Firecracker-Report
America's Toothless Democracy - How we Have Reduced Ourse...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Despite changing a President and the ruling political party, there has been scant change in the policies that govern the nation. The real rulers of this country - powerful corporations continue to sacrifice democracy at the altar of unbridled greed and profits. In many ways they have rendered the...
Gold Decoupling From the Dollar and Emerging as the New F...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Off late we have been noticing an interesting phenomenon. Gold seems to be decoupling from its negative correlation with the dollar. Is gold on the path to replace king dollar as the ultimate safe haven? We certainly think so.
Dubai Default Examined: Sheikh Gave Fake Pep Talk as Rece...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Dubai has managed to pull the rug from under the global risk trade by defaulting on its debt and announcing a 6 month moratorium on debt payments of Dubai World its prized conglomorate.
Gold Stocks Lagging Physical Gold Prices - Traditional Co...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Since September, some interesting dynamics have been unfolding in the gold market. While physical gold prices have soared to new highs, gold stocks have not followed through. In this paper we explore the reasons behind this.
Panda Envy - Small Business Not Seeing Green Shoots
from Firecracker-Report in Books
Small Business owners continue to struggle as the green shoots of economic recovery fail to materialize
Is an Equity Correction and Dollar Rally Looming?
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
With the Fed's $300 bn quantitative easing program for Treasuries coming to an end in October, there is a real risk that Treasury yields will increase (and their prices will fall), choking any nascent recovery in the U.S. economy. So is the Fed about to engineer an equity market correction and ge...
Goldman's "Shock and Awe" Campaign to Rebuild A...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Goldman Sachs' marketing machine has kicked into high gear to justify the massive bonuses they are about to dole out. But even they have tripped up while attempting to answer a simple question on their website "what has been Goldman's contribution to rebuilding America?" Among their pathetic answ...
We the Taxpayers Deserve 80% of Goldman's Profits
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Goldman Sachs in reality is a hedge fund masquerading as a bank. Since it is our money they are gambling with we propose they behave like a true hedge fund and pay out 80% of their profits to their tax payer investors.
Is a Shortage of Physical Gold the Real Reason for the Re...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
Conventional wisdom suggests that the gold-dollar inverse relation is the reason behinds gold's spectacular ascent through $1000, over the last few weeks. Instead we believe that a more likely cause is a developing shortage in the physical bullion market. If our scarcity thesis is true, then the ...
Did the Nobel Prize Committee Just Try to Checkmate Obama?
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, the Committee was probably attempting to pre-empt military escalation in the Middle East. After all it would appear ironic, if Obama gives the greenlight for an escalation of troops in Afghanistan, expanded operations in Pakistan and most importantly a ...
Did the Nobel Prize Committee Just Try to Checkmate Obama?
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, the Committee was probably attempting to pre-empt military escalation in the Middle East. After all it would appear ironic, if Obama gives the greenlight for an escalation of troops in Afghanistan, expanded operations in Pakistan and most importantly a ...
Firecracker-Report
scribbled: Your comment seems bang on. There seems to be no other reasonable explanation for the Obama Nobel. Crazy times we live in !
Paul Volcker: Obama Does NOT Rely on my Advice Anymore
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
In a revealing interview with Charlie Rose, Volcker inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag, saying Obama does not rely on his advice anymore. From their conversation we can only conclude that Obama used Volcker's credibility to get elected. Ofcourse we expect nothing more from our American pol...
Why Ford CEO’s “U.S. Car Market in a V-shaped Recovery” T...
from Firecracker-Report in Business & Law, Finance
In a recent interview Ford CEO Alan Mulally sounded the V-shaped recovery gong, for the U.S. car industry. According to him U.S. car sales, after reaching a multi-year rock bottom in 2009 will begin to stage a rapid recovery growing by 38% by 2011. / In this report we examine why his thesis is pla...
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