Fri 2009-05-08 00:00 EDT
Global Crisis `Vastly Worse' Than 1930s, Taleb Says (Update1) - Bloomberg.com; ``Gold, copper and other assets that China will like are the best investment bets as currencies including the dollar and euro face pressures''
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Overseas Private Investors Sell US Financial Assets; Foreign central banks continued to purchase Treasuries while shedding agency debt. This is largely in support of currency pegs for industrial policy and homage from client states like Saudi Arabia.
financial assets; Jesse's Café Américain; Overseas Private Investors Sell.
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: The Decline of the Dollar as the World's Reserve Currency
decline; Dollar; Jesse's Café Américain; world's reserve currency.
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Moscow Memories of 1997; Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse; currency collapse
Tue 2009-01-06 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: US Treasuries and our Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism; ``The key to recovery is the median real hourly wage, not the further expansion of credit and the perpetuation of an economic system based on an inefficient drag on economic growth by percentage-taking banks and rent-seeking elites who add little or no productive value.''; James Grant: Insight: Return-free risk
Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism; Jesse's Café Américain; Treasury.
Mon 2008-10-27 00:00 EDT
Mon 2008-10-27 00:00 EDT
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: China Admits to Currency Manipulation, Dictates Terms for Support of US Sovereign Debt
China admits; Currency Manipulation; dictate terms; Jesse's Café Américain; sovereign debt; supports.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Debasement Of World Currency: it is inflation, but not as we know it, by Peter Warburton, 2001-04-09
Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT
Econbrowser: UAE & Other Gulf Countries Urged to Switch Currency Peg from the Dollar to a Basket That Includes Oil, by Jeffrey Frankel; dollar losing reserve status
basket; Dollar; Econbrowser; Gulf Countries Urged; include oil; Switch Currency Peg; UAE.
Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff; long-run historical financial crises; major capital inflows are highly correlated with near-term debt crises; Yves: "we are in the same position as Thailand and Indonesia, circa 1996, except we have the reserve currency and nukes"
Fri 2008-06-20 00:00 EDT
Walter Bagehot Was Wrong, by James Grant - June 19, 2008 - The New York Sun; Jim Grant: structuring mortgages for central bank deposit in special liquidity facilities will result in a new cycle of currency debasement; Walter Bagehot versus Thomson Hankey on central banks, moral hazard, fairness, and ready money
