Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives

Jay OwenReforming Global Finance

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Ellen Brown Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the “new normal.”  Bail-in policies are appearing in multiple countries directing failing TBTF banks to convert the funds of “unsecured creditors” into capital; and those creditors, it turns out, include ordinary depositors. Even “secured” creditors, including …

Hype Busters From Lux Research Explain Grid Based Energy Storage

kristyResource Efficiency, Trendspotting

Hype Busters From Lux Research Explain Grid Based Energy Storage Posted: 08 Dec 2011 07:07 AM PST John Petersen In 1883 Thomas Edison said, “The storage battery is one of those peculiar things which appeals to the imagination, and no more perfect thing could be desired by stock swindlers than …