Jim Rogers – ‘U.S. Needs To Cut Spending With A Chainsaw!’

From dailybail.com site, Interview transcript: Jim Rogers: I hope it’s only one decade of loss that we lose in America. Japan […]

Der Spiegel Interview with George Soros

By Gregor Peter Schmitz and Thomas Schulz, ‘You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds’ In a SPIEGEL interview, billionaire investor […]

Numerous Spanish Towns Face Bankruptcy

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock, globaleconomic analysis blog, The Spanish economic implosion continues. Various austerity measure in Europe and rate hikes […]

Financial Turmoil Evokes Comparison to 2008 Crisis

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ, NY Times, It feels eerily familiar: Stocks are plummeting. The economy is slowing. Politicians are scrambling […]

What Investors Need to Know About America’s Debt Crisis

By Chris Mayer, The Daily Reckoning Forget the government nonsense about the U.S. debt ceiling “deal.” All the posturing, scolding […]

Hugo Salinas Price and Michael Pettis on the Trade Imbalance Dilemma; Gold’s Honest Discipline Revisited

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock, globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets gets to the heart of the trade imbalance issue […]

Economist Charles Gave: The Euro Will Not Exist In One Year!

Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider, Charles Gave is the French economist whose research firm GaveKal is fairly well known, and read […]

Country default risk

From Bespoke Investment Group site, “Greece has really distinguished itself this week as the country that is most at risk […]

The downgrade assault by the rating agencies continues – what are the implications for the EFSF?

By Rebecca Wilder, News N Economics site, As the rating agencies trip over themselves to downgrade sovereign credit, Greece yesterday […]

The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System

By Prof. Peter Dale Scott, From globalresearch.ca site, The present NATO campaign against Gaddafi in Libya has given rise to […]