Credit Writedowns

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The week in review at Credit Writedowns: 2010-04-11

By Edward Harrison on 11 April 2010

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

Galbraith, Stiglitz and Soros on resisting the inevitability of the Greek debt crisis

Fitch downgrades Greece to BBB- with a negative outlook

Greece is the time, is the place, is the motion

Greece And The Potential Upside In An IMF Rescue

BBH CurrencyView: Greece Returns With Vengeance

Most Read

The hidden tax of zero rates on consumers

Are munis the next shoe to drop?

Throwing in the towel on policy makers

Inexact but telling comparisons to the Great Depression

A few thoughts on the difference between blogs and news

Bringing back the Scylla and Charybdis flation meme

Which media companies will have a hard time adapting?

US Pension Funds are implicitly betting on Dow 40,000

Three potential explanations for the continued fall in US savings rate

Why the fall in the savings rate is not meaningless

When the Facts Change

Lehman chief warns of more big bank failures

Links

Links: 2010-04-11 Peak oil alert, soybean trade war

Links: 2010-04-10 Greek crisis, CDO shenanigans and Germany’s forgotten bunkers

Links: 2010-04-09

Links: 2010-04-08 – The Rebirth of Eliot Spitzer

Links: 2010-04-07 – more on local governments in Riga and Detroit

Links: 2010-04-06 – local governments in a world of hurt

Links: 2010-04-05 – Eventual Greek default, muni threat and the end of recession

Economic Data

So were the jobs numbers mediocre?

Jobs Data Determines Whether it is A Good Friday

A mediocre payroll number is better than a robust one

Distractions

Go Greece Lightning

Ron Paul has Barack Obama’s number

blog financial news history

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