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Further Thoughts on My Treasury Meeting
By John Lounsbury. In a previous article reviewing my attendance at a small discussion group meeting with Treasury Secretary Geithner and other senior Treasury Officials, I left out one very important topic that was covered. I also failed to effectively summarize my overall impressions. First, let’s cover the omitted topic. Housing Treasury officials several times
An Afternoon at the Treasury
By John Lounsbury. I was privileged to attend a meeting at the Treasury Department in Washington on Monday afternoon, August 16. The two hour plus meeting was hosted by Senior Treasury Officials. There were three discussion leaders: Michael Barr, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, led the first 45 minutes; Matthew Kabaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
The Month In Review At Credit Writedowns: August 2010
Most Popular Posts Economy Shilling: "The Economy Really Doesn’t Have Much Gas Any More" Grantham: Deflation has won on points ECRI Index annualized change almost a lock for double dip territory A New Spotlight on Japanese-Style Deflation Bill Gross on quantitative easing, economic stimulus and recovery Karl Case on US Housing Market Rosenberg on the
The Month In Review At Credit Writedowns: July 2010
For those of you who only receive updates via the weekly newsletter, we have been posting over the last few weeks but I have dropped the ball on crafting a weekly newsletter. So this week I will make this week in review post a month in review with links to the most popular posts from
Credit Writedowns’ Database Failure
This morning while I was doing my BBC Interview, the Credit Writedowns database failed. I noticed it first when there were no posts on the front page – just a note saying "Sorry, the post you are seeking does not exist." In any event, this is a major, major headache because we are now using
Portrait of the anonymous online poster
Check out the related article at the Globe below. Where are the gals, pray tell? Hat tip Tracy Alloway Source: Inside the mind of the anonymous online poster – Boston Globe
The Stimulants and the Austerians and the War on Double Dips
This week I have decided to do the weekly review both as a links post and in narrative form. I have already posted the links of the most-read articles (see them here). In this weekly review narrative, I want to discuss the never-ending double dip narrative in the US from a different angle than last
Most-read at Credit Writedowns for week ending 2010-06-20
This week I am going to run the week in review posts both in links and narrative form. Here is the links version. The narrative version is up next. The Week’s Most Popular Ghost Town Detroit PIMCO on British National Solvency If the data are so good, why is everyone screaming double-dip? Nuke It! Hussman:
If the data are so good, why is everyone screaming double-dip?
This week’s review post is a bit late since I have been spending all my time watching the World Cup. Like last week, I will put the review in narrative form with links to last week’s posts embedded. The numbers were OK but… I think the last week’s data were pretty good. I know I’m
A bad week in the markets; where are we headed next?
I’m going to make a change to the week in review post and talk a little bit about the week that was and how the posts from the past week fit into those events. This was a big week of posting and all of the links in this post are from the last week’s posts
This week’s favourite posts: 2010-05-28
This was a daunting week with equity markets down across the globe. I have the sense that the strength of the recovery is fading – and without some pickup out of the BRICs or via stimulus, we are likely to see a double dip (my baseline scenario). Data this week from the ECRI leading indicators and M3 as well as softness in US GDP, consumption and jobless claims all pointed in this direction
The Week’s Best Posts: 2010-05-21
Last Week’s Most Popular The Sarko Euro Rampage Leak and Maxi Euro Devaluations China: Time to Admit To, Then Douse, Our Inflation Fire MMT: Market discipline for fiscal imprudence and the term structure of interest rates Spain is the perfect example of a country that never should have joined the euro zone Stat of the