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Fred Sheehan and the untold story of Alan Greenspan
I first featured some commentary by Fred Sheehan in November on a muni post The coming collapse of the municipal bond market. Now Fred is back and he’s on the radio, talking with Jim Puplava about Sir Alan Greenspan this time. It will…
A more in-depth description of how elites maintain status quo ante
A while back I wrote a post called A populist interpretation of the latest Boom-Bust cycle that used a passage from Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel on kleptocracy as a jumping-off point for a larger discussion…
Protectionism: China and chickens versus Canada and Buy American
This is an update on trade and protectionism because the last posts I wrote on protectionism were in December. Since then, the only two major events on the protectionist front happened last Friday. Canada and the Buy American Fiasco The…
Greece gets the green light, but will it all work?
This post was originally published at A Fistful of Euros Well, as reported over the weekend on this blog, the EU Commission did in fact demand “more sacrifices” from the Greek people, and in the end Prime Minister Papandreou had to make a…
John Mauldin: A Bubble in Search of a Pin
John Mauldin’s latest is about spotting asset bubbles and the potential government policy response. But he also has a lot to say about the latest employment situation survey and the situation in Greece with an apt comparison to the U.S. In…
Murray Hill Incorporated is running for Congress
See also Supreme Court Ruling Spurs Corporation Run for Congress First Test of “Corporate Personhood” In Politics. Watch out Chris Van Hollen. We’ve got a new ‘person’ in the hunt for Maryland’s 8th district. That’s my…
Record state unemployment insurance borrowing pressures budgets
Last week I showed you a chart from ProPublica in my post State unemployment insurance insolvency: 50 little Hoovers which demonstrated how states are being killed by the financial strains of unemployment insurance. Well, this week…
Unprecedented moral suasion from regulators on small businesses lending
Today, I received a press release from the complete list of federal government regulators of the financial industry which all but ordering banks to lend to small businesses. Clearly, regulators are concerned as comments by Marc Chandler…
Chandler: Policy makers are repeating the mistakes of the 1930s
Marc Chandler, Global Head of Currency Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman has an alarming note out this morning on economic policy. I take notice because Chandler usually writes in more nuanced and non-apocalyptic tones. For…
Unemployment number decline is all about seasonal adjustments
A lot of people are questioning the unemployment rate of 9.7% in the face of a –20,000 non-farm payroll print. How could we be losing jobs and have the unemployment rate drop? It would seem people are dropping out of the labor force.…