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Bloomberg Television has another great set of interviews to see, this time with Larry Fink of BlackRock and Bill Gross of PIMCO. The two sat down with Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker for an exclusive conversation at an alumni event…

It’s been almost three years to the day since AIG was bailed out. And guess what? AIG still owes taxpayers $49.4 BILLION! That’s more than half the budget of the Department of Education. What was that about taxpayers getting their money…

2011/11/16 00:43 - Japan's Hidden Jobless Hits 4.69mn, Worse Than After Lehman Shock The number of Japanese that want to work but are not actively seeking employment has surpassed levels from after the global financial crisis…

Here’s more from Warren Buffett on CNBC this morning. This time he talks to Becky Quick about ‘Too Big To Fail’. CNBC host Joe Kernen takes sides with the Occupy Wall Street protesters and asks Buffett whether we can regulate them to “keep…

In this interview from late October, Professor Bill Black tells us what he would demand, if he marched with Occupy Wall St. to the New York Fed.

By Rick Bookstaber In a recent post I discuss six policies that spurred the Industrial Revolution in England – opening up immigration, weakening the guilds, investing in infrastructure, privatizing agricultural land, forcing a move to new…

What do you think: is the Fed part of the problem or part of the solution?

I had been willing to dismiss the rumours that Greece was forestalling a military coup. Others have since said the change in top brass is standard protocol for a Greek government preparing for its potential loss of power and that the…

Now that we have had a chance to digest the information from last night, there are a number of developments to report on the Greek situation which are relevant to unravelling likely scenarios going forward. Here is my synopsis of what has…

We have learned that the Defense Minister is calling for a wholesale change of military leadership. I see this as an extremely alarming development. And in conjunction with Papandreou’s move to call a referendum, it would make sense to…