July 2010

Adam Hewison at INO does a little technical analysis of the EUR/USD trends in a video at INO MarketClub. I have linked to the video below, but first a few words. Back in May, I wrote: while there is currency revulsion now at work and…

Just a reminder, I will be on BBC Radio Five Live sometime around noonish tomorrow ET. I will post the links to my BNN piece from last week later today. The topic of today is jobs. There were a number of posts in which economists and media…

From Brown Brothers Harriman's Currency Strategy Team Highlights US dollar is mostly firmer on the day vs. the majors as risk off trading seems to be on the upswing, losing ground only to CAD and EUR.  The euro made another attempt…

Topic of the day: German economic policy Tyler Cowen -.Economic View - What Germany Has Learned About Debt - NYTimes.com This Op-Ed in the New York Times echoes some themes I laid out in "Lessons We Can Learn On How Stimulus And…

By John Mauldin. I have been writing about The End Game for some time now. And writing a book of the same title. Consequently, I have been thinking a lot about how the credit crisis evolved into the sovereign debt crisis, and how it all…

Paul Krugman wrote a post today regarding MMT called "I Would Do Anything For Stimulus, But I Won’t Do That (Wonkish)." The gist of Krugman's post was to refute Modern Monetary Theory's view on money and deficits. Krugman writes:…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession  (McGraw-Hill, 2009). We wince at congressional ineptitude but in one category…

Upon first reading what I am pasting below, my thesis councillor briskly claimed that this particular piece of text represented a malignant tumor that had to be surgically removed if the patient (in this case, my master's thesis) were to…

By Annaly Capital Management There was a heavy economic data schedule in the back half of this week. On Thursday we got Industrial Production (IP) and Capacity Utilization (Cap-U) for June, along with Philly Fed Business Conditions and…

By Marshall Auerback and Edward Harrison. Marshall's view Ed has asked me to deal specifically with the issue of Ricardian equivalence, the theorem used by anti-government proponents to argue that fiscal deficits are counterproductive and…