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Fresh Archives
- 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
- Buffett: Is Berkshire’s Burlington move all about coal?
- Nils Pratley: A tale of two banks at RBS and Lloyds
- China: reflation play spells trouble for rest of the world
- China is now on the same bubble path as Japan post-1987 crash
- News from around the web: 2009-11-03
- Wood warns of correction, says “key variable in the West is government policy”
- Buffett buys up Burlington Northern and does 50-1 split at Berkshire
- Lloyds to raise 21 billion pounds in biggest rights issue ever
- Reserve Bank of Australia lifts rates again
- Reflation watch hedge fund edition
- Japan: stimulus without reform leads to a policy cul de sac
- The EU driving changes in European banking
- Bullish data, recoveries, crashes and the psychology of forecasting redux
- Links: 2009-11-02
- UK: Darling confirms government to break up too big to fail banks
- CIT will now file for bankruptcy
- Jon Stewart takes on Fox News
- News from around the web: 2009-10-30
- Rosner: Financial Stability Act “single worst not-yet passed piece of legislation”
- Portugal and Greece downgrades have silver lining in the reach for yield
- US personal income data for September shows pullback
- Nationwide: British home prices now higher than a year ago
- Rosenberg: The Grinch who stole Christmas
- Robert Johnson’s testimony expunged from Congressional records
- Spain: “we need to go back to 2000 wages and prices and start again”
- News from around the web: 2009-10-29
- Geithner testifies before Congress on financial reform
- Saudis drop WTI oil contract
- China launches retaliatory investigation into U.S auto subsidies
- A sustainable recovery with 530,000 weekly claims?
- Third quarter GDP growth comes in at 3.5%
- GMAC has been nationalized
- The choice is between increasing or decreasing aggregate demand
- Links: 2009-10-28
- Andy Xie: Central bank “arsonists have been asked to put out the fire”
- Norway makes three
- On so-called bureaucrats in Washington and the morality of capitalism
- Extend and pretend and the growing divide between delinquencies and foreclosures
- Former Citi Chairman in favor of re-imposing Glass-Steagall
- Is the U.S. dollar carry trade replacing the one in Japanese yen?
- Case-Shiller shows further improvement in U.S. house prices
- Bill Gross: “almost all assets appear to be overvalued on a long-term basis”
- Links: 2009-10-27
- Hayek: “I am not only against inflation but I am also against deflation.”
- A conversation with Stephen Roach on Charlie Rose
- Understand the Fed’s balance sheet
- Is Citi being forced to downsize by Obama?
- Jeremy Grantham: The market is 25% overvalued; 15% correction coming
- High yield is back in business in Europe
- Why you won’t hear me using the word bankster
- News from around the web: 2009-10-26
- WaMu: Mr. Smith goes to Washington and turns predatory
- Why is Zero Hedge claiming the Fed is intervening in equities markets?
- Expect bankruptcy in the record Stuyvesant Town real estate deal
- Too big to fail – Stuart Carlson edition
- Anecdotes on reckless lending at WaMu from the Seattle Times
- The latest bubble warning: Swedish house prices
- Wow, judges now nixing lenders’ foreclosure claims entirely in court
- Bohemian Bankruptcy – A tragedy by Drag Queen
- Richard Bernstein: Once a huge market bear, now a bull
- News from around the web: 2009-10-25
- Citibank Belgium to pay ‘duped’ savers 128mn for bad Lehman deal
- CRE: GMAC-related Capmark Financial near bankruptcy
- Guest Post: Did Gordon Gekko inspire Wall Street or the other way around?
- News from around the web: 2009-10-24
- Seven banks seized by FDIC
- Guest post: Why do bankers make so much money?
- Links: 2009-10-23
- How much money is Wells Fargo really making?
- What are the legal rights of lenders and homeowners in foreclosure?
- Debtflation
- How many medical bankruptcies were there in Switzerland last year?
- If the UK economy is still in recession, why are London house prices hitting new records?
- John Meriwether is back, risk must be too
- News from around the web: 2009-10-22
- Let Goldman fail next time
- Why mortgages aren’t modified and what a ruling stopping foreclosures means
- Jobless claims stuck near 530,000, point to structurally high unemployment
