Credit Writedowns

This PBS Frontline film on foreclosures first aired in October.

Last week's most popular Bubblicious mortgage deals, Canadian version Liquidity Giveth, Liquidity Taketh – The IMF On International Capital Flows Goldman Abacus AC1 Pitchbook The politics of the Goldman fraud case…

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It’s spring, and this spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of speculation. The Fed’s promises look good and, as long as you’re not a small business, you can borrow to invest or speculate at no cost. The market has had a…

After the $1 trillion EU/ECB/IMF bailout it became clear to me that this theme of competitive currency devaluations is likely to gather steam. The Euro is now dropping. I see a weak Euro as a big political problem both within Germany and…

Earlier this week Edward mused about whether we were about to see movements in the Greek trenches as yields on 10 year bonds rose to a record 7.76 per cent at one point and closed up 26 basis points on the day. Today, as yields on 2 year…

This is a fiery take on derivatives and too-big-to-fail institutions by Randall Wray which originally appeared at New Deal 2.0. Professor Wray believes naked shorting via derivatives should be outlawed. He goes further to say that the…

The future of the Eurozone is decidedly hanging in the balance at the moment. As I said earlier in the week, the problem isn’t a simple question economics anymore: everything now is all about credibility, about who does what, and when, and…

David Rosenberg has been pretty bullish on the Canadian economy.  In the wake of recent tightening of regulations on housing in Canada, he muses about what this will mean for the Canadian housing market and the broader economy.…