The European Banking Crisis is beyond description. A leak has come out that the Commission will simply seize money from all the banks on a flat rate basis benefiting the banks that have lost money from trading at the expense of the small savings banks. Wolfgang Schäuble (born 1942) is Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance. He […]

While the Pro-Russian Eastern Ukrainians destroyed polling units to prevent people from voting against separation showing their desire for dictatorship and fascism, Western Europe is not much better  The German politician, currently serving as Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy and Vice Chancellor of Germany. Since 2009 he has been chairman of the Social Democratic […]

Marine Le Pen and France’s National Front political party is poised to take the biggest swing toward anti-Europe ahead of even Britain. Le Pen declared victory in European Union elections as voters backed populist, far-Right and Left-wing parties in a backlash against immigration and the euro’s economic policies. The European elections for 2014 show that EU citizens […]

We have seen a 4 month rally in euro-region debt with yields on Italian and Spanish bonds seeing their biggest one-day jump in almost a year last week. The sell-off in European sovereign debt began in Greece and has spread following the same lines of contagion that emerged 2010-2011. Bids have simply evaporated and prices […]

The Euro – A Political & Economic Crisis Beyond Contemplation The Euro Outlook 1996-1997 Understanding the Euro And the Chaos it is Unleashing in the World Economy (1997 Forecast) EMU – Building the Foundation for the Next Great European Economic Disaster (1996 Forecast) Original Currency Conversions for Entry THE Rise and Fall of the Euro (2011) The […]

 (The Euro in Crisis) When the Euro was on the drawing boards, the committee to create the Euro came to our seminar in London and took the whole back row. I was there at the beginning and have first hand knowledge about how it was being designed. I warned them at that time the euro […]

COMMENT: hi Martin, This week I visited my local BNP Paribas bank in Belgium and had a brief chat with the manager. I told her I have an account at [a Brokerage house]… from where I do some trading. The reason I went to this broker is that the fees are only $1 per transaction, regardless […]

Labor unions will commemorate May Day (International Workers Day) throughout Europe, on May 1st. While these events are generally peaceful, we are entering 2014 and at a minimum low-level violence is expected beginning late April 30. Attacks on police and acts of vandalism, by certain groups, are a May Day tradition in many European cities. […]

Just as the American banks ran with open-arms into South America during the 1970s and ended up with loans defaulting, we may see the economic war against Russia backfire as lawyer-politicians never seem to comprehend this is a global economy with all sorts of intricate entanglements. We may see that the European banking crisis simply […]

The proposition in Russia is that they must defend Russian speaking people living in the Eastern European former Soviet States. This is the justification for international war and Russia is well aware that Europe will not defend this region for it is financially broke in any event. The proposition is that to protect the compatriots […]