The following video is Frontline’s expose on Jon Corzine and MF Global. The film features Christopher Whalen from Institutional Risk Analytics. Mr. Whalen spells it out pretty clearly when he says that MFGlobal’s use of client funds in risky…
Would you pool your debt with a bunch of debt addicts that have no intention of reducing their wild spending habits? Of course you wouldn’t. But that is exactly what Germany is being asked to do. Increasingly, “eurobonds” are being…
As people may know, Bill Still is all about monetary reform. What you may not know is the story of monetary reform in Canada during the Great Depression, which was led by Paul Hellyer. The Canadians endeavored to actually…
From the forum: In Sweden, we’ve had an Order-to-Executed Order limit in place since last year. Basically for every 250 orders, at least 1 must be executed on, otherwise a fee of 0,09 SEK (around 0,015 USD) is applied per…
I love it when this sort of thing happens…. The U.S. economy will probably tip back into recession next year if Congress fails to address an impending “fiscal cliff,”the Congressional Budget Office said. The nonpartisan agency said in a report late yesterday that the…