Month November 2011

Eurozone on brink of disintegrating

The eurozone really has only days to avoid collapse Germany, France examine radical push for eurozone integration World’s largest inter-dealer broker (one that carries out transactions for financial institutions rather than private individuals), now testing trades in drachma against dollar,…

Mega California water war

[A] judge ruled that a state law committing California to save the [inland Salton Sea] no matter the cost set an unacceptable precedent for the government to pledge money to other projects it couldn’t afford. An appeals court will decide…

Are MF Global customers still being looted?

Zero Hedge makes the case Further, from the numerous conflations and generalizations in the paragraphs above that allow, for among other things, payments to non-US affiliates, it is possible that the looting of MF Global customer funds continues to this…

Jaguar sighted in Cochise, AZ

Jaguars were thought to be virtually extinct in the US but a highly experienced hunter and guide treed and photographed one before it escaped. “All my dogs took a pretty good beating. They had puncture wounds. … I got to…