Minyanville Sun 2009-08-30 15:08 EDT

How China Will Handle the Yuan

Ryan Krueger, Lance Lewis: Something is up with China and the yuan...What if it were close to revaluing against the dollar? We know it's fed up with funding US debt, but it can't stop funding it as long as it continues to peg to the dollar and is forced to buy dollars every day in order to hold down the yuan. The US isn't even its largest export market anymore. The EU is. The US consumer is broke. Why does China need to keep exporting cheap goods to the US if the US consumer can't buy them anyway?

China; handles; Minyanville; Yuan.

naked capitalism Sun 2009-08-30 14:53 EDT

Party Time! Wall Street Back to Its Old Highly Levered Ways

Bloomberg reports that Wall Street is back to its free-wheeling, high-levered ways. This is a classic example of moral hazard in action. Why worry about blowing up the bank when you know the taxpayer will bail you out?

naked capitalism; Old Highly Levered Ways; Party time; Wall Street.

ClubOrlov Wed 2009-08-26 15:35 EDT

Bullets from the Drug War

kollapsnik

The US has lost the "War on Drugs" The losing side is usually not the one to decide when a fight is over or how it ends Unlike other recent defeats, this lost war is a defeat followed by an invasion Mexico is the natural staging area for the invasion (inconvenient though it is for the Mexicans)New franchises are being set up to service the North American drug market (which is the biggest in the world) The CIA has to eat, and all they know how to do competently is run guns and drugs and control thugs; they get a seat at the table The narcs have to eat too, and all they are trained to do is deal (with) drugs; they get a seat at the table tooAs...

bullets; ClubOrlov; Drug War.

ClubOrlov Wed 2009-08-26 15:33 EDT

Welcome to Fuffland!

kollapsnik

In the unfolding global financial collapse, it is not just our accounts and balance sheets that come up short, but our language as well. What do you call a bunch of liar loans packaged into toxic assets and placed on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve as collateral for rescue loans? J,K. Galbraith has proposed the term ``Bezzle,'' taking it to mean the eternal ebb and flow of questionable transactions within an economic cycle. Rational actors cut corners during easy times when they know no-one is looking, and then play nice again when the times change and someone starts paying attention again. But I believe that the phenomenon we are observing is something different: we need a word that describes the artifacts generated in response to irrational actors... A fuffle is an artful fake, an artifact specifically made to fool, beguile, seduce, or intimidate people into paying for it. Examples include suburbans houses and associated mortgage financing, SUVs, debt-financed college education, privately funded 401k retirement plans, US Treasury securities.

ClubOrlov; Fuffland; welcome.

The IRA Analyst Thu 2009-06-11 00:00 EDT

The Institutional Risk Analyst: Credit Default Swaps and Too Big to Fail or Unwind: Interview With Ed Kane

Credit Default Swaps and Too Big to Fail or Unwind: Interview With Ed Kane; ``The whole basis of policy making in Washington today is that the taxpayer is a sucker who does not know how to defend him or her self against this kind of regulatory gambling.''

big; Credit Default Swap; Ed Kane; fail; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; IRA Analyst; unwinds.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: The Dollar Crisis Begins - December 22, 2008

Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: The Dollar Crisis Begins, by John P. Hussman; ``foreign holders of Treasury securities are facing probable losses, and they know it''

2008; December 22; Dollar Crisis Begins; Hussman Funds; weekly market comments.

Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST

The Institutional Risk Analyst: What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco and Citigroup

What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner the AIG CDS Fiasco, by Institutional Risk Analytics (Chris Whalen)

AIG fiascos; Barack Obama needed; Citigroup; Institutional Risk Analyst; know; Tim Geithner.

Tue 2008-11-25 00:00 EST

The Institutional Risk Analyst: What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner, the AIG Fiasco and Citigroup

What Barack Obama Needs to Know About Tim Geithner the AIG CDS Fiasco, by Institutional Risk Analytics

AIG fiascos; Barack Obama needed; Citigroup; Institutional Risk Analyst; know; Tim Geithner.

Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT

The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority | The New America Foundation

The Newer Deal: The Path to a Democratic Supermajority, by Michael Lind (Salon, 2008-08-15) | The New America Foundation; ``Social conservatives, having lost the culture war, should be offered not only a truce but also an opportunity to join a broad economic campaign for a middle-class America, as many of them did between 1932 and 1968. When pro-choicers and pro-lifers unite in cheering the public investment and living wage planks at the convention of the neo-Roosevelt party, we will know that the political era that began in 1968 is truly and finally over.''

Democratic supermajority; New America Foundation; Newer Deal; path.

Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT

Debasement Of World Currency - Print Version

Debasement Of World Currency: it is inflation, but not as we know it, by Peter Warburton, 2001-04-09

Debasing; Print version; World currency.

Sun 2008-06-01 00:00 EDT

The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know?

The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know? by Mike Whitney; soaring commodity prices "hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds...trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar MBS mess", billions of Fed dollars diverted into commodities

Fed really know; Great Oil Swindle.

Sat 2008-05-17 00:00 EDT

Minyanville -

NEWS & VIEWS-Five Things You Need to Know: The Inflation Hysteria, by Kevin Depew; "Today's 'inflation' is illusory. It is the tail end of the Federal Reserve's mirage of economic production; credit creation."

Minyanville.

Mon 2007-12-10 00:00 EST

Calculated Risk: Ten things to know about the Freeze

Paulson mortgage plan facts

Calculated Risk; freeze; know; thing.

Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST

Five Things You Need to Know: Why Should You Care About LIBOR?; Risk Aversion Leads to Risk Aversion: Financial News - Yahoo!

Five Things You Need to Know: Why Should You Care About LIBOR?; Risk Aversion Leads to Risk Aversion, by Kevin Depew (minyanvill); watching LIBOR; banks hoarding cash, reluctant to lend (2007-11-16)

care; financial News; know; LIBOR; needed; risk aversion; Risk Aversion Leads; thing; Yahoo.

Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Now we know who and why

Citigroup troubles? "Bernanke has his hands full and there are simply too many crack to plug. He will fail."

know; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT

Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: August 27, 2007 - Knowing What Ain't True

"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.