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- Where the wild things are
- Stop the madness now!
- Obama job approval now below 50%
- Morgan Stanley expects 10-year yields to rise 220 bps in 2010
- Largest U.S. refiner Valero now permanently shutting capacity
- News from around the web: 2009-11-20
- Bill Gross: "I think unemployment is here to stay"
- Ivy Zelman: “Home prices are going back down”
- Gross isn’t buying corporates, high yield or equities even with zero rates
- What would an alternative to bailouts have looked like?
- Tim Geithner defends himself before Congress
- If the U.S. stopped issuing treasuries, would it go broke?
- News from around the web: 2009-11-19
- The slow but inexorable decline of jobless claims
- Apple: Can it stop the Android menace?
- Steve Keen: Debt and the economy – how do we pay for all of this?
- The small bank – big bank dichotomy
- Barack Obama: “if we keep on adding to the debt… that could actually lead to a double-dip”
- News from around the web: 2009-11-18
- Credit Suisse cautious on Citigroup due to regulatory hurdles
- News from 17 November 1930: “we face a winter of hunger and distress”
- Why the FDIC’s Resources are Strong and Insured Deposits are "Absolutely Safe"
- Food insecurity: alternative measure of economic distress skyrockets
- News from around the web: 2009-11-17
- Meredith Whitney: “I haven’t been this bearish in a year”
- Marc Faber: "I don’t think that you’ll see gold below $1,000 per ounce probably ever"
- Will the U.S. allow China to buy more Gulf of Mexico oil assets?
- Why GM is repaying bailout money while it is still loss-making
- Max Keiser on dollar: Buffett’s toilet paper opium for China
- News from around the web: 2009-11-16
- Roubini: For unemployment "the worst is yet to come"
- News from around the web: 2009-11-15
- GM looks to use US and Canadian tax money to bailout Opel
- China slams U.S. for inflating global asset prices via carry trade
- News from around the web: 2009-11-14
- If this is recovery…
- Three more FDIC bank seizures
- China’s empty city: the emperor really has no clothes
- Bill Gross: Fed on hold through 2010
- Consumer confidence sinking
- Links: 2009-11-13
- I am now moving from multi-year recovery to a double dip baseline
- Rosenberg: U.S. GDP is overstated
- Hong Kong: “America is doing exactly what Japan did last time”
- Get in the market before it’s too late
- Jamie Dimon makes the best case for not breaking up banks
- Ten lessons from financial crisis investors will soon forget
- Parallels between US and Japanese economies
- How well capitalized is Citigroup?
- News from around the web: 2009-11-12
- Geithner: “Market-oriented exchange rates in line with economic fundamentals will be essential”
- New unemployment claims are coming down
- Unemployment insurance for the 21st century
- Germany gives GM a stiff arm on state aid
- Geithner impersonates Nicholson – America, you can’t handle the truth
- How is Citi going to deal with $38 billion in deferred tax assets?
- Unemployment rate illusion
- Rosenberg: U.S. unemployment rate headed for 12.0-13.0%
- News from around the web: 2009-11-11
- Chanos says dump munis as distress mounts and ratings attacked
- Ambac may file bankruptcy soon
- Whitney Tilson: "A pullback of some sort is likely"
- If the Fed is looking to inflate away problems, what should Asia do?
- Evidence that governments are underplaying peak oil
- Links: 2009-11-10
- All bubbles are equal, but some bubbles are more equal than others
- News from around the web: 2009-11-09
- The politics of economics
- The collapse of commercial real estate
- Wu-Tang Financial
- May the Lloyd be with you
- Rick Bookstaber to join SEC
- News from around the web: 2009-11-08
- Consumer credit down, but does it show deleveraging?
- Links: 2009-11-07
- Jon Stewart spoofs Glenn Beck
- ‘Buy American horror stories’ in Canada
- FDIC shutters five more banks
- China: we “will take steps to protect the interests of our domestic industries”
- Intent and motive
- Rosenberg: “the mother of all jobless recoveries”
- Links: 2009-11-06
- The less optimistic view of Treasury’s handling of the crisis
- Comprehensive unemployment rate is 17.5%
- 10.2% unemployment, 190,000 jobs lost
- The wildly optimistic view of Treasury’s handling of the crisis
- Economic nationalism and GM’s decision to keep Opel and Vauxhall
- Better last claims report before employment number
- News from around the web: 2009-11-05
- Walt Mossberg reviews the Droid
- The coming collapse of the municipal bond market
- Fed to keep “exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.”
- News from around the web: 2009-11-04
- Russia, sovereign debt defaults, and fiat currency
- Time to Cut Taxes?
- The new Japan, domestic consumption, and the neo-liberal thought machine
- Trouble in Ireland as Fitch cuts debt two notches to AA- and deficits soar
- The creeping power grab by the executive branch and Federal Reserve
- Japan does not demonstrate the failure of stimulus
- GM board decides to keep European Opel unit
