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    What’s Good For Counter Parties Is …

    August 5, 2009

    Not good for anyone else. The winding up of the ill-fated Lehman operations has run afoul of counter-party greed. More to the point it has run afoul of the hopeless inability of the dumb lawyers and bankers who constructed the apparently never ending Russian doll like constructions in which they hid those toxic assets to […]

    Economics / consumption, home prices, mortgage applications, recession, recovery, savings, unemployment /

    Double Dip Recession?

    August 5, 2009

    I realize that this is a lower than 50/50 probability, but the data this week has me thinking that, unless something ‘turns up’ we could be in for a nasty surprise sometime next spring. We may get a couple more quarters of contraction. And as we all now know two quarters of GDP contraction is […]

    Economics / Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board, Goldman Sachs, Janet Yellen, regulation /

    Bernanke Watch?

    August 4, 2009

    There seems to be quite a cloud of dust being kicked up over a number of concurrent and intertwined themes concerning the Federal Reserve Board: there are matters of its secrecy, its competence, its role in the future of bank regulation and now also its management. Simultaneously as we head into Fall we will be […]

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