blog.mises.org - 12/12/2008
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Robert Murphy and Robert Higgs have said this for months, but Reuters is joining in to point out that, whoops
he credit crunch is not nearly as severe as the U.S. authorities appear to believe and public data actually suggest world credit markets are functioning remarkably well, a report ...
timesonline.co.uk - 12/19/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
There have been many methods mooted for telling
the future before the fact: water divination, the stars,...
legible tea leaves and numerology. None offers any foresight but they are no less blind than our modern soothsayers, the economic forecasters. In ...
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Number crunch
reuters.com - 12/12/2008
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reuters.com —
PARIS (Reuters) - The credit crunch is not
nearly as severe as the U.S. authorities appear to...
believe and public data actually suggest world credit markets are functioning remarkably well, a report released on Thursday says. As a result, governments ...
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Credit crunch? What credit crunch?
econbrowser.com - 12/19/2008
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econbrowser.com —
One of the debates regarding the current financial
crisis is whether in fact there is a crisis,...
or whether in fact the financial system is operating normally. I've been skeptical myself of the "times are normal view", but here is some evidence that ...
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Credit Crunch or Not
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Crisis? What Crisis?
The Austrian Economists —
... this is not a Supertramp post. As Bob Higgs and others have argued in recent weeks, the claims being made by various government officials that we are in a credit crunch/crisis don't seem to hold up to the empirical data generated by the Fed an other places. A story from Reuters this morning finally gets this argument into the broader media, based on data from the financial services consulting group Celent. (NT: Jeff Tucker) Reuters reports the head of Celent saying about US policymakers, ...
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FT.com / Credit crunch
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Is there a credit crunch?
marginalrevolution.com 10/24/2008 — Here is a good piece rebutting the Minneapolis Fed study . One point made is this: ...there is the inconvenient matter that the Federal Reserve and
the Treasury went out and did all that stuff they did in order to prevent a
massive breakdown ...
The Credit Crunch that Isn't -- Another Political Fast One
blog.mises.org 1/6/2009 — The media and the political interventionists have insisted that a huge credit crunch is going on that "proves" the failure of financial capitalism and the free market in general.
What is a work is another political "fast one" to rationalize and ...
The Credit Crunch Peaks
marketprognosticator.blogspot.com 5/10/2009 — The April 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending was released yesterday and the results show that the "credit crunch," may have peaked. Here are highlights: Forty percent of domestic respondents reported having tightened their credit ...
Credit Crunch May Produce Another Food Crisis in 2009
nakedcapitalism.com 11/11/2008 — Restricted credit and access to foreign exchange may lead farmers to cut production, worsening agricultural price pressures. From the Financial Times : The world might face a repeat of this year’s food crisis as the credit crunch encroaches on the ...
the Nowhere out of which the Credit Crunch Came
hf-implode.com 5/13/2009 — "Quebec’s provincial legislature is presently holding hearings [3] into how the manager of their civil service pension monies could have lost so much of them investing in Asset Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP). This should be of intense interest to students of the credit crunch, because it ...
Whitney says credit cards are the next credit crunch
| U.S.
reuters.com 3/10/2009 — (Reuters) - Prominent banking analyst Meredith Whitney warned that "credit cards are the next credit crunch," as contracting credit lines will lower consumer spending and hurt the U.S. economy. "Few doubt the importance of consumer spending to the ...
What does a credit crunch look like?
marginalrevolution.com 10/29/2008 — Maybe Alex is tired of this topic, if so I apologize. But Isaac Sorkin sent me notice of this : What does a global credit crunch look like when it comes down to raw numbers? A 3% quarterly decline in international banking activity. It doesn't ...
UK Consumers React to the Credit Crunch
marketwire.com 4/1/2009 — ROCKVILLE, MD--(Marketwire - March 23, 2009) - MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Mintel International's new report "Consumer Reaction to the Credit Crunch-UK," to their collection of Banking & Financial Services market reports. For more ...
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