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Economic Trouble Is Coming In 2013? Government Is About To Cut Spending Dramatically, Student Loan Default Rates Are Soaring, Interest Rates And Taxes Going Up, And 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will Be A Year Of Economic Difficulty

The Markets Starting To Take A Closer Look At The US

Via Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev of True Economics blog,

2013′s biggest Grey Swan might be not China’s slowdown or Euro area’s continued debt crisis (although both are pretty much still on the books, although the former is less likely than the latter). It might not even be the Japanese economic implosion (albeit Japan is sick beyond any repair)… oh, no… the real Grey [...]

When the Weakest Critical Part Fails, the Machine Breaks Down

by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

When the Weakest Critical Part Fails, the Machine Breaks Down

Consumer spending is the bedrock of the global economy, and consumer spending depends on expanding debt and leverage. Once that subsystem fails, consumerism and the global economy grind to a halt.

The failure of any critical subsystem in an organism triggers a catastrophic, fatal decline. It doesn’t matter if the rest of the critical subsystems are functioning [...]

Euro SHOCKER: Last week’s plan to “save the euro” was only a bluff

From Naked Capitalism:

The more news comes out, the more it looks like Mario Draghi’s pledge that the ECB would do all it would take to save the euro was a bluff. The best guess is that he hopes to appease the market gods until September 12, when the German Constitutional Court will render its decision on whether the “permanent” rescue mechanism, the ESM, is permissible.

The assumption, of course, is the [...]

Recently in the UK press regarding a connection between drugs money laundering and banksters and note London as the bankster capital has also become the cocaine capital:

While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits, a study claims

The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich “consuming” countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn “producing” nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed. And its authors claim that financial [...]

On post-euro Greece : “Birth of new Greek drachma would be pained, rushed”

If or when policymakers finally decideGreece should leave the euro, the exit could happen so quickly that “new drachma” currency notes might not be printed in time.

In principle, some of the long-term consequences of Athens leaving the currency bloc are not unappealing. The euro zone would no longer have to worry about what has always been its weakest link. While a new Greek currency would almost certainly immediately crash in value as soon [...]

Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The End Of The Eurozone

by Michael

What was considered unthinkable a few months ago has now become probable. All over the globe there are headlines proclaiming that a Greek exit from the euro is now a real possibility. In fact, some of those headlines make it sound like it is practically inevitable. For example, Der Spiegel ran a front page story the other day with the following startling headline: “Acropolis, Adieu! Why Greece must leave [...]

A&G’s AIG Moment Approaching: Moody’s Downgrades Generali, Cuts Megainsurer Allianz Outlook To Negative

by ZH

For a while now we have said that the very weakest link in Europe is not the banks, not the ECB, not triggered CDS, and not even the shadow banking system (well, infinitely rehypothecated Greek bonds within a daisychain of broker-dealers, which ultimately ends up at the ECB at a negligible repo discount, that could well be the weakest link – we will have more to say about this [...]

As Greece Crashes And Burns, Troika Arrives In Portugal With “Soothing Words Of Support”

by ZH

What is better than a one-front European war on insolvency? Why two-fronts of course. But not before many “soothing” words are uttered (no really). From Reuters: “Portugal’s international lenders arrived in Lisbon on Wednesday to review the country’s bailout, with soothing words of supportlikely to dominate as Europe gropes for success stories to counteract its interminable Greek headache. As the euro zone’s second weakest link, Portugal’s ability to ride out its [...]

Is A 0.014% Ad CTR Facebook’s Weakest Link? Mark Gimein: “Whether you’re a giant advertiser or a tiny one, you know exactly how much value you get from a Google placement. For us, it was just really hard to know what we were getting from our Facebook ads.”

Courtesy of Bloomberg, we have our first impression of what advertisers’ “efficiency” is for Facebook ads, and whether or not they will decide to use Facebook as an ad medium as opposed to a legacy wholesale advertising channel’s like Google AdSense. Frankly, it does not look too hot: as the attached chart shows, the CTR on an ad campaign is a paltry 0.014%, or said otherwise 182,901 page views leading to… [...]

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Economic Trouble Is Coming In 2013? Government Is About To Cut Spending Dramatically, Student Loan Default Rates Are Soaring, Interest Rates And Taxes Going Up, And 65 Percent Of Americans Believe That 2013 Will Be A Year Of Economic Difficulty

When the Weakest Critical Part Fails, the Machine Breaks Down

Euro SHOCKER: Last week’s plan to “save the euro” was only a bluff

Recently in the UK press regarding a connection between drugs money laundering and banksters and note London as the bankster capital has also become the cocaine capital:

On post-euro Greece : “Birth of new Greek drachma would be pained, rushed”

Why A Greek Exit From The Euro Would Mean The End Of The Eurozone

A&G’s AIG Moment Approaching: Moody’s Downgrades Generali, Cuts Megainsurer Allianz Outlook To Negative

As Greece Crashes And Burns, Troika Arrives In Portugal With “Soothing Words Of Support”

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