Showing posts with label risk free. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk free. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Graphic: A History of Sovereign Defaults

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Just a reminder that there is no such thing as “risk free”, particularly on the popular impression that government debts are safe havens. ...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Quote of the Day: Freedom is not Defined by Safety

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Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government canno...
Thursday, July 05, 2012

S&P’s Philippine Upgrade: There's More than Meets the Eye

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From Bloomberg , The Philippines’ debt rating was raised to the highest level since 2003 by Standard & Poor’s, taking President Ben...
Friday, June 29, 2012

BSP's loan to the IMF: Costs are Not Benefits

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The simmering debate over the proposed loan to the IMF by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) can be summarized as: For the anti-camp, t...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Risk OFF Environment: Surging US Dollar

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The Bloomberg reports The dollar is proving scarce, even after the Federal Reserve flooded the financial system with an extra $2.3 tril...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

The Myth of ‘Safe Assets’

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The IMF is concerned about the potential shortage of supply of “safe assets” Writes the Wall Street Journal Blog Worries about nation...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

$6 Trillion worth of Fake US bonds Seized by Italian Police

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From Reuters Italian police said on Friday they had seized about $6 trillion worth of fake U.S. Treasury bonds and other securities in ...
Saturday, August 06, 2011

NO Such Thing as Risk Free: S&P Downgrades US

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The United States has lost its coveted top AAA credit rating. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday downgraded the...
Thursday, March 03, 2011

How To Reform The Global Debt Biased Economic System

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Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff argues that the world’s problem has been “rooted in excessive concentrations of debt” and that the fix shou...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

The Myth Of Risk Free Government Bonds

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Bruce Krastings at the Zero Hedge has an interesting story to tell. It's essentially about the sordid fate of Hungary's bearer bonds...