globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 11/13/2008
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Kenneth Clarke, the former Chancellor warns Britain is on the brink of 'meltdown' Mr Clarke, 68, said the British economy is headed for a "catastrophic crisis" that will be "far worse than anything that has occurred in my lifetime". "There will be a very serious recession next year," he said in ...
ft.com - 11/18/2008
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Would you believe that we shall actually have
significant deflation in the US next year? And the...
year after that? And flat consumer prices for the year following? That's happened only once in a developed country since the 1930s - when Japan recorded a ...
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com - 11/12/2008
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globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com —
As one might expect in a credit crunch,
default risk is rising. One measure of that risk...
is corporate bond yields. Let's take a look and see how various grades of bonds are performing. Click on any chart in this series to see a sharper image. ...
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Industrial Bond Yields Strongly Support Deflation Thesis
blogs.ft.com - 11/17/2008
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blogs.ft.com —
In an earlier post to this blog, I
raised the possibility that the UK might face a...
triple financial crisis: a combined banking crisis, sovereign debt crisis and sterling crisis. Let me be clearer than I was before about what I mean by a financial ...
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Could the UK face a sterling crisis, or are we in one ...
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... shares many common features with iceland but on a larger absolute and smaller relative scale. indeed, the collapse of iceland fed directly into their difficulties, as many britons -- corporately and individually -- played the carry trade by depositing funds in now-failed icelandic banks. in recent days, however, symbiosis has given way to a level of imitation as the pound has collapsed precipitously and the economy tanks with frightening speed. now mish passes on the bleak assessment of former tory chancellor ken clarke -- the UK is on the ...
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