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While California has been the poster boy for state budgetary woes, Illinois has moved into the top spot as the US state most likely to default on its debt. To avoid default more cuts are going to be necessary. See recent posts by me and…

PIMCO is out with its secular outlook for the UK. PIMCO Portfolio Manager and EVP Michael Amey comments on growth and inflation and their effect on UK assets in the new normal of deleveraging, greater regulation and de-globalisation. …

Muni investors are acting as if there is no default risk in the municipal bond market based on yields.  It's a bit like the conditions in the eurozone before the sovereign debt crisis. The Wall Street Journal reports: Investors are…

John is one of the ten most followed writers at Seeking Alpha and a Senior Contributor at TheStreet.com and Real Money. Last week I tried to bracket the cost exposure for BP as a result of the Deepwater Horizon well head blowout and…

Below is a partial list of April FDIC enforcement decisions and orders. I have only included cease-and-desist orders, prompt corrective action notices and termination of insurance orders as these are the signs of banking system distress.

Mohamed El-Erian, the CEO of PIMCO, the world's largest bond fund, says the new normal for industrial countries is low growth, re-regulation and deleveraging.

Fiscal austerity is coming to America in due course. The result will be an economic slowdown. It is then we will learn if the bailouts have actually worked.

You saw my Stat of the Day: California now in top ten for highest government default probabilities in the world. Here's a look at those CDS spreads for California over time - Michigan and Illinois are in the mix here too.

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Just when you thought the EU had things under control with their $1 trillion shock and awe rescue package, the first signs of doubt appear.  The doubting Thomas is none other than Swiss-born Deutsche Bank head Josef Ackermann who…