Why US Jobs Market Is Going to Get a Lot Worse  08/04/2013

Weak U.S. jobs data on Friday confirmed the worst trading week this year for European and U.S. stocks, and now analysts are warning that investors should brace for further trouble ahead as fiscal tightening begins to take its toll...

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CNBC


Arms supplies to all sides of Syrian conflict should be halted - Putin  08/04/2013

It is necessary that arms imports to all sides in the Syrian conflict are halted, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said in Hannover, adding that Russia is ready to discuss this...

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RT


UK - Hospitals must shrink or shut, doctors warn  08/04/2013

GPs who now control much of the NHS budget have said many hospitals will have to drastically shrink or shut altogether because half their services should be provided elsewhere. Family doctors have raised questions over the future of hospitals by claiming services would improve if large swaths of medical care – including diagnostic tests, outpatient appointments and dementia care – were carried out closer to patients' homes...

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The Guardian


Fed Faces Risk of Fourth Summer Slump While Pushing QE  08/04/2013

During the past three years, the Fed planned to cut accommodation early in the year only to boost it after economic growth lagged behind its forecasts. Determined not to repeat the error, the Fed will probably push on with $85 billion in monthly bond purchases through the summer, said Drew Matus, a former Federal Reserve Bank of New York economist...

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Bloomberg


Hedge Funds Wagering on Fannie Reincarnation: Mortgages  08/04/2013

Investors including hedge funds are buying the preferred stock of government-controlled mortgage firms Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac in a long-shot bet they will have a future as private companies...

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Bloomberg


Vanishing workforce weighs on growth  08/04/2013

Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth...

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Washington Post


Belgique - Offshore leaks: "un manque à gagner de 9 milliards d'euros par an pour l'Etat"  08/04/2013

Selon le co-président d'Ecolo, Olivier Deleuze, c'est ce que représente l'argent placé sur des comptes bancaires suspects localisés dans des paradis fiscaux...

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DH.be


Yen slumps to new low as Bank of Japan unveils stimulus plan  08/04/2013

The yen hit fresh lows against a host of major currencies on Monday, resuming its slide after the Bank of Japan lost no time in launching its new easing policy to underline its determination to beat deflation...

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The Guardian


Les Etats-Unis reportent un essai de missile balistique à cause des tensions avec la Corée du Nord  08/04/2013

Les Etats-Unis viennent d’annoncer qu’ils reportaient à plus tard un essai de missile balistique intercontinental, le Minuteman 3, afin de ne pas exacerber la crise en cours avec ...

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RFI


Vivre des aides sociales est "un choix de style de vie" pour David Cameron  08/04/2013

Défendant sa réforme en profondeur du système de prestations sociales qui entre en vigueur ce mois-ci, le premier ministre britannique conservateur David Cameron a affirmé, dimanche 7 avril, que dépendre de l'Etat-providence était devenu "un choix de style de vie" pour certains de ses concitoyens...

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Le Monde


Jérôme Cahuzac faisait affaire avec d'anciens militants d'extrême droite  07/04/2013

Le quotidien Le Monde le révélait dès mardi 2 avril : c’est un proche de Marine Le Pen qui a ouvert le compte de Jérôme Cahuzac chez UBS en 1992. Autre révélation du journal : l’ancien ministre du Budget entretenait, dans les années 1990, des relations avec plusieurs anciens militants d’extrême droite. Des militants avec qui il s’était notamment lancé dans les affaires...

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RFI


Six European countries move against Google over privacy  07/04/2013

Six European countries, including France and Britain, on Tuesday launched joint action against Google to get the US Internet giant to scale back on new monitoring powers that watchdogs believe violate EU privacy protection rules...

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EUBusiness


La demande de pétrole va-t-elle se tasser et mener les prix à la baisse ?  07/04/2013

Après la baisse brutale des cours du brut en milieu de semaine, on évoque de plus en plus le ralentissement de la consommation de pétrole, elle pourrait stagner avant la fin de la décennie. L'industrie pétrolière, réunie hier au sommet international du pétrole à Paris, ne croit pas à ce déclin, pas plus qu'à un déclin des prix du brut...

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RFI


Chicago to close 54 schools to address $1B deficit  07/04/2013

Tens of thousands of Chicago students, parents and teachers learned Thursday their schools were on a long-feared list of 54 the city plans to close in an effort to stabilize an educational system facing a huge budget shortfall...

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Big Story


Offshore Leaks : silence radio à Londres  07/04/2013

Dans la réalité, la première place financière européenne de par sa perméabilité peut être considérée comme le paradis fiscal par excellence. "Onshore" (souverain) comme on dit dans le jargon, par opposition à "offshore" (extraterritorial)...

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Le Monde


People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels  06/04/2013

Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability and various welfare and entitlement checks, than to work...

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ZeroHedge


Mediapart: Meet the Upstart Journalists Shaking Up French Politics Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/04/05/mediapart-meet-the-upstart-journalists-shaking-up-french-politics/#ixzz2Pf5LrILE  06/04/2013

While President François Hollande is reeling from revelations that his tax-enforcement minister (no less) hid fortunes of money in off-shore bank accounts, the scandal has brought a sense of satisfaction in at least one corner of Paris: The offices of a small, five-year-old news site called Mediapart.

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Time


Règlements de comptes politiques et climat délétère à Chypre  04/04/2013

Démission du ministre des finances, commission d'enquête sur les responsabilités de la crise, publication dans les journaux des petits arrangements entre responsables politiques et banquiers, mises en cause de la belle-famille du président... L'ambiance politique est délétère à Nicosie, après les Eurogroupe des 16 et 25 mars, qui ont conduit à la faillite de la banque Laiki et à l'humiliation du gouvernement chypriote...

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Le Monde


Arkansas Oil Spill Sheds Light On Aging Pipeline System  04/04/2013

Amber Bartlett was waiting last Friday for her kids to come home from school. One of them called from the entrance to the ., to tell her the community was being evacuated because of an oil spill. Bartlett was amazed by what she saw out her front door...

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NPR


EU-Iran: sanctions are no substitute for real diplomacy  04/04/2013

Looking beyond the next round of negotiations in April in Kazakhstan, the EU should formulate a strategic approach towards Iran. In its approach towards Iran, the EU employs the so-called twin-track method...

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EUObserver


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GEAB N°75 - Contents

- Published on May 16, 2013 -

Systemic crisis 2013: with record stock exchange highs, the planets imminent plunge into recession
The world economy is slowing down badly and a widespread recession is looming. The various players are fully aware of it and, in the face of the challenges of an imminent collapse, countries or regions are putting various strategies in place to try and limit the consequences… (page 2)
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BoJ, Fed, ECB : with different methods, contrasting futures
In order to see the unfolding of the global systemic crisis more clearly, we must understand how the major western central banks act, the limits, the advantages, and the disadvantages of their interventions. We explain their policies in broad terms… (page 9)
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GEAB Dollar and Euro index
The traditional Dollar Index (used by the financial markets) is an unreliable indicator for forecasting US Dollar developments. Henceforth, our team will also publish the GEAB $ index together with the GEAB € index… (page 14)
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Strategic and operational recommendations
. Decoupling of paper and physical gold
. European sovereign bonds: the ECB is still the boss
. Stock exchanges: when QE rains money ! … (page 17)
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The GlobalEurometre - Results and analysis
The general tone of this month's poll is sombre, to say the least. Confidence in the capacity to manage the Euro crisis has literally collapsed this month, the fear of losing money has significantly risen … (page 18)
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