Ettinger Like most Americans, I’ve been consumed with news about the circus our financial system has become, realizing this is probably just the first act of a much bigger show. And like many, I’ll admit my extremely limited knowledge of Wall Street dealings was never much of a concern to me. Yes, I’ve read Matt Taibbi’s enlightening piece in Rolling Stone (April 2009 issue) and Jake DeSantis’ resignation letter to AIG reprinted in the (...)
read more, comments... Money in Crisis
By : Solve et Coagula - Sunday March 29, 2009 Money in Crisis by Lionel Trilling Historical changes, involving unparalleled speed, scale and complexity, are reshaping our money system. Banks and financial services, under pressure from the cyber-economy, are transforming dramatically. Market innovations, such as Open Finance, make it more difficult than ever for regulators to define what a bank even is, or what money is theirs to manage. New players are vying for power and influence, both in our societies and in our monetary systems. (...)
read more, comments... The Fall of the Towers of Wall Street
By : gijoe - Wednesday March 25, 2009 Capitalism From the Standpoint of Its Victims by M. SHAHID ALAM It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to be the foundations of American power and prosperity.. http://www.counterpunch.org/shahid0...
read more, comments... What is technocapitalism ?
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday March 19, 2009 What is technocapitalism ? Technocapitalism is a new form of market capitalism that is rooted in technological invention and innovation. It can be considered an emerging era, now in its early stage, that is supported by such intangibles as creativity and knowledge. Intangibles are at the core of technocapitalism. Creativity and knowledge are to technocapitalism what tangible raw materials, factory labor and capital were to industrial capitalism. During industrial capitalism, tangible (...)
read more, comments... Steps to Financial Cataclysm Paved with Industry Dollars
By : wallstreetwatch.org - Thursday March 19, 2009 $5 BILLION IN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BOUGHT WALL STREET FREEDOM FROM REGULATION, RESTRAINT, REPORT FINDS Steps to Financial Cataclysm Paved with Industry Dollars March 4 - The financial sector invested more than $5 billion in political influence purchasing in Washington over the past decade, with as many as 3,000 lobbyists winning deregulation and other policy decisions that led directly to the current financial collapse, according to a 231-page report issued today by Essential (...)
read more, comments... Whats a C.D.O. (Collateralized dept obligation)?
By : Solve et Coagula - Tuesday March 17, 2009 Whats a C.D.O. (Collateralized dept obligation)? Wall Street giants like Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have been severely shaken by their losses on an arcane innovation in finance: collateralized dept obligations, or C.D.O.’s. Worldwide, there is more than $1.3 trillion invested in C.D.O.’s. Residential mortgage-backed securities, or R.M.B.S., make up 56 percent of the assets in C.D.O.’s. So the slump in housing has had a huge ripple effect on these investments. (...)
read more, comments... G20 - the possible end of world independence
By : Solve et Coagula - Saturday March 14, 2009 G20 - the possible end of world independence Citibank and JP Morgan have been profitable in the first two months of 2009. The markets are recovering and the banking sector is leading the rally. The worst is over – or is it? Are there hidden reasons for the manipulation of the markets by whispers and insider information in order to change the psychology of the people, especially the members of the G20 for their meeting in April? Is that behind all of the urgent telephone calls and (...)
read more, comments... It Goes Uppity Up,Up
By : Daveparts - Thursday March 12, 2009 By David Glenn Cox http://theservantsofpilate.com The last pillar of faith is a fanatical belief. Despite all logic, is this reliance on some unseen guiding force that will rescue us. It will strike down schoolteachers with illness so that we may have another day to study before the big test. It guides rescuers to find the lost. The rescued give praise, all praise above while the rescuers just scratch their heads. As the investment banks and brokerage houses advertise their strict (...)
read more, comments... Why Stock Markets are Collapsing
By : chycho - Wednesday March 11, 2009 The stock market began as a means for companies to raise money and for “shareholders to invest in business ventures and get a share of profits.” At some point, it turned into a casino resembling a Ponzi scheme, which held true until 2008 when the Ponzi scheme collapsed. The causes for this collapse are diverse. Some of its aspects and repercussions have already been discussed here, and will be discussed further in the future. If you would like to know how far the markets have (...)
read more, comments... Panic Selling Crashes Stocks Through False Bottom
By : Rick Gagliano - Thursday February 19, 2009 Yesterday’s manipulated close above the false bottom at Dow 7552 could not hold, not even for a day, in the wake of unprecedented government handouts and institutional selling that nearly brought the major stock indices to their knees in the final hours of Thursday’s session. The Dow Jones Industrials finished the day at their lowest level since October 9, 2002, prior, even to the start of the Iraq War. The best the government interlopers (through their proxies at Goldman (...)
read more, comments... US hires advisers, Rothschild firm, on auto restructuring
By : Solve et Coagula - Sunday February 8, 2009 US hires advisers, Rothschild firm, on auto restructuring by Jui Chakravorty and David Bailey Global Research, February 8, 2009 Financial Times - 2009-02-05 The US government has retained two law firms with extensive bankruptcy experience and the investment bank Rothschild to advise officials on the taxpayer-backed restructuring of General Motors and Chrysler, a person with direct knowledge of the work said. New York law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP was hired by the US (...)
read more, comments... Swiss Re tanking: After three Billion Swiss Franc investment the Warren Buffet effect failed to appear
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday February 5, 2009 Swiss Re Insurance: After three Billion Swiss Franc investment the Warren Buffet effect failed to appear, Swiss Re shares continue to drop sharply The legendary investor in the world increases the Swiss reinsurer - and it broke the Swiss Re’s shares for an international drama today. It will not be everything to gold, what Buffett touches. continue to read: http://translate.google.com/transla...
read more, comments... America Faces the Music in Davos
By : Solve et Coagula - Wednesday February 4, 2009 By William Pfaff The American participants in this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, have been the first to confront the full international blowback to the U.S.-created world economic crisis. The crisis has devastated America’s reputation for intellectual innovation and practice in global finance, its business leadership and its domination of applied and academic economics—all promoted at the Davos forum for decades. Last Friday, a Wall Street Journal (...)
read more, comments... The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government
By : Solve et Coagula - Monday February 2, 2009 The Obama Crossroads: Neo-Liberal Coup or Responsible Government by Prof. John McMurtry Global Research, February 1, 2009 When the U.S. Treasury gave away $700 billion to Wall Street banks with no strings attached in October of 2008, the Obama team gave a green light. A popular insurgence was soon silenced, with public wrath directed instead at the U.S. auto producers (and unions) who followed with a request for $25 billion. The auto companies ended up with a loan of about 1/50th the (...)
read more, comments... Worse than the Great Depression
By : Solve et Coagula - Sunday February 1, 2009 Worse than the Great Depression by Dr. Krassimir Petrov Global Research, February 1, 2009 GoldSeek.com The mainstream media and Wall Street have reached the consensus that the current credit crisis is the worst since the post-war period. George Soros’ statement that ”the world faces the worst finance crisis since WWII” epitomizes the collective wisdom. The crisis is currently the ultimate scapegoat for all the economic evils that currently plague the global financial (...)
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