November 15, 2011
Evicted
Dear Friends, Today the Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park. Regardless of one’s political or economic persuasions, this act will be seen as having been cavalier and…
Posts filed under Asher Edelman
November 04, 2011
A less than equitable arrangement
Dear Friends, Yesterday I received a document by email from an old friend and partner, that I’m going to make available here. As most of you, if not all, maintain…
October 30, 2011
YEA!
YEA! Yea for Europe (we hope)! On October 27 the European community announced the “solution” to sovereign debt and European banking. Some issues were left a bit unclear such as:…
October 24, 2011
Optimistic
by Asher B. Edelman I am optimistic for the economic and social outlook for the United States! During the next four or five years we will, once again, shift into…
October 04, 2011
Dexia (One Bank)
Dexia (described as in a state of “gripping liquidity strains”; otherwise “insolvent” might be the appropriate adjective), has a plan to sell to the French and Belgian taxpayers $238.9 billion…
September 26, 2011
Another Systemic Dislocation:The International Banking System Again on the Brink
by Asher B. Edelman The Banking System has suffered a collapse (then revived by the American taxpayer). It is, once again, on the cusp of collapse. With the help of…
August 10, 2011
Big Think – if I were Chairman of the Fed
by Asher B. Edelman This is an adapted transcript of an interview of Asher Edelman with bigthink.com of July 28th, 2011. If I were Chairman of the Fed right now, I…
May 03, 2011
Silver and Derivatives Dislocation
by Asher B. Edelman In the past couple of days I have received a number of calls about currency weakness and commodities volatility – especially that of Silver. The aggressive…
March 07, 2011
Where? Have we been? Are we now? Are we Going?
by Asher B. Edelman On April 8, 2008, as the banking debacle began to unfold I pointed out that “this is no time to be throwing $30 billion at the…
November 23, 2010
Another banking crisis
by Asher B. Edelman It is clear that the banks would not have suspended all residential foreclosures for humanitarian reasons. The banks were achieving their objective, a very high percentage…
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