http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aeTzfvEedKpQ "Two years after the credit markets began to seize up, costing the worldâs...
There's generally two types of financial sector executives, those that actively seek sketchy ways of making money and those that carefully...
Okay, so the guy worked at Goldman for a while. We've all done things we aren't entirely proud of, but he was from the fixed income and currency...
Did you even read the article? It clearly states that Cassano had all but a couple million dollars of his vast fortune invested in AIG. Cassano...
It's trickle-down economics, man. Just wait for the credit to seap through the economy to the consumer in the form of higher debt-loads. Then they...
Purchase a floating rate bond with the same duration? Enter a floating-for-fixed swap (don't know how to actually go about doing this for...
You mean less separation? All of the commercial banks in Canada have i-banking divisions.
Further proof of my claim that the banking sector needs to be far more stringently regulated (due to agency costs and negative externalities) or...
Exactly. The monetary wealth has dissapeared (which represents control over things). In its place is debt. The thing has switched ownership and...
1) Every day we see news reports that countries are considering moving away from the dollar in trade as well as holding US dollars in reserve....
You speak of idealism, and yet you dogmatically propose that printing an "unimaginable" amount of money is somehow pragmatic. Let's break down...
Why does Krugman never even consider the precepitous position of the US dollar, nor the magnamious stature of the US debt and the imminent default...
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You're ignoring the possibility that the government had the correct idea in that the opportunity cost of no stimulus was a collapsed financial...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31706523 Nassim Taleb, author of the Black Swan, has similar thoughts as me apparently. ---- Anything that's...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31705608 "U.S. employers cut 467,000 jobs in June, far more than expected, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.5...
I am talking about inflation over and above the 8% being dormant, I understand the government messes with the CPI.
I've been posting this message for months now on this board, no one really listens. The fact is that arguments of both proponents and...
Doesn't show real inflation... and since it's just a combination of a straight bond and a future contract, there's probably some premium involved...
Some Muni's are attached to specific projects or clauses and therefore carry higher risk than simple default risk by the way.
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