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A plug, and one illusion less on Wall Street and in Investment Banking
It is the first of January – hangover day, football day (for those of us who follow the PL) and a general day of relaxation, although this time around the first workday of the year is already desperately close. For some, it is also a day where many contemplate the stupidity of their actions the
New Year’s Wishes From Credit Writedowns
Happy New Year, Credit Writedowns readers! I hope the new year finds you in good spirits. I am battling a bit of a cold but I am in pretty good spirits myself. So I want to use this opportunity to thank you all for supporting our site, making comments, sharing articles on Facebook, Twitter, and
A Brief Hiatus
Hi everyone. Forgive the long pause between posts. I haven’t not posted for this long all year. But it is the holiday season and I found myself unexpectedly caught up in the events and just haven’t blogged. The same goes for the other authors here it seems! I’m not sure yet when I will be
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: 2010-11-21
Mr. Obama’s Most Recent "2%" Sellout is his Worst Yet Michael Hudson on how President Obama’s economic policy has not benefitted ordinary Americans. On The Alleged Irish Bank Deposit Flight My view on why the incipient Irish bank run would mean a bailout was inevitable With Ireland on the brink, the 1931 Credit Anstalt talk
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: 2010-11-13
Since I failed to put out a weekly update last week, this week’s weekly will contain the most popular posts over the last two weeks. Jeremy Grantham has ‘already started to sell’ Great 30-minute CNBC interview with Jeremy Grantham in which we hear his views on monetary and fiscal policy in addition to asset allocation
This Week’s Most Popular Posts
Real Estate Investors or Speculators?: Casey Research’s thoughts on risk management amongst real estate investors makes one wonder how much real estate activity is purely speculative. The Problem With QE2: Comstock Partners explains why QE2 will not be successful in increasing economic output in the face of a secular trend toward deleveraging. Graph of the
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: 2010-10-23
We had a lot of good posts at Credit Writedowns this past week. Below is a list of the most-read. Enjoy. Chile: "We are very much concerned about what’s happening with our currency": Comments by Chile’s central bank vice-governor demonstrate that the so-called ‘currency war’ is still very much an issue. Chile is concerned that
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: 2010-10-16
Krugman: We Need $8-10 Trillion Worth of Quantitative Easing: Paul Krugman says the Fed would have to print multiple trillions of dollars to close the output gap. That’s not going to happen. The implication is that money printing is all that is left as stimulus because fiscal policy, a more effective means of closing an
This Week’s Most Popular Posts: 2010-10-09
How a financial crisis morphs into a currency war: A history of the crisis to date and how it has led to the escalating rhetoric of a so-called currency war. Bubble Trouble In Finland?: Edward Hugh analyses the above-trend house price appreciation in Scandinavia, Finland in particular. First the rate reductions, then money printing, then
This Week’s Most Popular Posts
This week’s posts pointed to commentary from some of the top analysts: Meredith Whitney, Hugh Hendry, Andy Xie, David Tepper, and David Rosenberg. Of note was the situation in Ireland and the cabinet shuffle in the Obama White House. A lot more in the archives here. Meredith Whitney: Next Shoe to Drop Is Municipal Bonds:
On Big Trouble in Little Ireland and Other Links
I am finally back after taking most of August off and I should be up to near a full posting schedule in short order. While I was away, the site got a re-design and a speed upgrade. If you have visited since yesterday, you should notice that things run faster and much more smoothly –
Site Admin Tonight
I promised that the site would be making some changes in addition to the redesign. So the site will be undergoing some admin that will make it unavailable tonight sometime after 8PM EDT/12AM GMT (less than three hours from now). Otherwise, everything should be largely the same. I hope this will solve some of