April 2010

Intel demos software that reads your mind | Cutting Edge – CNET News FT.com – Merryn Somerset Webb: Debt debacle is not going to go away Polish President, Bank Chief in Plane Crash, Reports – Bloomberg.com East Germany's…

I would love to have gone to the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) conference in Cambridge, but the timing was wrong for me.  The effort, sponsored by George Soros, is a much needed collaboration of ideas to help prevent a…

In honour of Greece, I present you a little Greece Lightning. Let's hope this is what European policy makers are using this weekend. Why this country could be automatic It could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic Why it could be…

Marshall Auerback here with a report from King’s College, Cambridge, where some of the world’s policy makers and thought leaders are gathered to discuss a new direction for economics. Over the last thirty years, we have steadily moved from…

Fitch, the ratings agency, has decided enough is enough and has downgraded Greece to BBB-.  This is still investment grade despite obvious signs that Greece is no longer an investment grade risk.  Not only are the Greeks now…

FT.com – Kenneth Rogoff – Bubbles lurk in government debt Housing market overheating: Royal LePage – The Globe and Mail A Math Primer on Sovereign Debt – NYTimes.com Junk has outperformed quality so far this year Mark Hulbert –…

Highlights The US dollar has been softening since yesterday in the European morning.  There has been follow through in euro buying today after the year’s low was successfully tested yesterday.   However, despite…

Media reports suggest that a recent article in German daily Frankfurter Rundschau are what have triggered the latest selloffs in Greek sovereign debt (See the Telegraph's account here; hat tip Swedish Lex). This article leaked portions of a…

Former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince made what could be considered the most infamous statement of this credit crisis when he said: "as long as the music is playing, you've got to get up and dance. We're still dancing." -Citi…

Remember absurd books like Dow 30,000 or Dow 36,000 or the eponymous Dow 40,000? In 2008, I labelled them "Five Books not to buy." Well somebody must be buying them because Dow 40,000 is implicitly what pension funds are expecting…