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John Hussman has a piece out today that dissects the current economic environment in two parts. In part one, Hussman puts a spotlight on quantitative easing (QE) and why it is unlikely to have the intentioned effect on the U.S. economy. And…

In the wake of Felix Salmon's investigative reporting on how mortgage backed securities were put together with problematic loans, an increasing amount of focus has turned to the banks' liability to investors. In the video below, Josh Rosner…

by L. Randall Wray, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Research Director with the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Senior Research Scholar at The Levy Economics Institute. We have long known…

by Claus Vistesen: Hull It is not that I don't enjoy a good old bull/Teflon run as much as the next guy but just to provide some form of balance to the current QEeasy Money Hymn I almost choked on my oatmeal earlier this week when I loaded…

The following video is from the Wall Street Journal and serves as a continuation on the theme of investigating the economies of Europe's periphery. These videos are good because it puts a human face on a subject for people unfamiliar with…

...And the Coming Capital Controls A cross-post from this past Monday by Michael Hudson, President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of…

Asha Bangalore of Northern Trust writes: Recent data indicate bank credit has increased in July and August (chart 2A), while partial September data suggest another monthly gain.  This is a positive and noteworthy development, but…

FDIC Chair Sheila Bair spoke with Bloomberg News yesterday and the topic was interest rates and banks ability to withstand a higher interest rate environment. While Bair was careful to stress that this is not a "short-term…

TARP goes to the legal graveyard this Sunday. Looking back, Simon Johnson says some sort of injection into the American banking system was necessary. So, in a basic sense TARP or some Swedish equivalent would have been necessary to avoid…

Since the beginning of 2008, 291 banks and thrifts have failed in the United States. Georgia leads the way with 37. Source: Interactive Bank Failure Map – WSJ.com