April 2010

Second Mortgages Vex Borrowers - WSJ.com U.S. Says Regulators Feuded Over WaMu for Years - NYTimes.com Tim Duy's Fed Watch: Stuck in the Middle FT Alphaville - Tracy Alloway - Robbing Pedro to pay Paul (of Greece) … AIG,…

Highlights The US dollar is broadly mixed today.  Details of the funding facility for Greece have spurred strong gains in the euro, lifting European currencies in general.  However, the greenback is holding its own against the…

New Economic Thinking The Central Bank as “Deal of the Last Resort”? Koo, White, Soros and Akerloff videos from inaugural INET conference Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis Angela Calling Update Angela Calling Galbraith, Stiglitz and…

With so much going on at the moment and so many themes fighting to claim the main market discourse, I am in the mood for some random shots. First of all and to my continuing regret I have never actually got to thank Niels C. Jensen from…

US military warns oil output may dip causing massive shortages by 2015 | The Guardian S'okay, We're Good. America's Back – Paul Kedrosky Full Text Of EMU Statement Of Support For Greece | zero hedge Mark Hulbert – Why Timing…

Well, it seems the EU leadership have finally been able to take a decision on what to lend and what to charge (see original post here). According to initial press reports the German government has decided in principal to participate in…

In a week where the deck of cards that make up the Eurozone got its so far largest jolt and where there is now not only an imminent danger of a total economic collapse in Greece but also, much more worryingly, signs that Germany herself is…

These videos are from the Inaugural Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) conference in Cambridge. Hat Tip Mark Thoma.

Angela Merkel is a Chemist. In her doctoral thesis - entitled "Untersuchung des Mechanismus von Zerfallsreaktionen mit einfachem Bindungsbruch und Berechnung ihrer Geschwindigkeitskonstanten auf der Grundlage quantenchemischer und…

It seems Ron Paul is on to the Obama neo-liberal con game