Mon 2009-02-16 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: "Cramdown and Future Mortgage Credit Costs: Evidence and Theory"
Cramdowns; evidence; Future Mortgage Credit Costs; naked capitalism; Theory.
cost Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Mon 2008-11-03 00:00 EST
Guest Commentary
The Credit Crisis Endgame, by Paul Amery (PrudentBear); ``the cost of insuring against a US government default has risen by 25 times in little over a year''; ``Signs of strain in the US Treasury market are already there...poor bid-to-cover ratios, and long tails''; Reinhart, Rogoff "Forgotten History of Domestic Debt"
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Information Arbitrage: Back to the Future: Are Banks Getting Religion?
Pricing loans based on cost of capital
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment
Bagehot's Rule and the Cost of Being "Technically Insolvent"; "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were given open-ended government guarantees through January 2009. This open-endedness is a big mistake, because the potential costs are being as vastly understated as the pre-war estimates of the Iraq invasion."
Sat 2008-07-12 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Cost of Japan's Competitiveness: Increasing Poverty
cost; increases poverty; Japan's Competitiveness; naked capitalism.
Sun 2008-07-06 00:00 EDT
``The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society'': An Interview with Michael Hudson
"The System is Broken. We're Entering a Two Economy Society": An Interview with Michael Hudson, by Mike Whitney; democracy precedes oligarchy; reframing tax policy; fraudulent conveyance applied to minimize foreclosure; "Credit is a product that's almost free to create. Its main cost of production is the lobbying expense to buy Congressional support."
broken; Economy Society; enters; interview; Michael Hudson; Systems.
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
Slashdot | Must a CD Cost $15.99?
Wal-Mart "elling the major record labels to lower the price of CDs or risk losing retail space to DVDs and video games"
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully ``Wealth & Platform Theory''
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully "Wealth & Platform Theory"; platform companies "outsource American jobs to safe production locales like China and Thailand, who then pollute the global environment and fail to account for the negative externalities (true costs) of their production...the peculiar slash and burn notion that the US can just eat its young by outsourcing jobs to foreign polluters, while failing to invest in capex and just merrily borrowing from foreigners against its Bubble induced wealth."; 2006-12-26
economic; GaveKal's Bully; Market; Platform Theory; Rebuttal; watch; wealth; winter.
Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Mr. Minsky Moment Calls for Rate Cuts
"he best we have is palliatives. We can either take the losses, as the US has repeatedly told third world countries in similar fixes to ours, or we can go the Japan route of socializing the cost of propping up bad businesses and deals, or we can expand the money supply considerably and let inflation eat away at the value of the debt overhang." bearish UBS economist George Magnus calls for rate cuts
Sun 2007-11-25 00:00 EST
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: How Much Will The Credit Crunch Cost?
"not only...the biggest credit bubble in history, ...also he biggest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the already enormously wealthy"
Wed 2007-11-21 00:00 EST
Stabroek News
Financial Hypocrisy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz; "capital market liberalization brings instability, but not necessarily growth"; "while the current system may lead to unnecessary instability, and impose huge costs on developing countries, it serves some interests well"
Thu 2007-09-27 00:00 EDT