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	<title>Credit Writedowns &#187; Bill Gross</title>
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		<title>Biggest highlights from Barron&#8217;s Roundtable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here are the comments I found the most interesting from the first part of this year's Barron's Investing Roundtable interview which was published today</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>News Links: The ugly side of ultra-cheap money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>News links for 21 December 2011 including notes on technology, the sovereign debt crisis, elections, and Europe</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<li><a href="http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/11/news-links-11122011.html" rel="bookmark">News Links: Big, Cheap Solution In Europe</a> 12 Nov 2011<!-- (37.9)--></li>
		<li><a href="http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/11/news-links-11262011.html" rel="bookmark">News Links: The Real Reason Germany Doesn&#8217;t Want The ECB To Print Money</a> 26 Nov 2011<!-- (32.5)--></li>
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		<title>Bond vigilantes and the currency relief valve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The last post by Randall Wray below is an interesting one because it points out how the world has changed since the end of the gold standard and why the sovereign debt crisis is centered in the euro zone.

While I have an Austrian bias overall, for me, MMT is the best way to think about nonconvertible floating exchange rate systems as distinct from fixed exchange rate, currency board, pegged and convertible systems. The difference is policy space and what I would call the bond vigilante relief valve</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross and Larry Fink on the economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bloomberg Television has another great set of interviews to see, this time with Larry Fink of BlackRock and Bill Gross of PIMCO. The two sat down with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker for an exclusive conversation at an alumni event hosted by UCLA Anderson School of Management (I guess both are UCLA alums; I almost went there myself).

They covered a huge range of topics in the interview from the US supercommittee to Occupy Wall Street to the European Sovereign Debt Crisis and on down the line. Very good stuff

Videos below</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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<br ><a href="http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/11/bill-gross-and-larry-fink-on-the-economy.html">Bill Gross and Larry Fink on the economy</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.creditwritedowns.com">Credit Writedowns</a>
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		<title>Gross, El-Erian on Europe, Strategy, Treasuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>PIMCO’s Mohamed El-Erian and Bill Gross spoke exclusively with Bloomberg Television’s Tom Keene today from the company’s headquarters in Newport Beach, CA about Europe’s crisis, PIMCO’s investment strategy and Treasury yields.

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		<title>Chanos and Gross versus Paulson and Bloomberg</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here’s Jim Chanos on the demonstrations on Wall Street which express the anti-bailout sentiments expressed by both the Tea Party and #OccupyWallStreet. Bill Gross, Vikram Pandit, John Paulson and Michael Bloomberg all chimed in too</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Should our government borrow more at negative real interest rates?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If real returns remain low, it will skew capital investment. When recession hits, debtors backing those losing investments will be caught out and forced to delever aggressively as resource misallocation becomes evident</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>US real 10 year yields at record 225bpt discount to JGBs</title>
		<link>http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/08/us-financial-repression-japanese-deflation.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>PIMCO, the world’ largest bond fund call this suppression of yields financial repression because it means savers and bond investors get negative real returns. However, John Hempton pointed out that in Japan, where this monetary policy is well-advanced, deflation has set in and real yields are positive despite the zero-rate interest policy (ZIRP)</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Zulauf: &#8220;I expect the market to go below the latest lows in September&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>As usual, I find Felix Zulauf’s commentary very perceptive. He has been right consistently for the whole of 2011 in predicting where things have gone. What he is saying is that the fundamentals in the west are weak and now that growth is ebbing, this will be manifest in stock prices. What will policy makers do</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross: It&#8217;s all about jobs and growth in the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bill Gross was on CNBC yesterday talking about the debt ceiling deal. His first thoughts were about jobs. "There are no jobs in terms of growth. There are no wages in terms of increase… This is a classic de-levering cycle.”</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>The debt ceiling ratings downgrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If Cantor doesn’t fold his hand, it will be a political disaster for him and his party and economic disaster for the global economy</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>On why Bill Gross supports a job guarantee despite railing against the deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/06/gross-education-debt-and-government-as-last-employer.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> Politically, the whole thing looks a lot like Japan. To my mind, the right approach then is to de-emphasize “increasing... borrowing and lending” and re-emphasize increasing jobs and employment. Whether we see work sharing as we see in the Netherlands and Germany or a job guarantee, this could deal with the deficit and structural issues that conservatives care about and the demand issues that liberals care about</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross and Rosenberg: QE3 will see interest rate caps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday, I indicated that the FOMC has already considered offering unlimited quantitative easing to target specific interest rates during the second round of quantitative easing. I believe the Fed will do this in QE3, and apparently Bill Gross and David Rosenberg do as well. While a QE3 is still a way’s off – probably not until 2012 – it makes sense to think about how it will be conducted</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross: Savers to Be Disadvantaged for Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Federal Reserve will be on easy street for a long time to come. Real interest rates will remain low, meaning debtors will be favoured over savers. Investors in fixed–income will take it on the chin</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross: &#8216;Low policy rates represent an immediate threat to investment portfolios&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bill Gross: Low policy rates and the increasing negative real yields that they engender as inflation accelerates represent an immediate threat to investment portfolios. Bond prices don’t necessarily have to go down for savers to get skunked during a process of "debt liquidation." PIMCO advocates a renewed vigilance, stressing bond market "safe spread" alternatives available globally, including developing/emerging market debt at higher yields denominated in non-dollar currencies. </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>More on the currency wars and negative real rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Now that the Fed has confirmed it won't raise rates and the dollar is dropping, for me it means that negative real rates will continue and that the currency wars are back on. I have comments on what negative real rates mean for investors. I also talk about my suspicion that this time around in the currency wars, China will get the stick instead of the US because of the Dollar peg</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross on fiscal profligacy and dumping the negative real yields of treasuries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>There are four ways to reduce real debt burdens: by paying down debts via accumulated savings. by inflating away the value of money. by reneging in part or full on the promise to repay by defaulting by reneging in part on the promise to repay through debt forgiveness Right now, everyone is fixated on the </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Cotton Hoarding in China Shows There is Serious Commodities Speculation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>You have to watch this video to believe it. The speculation in the commodities market is well out of hand. Cotton futures are at a record high on speculation that demand in China will continue to increase, as China is the world’s largest importer of cotton. Add in the flooding in Australia and you have the makings of a rally driven by fundamentals but bolstered and amplified by speculation.</p>

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		<title>Gross: Central Banks are Robbing Bond Holders and Fuelling Inflation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>In this segment on Bloomberg with Tom Keene just after the jobs report was released yesterday morning, Bill Gross continues hammering away at the central banks' easy money monetary policies, <a href="http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/02/bill-gross-devils-bargain.html">the main point of his last newsletter</a>. His contention is that government has four ways to rob bondholders of return:</p>

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  <li><strong>Outright default</strong>, something he says unlikely in the U.S.</li>

  <li><strong>Currency depreciation</strong>: Gross contends this is a problem for the U.S. currency</li>

  <li><strong>Unanticipated inflation</strong>: Gross believes the core vs. headline inflation numbers highlight this issue</li>

  <li><strong>Negative real interest rates</strong>: His newsletter was very much about this point.</li>
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		<title>Bill Gross: Devil&#8217;s Bargain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bill Gross is at it again. The bond king who has taken a populist turn is out with another monthly investment commentary that features a negative view of Wall Street (God's work) and Federal Reserve monetary policy. I want to hone in on the Fed piece</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross, Felix Zulauf, Fred Hickey, Archie MacAllaster and Scott Black from Barron’s 2011 Roundtable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here are a bunch of the participants from this year's Barron's Investor Roundtable discussion talking to Michael Santoli about the ideas they expressed</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Comments by Faber, Gross, Roach, and Grantham on the Political Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Over the past several days, I have caught some very good commentary by a number of well-known financial industry experts. I wanted to share my own thoughts with you on their commentary, especially in light of my last posts on Eisenhower&#8217;s Farewell Address and The New Monetary Consensus. I have featured two of the commentaries </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross: Deficit Hawk, Bond Vigilante</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By Edward Harrison American politicians and citizens alike have no clear vision of the costs of a seemingly perpetual trillion-dollar annual deficit. Policy stimulus is focused on maintaining current consumption as opposed to making the United States more competitive in the global marketplace. Dollar depreciation will sap the purchasing power of U.S. consumers, as well </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross: &#8216;The global economy is suffering from a lack of aggregate demand&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The debt overhang in the developed world has lowered aggregate demand globally. As developed economies compete over a dwinding pie by moving toward a policy of economic nationalism, investment opportunities will dwindle. Bill Gross advises looking to the emerging economies instead</p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Pimco&#8217;s Gross and El-Erian: Seeking Alpha in Brazil and South Korea Over U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 03:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Gross says that Pimco is looking to high growth economies for both bond and equity plays. The key for them is not to play the liquidity seeking return trade (like 100-year Mexican paper). Rather they want to find low volatility, high return plays – and they see this more in Emerging Markets like South Korea </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Letter from a Washington Conference Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annaly Salvos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By Michael Farrell, Annaly Capital Management My fellow mortgage market participants, On Tuesday, I attended the “Conference on the Future of Housing Finance” hosted by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan in the Cash Room at Treasury. I believe Annaly was invited because we have been actively engaged in </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross Urges &#8216;Full Nationalization&#8217; of Housing Finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>From Bloomberg: Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the U.S. should consider “full nationalization” of the mortgage- finance system as the Obama administration plots the revival of a market that was at the center of the 2008 credit crisis. “To suggest that there’s a large place </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross on quantitative easing, economic stimulus and recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bill Gross, manager of the world&#8217;s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., recently wrote that he now takes a less optimistic view of what he dubs &#34;Keynesian consumption remedies.&#34; As a result, he talks to Bloomberg about the possible need for more, non-fiscal, economic stimulus in the wake of James Bullard&#8217;s call for </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Bill Gross Channels Edward Hugh on Demographics and Austrians on Malinvestment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I have enjoyed Edward Hugh and Claus Vistesen&#8217;s posting here as well as on their own sites because they add a European angle to the commentary I think we lacked. But, they also have brought their considerable interest in demographics to bear in their writings as well. So I was happy to see Bill Gross </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Pimco: Seeking Alpha in Equity Returns in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The bond guys PIMCO have decided to move into equities. They are doing so cautiously.&#160; I mentioned some comments they made by Gross regarding safe, high dividend stocks like utilities. At the time, he was suggesting almost all asset classes appeared to be overvalued on a long-term basis, which may explain his move into higher </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>It&#8217;s the debt, stupid &#8211; Bill Gross edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>On Monday when I wrote Why Stimulus Is No Panacea, I mentioned that I had written two posts in the past entitled &#34;It&#8217;s the debt, stupid&#34; (read them here and here). Just as the Clintonites of 1992 pointed to the economy as the Elephant in the political room, Team Obama should have been pointing to </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross: Is it possible to get out of a debt crisis by increasing debt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Bill Gross is a bond guy. And in the bond world, the return of capital counts for a heck of a lot more than the return on capital. So, naturally, with debts being socialized from the private to the public sector, Gross has been asking himself and his investors first and foremost which countries will </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross disagrees with Buffett, finds ratings agencies &#8216;nonsensical&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>While Warren Buffett is out tarnishing his reputation with quotes about how &#34;phenomenal&#34; the ratings agencies&#8217; business model is, Bill Gross is accusing them of aiding and abetting the financial crisis. Here&#8217;s a quote from Bill Gross&#8217; latest monthly missive. In it, he is quite dismissive of the ratings agencies and implies they were enablers </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Gross: American-style capitalism has reached a dead end but buy T-bills anyway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I must say, Bill Gross is really sour on events in the United States these days. His monthly works are getting more and more populist. And it&#8217;s interesting to see how he can segue from his introductory populist screed into a cogent investment analysis. This month, Gross goes Warren Buffett on us with a Squanderville-like </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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		<title>Can you get out of a debt crisis by piling on another layer of debt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>That’s the question on everyone’s mind and the one Bill Gross of Pimco attempts to answer in this month’s Investment Outlook. He starts out defining the problem as a lack of aggregate demand – the Keynesian understanding of depression. To begin with, let’s get reacquainted with the fundamental economic problem of our age – lack </p><p><hr />Credit Writedowns Pro is now live. <a href="https://www.creditwritedowns.com/members/">Sign up today</a> for monthly or yearly subscriptions. 
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