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Is a Global Aviation Trade War About to Break Out?
The EU’s emissions trading scheme could trigger a full scale global aviation trade war within weeks. A total of 30 countries which signed the Moscow Joint Declaration in February – including Russia, India, and the US - have threatened to retaliate. But China has upped the stakes by warning that it is prepared to impound European aircraft, if the EU punishes Chinese airlines for non-compliance, according to Reuters.
Posted in Companies, Global Warming Scare, Politics Also tagged airlines, China, climate change, EU, IATA, India, Russia Leave a comment
The Game is Up for the Commodity Super-Cycle as the Yo-Yo Years Begin
If a blizzard of awful Chinese economic data isn’t enough to convince you that China is heading into a deflationary slump and the commodity “super-cycle” is coming to an end, then the deepening crisis in the euro-zone should be. That’s because not only will a massive reduction in foreign lending by European banks hurt investment in emerging markets, but supplier economies will be hit disproportionately, as they were post-Lehman.
Posted in Commodities, Companies, Economy, Uncategorized Also tagged Australia, Austria, BHP Billiton, Brazil, Canada, China, ECRI, Europe, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Taiwan, Yo-Yo Years 2 Comments
Solar Power Has Been Totally Eclipsed by Gas
Generous solar subsidies were never going to survive in an age of austerity and cheap natural gas. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Germany. Solar energy was supposed to herald a new age of clean energy, and provide thousands of green jobs, but not a single solar manufacturer is expected to survive there. With governments elsewhere, like Italy, also ending their tax payer funded bonanzas, the industry is facing total collapse, globally.
Posted in Commodities, Companies, Global Warming Scare, Uncategorized Also tagged First Solar, Germany, Italy, solar energy 1 Comment
Ecofascism Has Wrecked The Global Warming Movement
The climate scare is collapsing as taxpayers and investors realize that shackling the economy with taxes, regulations, and unaffordable subsidies is economic suicide. The messianic doomsayers have overplayed their hand, and opened up their junk science to ridicule.
Posted in Global Warming Scare, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Australia, cap-and-trade, climate, environmentalism, EPA, Goldman Sachs, Wall St Leave a comment
To Win the Election, Obama and Romney Must Promise to Break Up the Big Banks
Campaigning for a break-up of the big banks has gone mainstream. If Obama is to win the election, he will have to stand up for the middle class, which is fed up with the unfairness of the present economic system. This means he will have to tackle the concentration of bank power that continues to threaten economic stability. For while the overarching purpose of the Dodd–Frank reforms was to end Too-Big-Too-Fail, it may actually be increasing banking industry concentration and preventing the economic recovery.
Posted in Companies, Economy, Fund Management, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bank of America, Citigroup, Dodd-Frank, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, France, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Too-Big-Too-Fail, UK, Wells Fargo Comments closed
Threat to YouTube As UK Government Turns Spotlight on Hate Videos
US websites like YouTube now face being taken down in the UK, if they do not remove al-Qaeda’s hate videos from their site. Such is the anger amongst UK government ministers about the failure of YouTube to remove content that incites murder, that serious pressure will be put on US politicians to change the law governing online intermediaries.
Posted in Companies, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged air transport, Google, internet, terrorism, UK, YouTube Leave a comment
Eurozone Governments May Need To Bail Out Municipalities
A lot has already been written about the risk to municipal bond holders in the U.S., as a growing number of states face severe fiscal problems. But local government debt is an even bigger threat in Europe - where it could force governments to assume the debt, putting further pressure on sovereign bond spreads.
Posted in Bond markets, Currency Markets, Economy, Uncategorized Also tagged bonds, EU, Euro, Germany, Greece, Italy, municipal debt, Spain Leave a comment
The IMF Is Turning Into A Monster
It’s been apparent for some time that the IMF is no longer an independent institution but an arm of the European financial elites. With Dominique Strauss-Kahn at the helm when the financial crisis hit, Germany and France have cynically been able to use the IMF for their own ends, dropping ever larger sums into the EU with ever fewer conditions, to protect German and French banks that have huge exposures to the PIIGS. Angering the very same Asian countries that were dictated to by the IMF in 1997, and who are now being asked to pay the bills, and stretching US patience to the limit, it is all likely to end in tears.
Posted in Bond markets, Economy, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Asian Developing Bank Fund, ECB, France, Germany, Greece, IMF, Ireland Leave a comment
Fossil Fuels and Nuclear are the Only Ways to Satisfy Global Electricity Demand