Politics

By Win Thin, Senior Currency Strategist, BBH Developments in Romania today support our recent bearish call on the leu. EUR/RON has risen after we went long Aug 30 around 4.24. We still target the record high 4.40 from June and expect this…

Exit polls show Gillard as the winner. Here is the Taiwanese animated version of recent Australian politics. Enjoy.

By Claus Vistesen. I know this is a cheap shot, but still. Team Macro Man picks up an all time favorite over at MM and asks 20 questions (check this out for other answers) to which I have offered 20 answers., Will the 10yr Treasury…

This is me thinking out loud (on paper). Comments are appreciated. During crisis we often see economics come toe-to-toe with ideology because government becomes a more openly active player in our lives. This crisis has been no different.…

Recently Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made an unsuccessful attempt to pin blame for the Obama Administration's failed economic policies on the "professional left." Gibbs said "those people ought to be drug tested" and…

Here are two stories I found interesting. The first is on a BIS paper which says that there are no real scale economies beyond a certain point in banking. Company size is driven by the implicit taxpayer guarantees too big to fail financial…

I heard this about Bell, California on the car radio this morning. The sums involved are absolutely astronomical for a town of 37,000.  This may be an extreme case but it far from isolated. Hundreds of residents of one of the…

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Most News-worthy Links Republicans don't give a damn about the deficit | Sahil Kapur | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Paul Krugman - Redo That Voodoo - NYTimes.com Why Germany should not listen to the US | vox The Usual…

Must Read: Government and civil liberties The DISCLOSE Act: New Media, Old Politics, and the Fight for Public Data « The Scholarly Kitchen Also see Military: U.S. soldier to be charged in leak of strike video – This Just In -…