On China, Housing Bubbles And How Truly Terrifying It’s Collapse Will Be!

(Update: as is common when you link to “copyrighted” content it is impossible to embed it in your blog. If you want to see the 60 minute segment scroll down to the bottom and click on the word segment) Update II: It seems that the globe is catching on to the idiocy of building 12-24 […]

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When Two Tribes Go To War Or Is China Mobilising For War With Japan.

Zero Hedge is very careful in describing military movements if two coastal provinces in China. Something to keep an eye on fir sure! We don’t know if it merely a coincidence that a story has emerged discussing a Chinese mobilization in response to the ongoing territorial feud with Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands (and the […]

China on Alert After Japan Scrambles Jets over E. China Sea

China says it is on alert after Japan dispatched fighter jets over the East China Sea. Japanese media report Japan sent F15 fighter aircraft after detecting a Chinese marine surveillance plane in disputed airspace near contested islands in the East China Sea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters Tuesday Beijing will pay close […]

On China,Rehypothecation and why Australia’s Boom Is Now a Bust With Fortescue in Freefall!

For those of you unfamiliar with the term rehypothecation here is my post on it from a while ago but in short it means using the same real world collateral multiple times to secure loans. In London the same collateral is sold infinite times to investors who want safe reliable investments and who haven’t a […]

Australia’s Economy Is Beginning To Stall And Why It’s Only Going To Get Worse For The Foreseeable Future

  A young colleague of my husband is going on a trip around South America with his partner and expects to be able to find a job and safe up in Perth for what he hopes will be the next step. Here is why he might want to reconsider: Australia which like any other “developed” […]

Your Corporate Scamster Word Of The Week: Channel Stuffing Of Why China Won’t Grow Anytime Soon

  This weeks Corporate Scamster words are: Channel Stuffing. Channel Stuffing= Channel Stuffing is the practice of sending retailers more product than they can sell. It is used by big Corporations (and not so big ones) to manipulate their sales figures. The idea being that if the product has left the factory floor the sale […]

They Hang Them Here, They Hang Them There, They Hang Them Everywhere, Except in the West

Hat tip Mick MC… This from Tehran. Four bankers condemned to hang, two to lifetime Prison and the rest of some 36 bankers to jail time of anywhere from 25 years, 20 years, 10 years, to less severe sentences. For what? The embezzlement of a mere $2.6 Billion. In China two female bankers have been […]

Chile Is Latest Country make a Currency Deal with China

Another nail in the coffin of the country that once was the leader of the free world. SANTIAGO, June 26 (Xinhua) — China and Chile agreed Tuesday to upgrade their bilateral ties to a strategic partnership, and double trade in three years. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Chilean President Sebastian Pinera announced Tuesday the establishment […]

US unilateral sanctions aganist Iran, violate China sovereignty according to Analyst

China has been buying lots of gold. China has been making deals with every superpower except the US to deal with these countries in their own currencies. Ad while China as an economic power is collapsing it is clearly not intending to stay depressed very long. In order to recover China has to have access […]

NATO ENLARGEMENT: From the North Atlantic to the South Pacific

Remember that non-binding piece of paper signed with NATO? Here it comes and forget about the nuclear free zone that was New Zealand because every army uses Depleted Uranium bullets and NZ will not be an exception to that rule. On June 4 NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and New Zealand’s Prime Minister John […]

Did the barkeeper just say “no more credit” to the drunk?

In July 2011 I wrote about China being a barkeeper with only one “big” customer and some little ones. The big one being America. America had been putting his consumption on the tap and was a all out alcoholic. China’s barkeeper was essentially enabling a once rich but now destitute customer with his drug of […]

China and Russia are dumping their dollars or have you started growing your own food?

While the London Goldman Sachs boys are getting their massive bonuses and Greece rents out it’s antiquities to stave of its inevitable default which will start the domino crash of the Global finance system, Russia and China are seeing the writing on the wall and are dumping their dollars. In Europe the  pressure to fill […]

‘Sanctions won’t hinder Iran-China trade’

China has once again condemned the United States’ unilateral sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying the US is seeking to internationalize its unilateral sanctions. On Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry says Beijing will maintain its normal cooperation with Tehran in the areas of energy and trade. The Chinese Foreign Ministry made the […]

World’s Second And Third Largest Economies To Bypass Dollar, Engage In Direct Currency Trade

According to Zero hedge: To all who still think that in the war of attrition between the USD and the EUR (because contrary to what some have “discovered” only recently, currency wars have been going on for a long, long time and will continue to do so, before morphing into trade and real wars), in […]

Unrelenting Global Economic Crisis: A Doomsday View of 2012

The only things not taken into account in this article is what would happen if Ron Paul (whom I don’t necessarily agree with on his National policies) we’re to win the election if he was allowed to run, or the military constraints stopped the wars from happening which is not entirely impossible seeing as the […]

The Euro collapse, FEMA camps and China’s and Indian’s demise it’s all coming to pass as I write this

When I scour the Internet for News and items I think New Zealanders should know I often think of a man whom while we fell out over my apparent disrespect for ANZAC day I still think of as a friend. I will refer to him as A as I want to protect his privacy.  A […]

Chinese fund managers sentenced to DEATH for cheating investors out of $1 billion

Now there’s a concept. You rip people off you get the death penalty! That would sort the banks out real quick wouldn’t it? A real estate tycoon in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, has received a death sentence for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($800 million) from the public, reported the Procuratorial Daily on Monday. Ji Wenhua, […]

Out Of The “Hard Landing” Pan And Into The “Crash” Fire – Are Things About To Get Even Worse For China?

Just in case you’re wondering if things are any better in China just becasue they make things while earning a slave wage, think again! Over the past week one of the more hotly debated and market moving topics was the resurgence of speculation that China may be on the verge of a “hard landing.” To […]