Posts by Jeff Berwick

Thomas D. Conrad, Ph.D. is a highly ranked hedge fund manager with World Opportunity Master Fund and president of Financial Management Corporation. His flagship World Opportunity Master Fund, LP, is an international hedge fund that operates globally as a fund-of-hedge-funds. Fund managers hold in aggregate well over US$2 billion in managed investments. The fund has been…

How poetic was it that in the birthplace of democracy, democracy just died  in Greece. Last week, the Greek people voted heavily against the EU’s proposal… and then this week Greek Parliament voted heavily in favor of it! How’s that for democracy!  Those who adore democracy (we are not included in that group!) always say…

The Most Important 30 Minutes Of Your Life Starts Now…

This week, a woman in Tennessee reportedly told police she was counterfeiting money because she read online that President Barack Obama created a new law stating that people can start printing their own money. Police say that the counterfeit bill was printed on computer paper and that each side had been glued together.  The Times…

After weeks of negotiations, referendums and bank and stock market closures, the Greek government agreed  today to an 86 billion euro “bail-out” just as we expected. We were fairly sure the troika of the IMF, ECB and EC would force their measures on Greece no matter what the opposition was, and that appears to be a…