Topic of the Day: Britain’s Austerity Budget
- What I didn’t say on the BBC | Credit Writedowns
- It Is Not Just John Maynard Keynes, It Is Milton Friedman Who Is Being Thrown Over the Side – Grasping Reality with Both Hands
- FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf – A spending review for a diminished country
- FT.com / UK / Politics & policy – Defence review ends Iraq-sized ventures
- The British mess (I) « naked capitalism
- British budget cuts to include nearly 500K job losses
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More on QE
On the Fed buying Munis, I don’t see this as something they would do immediately (if only for political reasons) but it is clearly on the table as an item of discussion.
- Why most economists are not hopeful about "quantitative easing," the Fed’s latest idea to help the economy. – By Annie Lowrey – Slate Magazine
- Econbrowser: Arguments against QE2
- Blanchflower: The Fed Should Buy Munis And Monetize State Debt | Credit Writedowns
- QE Muni Buying – A Game Changer? | Pragmatic Capitalism
The Foreclosure Crisis
- Economist’s View: "Fairly Populist Notions of Land Ownership"
- Regulator for Fannie Set to Get Litigious – WSJ.com
- NY to hold lawyers accountable on foreclosures – Yahoo! Finance
- Big Legal Clash on Foreclosure is Taking Shape – NYTimes.com
Currency Wars
- FT.com / Comment / Opinion – America cannot win the currency wars alone
- FT.com – The strength of the euro is no accident
- Feasible global rebalancing: A case for monitored and temporary dual exchange rates | vox
- Guest post: capital controls cannot stabilise emerging economies | beyondbrics | FT.com
The Usual Fare
Note this first article suggests that the technical recovery may have legs.
- Black Friday Projected to Have an Unprecedented Number of Shoppers – StyleList
- Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today
- Tijuana officials begin burning 134 tons of marijuana seized in record pot bust | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times
- ULI Panel Offers Inside Look at FDIC’s Distressed-Asset Deals – Distressed Assets, Land Acquisition, Lenders – Builder Magazine
- FRB: FAQs: Currency: Notes and Coins
- Here’s Why It Was Ridiculous When David Rosenberg Used The ECRI To Predict A Double Dip
- Washington Post Tells Journalists Not To Engage on Twitter
- FT.com – US plans $60bn arms sale to Saudis
- In These Health Care Markets, Antitrust Action Is Almost Inevitable | Capital Gains and Games
- Environmental Economics: Calling Ritholtz "some blogger" is like calling Mankiw "some economist"
- ¿Quién custodia el mundo? – Las Perlas de Kike Vázquez – Cotizalia.com
- FT Alphaville » Spain’s first town to (officially) suspend payments
- Emerging Europe—Lessons from the Boom-Bust Cycle « iMFdirect – The IMF Blog
- Berlin’s Quest for Tough Euro Zone Rules Has ‘Failed Spectacularly’ – SPIEGEL ONLINE
- Dan Ariely » When Firefighters Don’t Fight «
- Pelosi’s Favorable Rating as Speaker Drops to 29%, a New Low
- FDIC and Federal Reserve System to Host Symposium on Mortgages and the Future of Housing Finance – FDIC: Press Releases – PR-230-2010 10/20/2010
- Regulators to recommend abolishing mandatory ratings| Reuters
- Mortgage lending drops to 10 year low – Telegraph
- From the archive, 20 October 1970: BP finds big oilfield in the North Sea | From the Guardian | The Guardian
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