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Frederick J. Sheehan is the author of "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond Market"(Aucontrarian.com, 2009) On January 7, 2011, Kelly Evans of the Wall Street Journal interviewed former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan…

Marc, you have been very quiet. What are you worrying about? Faber: Have you got an hour? You are all wrong. You say you would do this or that if you were policymakers, but nobody says "I wouldn't do a thing. I would let the market…

This is what the biggest mall in the world looks like on a typical Saturday, very reminiscent of this Hugh Hendry video of China's empty skyscrapers and this video of China's empty city.

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) and "The Coming Collapse of the Municipal Bond…

I will be on RT TV America at 4PM ET talking about the economy for readers in North America. Tune in! The usual Fare Analyst in $100m property bet with Wall St guru | News | Business Spectator Keith Olbermann SUSPENDED From MSNBC…

In a famous "Saturday Night Live" skit, Christopher Walken plays a legendary rock music impresario whose advice, his only advice, to a young band is "more cowbell." The actor Will Ferrell furiously pounds away on a…

Andy Lees of UBS writes that quantitative easing is having the (designed) effect of diluting and transferring US debt elsewhere. It is already a success. In a morning note he tells us: Yesterday Saudi shifted its oil price target…

There seem to be some weak and also some fairly good correlations between foreclosures and unemployment. However, there are likely be housing bubble factors as well.

Bob Janjuah, co-head of cross-asset allocation strategy at Nomura International Plc, discusses the outlook for the global economy. Janjuah, speaking with Erik Schatzker on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also talks about…

From From Jeremy Grantham's latest quarterly letter: If I were a benevolent dictator, I would strip the Fed of its obligation to worry about the economy and ask it to limit its meddling to attempting to manage inflation.  Better…