Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
European Bailout!
Read the Thursday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 2/21/2013 and the Friday Morning Commentary for 2/22/2013 Irrespective of Mario Draghi’s plan to do “whatever it takes” to save the Euro… ECB's Mario Draghi unveils bond-buying euro debt plan …the European economy is in FREEFALL; as validated by last week’s announcement the ENTIRE [...]
Inflate and Die Tomorrow, or Deflate And Die Today
Kerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network spoke with Andy Hoffman for a dismal look at the state of the world’s economy. Not much good news to be had in Europe, certainly very little in the US and it’s a bit discouraging that Communist China has become the hope of the free world. There’s a massive race to the bottom in Europe and [...]
What can he possibly say?
Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the BOE will take the stand in Britain's Parliament shortly, but really, what can he possibly say? It is a documented fact (phone logs and newly released e-mails) that he spoke to Barclays' Bob Diamond. Can he say "I don't remember"? Or maybe "we talked about the weather"? I'm pretty sure that he can't. He [...]
Not so SWIFT! June 27th?
The U.S. "blinked" yesterday by granting China (and others) a 6 month extension of "sanctions" being levied for trading with Iran. Sanctions were scheduled to begin yesterday where anyone trading for oil with Iran were supposed to be locked out of the SWIFT payment transfer [...]
“Re-Liquification”
Read the Tuesday Afternoon Wrap-Up for 6/26/2012 and the Wednesday Morning Commentary for 6/27/2012 Yesterday, I read a brilliant piece by Miles Franklin’s newest Associate Writer, Bill Holter. The gist is the insignificant difference between the dire economic and financial situations of the United States and Europe – although frankly, [...]
Ranting Andy Hoffman is Running Out of Rants
“Ranting” Andy is getting fed up with the news because it is pure propaganda. All talk of recovery is unadulterated BS, as is the belief that it’s normal for gold prices to be headed down. The western world is having a complete financial hemorrhage, and it shows the world has lost its collective sanity, as if it ever had any in the first [...]
The US and Europe will Break Up
Check out the latest interview with Kerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network. Ranting Andy sees Facebook as further confirmation of a completely corrupt financial system careening out of control. When the elites deliberately overprice and overhype the biggest tech IPO in history and then see it crash and burn, then you know something [...]
The Rising Nationalistic Tide
Read the Monday Afternoon Wrap-up for 5/21/2012 and the Tuesday Morning Commentary for 5/22/2012 This weekend, I came across the article below, by Graham Summers of Phoenix Capital. He just returned from a trip to Paris, in which he saw - up close and personal – the anger against pro-Euro government and thus, a “RISING NATIONALISTIC [...]
Europe and the United States Will Break Up
Andy Hoffman discusses the Facebook IPO and the rise of nationalism in Europe with Kerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network: Europe and the United States Will Break Up
Cradle to Grave
Read the Monday Afternoon Wrap-up for 5/14/2012 and the Tuesday Morning Commentary for 5/15/2012 Following my February 10th RANT, “GENERATION GIMME” – in which I described the scary responses of U.S. college students to questions of their perceived role of government – I want to highlight a four-minute video by one of my new favorite [...]
