Showing posts with label Black Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black Friday. Show all posts
Friday, November 23, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Friday, 13th
So the very first Friday the 13th happens in the first month of the new year. Whaddya' think? Does that make the year lucky? Unlucky? Means nothing at all?
Friday, November 25, 2011
Today is annual "Buy Nothing Day"--Enjoy
That's right, today, Friday, November 25--the last Friday of November, usually the first day of the big holiday purchasing season is "Buy Nothing Day". Do yourself the favor. Instead of fighting crowds of people trying to get things at stores when every other person is out there doing the same thing--let it go. You can passively fight the consumerism this way. Relax. Enjoy.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Wanna know what's going on and how we got there?
Here's a great quote, to tell you where we are and how we got here on this crazy Friday:
"The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in the history of humanity where excessive leveraging and bubbles were not limited to housing in the US but also to housing in many other countries and excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate sector and of the public sector in many and different economies: a housing bubble, a mortgage bubble, an equity bubble, a bond bubble, a credit bubble, a commodity bubble, a private equity bubble, a hedge funds bubble are all now bursting at once in the biggest real sector and financial sector deleveraging since the Great Depression.
And in a world where there is a glut and excess capacity of goods while aggregate demand is falling soon enough we will start to worry about deflation, debt deflation, liquidity traps and what monetary policy makers should do to fight deflation when policy rates get dangerously close to zero."
And now for where we're going, from the same article/blog:
"The US and advanced economies’ financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut down while their spreads are skyrocketing, and credit spreads are surging through the roof. There is now the beginning of a generalized run on the banking system of these economies; a collapse of the shadow banking system, i.e. those non-banks (broker dealers, non-bank mortgage lenders, SIV and conduits, hedge funds, money market funds, private equity firms) that, like banks, borrow short and liquid, are highly leveraged and lend and invest long and illiquid and are thus at risk of a run on their short-term liabilities; and now a roll-off of the short term liabilities of the corporate sectors that may lead to widespread bankruptcies of solvent but illiquid financial and non-financial firms."
Thank God we have someone so capable as George Walker Bush at the helm of our state, right?
Happy Black Friday, everyone! We'll get through this. We have to.
Link to source of above quotes:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/10/roubini-discusses-double-ds-deflation.html
"The crisis was caused by the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in the history of humanity where excessive leveraging and bubbles were not limited to housing in the US but also to housing in many other countries and excessive borrowing by financial institutions and some segments of the corporate sector and of the public sector in many and different economies: a housing bubble, a mortgage bubble, an equity bubble, a bond bubble, a credit bubble, a commodity bubble, a private equity bubble, a hedge funds bubble are all now bursting at once in the biggest real sector and financial sector deleveraging since the Great Depression.
And in a world where there is a glut and excess capacity of goods while aggregate demand is falling soon enough we will start to worry about deflation, debt deflation, liquidity traps and what monetary policy makers should do to fight deflation when policy rates get dangerously close to zero."
And now for where we're going, from the same article/blog:
"The US and advanced economies’ financial system is now headed towards a near-term systemic financial meltdown as day after day stock markets are in free fall, money markets have shut down while their spreads are skyrocketing, and credit spreads are surging through the roof. There is now the beginning of a generalized run on the banking system of these economies; a collapse of the shadow banking system, i.e. those non-banks (broker dealers, non-bank mortgage lenders, SIV and conduits, hedge funds, money market funds, private equity firms) that, like banks, borrow short and liquid, are highly leveraged and lend and invest long and illiquid and are thus at risk of a run on their short-term liabilities; and now a roll-off of the short term liabilities of the corporate sectors that may lead to widespread bankruptcies of solvent but illiquid financial and non-financial firms."
Thank God we have someone so capable as George Walker Bush at the helm of our state, right?
Happy Black Friday, everyone! We'll get through this. We have to.
Link to source of above quotes:
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/10/roubini-discusses-double-ds-deflation.html
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