Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
by Chris Hedges; ``Netanyahus assumption of power in Israel sets the stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us into a war with Iran''
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
Nationalized Banks Are "Only Answer," Economist Stiglitz Says | Business | Deutsche Welle | 06.02.2009
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
``we have often been faced with counterparties with mercantilist objectives, and our responses appear not to have served us well in the long term''
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit; ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.'' Akerlof and Romer; Yves Smith
bankruptcy; big; Economic Underworld; fail; jailed; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; well connections.
Wed 2008-12-10 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: The Obama Letdown; public infrastructure investment brings vast windfall gains for well-located real estate
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Fri 2008-10-10 00:00 EDT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard; ``a wild scramble for dollars as a $10 trillion pyramid of global lending based on dollar balance sheets delevers with a vengeance'' ``China is going into recession as well. This is going to catch investors off-guard'';
Mon 2008-07-14 00:00 EDT
"likely the start of a U.S. Taxpayer Bailout of China. Disgustingly it is a U.S. Taxpayer bailout of PIMCO as well." "It is a moral hazard to the highest degree, for bondholders to be made whole in this mess."
Blatant Liar; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; operations; Paulson; Rescuing Fannie; underway.
Mon 2008-06-30 00:00 EDT
"We are in this mess because consumers and the government were both spending more money than they have, year in and year out, racking up debts well beyond their ability to finance them."
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; Shiller's Keynesian Claptrap.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
Fed Risk: Interview with Dick Alford; Institutional Risk Analytics; former fed economist Richard Alford argues Fed misread inflation for deflation, Fed fighting the wrong battles; "US population is not ready to hear that their real levels of income, assets prices and other indicia of national well being may be falling or relatively stagnant for the foreseeable future."
Fed Risks; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; Richard Alford.
Thu 2008-03-13 00:00 EDT
generating analytical catalog records from well-structured digital texts, by David Mimno, Alison Jones, Gregory Crane (2005); named-entity extraction
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"
Mon 2007-11-05 00:00 EST
Road to Ruin: Credit Bubble Bulletin, by Doug Noland; "subprime and the SIVs were peanuts in comparison to the CDO market. Well, the CDO marketplace is chump change compared to Credit Default Swaps and other over-the-counter (OTC) Credit derivatives that...have never been tested in a Credit or economic downturn"; CDS debacle looming
