Poll: Can China avoid a hard landing?
There are a lot of different opinions on this one. What's yours?
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Foreign Press: Hungary deficit miss, German recession, ECB’s Ireland blackmail
Here are some of the foreign language links from the last two days plus some in English that are related which I want to highlight.
News Links: Why Bernanke has Failed, and Will Continue to Fail
Financial news links for 10 January 2012
PIMCO’s El-Erian: QE3 won’t produce the outcomes we want
Bloomberg wrote the following paragraphs about a recent interview with Mohamed El-Erian. What i thought was interesting was his belief that the Fed is out of bullets. Monetarists and Keynesians believe the Fed can still be effective by…
Poll: Readers believe the latest deal in Europe will not solve the debt crisis
The results are in from the poll I began a month ago. By an overwhelming majority, Credit Writedowns readers believe the crisis will continue.
The Job Guarantee, Kleptocracy and Blogging
A post about the job guarantee idea in the context of a historic economic crisis.
Everyone is talking seasonality
Here is something to flag; there has been a lot of chatter amongst economic pundits about the seasonality effect on recent data. Those with a sceptical view have been saying that the upside surprise in the Friday jobs data in particular is…
Full Text: Swiss National Bank Chairman, Philipp Hildebrand, resigns with immediate effect
The Swiss franc is moving up strongly on this news from the Swiss National Bank.
The fireworks will start with Spain or Italy
Here's what I had to say about Europe on Capital Account with Lauren Lyster on Thursday night. I'm not bullish on the real economy there (but I still expect relative share outperformance due to lower P/Es). The US is having a bit of a data…