Monthly Archives: November 2013
The Most Despised Tax-And-Retreat French President Sinks Deeper Into Economic Quagmire
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Prince Alwaleed Warns, US Shale Revolution Threatens Saudi Economic Stability
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Gagging Doubt: French Crackdown On French And American Bloggers Who Question Megabank Balance Sheets
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France’s Financial Markets Authority slapped fines on two bloggers, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Chevallier and American Mike “Mish” Shedlock, “for having spread inexact information about the level of indebtedness” of megabank Société Générale. Instead of going after banks, bank regulators are going after bloggers! It’s more convenient.
Argentine Stocks React to President Kirchner’s Latest Handiwork
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Mexico: the Final Piece in North America’s Energy Renaissance
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Use Bitcoin As A Currency, Get Wiped Out (The Government Likes It That Way)
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TVA Coal Closures Signal of What’s to Come
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By Nick Cunningham, OilPrice.com: The Tennessee Valley Authority, one of the largest electricity generators in the US, decided to shut down eight coal generating units. Coal will drop from a 52% share to 20% in the coming years, to be replaced mostly by natural gas. It illustrates what many utilities face.
Here Is Proof (Provided By Japan Inc.) Why Abenomics Fails The Real Economy
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Extortion Over Minimum Wage In Germany: BMW, Daimler, VW Threaten to Offshore Production
by Wolf Richter • • Comments Off on Extortion Over Minimum Wage In Germany: BMW, Daimler, VW Threaten to Offshore Production
Germany has neither a minimum wage nor a government. Someday it might. If not, there will be new elections, and Chancellor Merkel might get pummeled because she’d be blamed for them. So she’s trying to form a coalition with the left-leaning SPD on whose list of campaign promises was a decent minimum wage.