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Snowbound Marshall is doing an admirable job running things while I sun myself in the Bahamas (rubbing it in, eh?). You may remember Marshall from his days as a writer for Prudent Bear. Please do comment on his posts as he will respond in…

I wanted to leave you all with a few links to interesting articles while I am away on holiday.

Yesterday was a good day in the markets, all in all. However, a number of anomalies still exist which we hope to cover in the coming days. Fist, there has bee an unprecedented rally in U.S. Treasury securities which some are calling a…

The news yesterday was pretty grim as Japanese, Chinese, Eurozone, UK and US manufacturing sectors all showed significant weakening. Combine this with an acknowledgment that we have been in recession for one year already and Meredith…

I am altering my news round-up a bit here in that we have shifted the bulk of the news stories over to the news feed, which gets updated continuously. So, I will use the round-up to highlight a few top stories. The majority of today's…

Below are links to a few posts on the web that I found particularly good. For more posts and news, see the news feed.

Politics As the time for Barack Obama to take office moves ever closer, his policy team is coming into view. Obama has appointed a slew of economic advisors including Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker. In addition, he looks to…

Today's round-up is going to principally be about the three CCC's of Countries, Citigroup and Corporates.  But I also have some tidbits on other topics as well.  So let's jump right in. Yesterday sucked. Markets fell everywhere from…

Just after the unemployment claims number was released at 830AM ET in the U.S. markets took a sudden jolt down.  U.S. stock futures cratered, European stock markets fell more and Dollar-Yen and U.S. bond markets rose.  In fact,…

Yesterday's big news came at the hearings in Washington D.C. where U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson did his best Donald Rumsfeld imitation, stonewalling Congress despite increasing anger at how the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is…