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		<title>Global Manufacturing Steadies as She Goes, or Does She?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The year got off on a much better foot than might have been expected, at least as far as global manufacturing is concerned. So the fall in global manufacturing has flattened out, even though the bounce back has more of a dead cat look about it than anything else. As usual in recent months the report was very much a mixed bag</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/2011/04/global-manufacturing-slips-back-slightly-in-march.html" rel="bookmark">Global Manufacturing Slips Back Slightly In March</a> 4 Apr 2011<!-- (33.9)--></li>
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		<title>Economics in the Age of Deleveraging</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hyman Minsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Koo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Clearly, economic policy is now far more complex than it appeared to be before the GFC. As we enter this Age of Deleveraging, the worst thing we can do is apply policies that appeared to work during the preceding Age of Leverage—but were in fact predicated on ever-rising private sector indebtedness. Politicians should be sceptical of conventional economic advice at this time; it would be much wiser to study the history of the 1930s 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>All S&amp;P sovereign credit ratings in order from Australia to Greece for January 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>In the wake of today's extraordinary credit ratings action for the euro zone by Standard and Poor's, below are the rating agency's sovereign credit ratings</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>Roach Sees &#8216;Relatively Contained&#8217; Recession in Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Stephen Roach told Bloomberg television earlier today that he does not expect the recession in Europe to be severe. Therefore, he believes the impact on other economies, particularly in Asia that depends on Europe for external demand for exports, will be limited. Video 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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		<title>Where are the safe havens?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>My latest post at Credit Writedowns Pro on protecting wealth in a world of recurring crisis is now up. I outlined eight principal investing risks that I see for for 2012 and strategies to avoid those risks. At the same time, the thought you should have in the back of your head is that these are just the known unknowns. But that there are unknown unknowns which create so-called Knightean Uncertainty and make this a dangerous investing climate</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>Chart of the Day: International Manufacturing Compensation Costs Compared</title>
		<link>http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2011/12/hourly-compensation-costs-in-manufacturing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Global Macro Monitor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Great data from the BLS comparing hourly compensation for manufacturing. The second chart looks at the benefits component of the hourly cost</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 World&#8217;s 29 Too Big To Fail Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Here is the list of so-called global systemically important financial institutions by country. Who’s missing in your view</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>Chart of the Day: The World&#8217;s Largest Employers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Global Macro Monitor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Great graphic from the Economist.  Note that 7 of the 10 are government-run.  Amazing WalMart employs almost as many as the People’s Liberation Army.   Gives new meaning to the “Human Wave Theory.”</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>Week in Review: Hurricane &#8216;I-Lean&#8217; Lifts Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Global Macro Monitor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Global Trend Indicators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<title>Full Text: G7 Finance Ministers&#8217; and Central Bank Governors Statement on Financial Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Strong Case for Global Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>If we have learned anything from the current financial mess, it’s that building wealth is dependent on rational analysis, careful decision making, and risk management. That’s why sticking close to home at a time when our markets are more uncertain than ever is a recipe for disaster and absolutely the wrong thing to do. Not only will you miss out on the world’s fastest-growing markets, but the odds are exceptionally high that you will miss as much as 50% or more in potential returns over the next decade</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>Chart of the day: tax burden in the US and globally</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Despite the widespread view in the US that taxes are high, taxes in the US are relatively low both in the global and historical context. These two charts from the Globe &#038; Mail make that plain</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>From cautious optimism to caution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p> I am more cautious than optimistic on risk assets and the global economy. From where I sit global growth prospects are not improving; they are weakening</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>Global Manufacturing Slips Back Slightly In March</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By Edward Hugh Evidence which would enable us to assess the full economic impact of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is still hard to come by. There is a lot of talk of supply chain disruptions, but little in the way of detailed evidence to back up assertions of the more anecdotal kind. Even 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>Economic Facts of Life about Global Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lounsbury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Oil spills, coal mining disasters, concerns over Middle East revolutions and now nuclear meltdowns. What do all these events have in common? As I have written earlier, they are energy-related. They all have to do with desperate efforts to find energy fuels to supply the world’s ever-growing demands. Where is the concern over the horrific civil war now commencing in the Ivory Coast? After all, its population is more than three times larger than Libya’s. Forget it, no oil</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>Kyle Bass on Japanese Insolvency and Systemic Risk in the Global Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><p>Here's more from the CNBC session with Kyle Bass, Managing Partner of Hayman Capital Management. David Faber introduced the topic as a discussion about tail risk and the &#34;end of the world&#34; trade. Bass took exception to that characterization saying that he was more concerned about a debt &#34;restructuring that has to happen for the world to grow again&#34;. He says, &#34;so far what we have seen is total credit market debt in the world in the last ten years has gone from $80 trillion to $200 trillion.&#34; That's not sustainable.</p>

<p>It was interesting to see at the outset of the Bass clip I am putting up below that CNBC ran through a similar thesis regarding Japan. During the quantitative easing last decade, Japan saw a tremendous cyclical rally. But when policy stimulus was withdrawn, the market hit new multi-decade lows. Stimulus without reform leads to a policy cul de sac. For Japan, Bass says the country has been effectively insolvent for years and is in this false period of &#34;homeostasis&#34; only because its population buying 10-year bonds with a 1 interest rate handle expects deflation.</p>
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		<title>Davos leaves Nouriel Roubini downbeat about policy coordination and Egypt contagion risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Piggybacking off of my last post highlighting Nouriel Roubini&#8217;s talk with Simon Constable, I wanted to present three videos from Roubini&#8217;s appearance on NBC Europe this morning. In the earlier pre-Davos Wall Street Journal interview, Roubini was pointing out that great risks still remain in the global economy. He highlighted the need for policy coordination </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>Why our Fundamental Approach to Banking Regulation is Inherently Unsound</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>By William K. Black (cross-posted from Benzinga.com) Greetings from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) annual enforcement conference in Charleston, S.C.&#160; I’m giving the keynote address Monday.&#160; I’ll discuss the NASAA members’ exceptionally important and often effective role against securities fraud in future columns.&#160; This column, however, deals with “safety and soundness” banking regulation.&#160;&#160; </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>Economic Themes at the Start of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Chandler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>BBH's currency strategy team reviews the major economic issues in the four investing regions of note: the US, Europe, China and other Emerging Markets. In the US growth is accelerating. In Europe, the economy struggles with a sovereign debt crisis. In China growth is moderating. And in the Emerging markets, officials wrestle with capital inflows from abroad</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>Chart of the Day: Tax revenue as a percent of GDP by country</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Only in Germany and Turkey did tax revenue rise as a percent of GDP last year amongst the twelve countries in the Economist's graphic below. This is testimony to how deep the global downturn was. While it is unclear whether this graphic includes state and local taxes, in 2009, no developed economy collected as little in tax revenue as did the United States</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>Chart of the Day: Market Share of GDP and Foreign Exchange Reserves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annaly Salvos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Whether or not we are witnessing the end of the debate in Europe or simply another milestone on the way to The United States of Europe is a question for a dissertation, not a blog. In the meantime, these questions lead us to consider the current global monetary standing of “the member states whose currency is the dollar.” Below is the shrinking market share of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency since 1999…and the growth of the euro. And below is the United States’ shrinking market share of global GDP (in constant dollars) currency since 1969…and the growth of China and India. These are all changes that have occurred along the sweep of economic history, and for relatively short intervals at that. Far be it for us to draw conclusions on such large matters with such little data, but here are two: historical secular trends are hard to stop, and one of the greatest global economic advantages is scale</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>Timothy Geithner&#8217;s Letter to the G20 Finance Ministers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I will be on BNN today at 12 Noon ET talking about the G20 amongst other topics, so I wanted to highlight this issue. Here&#8217;s the text first (with added bolding) and then a few comments: First, G20 countries should commit to undertake policies consistent with reducing external imbalances below a specified share of GDP </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>Are the BRICs decoupling?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>We have heard this de-coupling theme for quite a few years now. The theory is that high-growth emerging markets are becoming less reliant on the U.S. and therefore are immune to exogenous shocks from the U.S. The video from Russia Today TV below explores this topic. I spoke to RT America for this segment and </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>CFOs not optimistic on economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The Duke University/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey which concluded last week showed a high level of concern amongst top financial officers in major organizations worldwide. Of note are the CFOs ideas regarding employment and credit where they are less upbeat than I expected. Their views that credit markets remain tight and that employment growth </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 Sustainability of Global Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Now that I am back in the saddle, I am going to start doing my week in review narratives again with links to the most newsworthy posts from the past week or so. On second thought, let me actually cover the ground back to the beginning of September for this review since I haven&#8217;t done </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>Basel III To Tighten Capital Requirements &#8211; Eventually</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lounsbury</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>by John Lounsbury The BIS (Bank for International Settlements) reported Sunday that it has reached an agreement to increase key capital ratios for banks. The announcement was made by the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision, the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The committee is composed of representatives of 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>How strong is the recovery and other links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>How strong is the global recovery? The recovery seems slowest in Greece and the bubble countries (US, UK, Ireland, Spain). It’s pretty poor in Eastern Europe too. It is better in the rest of Western Europe. A good deal better in Australia and Canada (not sure about NZ). China, India and Brazil are even tightening. </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>Top Ten US Foreign Aid Recipients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<title>Paul McCulley does Modern Monetary Theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>This is just in from PIMCO&#8217;s Paul McCulley, who seems to have caught on to the Wynne Godley sectoral balances approach to viewing the macro economy (hat tip Scott).&#160; He says: Double-entry bookkeeping was a great invention. It is a shame that so many macroeconomists and political pundits – and therefore, politicians themselves – seem </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>Is There A Global Economic Slowdown In The Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Hugh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>According to Ralph Atkins writing in the Financial Times last week, “the pace of Germany’s recovery is helping dispel fears of a “double dip” recession across the continent as a result of the crisis over public finances in southern European countries”. Coincidentally, however, on the very same day, Alan Beattie writing from Washington informed us </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 Art of Outperformance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niels Jensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>“When data contradicts theory in a discipline like physics, there is excitement amongst scientists […]. When data contradicts theory in finance, there is dismissal.” Robert Arnott Big shift to passive Active management in the equity field is a notoriously difficult art. In fact so difficult that more and more investors give up and go passive </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>G20 Post-Mortem: No Fresh Trading Incentives</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Chandler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The G20 meeting did not provide much in the way of fresh trading incentives.&#160; However, there were a couple of developments that were noteworthy. The most important of these is the balance struck between growth and fiscal austerity.&#160; Ahead of the meeting much was made of the different directions that the US and Europe appeared </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>Financial Reform Bill Encourages Risk-Taking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Chandler</dc:creator>
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		<title>On Fiscal Consolidation And Currency Devaluation At The G-20 And Other Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Edward Harrison</dc:creator>
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