Thursday, 29 July 2010

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Quotable

“'The bottom line is that all those McMansions that were bought during this housing boom are going to go the way of the 1973 Lincoln Continental,’ Merrill Lynch’s David Rosenberg writes. The housing bubble was the most over-owned, overleveraged and oversupplied real-estate market ever, he says, and its unwinding will take years. The revival of consumers saving their money for retirement - rather than expecting their homes to provide the cushion - added with ‘move down’ buyers will depress real-estate prices, he says.”

Dow Jones, December 20, 2007

Commentary

Credit Bubble Bulletin

by Doug Noland | Jul 23

Trichet Challenges Inflationism

Global risk markets rally; the euro-zone gets through its bank stress test; and Trichet challenges inflationism.

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The Bear's Lair

by Martin Hutchinson | Jul 23

The Policy Mix from Hell

The U.S. economy is sharply underperforming its competitors because it has been subjected to policy choices that were poorly designed and arbitrary in their application.

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Featured Commentary

by Satyajit Das | Jul 8

Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide!

The best course of action for Greece would be to "temporarily" (that is, for the next several hundred years) opt out of the euro and unilaterally re-denominate its debt into the "new" drachma.

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Guest Commentary

by John Browne | Jul 28

America, the Odd Man Out

'Stimulating' the economy with a massive new round of government spending is a recipe for driving a recession into a depression.

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