Slow Burning Financial Crisis To Force More Central Bank Action

KWN

With continued uncertainty in global markets, today King World News interviewed 25 year veteran Caesar Bryan.  Gabelli & Company has over $31 billion under management and Caesar Bryan has managed the gold fund since its inception in 1994.  Here is what Ceasar had to say regarding the ongoing financial crisis:  “This has been sort of a slow-burn crisis.  There are going to be times when it flares up, and other times, strangely, [...]

George Soros: How to stop a second Great Depression

From FT:

Financial markets are driving the world towards another Great Depression with incalculable political consequences. The authorities, particularly in Europe, have lost control of the situation. They need to regain control and they need to do so now.

Three bold steps are needed. First, the governments of the eurozone must agree in principle on a new treaty creating a common treasury for the eurozone. In [...]

Read this, to see it’s not that clear Greece will actually get the aid as well:

“Germany holds regional elections on May 9
Greece must refinance 8.5 bln eur bond on May 19″

“the cabinet could approve a bill at the earliest on May 12 and push a law through both houses of parliament by May 25.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE63K1JA20100421

And another note, Greece has to pay back 54B euros this year alone! Do you think a 45B euro package is anything enough?

I started down the happy path of the Home Affordable program a year ago. It seemed like a great way to solve my problem.

I had an interest only ARM due to adjust in several years, and I had unsuccessfully tried several times to refinance. I had a job that paid significantly less. I had lost a business. I read the guidelines, and it looked like I was a poster-child for this program. Wow, what a surprise I was in for…

Months of calling and being told one lie after another, submitting the same paperwork [...]

Why no mention of this little bombshell behind the Moody’s warnings?

CORPORATE DEBT COMING DUE MAY SQUEEZE CREDIT

By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Published: March 15, 2010
NYTimes

When the Mayans envisioned the world coming to an end in 2012 — at least in the Hollywood telling — they didn’t count junk bonds among the perils that would lead to worldwide disaster.

Maybe they should have, because 2012 also is the beginning of a three-year period in which more than $700 billion in risky, high-yield corporate debt [...]