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Reputation, which now amazes me. Not sure how a hospital with such broken systems and management is able to succeed, however those at the front lines - docs, nurses, etc. are what make the hospital work. They would have to love their job and the mission to stand working there with some of the managers in place.
Poor management. The men and women who make up much of the mgmt team are not there due to stellar mgmt skills ... at all. They are there because of number of years they've worked there. Since Children's does not have a layoff policy, instead of bad performance being weeded out, they remain ... making it miserable for the minority ... the folks who actually care about their jobs and are stellar performers.
Although a no-layoff policy is a great idea for the sense of job security for employees, the cost is iincompetence permeating the organization. The focus should be to weed out and bring in top performers and keep those deserving employees a reason to enjoy their jobs and remain with the organization.
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The eastern German town of Halberstadt buckled under pressure from the extreme right and called off a concert by Konstantin Wecker. Politicians have expressed dismay over the influence of neo-Nazis in the former East.
Right-wing radicals are taking the fight to local municipality level
A concert planned for March 8 in the former eastern German border town of Halberstadt was cancelled at the last minute after the right-wing National Democratic Party (NPD) applied pressure to local authorities. The extremist party had claimed the event scheduled for performance in a school and held under the motto "Nazis get out of our town" was in fact an unacceptable form of political campaigning for left-wing parties ahead of state elections on March 26.
The NPD threatened to buy up all the tickets and turn out in large numbers at the concert orchestrated by political songwriter Konstantin Wecker if local authorities refused to call it off. They had begun mobilizing forces in other eastern German cities to protest the concert and what they regarded as a clear state-sponsored preference for leftist parties.
Fearing a major conflict with neo-Nazis descending upon Halberstadt, deputy county commissioner Hans-Dieter Sturm decided to cancel Wednesday's performance. He justified the decision by saying that if the concert had taken place, there would be little room for preventing a similar performance by right-wing extremists in the future.
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Klaus Jeziorsky, interior minister for the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where Halberstadt is located, said buckling in under pressure from the NPD was in no way justifiable. "One cannot give in to threats by right-wing extremists," he said on Thursday.
For Niels Annen, the head of a Social Democratic project against right-wing extremism, the cancellation of the concert was a two-fold scandal. "On the one hand, the NPD has publicly threatened a democratic group with violence and on the other hand, they were successful and got what they wanted."
This sends the completely wrong message and in a sense confirms the NPD's strategy to create so-called "fear zones" where the extreme right wields influence, Annen told the German news program Tagesschau.
The head of the Greens' parliamentary fraction, Volker Beck, criticized the town's decision and said "the Nazis should not be given any social space and by no means should we give in to their threats."
The Central Council for Jews in Germany called the decision by Halberstadt authorities a "politically bankrupt."
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Supporters of the NPD during a demonstration of neo-nazis in Schwerin, northeastern Germany
But Halberstadt is not unique. Observers of the right-wing scene in Germany have noticed an increase in activity recently, especially in terms of gaining influence through threats of violence. Ulla Jelpke, spokeswoman for interior affairs in the Left Party, told Tagesschau that such events as in Halberstadt "unfortunately are becoming more common."
She criticized the federal government for not doing enough to prevent the spread of right-wing radicalism, saying the federal parliament needs to address right-wing activity as a serious threat in Germany.Both the Social Democrats and the Greens have presented proposals for fighting right-wing extremism and racial hatred. It's up to the government now to finance the projects. "We need to continue with our work, and we are discussing the topic in depth with the Christian Democratic Union," Annen said.
A comic book launched in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia hopes to encourage youngsters to have the strength to oppose far-right extremism in their everyday lives. (Aug. 30, 2005)
Germany's neo-Nazis are increasingly using music to spread their message, particularly among the unemployed youth of the former communist East Germany, according to experts on extremism. (Dec. 24, 2005)
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Is Apple Losing Dollars to Save a Few Cents?
An article in a recent issue of Business Korea posits that Apple may be having trouble stemming from the company's adoption of TLC flash in it's new iPhone 6.
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considering that technical defects mainly occur in the 128GB version of the iPhone 6 Plus, there might be a problem in the controller IC of triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash.
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Finally! Samsung's 3-Bit V-NAND Arrives
Samsung has finally introduced the 3-bit 3D NAND chip it revealed at last August's Flash Memory Summit. This announcement was made in the form of an SSD announcement.
For those who were unable to attend the Flash Memory Summit, Samsung's Senior VP of Memory R&D, Bob Brennan, announced in his keynote speech that a 3D 32-layer V-NAND, a chip that would achieve twice the chip density of planar NAND, was entering production and that SSDs would follow in a month. Now, two months later, Samsung has announced those SSDs.
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New Book: Vertical 3D Memory Technologies
Wiley has recently published a new book by Betty Prince titled Vertical 3D NAND Technologies that is one to consider if you want to bring yourself up to speed on recent research behind today's and tomorrow's 3D memory technologies.
For those who haven't previously encountered Dr. Prince, she is the author of a number of key books covering memory design and holds memory patents written over her 30-year career in the field.
The book provides capsule summaries of over 360 papers and articles from scholarly journals on the subject of 3D memories, including DRAM, NAND flash, and stacked chips.
These papers are organized into Continue reading
Fundamentals of Memory – Free Online Course
Some time ago The Memory Guy was asked by Numonyx (later acquired by Micron) to put together an online course for EE Times on memory technologies, explaining how each one works and where it is used.
Although the course was very well received, I never posted a link to it on The Memory Guy blog. This post is intended to correct that error.
The course runs 75 minutes and covers the basics of DRAM, non-volatile RAM, SRAM, NAND flash, NOR flash, mask ROM, and EEPROM. It explains each technology's advances in size, cost and performance, leading up to the development of Continue reading
SanDisk's Amazing 512GB SD Card
SanDisk has introduced an SD Card with a whopping 512 gigabytes of storage. Noting that SD Card capacities have increased by 1,000 times over the past ten years, from 512MB to 512GB, the company says that this product is aimed at professional HD videographers (who can justify its $800 price) allowing them to shoot Raw-format footage without shutting their cameras off, which could potentially allow them to miss a magic moment.
To The Memory Guy this represents an amazing piece of packaging technology. Let's see why:
In 2003 SanDisk's 512MB card contained Continue reading
Cheesecake and Floating Gates
One of the more fun aspects of last week's Flash Memory Summit was the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award. This is something that the show's management has allowed me to do for the past four events.
This year's award went to Dr. Simon Sze, who co-invented the floating gate transistor (the basis for all flash, EEPROM, and EPROM) at Bell Labs back in 1967.
Sze and his partner Dawon Kahng were finishing lunch in the company cafeteria with a cheesecake dessert. The two discussed what would happen if a MOSFET was built with extra layers like the layers in the cake. Their intent was to use semiconductors to replace Continue reading
Is the DRAM Market Entering a Shortage?
Long-term clients of mine, even those dating back to my decade at Dataquest in the 1990s, are familiar with the concept that spot prices behave differently during a shortage. When there is too much DRAM spot prices remain below contract prices, because OEMs who bought too much product clear their inventory at quarter end (and other times) by selling at a loss.
During a shortage the opposite is true: OEMS find that they can't get as much DRAM as they wanted through their contract sources, so they shop for the balance on the spot market. Since there are more buyers than sellers, spot prices invariably raise higher than contract prices.
When the prices change from one state of affairs to the other then it is safe to assume that Continue reading
Intel to Use Micron Hybrid Memory Cube
Intel and Micron today announced that the new version of Intel's Xeon Phi, a highly parallel coprocessor for research applications, will be built using a custom version of Micron's Hybrid Memory Cube, or HMC.
This is only the second announced application for this new memory product – the first was a Fujitsu supercomputer back in November.
For those who, like me, were unfamiliar with the Xeon Phi, it's a module that uses high core-count processors for problems that can be solved with high degrees of parallelism. My friend and processor guru Nathan Brookwood tells me Continue reading
Making 3D NAND Flash – Animated Video
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Coventor tells me that they are the leading Continue reading
Samsung Begins Operations at its Xi'an Fab
Samsung has announced that the company's newest memory fabrication plant (Fab) in Xi'an, China has "begun full-scale production operations", adding that: "The new facility will manufacture Samsung's advanced NAND flash memory chips: 3D V-NAND."
I immediately asked whether the plant will build products other than 3D NAND, and the company has replied that this will be the only product produced in the Xi'an plant. What Samsung has not said is what is meant by "full-scale production operations." Typically wafer fabs start with a very low production capacity as new tools are being qualified, only ramping to high-volume production a year or more after initial production.
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CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle discusses his Washington strategy and more in this Q&A.
New CUNA CEO schedules a meeting with bank lobbyists to find common ground and move credit union legislation.
Trade group calls on President Obama to take action on growing number of breaches.
Former eight-term Iowa Congressman Jim Nussle takes the top job at CUNA.
Jim Nussle is a former eight-term congressman and director of the White House OMB for President George W. Bush.
Former NCUA Board Member Michael Fryzel will reopen his Chicago law office next week.
The installation of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility at NCUA headquarters is mandated by the White House.
The NCUA's $1.2 million communication room will be used on a regular and recurring basis.
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The 2 Biggest Geopolitical Wild Cards in the World
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
If you look around the world for the countries with the most geopolitical risk, what comes to mind? Plenty of people would say places such as North Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no question these nations are trouble spots for the U.S. and the world, but they pale in comparison to the one eyed jack and the joker of wild card countries. The two hot spots that could destroy the fragile world economy, if they destabilize, are the Taliban/Pakistan conflict and the Iran/Israel powder keg over alleged nuclear weapons.
Let's start with the Taliban/Pakistan conflict. I love the cliche' "a picture is worth a thousand words," and the one below, from The Long War Journal, screams trouble! Take a minute and look how much of the northern part of the country is firmly under control of the pro west government. The government is only in control of the areas in green. Those are around the Pakistani capitol of Islamabad.
That simply is not a lot of real estate between the Taliban and the central government. The big fear for the world is Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The government says their nuclear security compares with "the best in the world." When it comes to a missile attack by terrorists, India is probably the biggest target because it is the biggest foe. New Deli is within easy striking distance if the Taliban gains control of Pakistan's nuclear weapons. Pakistani missiles would have a harder time causing damage to the rest of the Middle East because, in most, cases they have a top range of about a1000 miles. Experts say the biggest problem with Pakistan's nuclear arsenal comes from something like a suitcase bomb. If the Taliban could get control of one, it would be relatively easy to transport to a precise location and detonate it. What would happen if the Taliban suddenly took control of Islamabad and the nuclear arsenal was up for grabs? Would U.S. Special Forces go in to secure the nuclear weapons? Would there be an air strike from the U.S. or a preemptive strike by India? The idea of even a partial Taliban takeover in Pakistan would be dire, to say the least.
Then, there is the second and probably biggest wild card of them all, the Israeli opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions. The U.S. wants the Iranians to freeze its nuclear projects. Iran says it will not yield to pressure and is continuing with its nuclear ambitions. Iran claims its reactors are for peaceful uses. Israel claims a nuclear Iran is "catastrophic" for their tiny nation. When the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked this week if he was convinced that Iran wanted a nuclear weapon, he said unabashedly, "Yes I am."
The United States has been asking the world for tough sanctions against Iran such as a blockage of its gasoline imports. Iran imports about 40 percent of its gasoline and a cut off of fuel would bring the country to a near standstill. China is one of Iran's big suppliers of fuel and is firmly against tough sanctions. Russia also trades with Iran and has assisted with its nuclear program. It is also against tough sanctions.
That leaves Israel in a tight spot and has signaled a strike could come before the end of the year. Former Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh told Reuters recently, "We cannot live under the shadow of an Iran with nuclear weapon." Mr. Sneh went on to say, "By the end of the year, if there is no agreement on crippling sanctions aimed at this regime, we will have no choice." That sounds a lot like a deadline to me. Remember, the Israelis have a habit of surprise attacks on nuclear assets. The Israeli Air Force was successful in bombing Iraq in 1981 and did it again in Syria in 2007.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that Iran is trying to purchase the sophisticated S-300 missile defense system from Russia. Experts say if Iran had that air defense system in place, it would make it very difficult for the Israelis to pull off a successful air strike on Iranian nuclear sites.
So, it appears that Israel will not wait much longer for sanctions and will strike before Iran beefs up its air defense systems. It is looking more and more like it is a matter of when, not if, Israel will strike Iran. If an air strike happens, it would be catastrophic to the world economy.
For one thing, the Straits of Hormuz would be almost immediately shut down by war. It is only 30 miles wide at its narrowest point. Oil supplies to the world would be greatly restricted. The global economy would go into a tailspin in short order. Oil prices would spike! Who knows, maybe a barrel of crude could double in a week! There would be open season on all U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf. Iran would attack everything from oil tankers to the U.S. Navy. China would certainly weigh in, as would Russia. The conflict would not end quickly and there will be blood.
Things could get worked out and a peaceful solution reached. Then again, keep in mind that there is a very real possibility of an attack against Iran. You should put your hard earned assets in a defensive position in case the worst happens. Likewise, you should also consider the Taliban/Pakistan conflict with a conservative stance. With the fragile world economy still on life support, it would not take much for a financial meltdown to occur if either one of these "wild cards" flip out of control.
Desperation at the FDIC
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
The latest plan at the FDIC to replenish its drained insurance fund is to borrow from the people they are supposed to bailout, the banks! What!? This smacks of desperation at the FDIC. You have been hearing since the financial meltdown began that the banks are in trouble and most are severely undercapitalized. The plan regulators are considering is to have the nation's healthy banks lend billions of dollars to rescue the FDIC insurance fund that protects bank depositors.
I have some questions about this plan to borrow money from the banks to lend to the FDIC. Aren't those the same banks that are supposed to lend money to consumers to help get the economy out of recession? Aren't those the same banks that are not lending because it's too risky and they need capital? Wouldn't the FDIC borrowing reduce the pool of money to lend? Are some of these "healthy" banks lending the government back its TARP money and then collecting interest off bailout funds that were not needed?
I do not know the answers to those questions, but here's one I do know the answer to. Guess who is firmly behind this idiotic idea? If you guessed the bankers and their lobbyists, bing, bing, bing, you are correct! The reason they like this "plan" is because they don't want another emergency assessment. That cuts into their profits. Bankers also can collect interest that they are guaranteed by the taxpayer to get back. You got to love that about the banks these days. They never seem to miss an opportunity to cash a check at the expense of you and me.
The FDIC has a standing 500 billion dollar line of credit at the Treasury. Why doesn't Chairman Sheila Bair just tap that money? It has been rumored that relations with her counterpart at the Treasury, Tim Geithner, are strained because they have butted heads when dealing with the financial crisis. But that excuse sounds childish to me, almost like a grade school feud. After all, the 500 billion buck line of credit does not belong to Geithner. It is taxpayer money appropriated by Congress. I think the "FDIC's borrow money from the banks plan" is a way to make it look like the government isn't going deeper into debt, once again, to bail out bankers who made bad loans. The "plan" gives the elusion that the banks are solving their own problems this time. That, of course, is a load of crap! Taxpayers ultimately will be on the hook again one way or another.
The FDIC now has less than 10 billion dollars to insure about 4.5 trillion dollars in deposits. Think about that, less than 10 billion to insure 4,500 billion dollars in deposits. Put the thin insurance fund up against the backdrop of massive problems with residential and commercial real estate and there is plenty for the FDIC to be very concerned about. There are still "millions of homes," according to the Treasury, which will end up in foreclosure. "The other shoe to drop," according to Daniel Tishman, Chairman and CEO of the Tishman Construction Corporation, is commercial real estate. Tishman says 3.7 trillion dollars in commercial property will need financing in the next several years. With just those two problems to consider, expect the FDIC insurance fund to continue to be desperate for cash to pay depositors at banks that continue to go bust.
For the entire interview with Mr. Tishman on CNBC, you can check out the video below.
The Banks Are (Still) In Trouble
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
The 94th bank of the year was taken over by regulators on Friday. Irwin Financial Corporation in Kentucky and Indiana cost the FDIC, or you the taxpayer, 850 million dollars. That is a lot of money for just one Midwest bank, considering the insurance fund had just 10.4 billion dollars. Maybe that's why FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair said, on the same day as the bank failure, she was considering borrowing from a 500 billion dollar line of credit at the Treasury. Bair said at a global finance summit in Washington, "We are carefully considering all our options, including borrowing from Treasury."
That is a huge flip flop from just 2 weeks ago when Chairman Bair said, "…We can tap up to 500 billion in a line of credit if we needed to, I can't imagine that would ever be necessary…" Bair's denial of ever needing to borrow from the 1/2 trillion dollar line of credit was not a single offhanded comment but an exhaustive rejection of any serious thought of using it. Bair went on to say, "If we have to go to the Treasury borrowing, I never say never, but I think that would be a pretty profound decision…we don't need it right now and I am not sure we will, ever…" You can watch the entire video on my September 2 post called, "Second Wave of Bank Failures? You Bet!" The FDIC, back in late August, estimated there were 416 "problem" banks on a "watch list." Does that mean that there are 322 additional failures likely before the end of 2009?
There is no telling what is coming, but the thought of tapping a half a trillion dollar line of credit to take over insolvent banks is not good news for taxpayers, the economy, or bank depositors. Some outside experts say the FDIC needs about 70 billion to get through this "tsunami" of bank failures. I say, if that's the case, then why does the FDIC need a 500 billion dollar line of credit? Wouldn't just a 100 billion dollar line of credit cover the banking meltdown? The only sure thing I can report is the FDIC insurance fund has been significantly drained by a sharp increase in bank failures. Taking steps to do what you can to protect your assets would be prudent. You should be sure your accounts are at or below the 250 thousand dollar FDIC insurance limit. It might also be a good idea to check your bank's rating. I like to use The Street.com or Bankrate.com. These two are free for the public to use. I do not get paid to promote these companies.
The Fed's Secret Money and the Media Cover-Up
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
HR 1207 is a bill, first sponsored by Congressman Ron Paul in the U.S. House of Representatives, that will audit the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reseve has never been audited in it's 96 year history. Contrary to popular belief, the Fed is not an arm of the U.S. Government but a subcontractor for monetary policy. It is the Fed that also produces the money in your pocket, thus the term Federal Reserve Note. The Bill, as of September 16, has 289 co-sponsors in Congress. If the Bill is signed into law, the Fed will be forced to open its books and show how clandestine policy decisions are made. Some of the questions Congress wants answered are: Why did the Fed give foreign banks 500 billion dollars during the financial meltdown last year? What are the names of the all the banks, both foreign and domestic that got bailed out, and how much money did each bank get? Why was AIG bailed out and not Lehman Brothers? The Fed has spent or committed trillions of dollars; where did the money go? These are just a few of the secrets the Fed is keeping from American taxpayers. H.R. 1207 will receive a hearing in the House Committee on Financial Services towards the end of September. Representative Alan Grayson of Florida's 8th Congressional District has been a staunch advocate of the Bill. Listen as Rep. Grayson announces the hearing on H.R. 1207, also known as The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009.
I also have some questions for the mainstream media. Why is a story with trillions of dollars in secret bailout money not being covered? As a former investigative correspondent for both ABC and CNN, I know what makes a good legitimate story that will hold up to scrutiny. This is a very big legitimate story with profound implications for every American!
Just last month, the Fed lost a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Federal Court: "Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve must for the first time identify the companies in its emergency lending programs after losing a Freedom of InformationAct lawsuit….The judge said the central bank "improperly withheld agency records" by "conducting an inadequate search" after Bloomberg News reporters filed a request under the information act. She gave the Fed five days to turn over documents it told the reporters it located, including 231 pages of reports, and said it must look for more at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which runs most of the loan programs…Banks are worried that the disclosure of borrowers' identities by the Fed, the lender of last resort, would cause customers to empty their bank accounts in a run on the bank, said Scott Talbott, vice president of governmental affairs at the Washington-based Financial Services Roundtable, a lobbying group." (click here for the full story)
The Fed has indicated it plans to appeal the case and has until the end of September to do so. Meanwhile, the biggest story in the financial history of the country is being ignored by the press. Maybe this is part of the reason the news media's credibility rating sank to a new all time low in a recent Pew Research Center poll.
Carter Plays The Race Card
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
Barack Obama, the first black President, has been in office just nine months. People like left wing comedian Janeane Garofalo have wasted no time in accusing anyone in opposition of the administration as being a racist. It is one thing for a regular citizen to make that claim, but it is quite another for a former president. Jimmy Carter doubled down on the race card when he said on NBC Nightly news,"I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man…"
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Michael Steele, the first African American RNC Chairman says, "President Carter is flat out wrong. This isn't about race. It is about policy…Characterizing Americans' disapproval of President Obama's policies as being based on race is an outrage and a troubling sign about the lengths Democrats will go to disparage all who disagree with them. "
There is no doubt that the Democrats are frustrated. They have to compromise on health care reform even though they have an overwhelming majority in Congress. Some Democrats felt they had to give up the "public option" because of a very intense opposition to government run health care. Carter and others cannot grasp there is a genuine opposition to what some say is a costly and bad idea. There is not a shred of evidence to back up the former President's assertion of racism. I also find it odd that NBC let that comment go on the air unchecked. I thought the interviewer, Brian Williams, should have pressed Carter on what is an absurd and unprovable comment.
What West said was stupid and insensitive but not racial. What Representative Joe Wilson said when he yelled out "You Lie" during a Joint Session of Congress was stupid and insensitive but not racial. Remember, to the Presidents credit, he accepted Wilson's apology and moved on. Bravo Mr. President for being, well, Presidential. I'll bet you Barack Obama wishes Carter kept his remarks to himself! To risk blow back and distraction on a phony race issue is foolish, especially considering the financial crisis and geopolitical problems the country is facing. I look at Barack Obama as the President of the United States, period.
Can The Financial System Really Be Fixed? Some Say No.
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
Every time I see a speech on the economy, such as President Obama's on Monday, I rarely see someone cut to the heart of the problem. There is too much debt! That is the simple answer to what is wrong with the economy. The President really did not address that issue. He basically just scolded Wall Street for needing a bailout. We have spent or committed 13 trillion dollars and we are nowhere near out of the woods.
Here are a few examples of the debt problems American is facing that I have talked about in a previous post. Let's review: We just paid people $4,500 a pop to trade in their "clunker" and buy a new car because it was the only way to pull the auto industry out of a tailspin. America is in the hole and going deeper by the day. The second week in September, the government sold 70 billion of our national debt. That is 70 billion dollars in Treasuries in a single week to finance our needs! 2009 will produce a record deficit of 1.58 to 1.84 trillion dollars of red ink. That's nearly 4 times what the Bush administration ran up in 2008. The Treasury Secretary also thinks we will not be coming out of this economic mess anytime soon, and he admitted as much in early September at a Congressional Hearing on TARP spending. Foreclosures are up, and it's forecast by the Treasury Department that "millions more are coming." Speaking of real estate, those lucky enough to stay in their homes are going to continue to be hit with falling prices. Commercial real estate is in free fall. Banks are failing at a rate we haven't seen since the Savings and Loan crisis. The government is printing money to buy its own bonds to artificially suppress interest rates. Finally, unemployment is at 21% and rising (using shadowstats.com computations). There is no way the worst is behind us, quite the opposite. That said, the President has to try to put lipstick on this pig of an economy.
When President Obama entered office, he installed Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary. This was the guy who sat at the top of the New York Fed and watched silently as all the big banks took on enormous amounts of debt. In many cases, leverage at the banks was 40 to 1. In a word, insane. Geithner's punishment for letting that happen on his watch? A promotion to Treasury Secretary! Ben Bernanke was just reappointed by the President for his job as Chief of the Federal Reserve. The Fed and Bernanke basically caused the debt meltdown problem with their interest policies and guidance. The Fed Chief has been hailed as the man who saved the system from financial collapse. That is like a drunk driver causing an accident with a bus full of children. After the crash, the drunk stumbles over and pulls the kids out of a burning bus and is then hailed as a hero!
How did these banks load up on way too much debt? It was done with a security called an Over the Counter derivative or OTC derivative. Over the Counter means from a seller to a buyer and not done on an exchange. Wall Street bundled up debt like car loans, credit cards, and mortgages into securities and made big commissions selling these bundles of debt around the planet. Currently, there is no public market for OTC derivatives, contrast that with the Chicago Board of Trade. That is a public market. Take for example what happens when a bushel of corn is sold on the CBOT. There are standards for how much a bushel weighs. You cannot pour dirt, ball bearings or water into the bushel to make weight. There are rules and regulations that guarantee a "clean" delivery with universal value. Remember OTC derivatives have no public market. That means there are no standards, no guarantees, no regulation and most importantly, no price discovery. A pricing mechanism is the hallmark of a bid/ask public market.
The price for an OTC derivative is whatever the seller says it is. There was little equity in most of these "securities" because, after all, there were no regulations. Why put money into a security when the seller could put money in his pocket instead? When the economy went sour, many people stopped paying their car loans, credit cards and mortgage payments. What do you suppose happened to the value of OTC derivatives when people stopped paying their bills? According to the Bank of International Settlements, or BIS, there are 592 trillion dollars of OTC derivatives. What do you suppose would happen if there was a public market now? We would find out what this stuff is really worth and it would not be pretty! According to famed investor Jim Sinclair at JSMineset.com , there is no way most of the 592 trillion dollar ball of debt can be priced. Sinclair thinks the BIS is underestimating the size of the OTC market. Sinclair contends it is really more than a quadrillion dollars. (A quadrillion is a thousand trillion!)
Sinclair recently wrote,"Unless financial contracts have standards there is no way to clear them.
Unless financial instruments have accurate means of daily valuation, there is no way to clear them.
OTC derivatives outstanding from 1991 to 2008 have no standards.
OTC derivatives outstanding from 1991 to 2008 have no sound means of true valuation in any time frame…"
Sinclair goes on to say," With this being the incontrovertible set of facts: The Bank for International Settlements is for the first time proposing the world's central banks take over the financial risk of the entire mountain of more than one quadrillion one hundred and forty four trillion dollars (valuation before the change to "value to maturity" method valuation of nominal value of OTC derivatives) of OTC derivatives created from 1991 to 2008. The reason is simple. This unchanged in size mountain of weapons of mass financial destruction as still sitting there ready to explode in the second chapter of the greatest double dip depression of 2007 – 2009."
So, now the BIS is proposing that central banks backstop the entire global OTC derivative market. It was recently reported by Bloomberg News," Regulators are pushing for much of the $592 trillion market in over-the-counter derivatives trades to be moved to clearinghouses which act as the buyer to every seller and seller to every buyer, reducing the risk to the financial system from defaults."
Still, the debt is not really going away under this plan or any other we have seen so far. The mistakes of greedy bankers are being transferred to the public by massive money printing on a scale never seen before in history. Who knows how this will turn out. My predictions: it will not end well for the U.S. dollar and most people will suffer from enormous inflation.
Poll: News Media's Credibility Plunges To New Low
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
I want to highlight this AP article below because it is why I started USAWatchdog.com. I do not think people are getting the whole story, especially when it comes to the economy. Things are much worse than what is being reported, and it is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. I know that is not what you are hearing in the mainstream media. Maybe the press, as a whole, is just not brave enough to put out the real story. Some journalists are doing good reporting, but often their stories are down played or are accused of spreading unfounded doom and gloom for telling the truth. Maybe corporate America, which owns most of the mainstream media, is subtly distorting the news to make things look better than they really are. The mainstream media completely missed the financial meltdown and covered it like some unforseen event. There were plenty of signs we were headed for trouble and no one wanted to report on them except a few people. Here is what I said on CNN in March 2008.
I wrote an article called "The Soft Truth" when this site first launched three weeks ago. In it, I described how the media doesn't really lie to you, it just does not tell you the whole story. I know the editorial and legal side of the news media because I worked for ABC and CNN for 9 years as an investigative reporter. I didn't get a story on the air without approval from the company lawyers and management. The networks and cable are doing a lot less of that kind of work these days. Mainstream media is putting it's resources on superficial stories instead of covering news that really affects your life. So, when I hear people tell me they do not trust the mainstream media or they are not getting the full story, it makes me wonder if this a national trend? Now comes a story that validates what I am hearing and why USAWatchdog is in existence…
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE (AP)
SAN FRANCISCO — The news media's credibility is sagging along with its revenue. Nearly two-thirds of Americans think the news stories they read, hear and watch are frequently inaccurate, according to a poll released Sunday by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. That marks the highest level of skepticism recorded since 1985, when this study of public perceptions of the media was first done.
The poll didn't distinguish between Internet bloggers and reporters employed by newspapers and broadcasters, leaving the definition of "news media" up to each individual who was questioned. The survey polled 1,506 adults on the phone in late July.
The survey found that 63 percent of the respondents thought the information they get from the media was often off base. In Pew Research's previous survey, in 2007, 53 percent of the people expressed that doubt about accuracy….More from the AP article.
Get Out Of Debt, Stay Out of Debt!
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
This cartoon would be even funnier if were not partially true. These days the average American owes $8,000 dollars on his credit cards. I was asked by a friend of mine, "How should I hedge my investments in this environment?" What he really should ask is, " How do I prepare for an economic storm?" I am not a money manager, so I cannot tell you how to make tons of money. I can tell you how to rig for trouble.
First of all, the best hedge you can have is low or no debt. Once you have a car payment, credit card payment or mortgage payment, you cannot cut back on it. In tough times, you either continue to pay or default. So, cut your debt first and foremost. If you have a car payment, pay it off. When you own your car and your state DMV sends you the title, it will amaze you how well that paid for car will run. Car leasing is one of the worst things you can do financially unless you work in sales and you can write it off. Do not lease. Find a good used car and pay it off as fast as you can. It will be cheaper and more cost effective.
Credit cards are death on plastic. You should only use a credit card if you can pay it off every month. If you are carrying a balance, interest is eating your financial house like termites 24/7. If you want some motivation to help you accelerate paying off your credit card debt, then take a good long look at what you pay in interest every month. Let's say the interest portion of your payment is $300 dollars a month. Start thinking in terms of 300 bucks a month in gas, groceries, shoes, tires, whatever, but start thinking in terms of what you could be buying instead of paying interest to the credit card company. This will be painful to ponder but you need to do it for motivation to pay off those credit cards.
Save some money! Keep at least 6 months of emergency money! Then and only then are you ready to hedge your investments. You should bank at more than one institution and check its financial health at a place like The Street.com or Bankrate.com. I do not get paid to promote these companies; these are just the ones I use. You should also have two well capitalized brokerages. I like Scottrade and Edward Jones. Again, I do not get paid to promote these companies. These two places have some of the highest capital ratios in the business. That is important because the insurance that you get on your brokerage account is not really worth that much. It is not easy to collect and you are not guaranteed to get all of your money back. Also, look at the Bernie Madoff and Alan Stanford fraud cases. People who were wiped out had all their money in ONE PLACE and that is stupid!!
You should also own some physical gold such as U.S. minted coins. Most experts recommend between 5 – 15%. You should keep it in a safety deposit box at a bank you check out and trust. I guarantee you every rich person has a physical gold position. And finally, let me repeat myself…GET OUT OF DEBT and STAY OUT OF DEBT. If that means staycations and wearing shoes longer than you would like – suck it up and do it!
Prediction: Obama Wins Health Care, Loses Economy
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
President Obama's speech on health care to Congress was high on emotion but short on details. When he was finished, I wasn't sure the "Public Option" was in or out. I do not know how you can insure an additional 46 million people for free. Obama said he won't sign a bill that adds,"one dime to the deficit, now or in the future." On the other hand, the Congressional Budget Office thinks health care will add 239 billion dollars to the deficit in the next 10 years. Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute says,"If the new health care entitlement were subject to the same 75-year actuarial standards as Social Security…" the bill will add an additional 9.2 trillion bucks to the deficit over the next decade. That said, I think the President will get a health care bill through Congress. It will not be the bill the far left or far right wants, but there will ultimately be a bill to sign. Obama needs a victory, and I predict he will get one and it will cost real money!
I'm worried about the real problem in America, unemployment! Yesterday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," someone said "…unemployment was Obama's next big problem." What!! It was a problem when the President entered office, and with 15 million people out of work, unemployment is a problem right now!!! That comment was made while Time Magazine was rolling out it's next cover. It's called "Out of Work in America." If Obama doesn't get this fixed by 2012, he will be standing at the end of that long line on the cover.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why the health care issue was pushed ahead of unemployment, which is a symptom of a bad economy. Don't get me wrong, health care is a big issue but compared to the ongoing financial meltdown, it's like fighting over band-aids on the deck of the Titanic! The financial situation in the country is not just bad, it's in cardiac arrest! I know the Fed just came out and said the worst recession in 70 years was over, but that is simply preposterous!
We just paid people $4,500 a pop to trade in their "clunker" and buy a new car because it was the only way to pull the auto industry out of a tailspin. America is in the hole and going deeper by the day. Just this week, the government sold 70 billion of our national debt. That is 70 billion dollars in Treasuries in a single week to help fuel the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history!!! 2009 will produce a record deficit of 1.58 to 1.84 trillion dollars of red ink. That's nearly 4 times what the Bush administration ran up in 2008. The Treasury Secretary also thinks we will not be coming out of this economic mess anytime soon and he admitted as much in early September at a Congressional Hearing on TARP spending. Foreclosures are up, and it's forecast by the Treasury Department that "millions more are coming." Speaking of real estate, those lucky enough to stay in their homes are going to continue to be hit with falling prices. Commercial real estate is in free fall. Banks are failing at a rate of a half dozen a week. The government is printing money to buy it's own bonds to artificially suppress interest rates, and unemployment is at 21% and rising (using shadowstats.com computations). There is no way the worst is behind us, quite the opposite.
Obama may win the health care battle, but he will lose the war on the economy or, at best, just keep it on life support.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
I am not a gold bug, but I can spot a warning sign when I see one. Gold is near an all time high and this is no fluke! High prices are the result of big demand from monster players who are afraid of a dollar crash. My fears all center around Fed Chief Ben Bernanke's announcement in mid-August of plans to end Quantitative Easing. QE is a program where the Fed used more than 300 billion in "printed money" to buy Treasuries to artificially hold interest rates down. The Fed wants this program phased out by the end of October. Oh really! Bernanke is going to stop buying debt and allow interest rates to spike! Not a chance. Interest rates could go up dramatically, and any homeowner with an adjustable rate mortgage would be hit with higher payments…much higher. I, and many other people, think The Fed will be forced to keep "printing money" and that creates an even bigger problem for the dollar. Martin Hutchinson at the Prudent Bear revealed his prediction in a recent article called "October Surprise," …" Given the current predilections of the world's central bankers, it is likely that when the T-bond bubble bursts, they will rush to the printing presses, the Fed buying Treasuries in a frantic attempt to stabilize the bond market. In all but the shortest term, that is unlikely to work; it will cause a spiraling increase in gold, oil and other commodities…" Hutchinson goes on to say,"If October 2009 fails to produce a full-scale T-bond rout, it will not be long delayed thereafter…"
He's not the only one feeling something bad is coming. New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the financial crisis, said recently,"If markets were to believe, and I'm not saying it's likely, that inflation is going to be the route that the U.S. is going to take to resolve this problem, then you could have a crash of the value of the dollar."
Nassim Taleb, author of the runaway best seller "The Black Swan," said in mid-August on CNBC ,"The risk is still there and we are probably worse off than we were before." You definitely cannot call Taleb a market cheerleader and he is clearly not comfortable with this so-called "recovery." You can check it out in the video below.
I think when Taleb says, "worse off" , he means the economy is worse now than when Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson told members of Congress last year that there was risk of "systemic failure." Right after that Congress voted for TARP money to bail out the banks.
Even easy Al Greenspan is a little worried about the dollar. "Unless we roll in this whole degree of expansion, we will be in trouble," the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve told a conference in Mumbai via videoconferencing. "I am not talking 3-5 per cent inflation, I am talking double-digit inflation in the US."
Finally, there is John Williams at shadowstats.com. Just last week, he correctly predicted there would be a "negative surprise" with the unemployment number. He was right on target, it was worse than expected. Now he says,"With both the economic and systemic solvency crises, I believe the worst
still is ahead of us."
How far ahead of us is my question? Famed gold investor Jim Sinclair thinks the dollar will take a big hit,"in the middle of the fourth quarter." Sinclair also thinks the Fed will once again be forced to "print money" to buy Treasuries when the QE program ends. When that happens, the dollar will fall hard and all hell will break loose.
Just like the famous book "Something Wicked This Way Comes," there will be horror. Who knows how it will all turn out, but there will be no happy ending and gold will sell at a much higher price.
The Other Real Estate Problem
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
I love the phrase "A picture is worth a thousand words" because you tell a lot of people a complicated story in a short amount of time with just one look. The "Other Real Estate Problem" I am talking about in the headline is commercial real estate such as malls, hotels, office space and industrial sites. You have not heard too much about this problem, and most people believe it does not affect them, but it does! As commercial real estate goes so goes the economy and that could very well mean continued job losses. The picture below is from the The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries:
This graph is included in an excellent article written by Brian Pretti of Financial Sense Observations. Please note in the lower left hand corner of the chart,"We have NEVER seen anything like this." That means this is big folks! This chart shows what is happening to the value and the income generated for about 6,000 properties with nearly 300 billion in value. For the rest of the story about commercial real estate, please read Pretti's well done in depth article by clicking this link.
The Real Unemployment Rate
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
The Friday headline in the Wall Street Journal reads "Job Losses Moderate But Unemployment Hits 9.7%." This is just a short post to give you the "Real" number according to John Williams at shadowstats.com. He recreates government statistics the way they were done before the Bureau of Labor Statistics changed methods to make things look better than they really are. According to shadowstats.com, the unemployment rate using the BLS method in 1994 would be 21.1%, an increase of .5%. By the way, Williams predicted there would be a negative surprise two days ago. (see USAWatchdog post "Alert! No Substance to Economic Recovery) He was right on target!
The Smell of Money Harvesting is in the Air!!!
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
There are so many reasons why this stock market should be hitting a wall. Just a few are: high unemployment, plummeting tax revenues, major real estate declines, defaults in both residential and commercial properties, hundreds of banks are expected to fail this year and next, cities and states going broke and wars fought on 2 fronts. There is no end or resolution in sight for any of these problems.
Yet, the stock market has "climbed a wall of worry" to produce one of the biggest bear market rallies in history. The DOW is up about 50% in just 5 months. The market by most standards is not cheap. So is everybody crazy? Well, apparently corporate insiders are not. They were dumping their stocks at a rate of 30 to 1 during the month of August according to TrimTabs Investment Research. That means for every insider buying shares of stock, there were 30 insiders selling shares of stock! According to TrimTabs, that is a record. Take a deep breath…that is the smell of the money harvesting Wall Street machine revving it's engine! Nowhere is the buy low and sell high mentality more apparent than in this chart of the S & P 500 below :
The S&P 500 is at about the same level as it was in 1997. And consider this, people have been stuffing around 5 to 10 percent a year into their pre-tax retirement accounts (which amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars.) So shouldn't the market be much higher? Where did all that cash go? The money was " harvested" by insiders, hedge funds and big banks! These folks sold high, took your contributions and left you holding the losses. All the while, "the experts" told you to be a "long term investor" and be "diversified." What happened in the last 12 years? Isn't that enough time to make some money? Isn't a group of 500 top stocks diversified? Well look at the picture above and any 3rd grader can see THAT DIDN'T WORK!!! You could have beaten S&P 500 returns by a mile by just putting your money in an FDIC insured bank account during the last 12 years!! On top of that, you would not have paid a management fee (1 percent on average) which would have saved you another 12 percent! What a rip-off!!!
Also, consider the fact there are a whole lot of companies that are no longer in the S&P 500 because they have either gone bankrupt or the share price has evaporated. That means the "investing" picture for the little guy is actually a whole lot worse than the S&P shows. Let's name just a few companies in the past 11 years that delivered a big loss to anyone holding them: Lehman, Bear Stearns, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, Chrysler, Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Wachovia and WaMu. That is only a few I can name off the top of my head. I think you get the point.
Fast forward to today and reconsider the 50% increase in the market in just 5 short months. Still, most people are down at least 30 percent from the high. If you are a trader or insider, you love this market! If you are a "buy an hold" investor, get ready to sit on another big loss in the old 401k or sell some stock and you too can harvest some money just like the big guys!
Alert! No Substance to "Economic Recovery"
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com John Williams of shadowstats.com put out an alert today (9/2/09). It read, in part,"Something Brewing in Systemic Solvency Crisis?" Part of what Williams does is give forecasts to clients, some of which are big companies and hedge funds. He bases his predictions on government statistics but not the way they are done now. Williams rebuilds government stats the way they were computed before they were distorted. In other words, the way government statistics are done now makes things look better than they really are. For example, the official unemployment rate stands at 9.4% , but if you compute UE as it was done by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) prior to 1994 it would be 20.6%. By the way, Williams predicts unemployment will reach 34% in 2 years! Williams says money growth is slowing which is probably why he thinks there is "no substance to economic recovery." Slowing money growth equals big problems for the financial system and it will force the Fed to act again. So what will the Fed do? It appears create more money. Williams says the monetary base…"surged" at the end of August . Also, Williams thinks the reappointment of Ben Bernanke is another yellow flag. Even though there were rumors of replacing him, it just does not make sense considering the problems on the horizon. My take: There are plenty of shoes that will be dropping and it's probably best to give the appearance of continuity and stability in the face of a new wave of financial turmoil. Finally, Williams thinks there is going to be a negative surprise with Friday's (9/4/09) unemployment number. In other words, there is going to be a bigger unemployment number than expected. For the complete report and other accurate recreated government statistics, subscriptions are available at John Williams' site: http://www.shadowstats.com/ I did not get paid to write this article or to push shadowstats.com. I just think Williams knows what he's talking about and backs it up with facts. What shadowstats.com does is something you will not see much of in mainstream media. John Williams has appeard on network and cable TV and has been quoted in many national publications.
Second Wave of Bank Failures? You Bet!
By Greg Hunter's USAWatchdog.com
FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair dropped a small bomb on CNBC last night. She said, "Commercial real estate will be more of a driver of bank failures." What! You mean more than the imploding residential real estate market? Oh… at that point I felt a little sick at my stomach. There already is a huge unrelenting problem in housing. (see my post from last week "Real Estate at a bottom?…Not!") Now there is going to be an even bigger drag on the banks! It will be a colossal second wave of commercial property defaults that will kill bank balance sheets. I have to admit, Larry Kudlow did a good job of pressing Bair for a true picture of the banks' financial health both big and small. When she started mentioning "full faith and credit," she looked nervous to me. Just give it a look right up until they start talking about the "Super Regulator." (This is kind of long so you can also just skip it and read on after the video.)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has about 4.5 trillion in insured deposits with only 10.4 billion in net worth. Said another way, that is 10.4 billion to insure 4,500 billion dollars. No wonder Bair looked nervous. The FDIC does have a direct line of credit to the Treasury of 500 billion. There is no doubt she will be tapping that money to pay depositors in this next wave of commercial real estate collapse. There are about 3.5 trillion in commercial real estate loans held by banks. Commercial property owners are defaulting at rates not seen since the 90's. Banks are getting stuck with malls,office buildings and industrial sites. Add the ongoing residential real estate meltdown to the equation and you have big losses and inevitable bank failures. The question is how many and which ones? "The bottom line: Defaults are exploding," said Richard Parkus, an analyst with Deutsche Bank. "It's terrible. It's going to be worse than in the early '90s."
Then, there is this wrinkle. Earlier this year, Congress and the big banks got the Financial Accounting Standards Board or FSAB to change the rules. Instead of "mark to market" accounting where a bank is required to value an asset at the price you can sell it today, banks can price assets at what they might get in the future. I and a few other people call it "mark to fantasy." I also think it's government sanctioned accounting fraud. There is no way for the government, an investor or a depositor to really know the financial health of the banks. That is sad and a little scary. Remember it was about a year ago that Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson told members of Congress that if he did not get the TARP money, there would be a "systemic" failure. There is simply no way of knowing how bad this could get or if the government can keep things under control. So what can you do? I check my bank every 6 months. Here is a free link to The Street.com Banks and Thrift Screener. This is a fast simple way to see if your bank is headed for trouble.


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Japanese imports of rare earths from China stood at 1,386 tonnes in June, down from 1,592 tonnes in May, and the lowest since February's 1,138 tonnes.
"The drop in imports in June suggests the prices were simply too high for Japanese buyers," said an official from a Tokyo trading house.
"Orders from Japanese manufacturers for end-users to secure the material for July-September remain strong, but if the prices stay at elevated levels, the volume of imports may show a drop as Japanese buyers would be hesitant about accepting prices which are too high," the official said.
"Just in the past week, prices have fallen broadly about 5 percent. But since the price is set politically by China, and not determined by supply and demand, it is difficult to forecast how much Japanese users can procure," the official said.
China accounted for 62 percent of Japan's rare earths imports in June, falling from 79 percent in May, with the United States making up 8 percent, up from 4 percent in May, and Vietnam also 8 percent, up from 3 percent in May. Imports from Kazakhstan stood at 4 percent, compared to May's 4.5 percent.
Japan has stepped up diversifying supply sources while the government said Japan aims to cut rare earths consumption by a third within a few years and reduce its reliance on China, by providing subsidies for recycling and investing in new ways to limit their use.
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Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz may love riding around and getting it, Benihana's fried rice, and an opportunity to be featured on every Top 40 hip-hop single known to man, but if there's one thing the man formerly known as Tity Boi really loves it's "dem strippers." With the release of his solo studio album, Based On A T.R.U. Story, slated for this Tuesday (August 14), the nimble wordsmith has dropped off visuals for his I Luv Dem Strippers single. With help from his lyrical partner in crime Nicki Minaj, 2 Chainz drops a few rhymes and a whole lot of ones while at his friendly, local strip club. On top of a plethora of a** the music video for I Luv Dem Strippers also features cameos from the self-proclaimed kings of the South, T.I. and Young Jeezy. Based On A T.R.U. Story, which will be released via Def Jam, will serve as 2 Chainz' debut offering.
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