It is clear to everyone today that Europe is in a deep debt crisis and that the multinational bailout of European banks won’t do much. After UBS announced it had lost $2 billion due to an alleged rogue trader, the world’s major central banks stepped...
Wikileaks recently released a U.S. State Department cable stating: “China increases its gold reserves in order to kill two birds with one stone”. China’s increased gold reserves intent is to act as a model and lead other countries towards reserving m...
The Wall Street “Masters of the Universe” are soon to be old history folks. The chickens are indeed coming home to roost, the Global Banking Cartel’s crimes are being exposed left & right… Prepare for my upcoming book “Eco...
I certainly do not believe so and strongly believe the U.S. has entered a second recession. It may not be as bad as the first. Economists say that the Great Recession began in December 2007 and lasted until July 2009. That may be the way that the eco...
I meet face to face an average of 500 entrepreneurs a year and I keep hearing the same question: Why is every private equity fund with which we meet trying to take advantage of us? I will be the first to admit there are some real predators out there...
It is clear to everyone today that President Obama hasn’t been able to rein in the giant banks or significantly lower unemployment. Obama is following disproven models, and has appointed economists who either helped cause the crisis in the firs...
The April 20-23 Gallup survey of 1,013 U.S. adults found that only 27 percent said the economy is growing, 29 percent said the economy is in a depression and 26 percent said it is in a recession, with another 16 percent saying it is “slowing do...
The recent disturbances in a number of Middle East countries including but not limited to Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, etc…. are separately explained by many conservatives and liberals as evidence of a sudden Muslim thirst for democr...
There is no doubt that the private equity business is today under tremendous pressure. In fact, our extensive research at Blackhawk Partners; as recent as January 15 of this year, has found that most private equity firms expect the fundraising enviro...
Machiavelli once wrote that princes should see to it that they are either respected or feared; what they must avoid at all cost is to be despised. To have made itself despised as irrelevant: That is the legacy of US faithlessness and willful blindnes...
