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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). Problems of state and municipal finance worsen. Governors announce new…

The Aleph Blog – The Rules, Part VI The Twitter Platform's Inflection Point – A VC News N Economics: Reducing household financial leverage: the easy way and the hard way Europe Economy Unexpectedly Stalled in Fourth Quarter –…

'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…

Last week the federal Reserve released its quarterly flow of funds data. I have been unusually slow to parse the numbers. But I did do a very comprehensive sweep of the historical data in an October 2009 post called A brief look at the…

Well, I for one can’t help thinking that it’s now well time we all stopped getting carried away with the use of so many acronyms. Not only may one man’s meat easily prove to be another’s poison, it may even be that for some the entire meal…

FT.com – Spain has the means to avoid Greece's fate FT.com – Mohamed El-Erian – How to handle the sovereign debt explosion BofA under regulatory pressure to shrink: report| Reuters Second Lien Writedowns, II « Rortybomb Discouraged…

I have taken a less optimistic view of the credit crisis’ workout phase as evidenced by recent posts like Wood: “The endgame will be a systemic government debt crisis in the western world” and The mindset will not change; a depressionary…

With the anxiety caused by the Greece situation alleviated for the time being by last week's successful auction, words of support from Germany and especially France over the weekend, and follow through gains in the Greek debt market,…

Christopher Wood is bearish on Western stocks but still bullish on emerging Asia, especially India and China. He recommends an overweight Asia – Underweight West position for international investors in large part because he believes the…

Morgan Stanley - Global Economic Forum - Debating Debtflation FT.com - Pandit blames Citi’s woes on short selling Marshall Auerback: A tale of two recoveries – Germany and Malaysia, Part II Stuck in neutral – what Japan’s rebalancing…