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Sovereign Credit Risk Declines Most on Record on Debt Buybacks
- Bloomberg
- 01/21/2011 07:18 AM
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Oil Rebounds From Two-Week Low as Confidence in Recovery Grows
- Bloomberg
- 01/21/2011 06:48 AM
U.S. Stocks Advance as Corporate Earnings Beat Analyst Estimates
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- 01/21/2011 09:30 AM
Quotable
“In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.”
Hyman Minsky, 1986
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Credit Bubble Bulletin
by Doug Noland | Jan 14
Stocks have thus far been noteworthy for disregarding municipal bond problems and general financial market instability.
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by Martin Hutchinson | Jan 14
For the masses, it would be preferable to forcible budget balancing.
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by Satyajit Das | Jan 19
Europe increasingly resembles a group of mountaineers roped together. As members fall one by one, the survival of the stronger ones is increasingly threatened. Read more
Guest Commentary
by Bradley Tirpak | Jan 7
He should urge the press and pundits to include a denominator for each taxpayer every time they mention a new loan.
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