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Current level are the most that government around the world can afford. I don't think they're so into the fascism or totalitarianism scheme, to let market go down even more. They could crackdown on tax-haven pretty fast if things go even more wrong. You have a bunch of hawks in power...

Why ''why not?'' ? You just wrote that you don't know why anyone would buy and it still something relevant? that just puzzled me.

You both seem to believe that this would not set a precedence that nobody can afford. Why would banks lend to other countries because of that tax on their reserves?

jewish bankers are from many economic schools. would you compare stiglitz with greenspan? You'd need to understand when it all started, why jews became good bankers. It was because laws didn't allowed them to take anything else, usury was considered the shamefull job. Rothschild came...

competitive? It's something that you cant describe for anything at once. It's ability and courage to fight competitors. It's a mix of deceptive behaviors and pragmatism. deceptive? Making false statements or making statement before knowing all that could change its outcome, which...

how should people react in the short term, to collectively defuse that trend? What role should take the administration? What global situation could influence that?

oh that's so funny..:D It had to happen at some point.. Why the tarp will finance these? Oh..i hope they limit their financing of these things in the government.

Well if OPEC members are under strain, they will bring many people with them.. Russian are pushing ukraine to pay its debt or else they cut gaz supply. If east-europe comes under destabilization because of that, imagine the strain on the borders of western europe? They would have to...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/46db7d1e-bcec-11dd-af5a-0000779fd18c.html Warren Buffett called credit default swaps "financial weapons of mass destruction" and they are about to annihilate Main Street. In a disturbing new trend, international banks are creating syndicated credit facilities that...

Maybe they will pray for the investors who lost everything, to stop shorting even good companies with CDS. Praying they don't send everyone in hell for their own mistakes. feeding a panic is evil. :D

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122960464115317965.html Russia is warning Ukraine to pay its gaz debt or be cut from supply. That's the kind of situation that could evolve badly and hurt everyone. What can Europe do when on of its members is unable to pay the price for its basic needs...

''Each country eliminate thier IRSs....and establish a 10% consumption tax....'' Is that possible to finance unemployment benefit, health care for the poorest and good education with only that tax base?

The problem with fair-trade is its scale. At this scale, it is only a product for the wealthiest. But what is the alternative? better save some from slavery than to keep everyone starving.

Taxing foreign goods would create so much hatred that yes we would come out of this depression because we would coordinate for ww3. You have a supply problem, minerals for exemple. Solve that and everything can kickstart again. I don't mean pushing afghan out of their country because we...

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=20096 There is this letter which is going beyond the national intelligence council.. What is worrying is Russia, Iran and Venezuela having too much economic problems but unable to justify economic integration and open regulated markets.

this council may become very interesting in the next years, but for now you would find more information in defense journals, geopolitics magazine..

1st, The FAO made a report last week claiming food prices would go up again next summer to a great extent. they expect lower growth to provoke farmers to cut planting. 2nd, hyperinflation would have a duration of 1 month. Do you expect all the people talking in blogs, discussion room and...

The bankers can't be nationalized, they are chinese. So if the chinese don't find the big 3 too appealing, then they must go broke. China has ample supply of workers who need a job and won't ask for much. The question is more, what strategy to fix the unemployment that will come out of...

Read about geopolitics, state of supplies around the world... Not only the market players are passionate enough to influence market prices.

Short term solutions for a much too complex world for individuals. Though, their roles is giving a human face to all that is happening. People can find some informations through their body expressions of the information they are giving to the media. No central banks would mean...