Category Archives: Government
Geithner to resuce
Timothy Geithner, the US treasure secretary, has been haunting Europe’s corridors for the last several months making it abundantly clear that Obama’s administration is deeply concerned about the current European financial crisis. Geithner’s ‘help’ has been met with equal parts … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Finance, Government, politics, United States
The new information lexicon
The continued swell of dissent from the US “Occupy Wall Street” campaign highlights some interesting points in how we, collectively, are not only communicating, but also the notion of how a new paradigm of leader-less organization is taking shape. And … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Finance, Government, United States
Who will shoulder the burden?
Just as a key vote in Germany arrives on whether to do more to increase the eurozone bail-outEFSF, the disenchantment from the public, fellow MP’s and countries that are due to be helped (mainly Greece), continues to grow. This comes … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Europe, Finance, Government
The Arab Spring Hits Wall Street
Following the comments of Warren Buffett recently that, “the rich should pay more taxes,” the most unlikely of countries to protest, America, is doing just that. This time it’s Wall Street in the firing line. For almost two weeks now, protesters have … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Finance, Government, United States
The Scandals Continue for UBS
The broadsheets and tabloids are rife with an air of righteous indignation (again) at the current insider trading scandal at UBS, Switzerland’s already tarnished banking monolith. News that a 30-year-old rogue trader has been caught at the bank’s London headquarters … Continue reading
Filed under Banks, Finance, Government
At least appear unified!
US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, was recently in Europe to quietly lambast those on the continent for their “loose talk” and lack of political and public relations singularity concerning the continual threat of Greece falling through the floorboards. The irony … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Finance, Government, United States
Runaround Sue
Sue this, sue that – no one is safe from the courts in America. That’s why lawyers are always the only ones smiling in the land of plenty. The latest in litigation news comes from two cases, addressing different concerns … Continue reading
Filed under Banks, Government, United States
Mamma Mia!
Certain political figures become embroiled in situations that fiction writers would have a hard time dreaming up; for Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s Prime Minister, it is trench warfare on all sides as his nation attempts to extricate itself from a dire … Continue reading
Filed under Europe, Government, News, politics
ECB is too much the puppet master?
The eurozone’s ailing countries have found that within the last twelve months, bail-outs and loans may keep their nation from imminent collapse, but the European Central Bank wants something in return: the ability to talk and have the wounded nation … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Europe, Finance, Government
…and now for the French
The rating agencies, like Standard and Poor and Moody’s, have quickly become the Godfathers of the economic world – with national leaders and the marketplace kneeling before them, genuflecting. And now that we’ve seen the fear and chaos that a … Continue reading
Filed under Economy, Government
