Tue 2008-08-05 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Deleveraging Risk High And Growing At Lehman
Deleveraging Risk High; growing; Lehman; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
high Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
John McCain can't stand sucking up to the Christian right. Is this the end of the GOP's unholy alliance?
by Matt Taibbi; "The Bible-thumpers...would seem to have had little in common with the archpriests of the neoconservative movement...But they did: They shared an almost equal disdain for democracy, free speech and learning, and paradise for both groups was an intellectually mute America of vast malls, prisons packed full of ungrateful blacks, shitty TV programming to keep the brains chilled and 200-foot-high electrified fences along the Rio Grande."
Christian Right; ending; GOP's unholy alliance; John McCain; stand sucking.
Wed 2008-07-23 00:00 EDT
Calculated Risk: Housing: More Cracks in the High End
Wed 2008-07-23 00:00 EDT
Calculated Risk: Housing: Cracks in the High End
Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: "Eight hundred years of financial folly"
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 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT
The REAL reasons for high gas prices | The Economic Populist
oil bubble attributed to fundamentals, falling dollar, Iraqi war
Tue 2008-06-03 00:00 EDT
[ The Financial Ninja ]: Really Scary Fed Charts: MAY, False Alarm?
"ed has basically traded in high quality instruments, US treasuries, for low quality instruments that the market doesn't want at all"
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Wolf: Free Market Capitalism Just Passed Its Peak
"Bear Stearns bailout as the high water mark of free market capitalist ideology."
Free Market Capitalism Just Passed; naked capitalism; peak; Wolf.
Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Debate Over Bear Stearns: Hussman vs. Mauldin
"this deal still stinks to high heavens...Not only were existing shareholders deprived of rights to reject the deal, JP Morgan and the bondholders should be the ones taking risk, not the Fed and not taxpayers."
Bear Stearns; Debate; Hussman; Mauldin; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Sun 2007-12-02 00:00 EST
Speech, Bernanke --Deflation-- November 21, 2002
Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here; remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, 2002-11-21; policy responses available to cure deflation; "Sustained deflation can be highly destructive...and should be strongly resisted"; Helicopter Ben orgin
Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST
Sudden Debt: CDS: Phantom Menace
CDS notional amounts increased from 26 to 46 trillion in last year; "far more CDSs are written relative to the amounts outstanding in individual bonds and thus credit events will infect and destroy much more speculative capital"; "generate highly volatile equity exposure with minimal or even zero margin requirements"
Thu 2001-11-15 00:00 EST
Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO FUND HIGH RISK, HIGH PAYOFF PROJECTS