Fri 2009-07-24 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Details on Banks' Victory Over Treasury in Stress Tests Emerge
bank; details; naked capitalism; Stress Tests Emerge; Treasury; victory.
Emergency Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Mon 2008-11-10 00:00 EST
America the Liberal
by John B. Judis, The New Republic; The Democratic majority: It emerged!
Mon 2008-10-27 00:00 EDT
Economist.com
Emerging markets | A taxonomy of trouble | credit crisis hits emerging markets
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Guest Commentary
The Great Consumer Crash of 2009, by James Quinn (Prudent Bear); ``the tremendous prosperity that began during the Reagan years of the early 1980s has been a false prosperity built upon easy credit''; ``We have outsourced our savings to the emerging economies, along with our manufacturing jobs.'' ``the gathering storm has arrived. It will be long, painful and destructive.''
Tue 2008-05-13 00:00 EDT
RGE - The de facto nationalization of the global financial system
by Brad Setser; perhaps "the rise in inflation in the Gulf and China and the difficulties both are facing trying to sterilize the rapid growth in the foreign assets is an indicator that there is a small risk that the US also might end up being a bit too large for the emerging world to save"
Sat 2008-04-12 00:00 EDT
Hillary's Flimsy Case : Rolling Stone
Hillary's Flimsy Case, by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone; Obama "running as a symbol of a new politics...But if it were to get out that he's not that...then he quickly morphs into a different kind of symbol, a symbol of how an essentially bankrupt political system can seamlessly repackage itself to a fed-up marketplace by making cosmetic changes, without altering its basic nature." "In American politics, always look for the worst possible scenario to emerge triumphant"
Mon 2008-01-07 00:00 EST
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: Minding the Hinges on Pandora's Box - January 7, 2008
"increasingly enthusiastic about the emerging 'dispersion' in valuations"; distinguish alpha, beta, risk free returns; alpha responsible for majority of the returns in the Strategic Growth Fund over time
2008; hinges; Hussman Funds; January 7; mind; Pandora's Box; weekly market comments.
Wed 2007-12-19 00:00 EST
LA Weekly
- Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turner - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles; "you don't see...the money process that goes on behind the scenes"; "The people in our government are so corrupt and so interested in doing favors that they cant even respond to an emergency anymore, like Katrina or like Iraq." [or credit implosion]
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Bogeymen of Financial Capitalism(The Korea Times)
Bogeymen of Financial Capitalism, by Nouriel Roubini (The Korea Times); Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF); vast pool of state-controlled funds emerging