Money & Markets – Week of 07.05.15

Calling Off the Credit-Card Debt Collectors
NY Times | 09 July 20152014
Highlights from the action…

Ford to Shift Work Abroad
WSJ | 09 July 20152014
Struggling to keep pace with…

Will Chinese Buyers Flee or Flood US Housing?
Business Insider | 09 July 20152014
Where real estate prices are rising faster than…

Here’s How Much Business S&P 500 Companies Do Outside of the US
Business Insider | 09 July 20152014
“Foreign sales accounted for…

Infrastructure Is America’s Backbone: Grades for 2013
Infrastructure Report Card | 2014
Explore…the grades…

Infrastructure is Key to U.S. Energy Future
Baltimore Sun | 06 July 2015
Arena could generate as much as $…

BRICS Bank to Consider New Infrastructure Projects by 2016 – Finance Minister
RT | 09 July 2015
Reserve pool will…

KKR Says Second OECD Infrastructure Fund Capped at $3.1 Billion
Value Walk | 08 July 2015
Number of recent infrastructure investments in…

Breaking: Congress Starts Thinking About Maybe Funding Our Infrastructure
Washington Post| 08 July 2015
Committee’s infrastructure working group, lawmakers concede…

Eric Holder, Wall Street Double Agent, Comes in From the Cold
Rolling Stone | 08 July 2015
Deep undercover, DiCaprio in The Departed-style, as the best defense lawyer…

China unveils new measures to prop up stocks
AP News | 08 July 2015
Almost 36 percent of the total of 2,802 companies traded in Shanghai and…

Who Blew Up China’s Stock Bubble?
Bloomberg | 08 July 2015
Effort to steer China away from its reliance on bank lending and…

QE Is Debt Cancellation
Richard Duncan Economics | 11 June 2015
Watch the Macro Watch video that explains how this works in…

Iceland Recovering Fastest in Europe After Jailing Bankers Instead of Bailing them Out
The Anti Media | 11 June 2015
Allowing foreign investors—whose assets

Foreclosed Property Auctions For Harris County To Move Online Soon
Yahoo Finance | 08 July 2015
Increase the bidders involved and bring in more…

China Bans Stock Sales by Major Shareholders for Six Months
Yahoo Finance | 08 July 2015
Ban on sales to non-state companies and potentially foreign…

UPDATE 4-Corzine, Others Settle MF Global Lawsuit for $64.5 Mln
Reuters | 07 July 2015
All denied wrongdoing, and their insurers will…

Greece, Just a Thought to Wipe Out Your National Debt
The Con Trail | 06 July 2015
Forfeited from the profits they made using your name…

Chinese Households Don’t Have Much Invested in the Wild Chinese Stock Market
Business Insider | 07 July 2015
Rally was driven by an increase in…rather than a significant…

China Stocks Rise as Beijing’s Emergency Moves Brings Some Relief
Yahoo Finance | 06 July 2015
Relaxations in margin trading and other “stability measures” did…

History Has Seen Worse Economic Collapses than the Depression Greece is Now Experiencing
Business Insider | 06 July 2015
Notable as one of the few not related to…

London is the World’s Leading City for Laundering Drug Money
Metro | 05 July 2015
‘Hundreds of billions of US dollars’ are…

Why Obama Is Wrong and Warren Is Right on Trade Bill Quarrel
Bloomberg | 15 May 2015
“Any act of Congress or duly ratified…

Health Insurance Corporations Planning Huge Increases
Undernews | 05 July 2015
New customers under the Affordable Care Act turned out to…

Shale Oil: There Will be blood, The Ingenuity of America’s Shale Industry is Admirable, the State of its Finances Awful
Bloomberg | 15 May 2015
First quarter of 2015, 31% of the cashflow…

One in Four Local Banks Has Vanished since 2008. Here’s What’s Causing the Decline and Why We Should Treat It as a National Crisis.
ILSR | 05 May 2015
Disturbing trend and highlight…