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Category Archives: The Weekend Read
The Weekend Read: Europe Gives Birth to the “Trichet Bond”
As explained in the Financing Offer, investors will be offered four new instruments in addition to the opportunity to participate in a debt buyback program to be established by the Greek government in consultation with the official sector. The instruments … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, European Debt Deal, Gold, Greece, Stocks, U.S. Debt Default
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The Weekend Read: Death by Debt
“WE HAVE a system of government in which everybody has to give a little bit.” So said Barack Obama at the start of this week. But parse that sentence. Does the president mean that America already has a system in … Continue reading
Posted in The Weekend Read
Tagged China, Economy, Euopean Sovereign Debt Crisis, Greece, Italy, Japan, U.S. Debt Ceilling
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The Weekend Read: Reality Meets Perception
Higher energy and food prices are crowding out consumer demand for other items, and the market consensus is that QE2 has proven to be counter-productive. Unable to concede this, Mr. Bernanke nonetheless seems determined to have it both ways, remarking … Continue reading
Posted in The Weekend Read, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple, bonds, European Debt Crisis, Gold, Greece, Stocks
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The Weekend Read: Equity Rampopotamus!
There are comments that there are underlying flaws in the ISM number and that GM’s (GM – commentary – Trade Now) sales numbers are inflated by some channel stuffing, but the market continues to act as if it doesn’t have … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, Commodities, DSK, Emerging Markets, Gold, Stocks, Tim Geithner
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The Weekend Read: Greek Week
Everything depends on computers these days: the energy supply, airplanes, trains. I’m worried that the Net will soon become a war zone, a platform for professional attacks on critical infrastructure. – Evgeny Kaspersky, anti-virus expert Bonds Munis Dithering in Wake … Continue reading
The Weekend Read: U.S. Open – Boehner v. Obama
Golf Digest estimates Mr. Obama’s handicap — perhaps generously, in the view of some golfers — at 17, meaning, theoretically, that the president would typically play 18 holes in the high 80s to low 90s. The magazine put Mr. Biden’s … Continue reading
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Tagged bonds, Commodities, Crude Oil, Golf, Obama and Boehner, Stocks, U.S. Open
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The Weekend Read: It’s Moving Day for the Administration
No President since Franklin Roosevelt has won re-election with unemployment higher than 7.2%, and Obama’s own economists in February predicted 8.6% unemployment in 2012. That number may yet be revised upward in light of recent economic headwinds, including the Japanese … Continue reading
The Weekend Read: Blue Collar Blues
For much of 2010, the slumping economy was affecting white-collar, highly educated workers almost as much as it was affecting less educated and blue-collar workers. That’s no longer the case. In recent months, the economy has once again been easier … Continue reading
Posted in The Weekend Read
Tagged China, Commodities, European Debt Crisis, Gold, Greece, Stock Market, Unemployment
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The Weekend Read: Bikini Wax Indicator
If you’re getting a bikini wax in Brazil, you’ll likely find that the cost is rising. And if you’re an economic policy maker, you’ll likely see that as a problem, since the bikini wax is one of the items the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, China, ECB, European Debt Crisis, G8, Greece, Japan, PIIGS
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The Weekend Read: Judgement Day
Five months ago, a government change in Spain’s Catalonia region revealed a budget deficit more than twice as big as previously reported. Now, a growing chorus of economists, local politicians and business leaders say that new governments are likely to … Continue reading
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Tagged Comet, Commodities, Euro, European Debt Crisis, Greece, Stock Market
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