Tag: economics
member name: Sean Paul Kelley
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July 15, 2008 09:57 PM EDT --
One thing I have never understood about Americans is their love of cars and I am from Texas--SUV country par excellence.
To me a car is like a prison sentence, once all the real costs are figured into . . .
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December 07, 2008 01:22 AM EST --
Short note: after spending much of my weekend digesting the horrific employment numbers, listening to a lot of Bloomberg podcasts and reading several of my favorite financial blogs I have come to the . . .
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July 28, 2008 02:56 AM EDT --
This is just bad, bad, bad, bad:
Banks struggling to recover from multibillion-dollar losses on real estate are curtailing loans to American businesses, depriving even healthy companies of . . .
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January 09, 2009 10:12 AM EST --
Stirling has pretty much been right about this one all along: Obama comes from the Chicago School and to the Chicago School tax cuts are everything. Here's Krugman:
But only about 60 percent . . .
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January 17, 2009 05:16 AM EST --
I love cobblers. And no, not the peach kind (although those are great too). What I'm talking about are shoe repair men. I've got a pair of sandals I've had close on a year now. And I . . .
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August 28, 2006 11:02 AM EDT --
Essay by Stephen Roach at Morgan Stanley - It's hard to imagine that a US-centric global economy wouldn't be at risk in the aftermath of a bursting of the US housing bubble. Lacking in internal . . .
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September 02, 2006 12:46 PM EDT --
Morgan Stanley - On balance, I remain constructive on the structural prognosis while I have turned more pessimistic on the cyclical outlook.
Four months ago, I dared to pen my first constructive piece . . .
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September 18, 2008 04:58 AM EDT --
Yes, dear reader, that means you. No, don't shake your head and say, "I'm insulated." You are not. Here's the story of how I was forced by circumstances beyond my control and equally . . .
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June 10, 2006 03:04 PM EDT --
Interesting report out from Stratfor about Chinese banks and NPLs. I actually had a conversation with a banker friend of mine Thursday night about this exact subject. My comments to him were: "Wasn't . . .
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August 07, 2006 01:57 PM EDT --
If you're like me and you think the boxes atop container ships, which make up most of our global trade, signify anything other than a passing interest and a means to your widget getting from the home . . .
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September 19, 2006 12:15 PM EDT --
New York Times -by Gretchen Morgenson and Jenny Anderson: Enormous losses at one of the nation's largest hedge funds resurrected worries yesterday that major bets by these secretive, unregulated investment . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:06 AM EDT --
I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot more of this:
Two weeks after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp seized IndyMac Bancorp, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said . . .
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July 04, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
Here's a question about economics I'm curious to have others opine about.
The underlying assumptions are that the Japanese have begun reducing the liquidity of the Yen. That the Chinese are facing . . .
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September 19, 2008 08:12 AM EDT --
The all wise and knowing mandarins of economic policy and free markets have now issued a new decree: thou shalt not short-sell.
In essence, by banning short-selling of almost 800 stocks our 'leaders' . . .
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September 21, 2008 09:45 AM EDT --
The text of the Bailout Act is out. And Section 8 is egregious:
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may . . .
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July 16, 2008 08:31 AM EDT --
The future doesn't happen in America any more. I can confirm it. I'm sitting on a sidewalk browsing the internet via a free municipal wireless network. There was also an extensive free network . . .
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July 16, 2008 10:30 PM EDT --
Wasn't that the refrain we kept hearing from folks just as recently as a few weeks ago? Inflation, like the housing crisis, was contained!
Guess not:
A crucial measure of inflation rose . . .
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July 29, 2008 06:09 AM EDT --
Anyone who thinks India is the next China ( Flathead, I'm looking at you) is simply insane. It's just not going to happen. What India does best is make big promises and never, ever delivers. . . .
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September 19, 2008 08:16 AM EDT --
Another question that needs to be raised is this. Hank Paulson, our Treasury Secretary, used to be the head of Goldman Sachs, one of the companies being hit the hardest by short-selling. What does he personally . . .
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July 28, 2008 02:31 AM EDT --
Herein we learn that it really isn't the fault of speculators for the drastic rise in the price of oil we've witnessed lately. It's foreign governmental fuel subsidies:
The oil company . . .
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