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Why "Fed Easing" Will Not Get Us Out Of the Financial Mess We Are In Today
A debate is being played out today in the Fed about whether it should return to the so-called "quant easing" -- buying more mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bills, and other bonds -- in order to lower the cost of capital still further. The sad reality is that cheaper money won't work. Individ...
Read MoreFor all the Delusional Brokers Wasting our Time with Bonnie Light Crude Oil Offers
This blog is mainly addressed to the hundreds of Bonnie Light Crude Oil brokers and other intermediaries with no website, no corporate Email, no money, no education and not a single ounce of business protocol who approach us each year with fake offers and then wonder why we slam the phone on their f...
Read MoreMy 2 Cents on Creating "Wealth"
One of the rules of the rich is that if you want to be rich and wealthy you need to either buy or create assets. Assets are things that generate you income without you needing to work for it. If you were to stop work then your assets would continue to put food on the table and pay for your mortga...
Read MoreOn Wall Street's Agenda behind the current Financial Circus and what you can do about it
According to Robert Chapman, renowned editor of the International Forecaster, the recent surge of the Dow from 9,686 only a month ago to a run up to 10,674 just recently; as insiders learned of the Fed’s plan to inject $5 trillion into the economy over the next two years is only an example of the ...
Read MoreSo How do you Raise Money Today?
As Henry Kravis the king of the buyout business once said: “"Unfortunately, there is a flip side to having access to plentiful capital. It means that too many people without experience in building businesses have too much money." How true…… which brings us to the essence of our blog . Where...
Read MoreWhy the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” won't Reshape Wall Street’s Biggest Banks or Prevent another Crisis
As mentioned time and time again to our clients worldwide, we at Blackhawk never supported bailouts but rather believe it would be much better to let bailed out companies fail, rather than wait for a number of them to happen all at once. The system can indeed recover from bankruptcies as it always d...
Read MoreAnd you're wondering why the Economy isn't Improving? Read the facts
“We have had to struggle with the old enemies of peace – business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.” I wish these words, spoken in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt, were not as true today as then. Yet over the past eighteen...
Read MoreAre we repeating the same mistakes which led to the Fall of the first global Superpower; the Spanish Empire?
Taking a walk down memory lane or for those who don’t know that Spain was the first global Superpower with gold and silver flowing in from its American colonies, the Hapsburg dynasty became the dominant power in Europe. It controlled rich parts of Italy through Naples and Milan, and Central Eur...
Read MoreWhy Reshaping the Federal Reserve is Today an Absolute Must
Regardless of one’s opinion on Ben Bernanke, there is no denying the extraordinary impact he has had on the Federal Reserve since taking over as Chairman in 2006. A case can be made that the very nature and scope of the Fed has changed under Bernanke’s stewardship. Originally envisioned as a ...
Read MoreIs Deepwater Oil Drilling a National Security Issue?
Why are oil companies like British Petroleum being allowed to drill so deeply in hazardous conditions under the Gulf? In other words, why has the government been so supportive of deepwater drilling in the Gulf? The answer is that there is a tremendous amount of more oil deep under the Gulf, and t...
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