currencies

Edward Hugh here. This is a first post at Credit Writedowns, one which was originally published at A Fistful of Euros. Expect to see more content from me here in future. The post title is the conclusion drawn - rather surprisingly - not by…

Marshall Auerback here again.  A lot of good questions surrounding my piece on the euro. Many of them seem to revolve around the issues of why the euro gets weaker when national governments deficit spend, and the issue of whether my…

My favorite economic entertainer is back with his usual over-the-top semi-apocalyptic comments about government officials, the U.S. and more.  Here are a few choice quotes from Dr. Doom followed by the full videos of his session on…

Back in July, Ed pointed to some comments by George Soros on currencies that I felt were perceptive. Soros said: The dollar is a very weak currency except all the others. With most major currencies down significantly against the…

Marshall Auerback here with a post which I originally published at New Deal 2.0. I wrote an earlier post called Spain: Deficit Terrorism in Action to explain some of the institutional flaws at the heart of the euro zone.  This post…

In the wake of news about President Obama’s new Too Big to Fail Tax and Barry Ritholtz’s post on it, I had an in-depth conversation on the issue with a whole group of people, including Barry. Most of the group was all for the tax.  I…

From cuddly teddy bear, to growling starving bear, here is your bear market index, courtesy of FallStreet.com. Hat tip Scott.  

The well-regarded and surprisingly independent Beijing-based media outlet Caijing is no more. The site is up, but the content is frozen in time, nothing having been written since early November. Happily, Caijing editor Hu Shuli has now…

Given the fact that I have just finished writing two articles on Wien’s predictions for 2010, I thought it relevant to look back at the last three years of Wien’s surprises to just before the housing crisis.  I posted the 2009 predictions…

Byron Wien was amazingly accurate last year in his economic predictions even though his annual list is an attempt to build a non-consensus list of likely outlier events. So, I was eager to see Byron Wien's 2010 surprises, which were…