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Grexit

Grexit: Remaining In The Eurozone Is No Longer ‘The Base Case’ For Greece

22/04/2015(0)
According to the Wall Street Journal, Greece staying in the eurozone is no longer “the base case” for European officials, and one even told the Journal that “literally nothing ... Read More
global bank

Huge Trouble Is Percolating Just Under The Surface Of The Global Economy

16/04/2015(0)
Did you know that the number of publicly traded companies declaring bankruptcy has reached a five year high? And did you know that Chinese exports are absolutely collapsing and ... Read More
oil

OPEC Going Broke, Dumping Dollars. Is That Good Or Bad?

15/04/2015(0)
When oil prices fell out of bed last winter there was much hand-wringing over the fate of the former beneficiaries of high-priced crude. Trillions of dollars of junk bonds ... Read More
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More Scary Numbers

08/04/2015(0)
The list of things hitting cyclical peaks gets longer every day. Besides the nominal amounts (debt, derivatives, money supply) that are now at all-time highs, some “as a share ... Read More
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The Greek crisis and the clash of philosophies within the EU

07/04/2015(0)
Listening to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble and his Greek counterpart Yanis Varoufakis speaking about the recent Eurogroup agreement on Greece, one could be forgiven for thinking they were ... Read More
money

Is The Whole World Slowing Down?

06/04/2015(0)
The stats just keep getting stranger and, if you’re a policymaker or an investor, scarier. According to a (now widely publicized) McKinsey & Co study, instead of deleveraging after the ... Read More
Central Banks

The Inevitable Failure of Mechanistic Monetary Policy

03/04/2015(0)
Our current faith in central banks’ ability to “make the economy all better, all the time” is horrendously misplaced. We are living in the Cargo Cult Era of Central ... Read More
Deflation

Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth

03/04/2015(0)
When I read media discussions about deflation,” three separate meanings are often used more-or-less interchangeably. One meaning is the way that economists use the term, in which “deflation” means ... Read More
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Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?

30/03/2015(0)
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” ... Read More
traders

We’re All Hedge Funds Now, Part 2: Tech Startups and Nigerian Bonds

27/03/2015(0)
Watching formerly risk-averse investors adapt to a negative interest rate world is almost as much fun as watching Europe try to keep Greece and Germany in the same financial ... Read More
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