Friday 20 August 2010

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“Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is, without exception, a small variation on an established design . . . The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over and over again, often in a slightly more unstable version.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria


Commentary

Credit Bubble Bulletin

by Doug Noland | Aug 13

So Much for the Exit Strategy

The Fed exits the notion of having an exit strategy; the dollar rallies; selling returns to most global risk markets; while the global government finance Bubble intensifies.

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The Bear's Lair

by Martin Hutchinson | Aug 16

The Capital-Scarce World to Come

Leveraging up to the eyeballs and then going bankrupt is not a cost-free process.

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Featured Commentary

by Ronald Solberg | Aug 19

Euro-Zone Sovereign Defaults, Bank Solvency and Policy Rifts: a Temporary Respite

It is likely that the risk of sovereign restructurings in Europe will create a rolling, multi-year uncertainty.

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Guest Commentary

by Michael Pento | Aug 13

Why Jobs Have Gone AWOL

The government seeks to micromanage the cost of money and the rate of economic growth.

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