Meet The Participants Of This Year’s Bilderberg Conference
Here are the participants in the Bilderberg meeting over the weekend in Tirol. It is named after a Hotel Chain where the first meeting took place on May 29-31, 1954 in Austria. As the G7 summit of the...
View ArticleUkraine Bonds Plunge After ‘American’ FinMin Escalates Default Threat
In the last 3 days, Ukraine’s short-term bond prices have crashed 9%. Specifically the 2017s are down 3.5 points today alone following Ukraine’s (American) finance minister threats yesterday in...
View ArticleFrontrunning: July 7
Greece faces last chance to stay in euro as cash runs out (Reuters) Tsipras Begins Brussels Campaign to Keep Greece Inside the Euro (BBG) Greek Crisis Shows How Germany’s Power Polarizes Europe (WSJ)...
View ArticleAustrian Bad Bank “Black Swan” Bail-In Is Unconstitutional, Austria Declares
The subject of bail-ins and bank resolutions is back in the news this month as every eurocrat in Brussels scrambles to determine the best way to recapitalize Greece’s ailing banking sector, which,...
View ArticleUS Futures, European Stocks Drop As USDJPY Tumbles
One day after the biggest jump in stocks in two months on what has still been an undetermined catalyst, overnight global equities did a U-turn with European stocks falling toward a one-month low and...
View ArticleFutures Fade Early Bounce, Slide In Illiquid Tape As Yen Rises, Oil Drops
Following the latest month abysmal trade and PMI data out of Japan overnight (April exports crashed -10.1 %, worse than the exp. -9.8 and worse than last month’s -6.8% while imports plunged -23.3% also...
View ArticleA German Bank Finally Caves: Will Charge Retail Investors A Negative 0.4%...
On June 5, 2014 when the ECB officially announced that the rate on its deposit facility would go negative, we posted “NIRP Has Arrived: Europe Officially Enters The “Monetary Twilight Zone.” However,...
View ArticleGermans “Lose Faith In Banks”, Rush To Buy Safes
It is no secret that one of the most admirable qualities of the German public – in addition to its striking propensity for thrift in the aftermath of Weimar – is its stoic patience and pragmatism when...
View ArticleUn-Becoming American – One Man’s Painful Journey To Renouncing Citizenship
Submitted by 'Kevnice' via ForeignByNature.com, In April 2012, I returned to Switzerland – my country of birth – to commence a new phase of my adult life. Naturally, one of the first steps to undertake...
View ArticleGlobal Stocks Pressured As Oil Slides On OPEC Deal Concerns; US Futures,...
European stocks were little changed and oil fell as investors assessed declining prospects for an OPEC deal and risks from Italy’s referendum. Asian stocks declined, while S&P futures pointed to a...
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