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Kate Kelly and Jon Hilsenrath have a story on the front of the Wall Street Journal today demonstrating the real problems with the revolving door between Wall Street and the regulators.  The essence of the story is this:  new York Fed…

For a moment forget that Mark Mobius is talking his own book. He suggests in the video below that we are in the early stages of a new bull market for emerging markets. He does not suggest that it will be off to the races from the word go,…

Martin Hennecke, a frequent guest on CNBC, is recommending that investors who have fled to cash and government bonds need to rethink that strategy.  He sees inflation on the horizon and warns that western sovereign bonds will suffer as a…

This is a new, progressive economic policy blog from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute that launched on April 29th. The effort is lead by Robert Johnson, former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee. With…

Warren Buffet speaks with CNBC in the lead up to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting.  He talks a bit about stress tests and Citigroup.  When asked about Wells Fargo, he says he administers his own stress tests and that Wells passes "with…

From the London School of Economics website: Below is an audio recording of approximately 78 minutes where Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and…

This is a pretty cool video from New Scientist.  This team of modelers has come up with a way to model human mobility using data from dollar bill tracking site Where’s George? The result is a model that tracks smaller human movements,…

A discussion about Chrysler's bankruptcy plan with author Paul Ingrassia, Micheline Maynard, Senior business correspondent for the "New York Times" and John Stoll of "The Wall Street Journal"

I will be on the BBC World Service at 2PM ET talking about the Chrysler bankruptcy. First will be a television interview and then a radio interview. I will post the clips if and when they become available.

Attorney Angela Somers, Senior Counsel at Allen & Overy talks about Chrysler struggling to avoid bankruptcy.  She is an expert in bankruptcy and she is sounding a lot less upbeat about a quick and painless process than Obama.  She even…