April 2010

Vicky Ward, author of "The Devil's Casino: Friendship, Betrayal, and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers," told Bloomberg that prosecutors need to get going if we are going to get any answers regarding why Lehman…

Econbrowser: More on oil prices and the economic recovery FT.com - John Gapper - A short story of a star hedge fund The scandalous Lehman CME auction | Felix Salmon A Thin Case: Ex-RAF Terrorist to Stand Trial for 1977 Murder - SPIEGEL…

The Swedish government cuts its growth forecasts for this year and increased its spending to boost the economy, ahead of the Sept parliament elections.  The krona is gaining against the euro, but this is more a reflection on the euro's…

At the end of last month I proffered three potential explanations for the continued fall in the US savings rate.   The first explanation was that the economy was in a cyclical recovery predicated on asset price inflation and this…

In my post Koo, White, Soros and Akerloff videos from inaugural INET conference I highlighted four speeches from the recent George Soros-sponsored pow-wow. I have already written up a post based on the one by William White in "The…

Also see: Twitter Has a Plan to Make Money With Ads - NYTimes.com Library of Congress to Preserve Tweets for Eternity – Mashable Bit.ly Links Get Clicked 3.4 Billion Times A Month, New Features Coming – Tech Crunch The…

JPMorgan Chase had a blowout quarter for earnings. We're talking earnings of $3.3 billion for the quarter here.  That's up over 50% from last year's already high $2.1 billion. Does that signal an increase in lending? No. If you read…

Embedded is a report by Thomas Ferguson and Jie Chen of the Roosevelt Institute which sought to determine the likely cause of the epic Scott brown victory in Massachusetts Senate Race. Their analysis points to economics as the overriding…

Brazil reported much better than expected Feb retail sales and this is encouraging expectations of a 75 bp rate hike later this month and allowing the real to extend its winning streak for the fifth consecutive session.  The real has…

WaMu Chief Killinger Didn’t Trust Goldman Sachs, E-Mails Show - BusinessWeek German threatens legal challenge over Greek aid: report| Reuters FT Alphaville » Greece – ‘It’s not that different’ Observations: Happy or sad, emotions…