Tue 2009-01-06 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: US Treasuries and our Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism

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.

Tue 2008-11-25 00:00 EST

Calculated Risk: Setser: "Thrilled" with Geithner Pick for Treasury

Brad Setser, Tim Duy, and Nouriel Roubini worked for Timothy Geithner in Treasury International Affairs

Calculated Risk; Geithner Picked; Setser; thrilled; Treasury.

Thu 2008-11-13 00:00 EST

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Strange Case of Falling International Reserves Explored

``Expect to see a narrowing of the reported trade deficit from ~7% to 2% or less of GDP (now at slightly less than 5%).''

Falling International Reserves Explored; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; strange case.

Tue 2008-10-28 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: International Trade Seizing Up Due to Banking Crisis (Updated)

banking crisis; International Trade Seizing; naked capitalism; Update.

Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT

SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - West Wing: The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve - International

SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - West Wing: The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve, by Gabor Steingart; dollar losing reserve status

Druckversion; Federal Reserve; International; Shrinking Influence; Spiegel Online; West Wing.

Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT

Funds: When the dollar is not so almighty - International Herald Tribune

by J. Alex Tarquinio; Franklin Templeton Hard Currency fund; 2006-05-31

ALMIGHTY; Dollar; funds; International Herald Tribune.

Tue 2008-07-08 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs

Jesse's Café Américain: Internal Report Urges Gulf States to Rethink Their Dollar Pegs; dollar losing reserve status

dollars pegged; Internal Report Urges Gulf States; Jesse's Café Américain; rethink.

Tue 2008-04-01 00:00 EDT

SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA - International

SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA, by BusinessWeek chief economist Mike Mandel - International; "Paulson's plan only works in a fictional world where investment banks properly regulate themselves"

DOA; Druckversion; Financial Crisis; International; Paulson plans; Spiegel Online.

Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT

Mysterious discrepancies in grain prices baffle experts - International Herald Tribune

Mysterious discrepancies in grain prices baffle experts, by Diana B. Henriques, International Herald Tribune; disparities between futures, cash markets; question "whether farmers, who rely almost exclusively on the cash market, are being shortchanged by cash prices that are lower than the derivatives market says they should be."

grain prices baffle experts; International Herald Tribune; Mysterious discrepancies.

Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT

An inside look at a subprime lender's collapse - International Herald Tribune

An inside look at a subprime lender's collapse, by Vikas Bajaj; auditor KPMG condoned and enabled improper and imprudent practices at busted lender New Century Financial - International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune; looking; subprime lender's collapse.

Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT

How ghosts vote on Bear Stearns - International Herald Tribune

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."

Bear Stearns; ghost voting; International Herald Tribune.

Tue 2008-01-08 00:00 EST

Calculated Risk: Turns Out Judges Don't Like "Efficient" Servicers

CFC slapped by bankruptcy judge over recreating documents; tanta tirade on psychopathic internal processes

Calculated Risk; efficiency; judge; services; turns.

Tue 2007-12-04 00:00 EST

Hussman Funds

International Markets Show Important Divergences: Global diversification might help least when it is needed most, by William Hester

Hussman Funds.

Thu 2007-10-18 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: August International Capital Flows Turn Negative

(dollar losing reserve status)

August International Capital Flows Turn Negative; naked capitalism.

Wed 2007-08-29 00:00 EDT

Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets - Print Version - International Herald Tribune

Calls grow louder for international overview of U.S. markets, by Heather Timmons and Katrin Bennhold (International Herald Tribune); Loan crisis blamed on lax regulators

calls grow louder; internal overview; International Herald Tribune; Print version; U.S. market.

Mon 2007-07-30 00:00 EDT

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care

The Commonwealth Fund

American Health care; Comparable performance; internal updated; mirror; Wall.