2010

Views on Ireland The Irish Economy » A Bailout Worth Considering FT Alphaville » The distorted European bailout FT Alphaville » Bailing out Ireland, bailing out banks Ireland debt crisis: European banks' exposure – Telegraph…

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) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond…

Stephen Roach argues that the U.S. is not equipped to turn the Fed's liquidity into domestic demand so the liquidity provided by quantitative easing will simply leak out abroad to form asset bubbles somewhere else. He is principally…

by Michael Hudson Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his willingness to renew the tax cuts enacted under George Bush for the super-rich ten years ago, it is time for Democrats to ask themselves how strongly they are willing to…

Highlights The US dollar is trading with a firm tone against nearly all the major currencies except the Australian dollar and the Canadian dollar as a rise in commodities and equities stoke risk appetite.  The euro continues to…

Unless the ECB takes fast and dramatic action, it risks destroying the currency it is paid to manage, and allowing a political catastrophe to unfold in Europe. If mishandled, Ireland could all too easily become a sovereign version of…

Ireland: The importance of the right question | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion Marginal Revolution: Profile of Morgan Kelly Bronte Capital: China Media Express: A Wall Street drama Janet Tavakoli on the Foreclosure Crisis…

I found this video by David Fry with Janet Tavakoli as guest very enlightening. Tavakoli takes the same view that I have regarding how fraud is toxic for any banking system and must be rooted out. However, her most compelling statement had…

Since I failed to put out a weekly update last week, this week's weekly will contain the most popular posts over the last two weeks. Jeremy Grantham has ‘already started to sell’ Great 30-minute CNBC interview with Jeremy Grantham in…

The Usual Fare Stranger and stranger grows the EU's bailout fund – Telegraph Blogs Chinese acquisitions: China buys up the world | The Economist GM has orders for $60 billion in stock: sources| Reuters GM's IPO a tough sell -…