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0 sind aber schon eher unwahrscheinlich. Aktuell sind wir bei 60-70 % Abschlag, von dem die Rede ist und der Kurs bewegt sich ja dahin.

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Schön langsam wirds brenzlig für unsere griechischen Freunde

Quoted from "retep"

Wer's jetzt noch nicht bemerht hat nach wessen Grundprinzip die grossen Finanzinsitute arbeiten.... (bei welchen die Politiker notabene dafür gesorgt haben das sie überhaupt noch existieren... sollte man nie vergessen!)


US - Bericht zur Finanzkrise Quelle: spon

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"Eine Schlangengrube voller Gier, Interessenkonflikte und Missetaten" - mit scharfen Worten prangert ein US-Senatsausschuss die Rolle der Banken in der Finanzkrise an.

BTW: Es sind (grosstenteils) die gleichen Institute die dafür sorgen das es einen FX-Markt gibt...

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Russische Zöllner haben 49 japanische Autos beschlagnahmt, die radioaktiv verstrahlt sind. Jetzt stellt sich für die Behörden folgendes Problem: Wohin mit den Gebrauchtwagen? Denn es werden immer mehr.

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"Eine Schlangengrube voller Gier, Interessenkonflikte und Missetaten" - mit scharfen Worten prangert ein US-Senatsausschuss die Rolle der Banken in der Finanzkrise an.

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SEOUL (AFP)--South Korean troops staged a rare exercise Wednesday to guard nuclear power plants against a possible attack by North Korean agents, the defense ministry said.
The drill involving hundreds of soldiers, anti-terror police, firefighters and government officials took place at the Gori complex on the southeast coast, the ministry said.
The plant has four reactors, including the first one built in 1978, and four more are under construction.
The drill--inspected by Han Min-koo, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff--simulated the infiltration of North Korean agents to bomb a nuclear power plant, a ministry spokesman said.
"Our nation will face a very dangerous situation in case of emergencies of any kind at nuclear power plants," Han said in a statement, calling for "perfect disaster preparedness."
The nuclear crisis in neighboring Japan has already prompted South Korea to run safety checks on its own plants.
South Korea operates 20 nuclear plants, which generate some 35% of its electricity needs, and plans to build 12 more over the next 14 years.
Its oldest reactor at Gori was coincidentally turned off Tuesday due to an electrical malfunction amid growing controversy over the extension of its life.
There were no safety risks to the 587,000-kilowatt reactor and no radiation leaks, state-run Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power said, adding it was repairing an electrical component.
The reactor was temporarily turned off in 2007 at the end of its 30-year operation life cycle. But operators received government approval last year to stay online for another 10 years after updates to safety systems.
Environmentalists have demanded its closure.
The nation has vowed to stick to its atomic power development program despite heightened world concern following the Japanese crisis.
"South Korea's reliance on energy intensive industries make it effectively impossible to give up nuclear power," Knowledge Economy Minister Choi Joong-kyung told a business forum Wednesday.

April 13, 2011 03:04 ET (07:04 GMT)

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Frankreich und USA frustriert

Washington richtete sofort einen Krisenstab ein, es drängte Premier Naoto Kan von Anfang an, die Stabilisierung des Meilers nicht Tepco zu überlassen, wie die Tageszeitung «Yomiuri» am Dienstag schrieb. Die USA drohten Japans Botschafter in Washington, man werde alle US-Bürger evakuieren, sollte Kan nicht energisch handeln. Dennoch wartete Kan hundert Stunden, bis nach der vierten Explosion in Fukushima 1, bevor er Tepco seinem Kommando unterstellte. Insider berichten, die Amerikaner und die Franzosen seien bis heute frustriert über die Unentschlossenheit der Japaner, deren notorisches und offenbar auch naives Unterschätzen der Lage und das Zurückhalten von Information.

Wie die USA übt auch Frankreich Druck auf Tokio aus. Eine Studie der Nuklearfirma Areva warnt, im Abklingbecken von Block 4, das immer noch mit Wasser aus Betonpumpen gekühlt wird, könnte es zur «Kernschmelze unter freiem Himmel» kommen. Man hört, Präsident Nicolas Sarkozy habe seinen Blitzbesuch in Tokio am vorletzten Wochenende gemacht, um Premier Kan ins Gewissen zu reden. Neben der Gefahr einer Verstrahlung grosser Gebiete fürchteten Washington und Paris, Fukushima bringe auch für sie das allmähliche Ende der Atomenergie.

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WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The same "too big to fail" firms that nearly brought down the financial system in 2008 have become bigger and more interconnected and continue to maintain an unfair advantage over smaller competitors, a bailout watchdog will warn lawmakers Wednesday.
In his last day as the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky is expected to caution a House panel that the Dodd-Frank law has "clearly failed" to damp market expectations that the government will bail out systemically important firms.
Meanwhile, additional bailouts may be needed because it remains to be seen if new provisions for the orderly wind down of these large firms will work, he plans to say.
"As even its proponents now concede, the new authorities in the Dodd-Frank Act are a work in progress--a tremendous amount of research and rule making...remains to be done," Barofsky will tell the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to prepared testimony obtained by Dow Jones Newswires. "Whether these provisions will ultimately be successful remains to be seen."
Barofsky's testimony follows similar warnings about continued risks to the economy from "too big to fail" firms he made two weeks ago before the Senate Banking Committee. He announced in February that he would be leaving his position as the special inspector general for TARP on Wednesday.
TARP was launched by the Bush administration in fall 2008 at the height of the financial crisis. It was initially estimated to cost as much as $700 billion, though the Obama administration now estimates it may cost as little as $19 billion.
In his remarks Wednesday, Barofsky plans to caution that such estimates distract from TARP's "considerable, non-financial costs" that may be significantly higher. Rating agencies continue to give large financial institutions higher credit ratings based on the existence of an implicit government backstop, while creditors in turn give those firms access to debt at a price that does not fully account for the risks created by their behavior, Barofsky plans to say.
"In short, these institutions and their leaders are incentivized to engage in precisely the sort of behavior that could trigger the next financial crisis, thus perpetuating a doomsday cycle of booms, busts and bailouts," he will say. "This 'heads I win, tails the government bails me out' mentality promotes behavior that, while it may benefit shareholders and executives in the short term if the risks pay off, increases the likelihood of failure and, therefore, the possibility of another taxpayer-funded bailout."

March 30, 2011 04:00 ET (08:00 GMT)
Copyright (c) 2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

Quoted from "remon"

Herrlich, zuerst ein Bresche ins Land schlagen um freien Zugang zu haben und dann das Öl hinterrücks klauen. Da habe die Libyer sich langfristig wohl selbst ins eigene Fleisch geschnitten.

http://www.ftd.de/politik/international/…n/60032514.html