Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
by The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; real short-term interest rates should consider actual inflation relative to Fed target, economic activity relative to "full employment", and short-term rate considered consistent with full employment
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Silver Price Manipulation through 'Naked Shorting'; CFTC protecting silver short interest; crony capitialism corrupting public markets
Jesse's Café Américain; Naked Short; Silver Price Manipulation.
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Fri 2008-04-18 00:00 EDT
"all central bankers are guessing, and not just on interest rate policy either...no one has consistently guessed wrong more often than the Fed and Bank of Japan"
Central Bankers Guessing; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT
How ghosts vote on Bear Stearns, by Steven M. Davidioff - International Herald Tribune; "A class of stakeholders in Bear Stearns with economic interests that differ from the shareholders' can use derivatives to ensure that their needs are met. In the process, shareholders are left holding the nearly empty bag, and regulators are left shaking their heads."
Thu 2007-12-27 00:00 EST
negative interest rates reinforce depression, benefiting only huge exporters
bank; Japan data; money matters; swoop; Time.
Wed 2007-12-19 00:00 EST
- 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]
Tue 2007-12-11 00:00 EST
by Sean Olender
avert suits; Bankers pay lip service; family; fraud; freeze; interest-rate; mortgage meltdown; prisoners; real story; scurrying.
Wed 2007-11-21 00:00 EST
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"
Tue 2007-10-02 00:00 EDT
2007-04-14; Ralph Gomory; divergence of interests between multinational firms and their home country
Fri 2007-09-28 00:00 EDT
how CDO market aggravated housing bubble; proposed CDO reforms
Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT
"Since 1999, the stock market has essentially gone nowhere in an interesting way, compared with risk-free Treasury bills." "One can go some distance in a mine field without anything blowing up it's just that the overall odds aren't good"
2007; ain't true; August 27; Hussman Funds; know; weekly market comments.
