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Economics / bailouts, banking, credit default swaps, deficits, GDP, Goldman Sachs, interest rates /

Whacky Bond Markets

November 23, 2009

With deficit hysteria now growing with each passing day the risk that our leadership will blink and do something really dumb like raise interest rates gets larger. You all know how stupid I think such a move would be, but, hey, this is the all-knowing bond market we are talking about. You know that place […]

Economics / asset bubbles, banking, carry trade, fiscal policy, GDP, Hoover, inflation, interest rates, monetary policy, real estate, recession, recovery /

The Next Bubble?

November 21, 2009

OK I am officially done with this. We are scarcely beyond the crisis, indeed from my perspective we are still firmly mired within it, than we are faced with a torrent of hand wringing about our ‘over accommodating’ monetary policy. Not just here but worldwide. How many times do we need to talk about this? […]

Economics / B. of A., bailouts, Bank of America, banking, Citibank, Federal Reserve Board, Geithner, Goldman Sachs, leading indicators, unemployment, Wells Fargo /

News Round-Up

November 20, 2009

So far the news this week has been very ordinary. Nothing suggests we need to change our expectations about next year that much. That is if we accept the likelihood of a very slow recovery with continuing downside risk. The point being that we have not yet begun to see data that foretells a strong […]