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The Credit Writedowns Interview with President Bill Clinton: Report on a blogger meeting with former President Bill Clinton and what his views say about the agenda for Democrats and the Obama Administration. Hugh Hendry interview on…

by Edward Hugh According to Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero speaking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last Tuesday the European sovereign debt crisis is over. "I believe that the debt crisis affecting…

by John Lounsbury David Rosenberg, chief economist at Toronto's Gluskin Sheff, says at least two more years to a top with rates significantly lower than today.  Here is Rosenberg's graph: From today's "Breakfast With…

This morning, BBH's Marc Chandler noted: In today’s European trading session, Ireland sold €100 of bills with an average yield of 2.23% with a maturity set for April 18, 2011. On the whole, Ireland auctioned €400M of bills, less than…

The following is an excerpt of David Rosenberg's Monday Breakfast with Dave missive. INVESTMENT STRATEGY IN A DEFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENT Focus on safe yield: High-quality corporates (non-cyclical, high cash reserves, minimal refinancing…

Topic of the Day: Bonds After a huge rally in Treasurys earlier this year, the risk/reward has become unappealing despite the safe haven status. Corporate bonds are benefitting from the risk on trade. Both areas have risks.

This chart comes via David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff. Rosenberg tops it off with this commentary: While we are “underweight” equities as an asset class, we aren’t exactly zero-weight. There are always things to buy and S.I.R.P. does…

by Annaly Capital Management A quick follow up to our recent post on the Great Bond Bubble Debate , which was kicked off by an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jeremy Siegel and Jeremy Schwartz. The seductiveness of the Jeremys’…

Frederick Sheehan is the author of Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is defaulting; Half Moon Bay, California, is…

Norway's government pension funds is the second largest sovereign wealth funds in the world with around $450 bln under management. Abu Dhabi is thought to have the largest sovereign wealth fund. The finance minister indicated that it has…