Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Finally, Some Semi-Official Interest in Trade Finance Woes
final; naked capitalism; Semi-Official Interest; Trade Finance Woes.
interesting Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Calculated Risk: Real Estate and Tax Advantages
``Yes, there is a mortgage interest deduction, and a capital gains exclusion for a primary residence - but there is also a property tax for real estate. This is a tax disadvantage compared to stocks and bonds.''
Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Money Supply, Paul Krugman, and the Great Depression
Jesse's Café Américain: Money Supply, Paul Krugman, and the Great Depression; ``Fed made a significant policy error in raising the discount rate in early 1931''; ``we can imagine an outcome in which misbegotten monetary policy results in an oligopoly of corporate interests and an economy that is permanently frozen in a series of de facto monopolies based on central planning, not all that dissimilar to the experience of the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution and some countries in which a hundred or so powerful families control the government and its economy in a state of permanent corruption and malaise.''
Great Depression; Jesse's Café Américain; money supply; Paul Krugman.
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: Bankers Shake Down Congress and the G-20
(CounterPunch); ``all markets are planned, and have been ever since calendars were developed...Most market structures throughout history have been organized in a way that provides the vested interests with a free lunch. This remains the essence of post-feudal capitalism or as some have expressed it, corporativism.''
Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Essence of the "Rescue" Plan
``money is taken from the poor (via taxes, printing, and weakening of the dollar) and given to the wealthy so the wealthy supposedly will have enough money to lend back (at interest) to those who have just been robbed''
essence; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; plans; rescue.
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
James Grant - Bad Medicine
(Washington Post); ``Low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules are what plunged Wall Street into crisis. Yet it is low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules that top the list of federal fixes''
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Safe Haven | The Elusive Bottom
Safehaven | The Elusive Bottom, by Merrill-Lynch economist David A. Rosenberg; predicting lengthy recession, secular bear market dating from 2000, eventual bullish indicators include savings rate above 8%, housing supply below 8 months, household interest coverage below 10.5%; frugality is in; bullish on bonds
Tue 2008-07-15 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Sheet Sandwiches for the Old, Money Tree for the New?
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Sheet Sandwiches for the Old, Money Tree for the New? "an incredibly large amount of American assets and economic capacity will pass fairly quickly into the hands of Pig Men interests before Bush leaves office"
economic; Market; money trees; new; old; Sheet Sandwiches; watch; winter.
Sat 2008-07-12 00:00 EDT
Accrued Interest: Maybe it's another drill
..."his is the first time in my career that I truly believe U.S. Treasury bonds sold off on credit concern."
Mon 2008-06-23 00:00 EDT
The economics of nice folks
Sam Bowles argues people ofen act against self-interest for common good, economic institutions ignore or undermine intrinsic moral behavior
Tue 2008-06-17 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: So How Did Lehman Delever? A Not-Very-Pretty Possibility
pinning out two large businesses into independent entities; maintain a 45% economic interest while getting an off balance sheet treatment
Tue 2008-06-03 00:00 EDT
[ The Financial Ninja ]: Lehman Put Open Interest: Just Like Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns; Financial Ninja; just; Lehman Put Open Interest.