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- Unicredit Bailed Out by Libya
- The Prudent Investor submits: In a bizarre twist of fate, the former Italian colony Libya, once branded a terrorist state by the USA, takes part in bailing out Italy's second largest bank, Unicredit (UNCFF.PK). Reuters quoted Libyan central bank governor Farhat Omar Bin Guidara, who told...
- External links 2008-10-19
- Pay Attention To Indian Silver Buying Spree
- The Prudent Investor submits: The massive correction in silver brings back Indian buyers. According to a Reuters story, Indians also shift to silver as the high silver/gold ratio of 80:1 makes the white metal appear cheaper to its competitor gold. Imports have jumped to 250 tons every...
- External links 2008-10-22
- Lubricated Global Banking Machine Still Sputters
- The Prudent Investor submits: Only 75 minutes after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) slashed Fed Funds half a point to the lowest recorded level of 1%, chairman Ben Bernanke started his money dropping helicopter fleet in order to shower the world with another $120 billion. This...
- External links 2008-10-30
- ECB Balance Sheet Continues to Balloon at Unprecedented Rate
- The Prudent Investor submits: Record lending to troubled Eurozone banks has ballooned the European Central Bank's (ECB) weekly financial statement, a pro forma balance sheet for Europe's biggest fiat money creator, to a never seen before €2.031 trillion as of October 31. To put this mind-boggling...
- External links 2008-11-05
- ECB Offers More Money at Cheaper Prices
- The Prudent Investor submits: Taking advantage of lower commodity and energy prices while facing economic headwinds from a contraction in retail sales, the European Central Bank (ECB) lowered its key refinancing rate another 50 basis points to 3.25%, meeting market expectations. The deposit facility rate was brought...
- External links 2008-11-06
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- Institutional Investment in REIT Common Stocks: An Examination of the Prudent Man Investment Hypothesis
- This study examines the determinants of institutional investment demand for real estate investment trust REIT common strock and whether institutional investment decisions are influenced by REIT financial ratios. We estimate the institutional investor demand function using a common set of financial ratios. We perform several different analyzes using linear regression...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Monetizing the Debt: Explanation For Non-Economists, Bankers and Other Laymen
- The Prudent Investor submits: As I see uncountable search engine inquiries with the phrase "monetizing the debt" landing at my blog The Prudent Investor I begin to realize there is a huge void of knowledge not only amongst interested economic laymen but also among employees from what...
- External links 2009-05-10
- The Fannie/Freddie Nationalization: Conservatives Acting Like Socialists
- The Prudent Investor submits: Gosh, boys, we truly must be in a mess of epic proportions. Sometimes it pays to watch CNBC, even if it is only to preserve my humor at a time when we see daily exemptions from hailed free market principles for troubled financial...
- External links 2008-09-08
- A Detailed Overview of Central and Eastern European Bank Players
- The Prudent Investor submits: Unicredit analysts have compiled a detailed study on the Central Eastern European (CEE) banking sector HT Ed Hugh. While I cannot share their wishful thinking in terms of a speedy recovery, this is nevertheless a compact first-hand guide to the area that will...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Having Tea at the Dovish European Central Bank
- The Prudent Investor submits: The governing council of the European Central Bank [ECB] seems to have had a very sanguine meeting, leaving the key interest rate unchanged as expected at 4.25% in a unanimous vote. I am actually blown away by the dovish tone expressed in...
- External links 2008-09-05
- Argentina and Brazil Abolish Dollar in Bilateral Trade
- The Prudent Investor submits: The dollar has begun to fall out of favor in Latin America. Argentina and Brazil are the next two countries that have reduced their exposure to Federal Reserve Notes [FRNs]. According to a report by mercopress.com: Brazilian and Argentine presidents Lula da Silva...
- External links 2008-09-11
- Lehman Won't Be the Last Major Bank Failure
- The Prudent Investor submits: Bankers and financial authorities are becoming busy bees these days. After last weekend's overtime that led to a potential doubling of US public debt for the "rescue" of Freddie Mac FRE and Fannie Mae FNM, this weekend will be spent on a rescue...
- External links 2008-09-12
- The Market Outlook? Depends Which Business Channel You Watch
- The Prudent Investor submits: Depending on the business TV station that runs in the background, one has every option for the outlook of their choice these days. Among CNBC's talk masters and mistresses, I consider only Rick Santelli a knowledgeable reporter in the good old sense, whereas...
- External links 2009-05-07
- A Four-Minute Tour of the Chinese Property Bubble
- The Prudent Investor submits: As I still have not come across any temptations - except a table full of Beijing Duck without oyster sauce (!) - to visit China and take in state sponsored growth on steroids bad loans, Hedge Fund Manager Hugh Hendry Brief of Eclectica...
- External links 2009-08-18
- Dichotomy in W. European Gold and Silver Prices
- The Prudent Investor submits: Having read a growing number of reports on a physical silver shortage - and now gold too - with dealers unable to guarantee delivery time, here come some additional observations from the German language area in Europe. The dichotomy between the so called...
- External links 2008-09-03
- One Eurozone But Many Sets of Growth and Price / Inflation Data
- The Prudent Investor submits: Preparing this rant about the widening milkyway between Eurozone economic growth and Euro production in the ECB and its printing presses spread evenly amongst Euro members proves one more time that the absoluteness of financial math and official figures are 2 pairs of...
- External links 2009-06-29
- With Rates on Hold, ECB's Trichet's Quite Complacent for the Moment
- The Prudent Investor submits: It's summertime and the livin' is... (fill with adjective best describing your situation.) The European Central Bank (ECB) has gone into a wait and see mode, leaving main interest rates unchanged and forecasting a return to mild inflation after Eurostat had issued a...
- External links 2009-07-02
- Former Assistant Treasury Secretary: 'The Treasury Works for Goldman Sachs'
- The Prudent Investor submits: Continuing the series of sunny summer day bloggin' lite, please enjoy the video below. For those busy with saving the world from its banks' irresponsibilities, read the quotes and find yourself in a financial world bare of any Chinese walls. It's all...
- External links 2009-07-10
- The U.S. Mint Again Suspends Gold Coin Sales: Is It Really Out of Gold?
- The Prudent Investor submits: I may have missed one or the other suspension of gold coin sales by the US Mint. But here we go again: Checking the online store of the US Mint I came across notices of delays and suspensions with golden Eagles and Buffalos,...
- External links 2009-07-13
- Bullion Shortage and Spot Prices Tell Two Different Gold Stories
- The Prudent Investor submits: Having blogged earlier on a physical silver shortage and the drying up of gold bullion purchases, recent events in the precious metals markets justify an update that again arrives at the conclusion that last Friday's silver and...
- External links 2008-10-13
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