2008

This post is part of my chart of the day series.

The Globe & Mail has a storyline out today that caught my eye. It suggests that Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) would find some god takeover opportunities in the US. While I dismissed a similar storyline regarding UBS in Europe from the…

According to the Daily Mail, house prices need to fall by a lot more than the 8% to date in the UK in order to make them affordable for first time home buyers. The 63% number comes from the least affordable borough, Westminster in London,…

That's what Sir Howard Davies, a former deputy governor of the Bank of England (BoE), has to say.

Inflation is clearly still a problem. The CPI for May 2008 was released by the BLS today showing consumer inflation rising at a 4.2% rate y-o-y, unadjusted for seasonal factors. This is either good news or bad news, depending on how you…

Ben Bernanke claims to be an expert student of the Great Depression and its causes. Therefore, many feel comforted that he knows what to do should in order to avert a repeat of 1929. But does he know how to prevent a repeat of the Japanese…

The Lisbon Treaty, which was to give the European Union more say over matters in EU member states received a vote of no confidence from Ireland. The result was 52% against and 48% for. Just as with the EU constitution, there is great…

No! The Fed is not crazy. Market participants are forgetting that the U.S. economy is still not out of the woods. Moreover, many financial institutions are drowning in writedowns. None of this should be expected to change anytime soon.…

Yesterday, I posted a blog entry detailing how Stephen Roach sees inflation as a concern, not because of food and oil, but because of Asian manufacturers. I find his argument compelling. Don't get me wrong, I think deflation is the…

Argentina is on the brink again. Earlier today, I wrote about doubts regarding the country's official inflation statistics. The official statistics showed 9.1% inflation when many believe inflation is running 25% and more. Now, it…