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Folks, if I can get out of here , I will.  I need the sun and that relaxation that only Mexico can provide.  So expect light posting next week.  Meanwhile, DC expects yet more snow on Monday (ha ha ha – Schadenfreude – ha…

This post was originally published at A Fistful of Euros. A new kind of battle is going on out there at the moment. In what must surely be a new twist to the old dialectic of blow against blow argument, a combination of the internet age…

The latest on Greece, according to Le Figaro in France, is that the EU will announce an agreement on support for Greece. In the article, Hermann van Rompuy stresses that Greece did not ask for 'financial aide,' whatever that means. It…

I have read a number of accounts in European newspapers. I am surprised at how many of them simply parrot the Financial Times Deutschland article about Germany bailing out Greece – a line which was later denied by the Germans.  Some…

Greek banks' short-term funding options narrow | Reuters Huge Nexus One ETF Magically Shrinks As FCC Investigates - The Consumerist Berlin will Griechenland retten - FTD.de Unforced Error at Salon : CJR Anatomy of a Euromess - Paul…

FT.com – Speculators make 8bn bet against euro Fair Game – A Financial Crisis That Just Keeps Moving – NYTimes.com John Thain As CIT Chief: Savvy Move or Big Step Down? – Deal Journal – WSJ FT.com – China sabre rattling risks…

With stocks now up significantly from March 2009 lows, a mild correction has been underway for the past two weeks.  Even if it risks becoming a major correction, we will still be well above levels just 6 months ago.  But that has…

On Fox, Fox News’s Chris Wallace Grills Fox News’s Sarah Palin - Swampland - TIME.com BBC News - UK economy 'faces crisis' warns former IMF economist Greek Ouzo crisis escalates into global margin call as confidence ebbs - Telegraph…

Does Monsters Acquisition Of Yahoo! HotJobs Matter If The Internet Is The Job Board? Is Tim Geithner Paying Attention To the Global Economy? - The Baseline Scenario Blankfeins $9 Million Bonus Is PR Genius - Deal Journal - WSJ…

Finance and Economy China to Impose Dumping Penalties on U.S. Chicken - Bloomberg.com Toyota Faces at Least 29 Lawsuits Over Acceleration - Bloomberg.com Spain’s GDP Contracts for Seventh Quarter, Bank of Spain Says -…