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Fitch, the ratings agency, has decided enough is enough and has downgraded Greece to BBB-.  This is still investment grade despite obvious signs that Greece is no longer an investment grade risk.  Not only are the Greeks now…

Remember absurd books like Dow 30,000 or Dow 36,000 or the eponymous Dow 40,000? In 2008, I labelled them "Five Books not to buy." Well somebody must be buying them because Dow 40,000 is implicitly what pension funds are expecting…

Rick Bookstaber certainly thinks so. He recently wrote a piece which defines the pressure points for market risk and found the municipal bond market to be a problem in need of a solution.  Rick writes: I don’t think we will see a…

'Extreme Makeover' Show Downsizes Its McMansions – WSJ.com Ahead of the Tape: How Wide the Inflation Chasm Between Fed, Investors? – WSJ.com Greek banks hit by wealthy citizens moving their money offshore – Telegraph…

In June of last year, I wrote a post called "Central banks will face a Scylla and Charybdis flation challenge for years." The crux of the piece was that we are living in a world in which debt deflation is always one downturn away,…

Office vacancy rate hits 16-year high| Reuters Demand for O.C. homes at 9-month high – Lansner on Real Estate : The Orange County Register FT.com / Columnists / Wolfgang Munchau – Greece will default, but not this year…

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Fitch downgrades Illinois ratings, may cut again | Reuters The Last Temptation of Risk – Barry Eichengreen Economic Principals – Bloggers and Journalists New Economic Perspectives: The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming! Oh…

When we look back five years from now, will we see this week as marking a turning point in the short, but far from uneventful, ten year history of Europe’s common currency? Certainly recent comments by the deputy governor of the People's…

I must say, Bill Gross is really sour on events in the United States these days. His monthly works are getting more and more populist. And it's interesting to see how he can segue from his introductory populist screed into a cogent…