debt

Doing the financially right thing does not always workout for some, if you did worry about the “right” financial decision you would not be in debt.

What we call ‘privatisation’ is the selling off of state assets to stave off bankruptcy caused by the bank-created debt. When the assets are "privatised" the original owner has a claim over the assets.President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has made much of his country's new respect for international law. Under international law, however, the Soviet Union is the successor not only to the rights of the Imperial Russian Government, but also to its obligations.

The three leading international rating agencies have got Russia's sovereign rating wrong: it shouldn't be investment grade but default. 

So says the Association Fédérative Internationale des Porteurs d'Emprunts Russes (AFIPER), a French pressure group that represents the interests of over 300,000 investors who bought Russian Tsarist-era bonds at the end of the 19th century. 

Translated from French (by Joel FREYMOND: The Russian loans, repayment of ruin , Journal of Finance)

 "Markets are so rigged by policymakers that I have no meaningful insights to offer."

Accumulating debt can cause angst in the mind of a cautious investor. However, not all debt is bad; it can be a powerful means of creating and building wealth. Margin loans, for example, have proven to be a popular tool for growing investments in recent years, but recent market performance has brought their use into sharp focus.