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Below is the video of Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group giving their assessment of the financial system and the overall economy. The group was on CNBC earlier this week…

Listen to Paul Krugman in the first video with Bloomberg and then listen to Dennis Gartman in the second. The two seem to be arguing the same point – that the G-8 austerity position of higher taxes and lower government spending is the wrong…

The first real warning that growth in the global economy was set to decline came in April. And since then, the signs of distress have only increased. In the US, the distress is everywhere – in the housing data, the employment figures, and…

"I have this to say to my fellow Germans in East Germany: The introduction of the social market economy offers you every chance, in fact, even a guarantee, that (the East German states of) Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,…

On Monday when I wrote Why Stimulus Is No Panacea, I mentioned that I had written two posts in the past entitled "It's the debt, stupid" (read them here and here). Just as the Clintonites of 1992 pointed to the economy as the…

A post on the latest economics debates by Claus Vistesen Steve Waldman has a very good post this week about the folly about the austerity vs non-austerity discussion which seems to be going the rounds at the moment. In fact, it you take a…

I fully support deficit spending as a means to prevent a debt deflationary spiral in a deep downturn.  However, there are limits to what stimulus can actually do. Stimulus is no panacea for an unbalanced economy. In particular, when…

A post by John Mauldin. In this issue: The Risk of Recession The Leading Indicators Are Starting to Turn Terms of Trade and US Real GDP Bernanke at the Crossroads Vancouver, Maine, and San Francisco We are…

A post by Annaly Capital Management Some recent economic data (like today’s downwardly-revised “final” reading on 1Q 2010 GDP) have suggested that the economic recovery is waning. Not surprisingly, talk of additional stimulus has started…

More on Stimulus and Austerity In The Long Run, We Are Still All Dead - Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com Stimulus, Austerity, and the Spiral of Decline - Daily Reckoning FT.com Mohamed El-Erian - Beyond the false growth vs…