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Published 10/28/2008 at BusinessWeek.com -- Finance
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nakedshorts.typepad.com 10/28/2008 — The last, and perhaps the biggest, bubble of them all: the yield on the long bond since 1980, annotated by, and stolen without permission from, Alchemy of Trading . Disclosure : NakedShorts, who is most-times early, which is indistinguishable ...
nakedshorts.typepad.com 10/28/2008 — The last, and perhaps the biggest, bubble of them all: the yield on the long bond since 1980, annotated by, and stolen without permission from, Alchemy of Trading . Disclosure : NakedShorts, who is most-times early, which is indistinguishable ...
Oh No.... (Foreign Debt Bought by The Fed)
market-ticker.denninger.net 10/28/2008 — And so it begins... and ends ... "Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Korea Development Bank was approved by the Federal Reserve to sell as much as $830 million of commercial paper to the U.S. central bank." That's right - our Federal ...
market-ticker.denninger.net 10/28/2008 — And so it begins... and ends ... "Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Korea Development Bank was approved by the Federal Reserve to sell as much as $830 million of commercial paper to the U.S. central bank." That's right - our Federal ...
U.S. Commercial Paper Rates Rise as Fed Starts Buying the Debt
bloomberg.com 10/27/2008 — Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Yields on commercial paper rose as the Federal Reserve began buying the debt directly from companies, showing the central bank's efforts to unfreeze short- term credit markets have yet to take hold. Rates on the highest-ranked ...
bloomberg.com 10/27/2008 — Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Yields on commercial paper rose as the Federal Reserve began buying the debt directly from companies, showing the central bank's efforts to unfreeze short- term credit markets have yet to take hold. Rates on the highest-ranked ...
The Lame-Duck Stimulus
robertreich.blogspot.com 10/28/2008 — When even the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board says Congress should pass a stimulus package we know we're in trouble. The last stimulus of tax rebates stimulated lots of people to pay off some of their debts, which hardly stimulated the economy ...
robertreich.blogspot.com 10/28/2008 — When even the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board says Congress should pass a stimulus package we know we're in trouble. The last stimulus of tax rebates stimulated lots of people to pay off some of their debts, which hardly stimulated the economy ...
Should We Be Scared of Deflation? — The Big Money 10/29/2008
The Federal Reserve today dropped the benchmark fed funds rate to 1 percent, a nearly unprecedented move. While the Fed has flirted with low rates before and even dropped the rate to 1 percent between June 2003 and June 2004, that was when the ...
The Federal Reserve today dropped the benchmark fed funds rate to 1 percent, a nearly unprecedented move. While the Fed has flirted with low rates before and even dropped the rate to 1 percent between June 2003 and June 2004, that was when the ...
Who Needs Some Dramamine? — BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily 10/29/2008
I’m getting dizzy. Not more than 20 minutes ago, all of the major averages appeared to be on one of their patented end of the day tears, all of them up more than 3%. Then in the final few minutes, the entire rally evaporated. The Dow Jones ...
I’m getting dizzy. Not more than 20 minutes ago, all of the major averages appeared to be on one of their patented end of the day tears, all of them up more than 3%. Then in the final few minutes, the entire rally evaporated. The Dow Jones ...
Rate-Cut Limbo—How Low Can You Go? — The Big Money 10/30/2008
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday surprised few with its half-point interest rate cut, sending the benchmark federal funds rate to a measly 1 percent, its lowest in five years. The move surprised few, and yet the business press is still divided this ...
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Chief financial officers: In the eye of the storm — The Economist: Full print edition 10/30/2008
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