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Economics / bank reform, banking, deregulation, Euro, free market theory, free markets, recession, recovery /

What Difference?

May 17, 2010

There have been a number of good books written about the crisis we are embroiled in. Depending on what you want to learn and what perspective you want to take the shelves are groaning with tomes each presenting a credible view. From what I can tell they all triangulate on one simple fact: that our […]

Economics / bailouts, banking, capitalism, deficits, fiscal policy, retail sales /

Headline Rant

May 16, 2010

For a variety of reasons I haven’t had time to write about the news for a day or so. Suffice to say that there was nothing of importance to comment on – except, maybe, for retail sales which remain on a growth path. Instead allow me to rant about a couple of stories out there […]

Economics / bailouts, bank reform, banking, deficits, Federal Reserve Board, fiscal policy, GDP, Goldman Sachs, jobs, national debt, regulation, stimulus, unemployment /

Update: Jobs, Debt, Bank Reform

May 13, 2010

This has been a dull week for economic reporting with only dribs and drabs of news being released, and the Senate ploughing on through what seems like an endless pile of amendments to the basic Dodd bank reform bill. Nonetheless there are some small items to discus: Jobs: The weekly report on first time claims […]