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Economics / B. of A., bailouts, bank reform, banking, bankruptcy, Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Minsky, Volcker Rule /

Volcker and Banks

February 14, 2012

We have reached a crucial point in our attempt to bottle up the banks. It looks as if they will win. That means the economy will lose, and the likelihood of a new crisis immediately jumps. Read your Minsky. And weep. There is a looming deadline in the Dodd-Frank regulations that requires rules to go […]

Economics / GDP, jobs, recovery, retail sales, wages /

Sales Point the Way

February 14, 2012

The stock market sagged at the sight of today’s retail sales report. The news was note as good as Wall Street had forecast, so stock prices had presumably anticipated something that didn’t exist. What a shock. Coming out of the end of last year some forecasters had begun to hyper ventilate about 2012 being a […]

Economics / jobs, unemployment, wages /

Getting Trendy

February 9, 2012

The economy is all about trends and tendencies. We have to watch data over longer periods in order to identify where it is headed because short term or one-off bumps and leaps can mislead us easily. In that context we should pay attention to today’s news that new claims for unemployment assistance dripped 15,000 to […]

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