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Since I have been off for a few days I have a lot of links today, probably too many for one big linkfest but here they are. I will leave out more than usual to strip it down to the most salient ones. There's a lot on Spain and India in…

Unfortunately I don't have the time to do a proper daily commentary. But here are the links.

The news flow today is about the same as it has been throughout the week: JPMorgan Chase and Facebook in the US and Greece and to a lesser degree now Spain in the EU. I think these are the wrong narratives to be focused on. As I wrote…

Not a lot to say today but I do have a lot of links. The stories today are all the same, which is why I don't have a lot to add. One story to note is that the German government is now borrowing 2-year money at zero percent. This tells…

I like write about what will happen and what policy makers will do rather than about what should happen and what policy makers should do. But Yanis Varoufakis's post on the Grexit below tells you that Greece's leaving would be catastrophic,…

In the links today are a lot of links in both English and Spanish about the bailout of Spain's fourth largest bank Bankia. With the partial nationalisation, Spain is moving one step closer to Ireland in committing the sovereign government…

There has been a lot of back and forth by academic economists on monetary policy. The reason is two-fold. First, during the so-called Great Moderation many economists increasingly looked to monetary over fiscal policy for countercyclical…

The set up for having temporary tax and stimulus measures expire risks a new recession and such a downturn would be ugly, especially given the elevated level of US S&P earnings expectations and the relative P/E ratio of the US market

Samsung and Apple produced record profits this past quarter. meanwhile companies like Motorola, Nokia, HTC, and RIM are all losing money. It seems like a winner takes all paradigm is shaping up in the mobile space. But going forward, I…

I forgot to add the links to today's daily commentary. Here they are.