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nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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“What a good country or a good squirrel
should be doing is stashing away nuts for the...
winter. The United States is not only not saving nuts, it’s eating the ones left over from the last winter.” WILLIAM H. GROSS
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Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government
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federalreserve.gov - 22 days ago
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Release Date: November 4, 2009 For immediate release
Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met...
in September suggests that economic activity has continued to pick up. Conditions in financial markets were roughly unchanged, on ...
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November 4, 2009
timesonline.co.uk - 18 days ago
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Number 85 Broad Street, a dull, rust-coloured office
block in lower Manhattan, doesn t look like a...
place to stop and stare, and that s just the way the people who work there like it. The men and women who arrive in the watery dawn sunshine, dressed ...
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I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs
youtube.com - 13 days ago
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China's economy is continuing to grow despite the
global recession, helped by a massive government stimulus package...
of $585bn.But doubts remain whether such ...
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China's empty city - 10 Nov 09 (video)
pimco.com - 7 days ago
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I'm not so much concerned about the return
on my money as the return of my money....
- Will Rogers, 1933 Toothpicked, straw-hatted Will Rogers was a journalists’ dream, combining common sense with a sense of humor that could trump any ...
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Dec Gross Anything but 01
online.wsj.com - 23 days ago
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Jesse Neider for the Wall Street Journal Yale
economist John Geanakoplos has seen his previously obscure theory...
about collateral's role in the credit bubble gain currency after it burst.
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Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm
interfluidity.com - 22 days ago
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It worked! Officials pointed to a lot of
good news in terms of visible cash flows associated...
with TARP and the various assistance programs. They claimed that since the Obama administration has taken office, more money has come back than has been put ...
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Sympathy for the Treasury
washingtonpost.com - 13 days ago
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Banks should be allowed to expand
ft.com - 25 days ago
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Since March there has been a massive rally
in all sorts of risky assets – equities, oil,...
energy and commodity prices – a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade credit spreads, and an even bigger rally in emerging market asset classes (their stocks, ...
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Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust
online.wsj.com - 19 days ago
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MARK SPITZNAGEL Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by
economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis...
in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today. Mises's ideas on business cycles were spelled out in his 1912 tome "Theorie des Geldes ...
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Mark Spitznagel: The Man Who Predicted the Depression
ft.com - 17 days ago
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T here is increasing concern that we may
be experiencing another round of asset-price bubbles that could...
pose great danger to the economy. Does this danger provide a case for the US Federal Reserve to exit from its zero-interest-rate policy sooner ...
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Not all bubbles present a risk to the economy
guardian.co.uk - 17 days ago
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Exclusive: Watchdog's estimates of reserves inflated says top
official The world is much closer to running out...
of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately ...
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Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says ...
econbrowser.com - 16 days ago
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Last April I described new research on the
role of oil prices in the recent recession. Here's...
an update on what's happened since then. In a paper presented at the Brookings Institution last spring , I examined the post-sample forecasting ...
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Will rising oil prices derail the recovery?
blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 6 days ago
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If you own any shares in alternative energy
companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy...
behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke ...
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Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ...
pimco.com - 30 days ago
online.wsj.com - 26 days ago
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Federal bank regulators issued guidelines allowing banks to
keep loans on their books as "performing" even if...
the value of the underlying properties have fallen below the loan amount. The volume of troubled commercial real-estate loans is ...
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Banks Get New Rules on Property
telegraph.co.uk - 25 days ago
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Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal
crisis. For 20 years the world's secondlargest economy has...
been able to borrow cheaply from a captive bond market feeding its addiction to Keynesian deficit spending - and allowing it to push ...
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It is Japan we should be worrying about not America
nakedcapitalism.com - 23 days ago
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The Treasury invited a small group of bloggers
for a “discussion” with senior officials on Monday. Initially,...
the meeting was to be background, which is a sort of journalistic “FYI but you can’t use it” but we were told ...
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Curious Meeting at Treasury Department
cohort11.americanobserver.net - 10 days ago
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 6 days ago
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What I think lies behind the surprising deficit
squeamishness of the Obama administration, and why it's wrong-headed....
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Interest rates: the phantom menace
