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The Real Lesson From the Great Depression: Fiscal Policy Works!

Big Picture, 9 hours ago

Marshall Auerback is a Denver, Colorado-based global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital. ~~~ If the US government had a dollar every time someone proclaimed to learn the lessons of the Great Depression, we probably…Read

Stocks: CEA Topics: alan greenspan, bankruptcy, barack obama, crisis, currency, cyclical, deflation, depression, gold, japan, long, recession, robert rubin, unemployment, writedowns

Summer Rerun: Japan Says US Financial Crisis Worse Than Its Bust, Urges Government to Recapitalize…

Naked Capitalism, 19 hours ago

This post first appeared on March 24, 2008 The comments in the Financial Times by Yoshimi Watanabe, Japan’s financial services minister, are extraordinary. He ventured to give the US advice on its credit crunch based on…Read

Topics: bankruptcy, bubble, bust, collapse, credit crunch, crisis, foreclosure, japan, long, mortgage, nafta, resolution trust corporation, writedowns

Summer Rerun: Self-Inflicted Wounds and Mutual Assured Destruction

Naked Capitalism, 3 days ago

This post first appeared on March 11, 2008 Oooh, the week has barely started and we’ve already had an overdose of adrenaline-generating news. Thornburg Mortgage and Carlyle Capital, both twisting in the wind, battered by…Read

Topics: bankruptcy, call, crisis, fannie, freddie, investment bank, long term capital management, mark to market, mortgage, private equity, put, subprime, writedowns

Jobs Data–Often Anti-Climactic

Credit Writedowns, 4 days ago

HighlightsThe US dollar is mixed in quiet trading ahead of the US jobs report. With some risk-taking is returning to the markets on the back of data this week suggesting that the pace of the slowdown may be moderating and this…Read

Stocks: ADP Topics: barack obama, ben bernanke, canadian dollar, currency, euro, federal open market committee, forex, ism, nonfarm, nonfarm payroll, payroll, pmi, put, twitter, unemployment, writedowns

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Economist's View, 4 days ago

Comparing the High-Income Tax Cuts and the Social Security Shortfall - CBPP Texas A&M System Will Rate Professors Based on Their Bottom-Line Value - The Chronicle of…Read

Topics: ben bernanke, bubble, collapse, crisis, green, housing bubble, inflation, unemployment, writedowns

Political Risk Rises In Romania, Stay Short RON

Credit Writedowns, 4 days ago

By Win Thin, Senior Currency Strategist, BBHDevelopments in Romania today support our recent bearish call on the leu. EUR/RON has risen after we went long Aug 30 around 4.24. We still target the record high 4.40 from June and…Read

Topics: call, currency, euro, forex, japan, long, put, risk averse, short, twitter, writedowns

Little News from US Jobs and Trichet, Dollar Softens

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

The two key events of the day are passing with little fanfare. The weekly initial jobless claims in the US slipped and sufficiently so as to bring down the 4-week moving average for the first time in a little over a month, but…Read

Topics: euro, european central bank, forex, inflation, japan, long, twitter, writedowns

Waiting for Trichet

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

BBH CurrencyViewHighlightsThe US dollar is mostly softer, though within yesterday’s ranges as market participants await the ECB’s press conference and US economic data. Sterling is under-performing perhaps being impacted by the…Read

Stocks: BBH BBK Topics: brazil, buy, emerging markets, euro, european central bank, forex, inflation, long, pmi, telecom, twitter, upgrade, uptick rule, writedowns

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Economist's View, 5 days ago

What Kind of Model Is Brian Riedl Using? - Econbrowser 16.6 million small business employees could benefit from ACA this year -…Read

Stocks: FRB Topics: bubble, china, depression, ism, recession, writedowns

One Swallow Doesn’t Make A Summer, But…

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

by Edward HughWell, as we all well know one swallow doesn’t make a summer, and one data point doesn’t swing an argument one way or another, but the latest retail sales PMI reading for Germany is far from being either…Read

Topics: crisis, euro, long, pmi, sentiment, twitter, writedowns

Not Content With France, Now It’s Poland Too!

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

by Edward HughNot only is the French economy the grateful recipient and beneficiary of sustained German export growth, so too is Poland (I’m sure they’ll be glad to hear that in Warsaw!). According to the FTs Jan Cienski:German…Read

Topics: buy, china, long, twitter, writedowns

Wolfgang Munchau Has It (More or Less) Right

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

by Edward HughWell, having just posted a lengthy study of the German economy on this blog, I started to lazily browse my way around today’s economic news headlines, and Lo & Behold, what did I find over at the FT, a contrarian…Read

Topics: contrarian, crisis, euro, forex, long, recession, short, twitter, writedowns

The Odd Couple

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

by Edward HughThe modern world moves at a breathtaking pace, even when most of us find ourselves on holiday. No sooner do we receive, read and start to digest one set of economic data than we find ourselves pushed to think about…Read

Stocks: KO Topics: china, credit crunch, crisis, currency, deflation, downgrade, emerging markets, euro, european central bank, forex, inflation, japan, long, pmi, put, recession, twitter, undervalued, writedowns

Spain’s Unemployment Continues To Rise

Credit Writedowns, 5 days ago

by Edward HughSpain’s EU harmonised seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate (which is the interesting number) went up again in July, according to the latest data from Eurostat. It rose to 20.3% from 20.2% in June.So despite a…Read

Topics: twitter, unemployment, writedowns

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