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Sovereigns, Discouraged Workers, and the markets

Posted by Andrew at 2/5/2010 11:22 PM | Add Comment

Here we go! - Inflation Fighting begins!

Posted by Andrew at 1/13/2010 10:48 AM | Add Comment

A Big Board!

Posted by Andrew at 12/26/2009 4:14 PM | Add Comment

Over 10,000 on the Dow, a year later!

Posted by Andrew at 10/15/2009 4:42 AM | Add Comment

A Special Internship Preview of the Midterm Exam!

Posted by Andrew at 9/20/2009 6:57 PM | Add Comment

Ben Says the Recession (May) be OVER!

Posted by Andrew at 9/15/2009 8:00 AM | Add Comment

Banking in the U.S. One Year Into the Financial Crisis

Posted by Andrew at 9/14/2009 5:03 AM | Add Comment

TARP Repayment and Warrants - Appropriate Return or Tough Penalty

Posted by Andrew at 5/23/2009 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Credit Card Law Changes

Posted by Andrew at 5/20/2009 8:52 AM | Add Comment

FDIC "Test" Sale of Loans

Posted by Andrew at 5/19/2009 10:48 PM | Add Comment

JPMorgan and Other Banks Want OUT!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/19/2009 9:42 PM | Add Comment

Citigroup actually IS Loaning out TARP Money!!!

Posted by Andrew at 5/13/2009 6:24 AM | Add Comment

Credit Card Debt Shoe set to Fall? Stress tests show ...

Posted by Andrew at 5/11/2009 5:38 AM | Add Comment

Banks already re-capitalizing one day later!

Posted by Andrew at 5/9/2009 4:10 PM | Add Comment

No Stress - Stress Tests!

Posted by Andrew at 5/8/2009 2:58 PM | Add Comment

S&P 500 is Higher for 2009 ... Hmmm ...

Posted by Andrew at 5/5/2009 4:54 AM | Add Comment

Credit Ratings and the BIG 3 Monopoly

Posted by Andrew at 5/1/2009 6:18 PM | Add Comment

CONSUMERS ARE SPENDING AGAIN!!! Real GDP growth "-6.1%" - Advance Number

Posted by Andrew at 4/30/2009 5:02 AM | Add Comment

HOW DEEP IS THE FED??? WAAAAYYY Deep!

Posted by Andrew at 4/26/2009 5:48 PM | Add Comment

What's a MERS?!!! WHOA - and NO ONE KNOWS who is foreclosing on whom?!!?

Posted by Andrew at 4/26/2009 5:36 PM | Add Comment

Stressed about Stress Tests!!!! Laughing!

Posted by Andrew at 4/25/2009 4:05 PM | Add Comment

Mid-Earnings Season, THE Markets

Posted by Andrew at 4/25/2009 6:29 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Penny Benny (P.B.G.C.) Soon to Be In Trouble - Auto Pensions and Then What?!

Posted by Andrew at 4/24/2009 8:02 PM | Add Comment

NASDAQ in CHINA: GEM or Growth Enterprise Market!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/22/2009 2:53 PM | Add Comment

FINALLY, a Little Reality Hits the Stock Markets!

Posted by Andrew at 4/21/2009 4:57 AM | Add Comment

Cramer and Perkins next to each other?!! In the Bookstore, oh!

Posted by Andrew at 4/20/2009 6:14 AM | Add Comment

Banks - No Premium, No Executive Pay Cut = Cake and Eat it Too!?

Posted by Andrew at 4/12/2009 7:01 AM | Add Comment

Fed Researchers - perhaps use "Bridge Loans" for Homeowners

Posted by Andrew at 4/10/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

TALF (Term Asset Loan Facility) Requests are Down!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/7/2009 7:21 AM | Add Comment

I.M.F. - a new "Mandate"? An Explanation ...

Posted by Andrew at 4/6/2009 6:42 AM | Add Comment

Markets UP 1% but We STILL lost TONS of Jobs!?!??

Posted by Andrew at 4/4/2009 9:00 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Computer Updated - YES!!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/3/2009 9:25 PM | Add Comment

A NEW Phone!! Nokia 2600!!

Posted by Andrew at 4/2/2009 9:24 PM | Add Comment

Four Banks Have Paid Back TARP Funds

Posted by Andrew at 3/31/2009 8:01 PM | Add Comment

THE PLAN!!! PPIP or P-pip!

Posted by Andrew at 3/29/2009 9:16 AM | Add Comment

New Euphemism!!! "Legacy Assets"!! Don't like "toxic" eh?!?

Posted by Andrew at 3/28/2009 9:11 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Real Output down 6.3%, Markets UP 2.3%!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/27/2009 5:09 AM | Add Comment

"Non-recourse Loans" - Another VERY interesting term!

Posted by Andrew at 3/25/2009 4:52 AM | Add Comment

"Toxic Assets" - We Like our Euphemisms, eh?

Posted by Andrew at 3/24/2009 6:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Now careful about getting too confident - AS IF!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/24/2009 5:43 AM | Add Comment

Further Evidence (though circumstantial) - Warren and Vikram

Posted by Andrew at 3/12/2009 10:32 PM | Add Comment

CEOs and their "plight" ...

Posted by Andrew at 3/12/2009 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Can YOU see the bottom? *I* CAN!!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/11/2009 8:35 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Ford is leading GM and Chrysler!

Posted by Andrew at 3/10/2009 8:36 AM | Add Comment

Productivity Revision - 2008, Same Story as Real GDP - HUGE!

Posted by Andrew at 3/6/2009 7:23 AM | Add Comment

Woke up DIZZY at 4AM - What's up with THE MARKETS?!!?

Posted by Andrew at 3/6/2009 6:37 AM | Add Comment

Why is A.I.G. SOOOO Important the company needs a rescue?

Posted by Andrew at 3/3/2009 5:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

AIG - Fourth Time is a Charm?!?

Posted by Andrew at 3/2/2009 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Warren's STILL got the jokes - a down year but still a profit!!

Posted by Andrew at 3/1/2009 7:24 AM | Add Comment

Citigroup Bailout - existing shareholders lose ownership ...

Posted by Andrew at 2/27/2009 6:17 PM | Add Comment

So Just HOW Did Japan do?

Posted by Andrew at 2/26/2009 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Markets are UP, no Nationalization!???

Posted by Andrew at 2/25/2009 10:41 AM | Add Comment

AIG back for more and the "N" word keeps things interesting!

Posted by Andrew at 2/24/2009 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Warren Buffett has made some interesting changes!

Posted by Andrew at 2/18/2009 8:19 AM | Add Comment

Fees for Underwriting FDIC debt at Mexico risk premiums?!?

Posted by Andrew at 2/18/2009 7:03 AM | Add Comment

California is about out for the count! ... Almost!

Posted by Andrew at 2/17/2009 7:42 PM | Add Comment

Profiting from the Financial Crisis - The 1990s Revisited!

Posted by Andrew at 12/29/2008 1:24 PM | Add Comment

Bloomberg.com: Milton Friedman is rolling in his grave

Posted by Andrew at 12/24/2008 4:08 PM | Add Comment

CPI Falls by a Record Amount!! "-1.7%"

Posted by Andrew at 12/18/2008 7:36 AM | Add Comment

It's a New World!! Fed Cuts Interest Rates to ZERO! (or so)

Posted by Andrew at 12/17/2008 6:35 AM | Add Comment

Companies Interest Rates continue to Increase

Posted by Andrew at 12/14/2008 3:49 PM | Add Comment

CDS - Credit Default Swaps, a little primer

Posted by Andrew at 12/11/2008 8:03 AM | Add Comment

U. S. Treasury Bills have a NEGATIVE YIELD (You have to PAY to invest in them)!!

Posted by Andrew at 12/10/2008 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Commercial Paper - Lehman Brothers - Financial STUFF!

Posted by Andrew at 12/10/2008 12:45 PM | Add Comment

Trying to stay out of Gloom and Doom, BUT ...

Posted by Andrew at 11/30/2008 6:01 PM | Add Comment

WOW - so here's where the money's gone SO FAR!!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/26/2008 9:33 PM | Add Comment

Briefly the $800 Billion Announced Tuesday

Posted by Andrew at 11/26/2008 8:59 PM | Add Comment

Recovery to last Monday morning's level! Whew! Volatility!!!

Posted by Andrew at 11/25/2008 7:16 AM | Add Comment

Short-term Interest rates are basically ZERO!

Posted by Andrew at 11/23/2008 8:40 PM | Add Comment

Timothy Geithner moves the markets!

Posted by Andrew at 11/22/2008 8:43 PM | Add Comment

More Volatility, "Chump" at Treasury and Investment Opportunities!

Posted by Andrew at 11/15/2008 6:31 AM | Add Comment

Whiplash! The Stock Markets!

Posted by Andrew at 11/14/2008 5:57 AM | Add Comment

Mortgages entanglement - How to modify?

Posted by Andrew at 11/13/2008 6:25 AM | Add Comment

U.S. Government Borrowing - "Treasuries"

Posted by Andrew at 11/11/2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Bank of England cuts rates by 1.5%

Posted by Andrew at 11/6/2008 9:21 PM | Add Comment

A new twist on liquid assets.

Posted by Andrew at 11/2/2008 6:40 AM | Add Comment

Stocks are Volatile! "New" Market?

Posted by Andrew at 10/24/2008 5:30 AM | Add Comment

The Dollar is SOARING!!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/23/2008 6:54 AM | Add Comment

Stock Market responds again! On Earnings ...

Posted by Andrew at 10/23/2008 6:16 AM | Add Comment

Silver Lining? (Off to Xi'an)

Posted by Andrew at 10/17/2008 4:59 AM | Add Comment

Nothing has really changed, YET!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/16/2008 6:11 AM | Add Comment

The Plan (expected)

Posted by Andrew at 10/14/2008 3:08 PM | Add Comment

Back to ALMOST 9400!

Posted by Andrew at 10/14/2008 5:05 AM | Add Comment

PE Ratio is leading some to say it IS time to invest!

Posted by Andrew at 10/13/2008 5:56 AM | Add Comment

Australia and New Zealand follow suit

Posted by Andrew at 10/13/2008 5:27 AM | Add Comment

Graphs of the Stock Market for Perspective

Posted by Andrew at 10/11/2008 6:24 AM | Add Comment

What's a TARP?

Posted by Andrew at 10/7/2008 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Chinese Stock Markets - Closed last week!!!

Posted by Andrew at 10/6/2008 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Cities are pulling back their spending!

Posted by Andrew at 10/1/2008 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Ben's still working overtime!! (He dropped out of the political discussions, however.)

Posted by Andrew at 9/30/2008 7:22 AM | Add Comment

Still not a free fall!! Graph from Credit Suisse

Posted by Andrew at 9/30/2008 5:54 AM | Add Comment

Basic "Rescue" Plan - late post, eh?!

Posted by Andrew at 9/29/2008 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Where have all the BANKS gone, long time passing ... graph!

Posted by Andrew at 9/28/2008 10:09 AM | Add Comment

A.I.G. (American Insurance Group) and the reason for the loan

Posted by Andrew at 9/28/2008 6:15 AM | Add Comment

The Tough Issue = What ARE these made of???

Posted by Andrew at 9/26/2008 5:27 AM | Add Comment

Terrorist Sirens, Hagupit (Cat. 4), Treasury Bills, etc.

Posted by Andrew at 9/24/2008 5:28 AM | Add Comment

Not a free fall!

Posted by Andrew at 9/16/2008 5:10 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Chinese currency continues to appreciate - slowly still

Posted by Andrew at 6/14/2008 5:40 AM | Add Comment

Tai Ji - last class next Sunday and China stocks

Posted by Andrew at 6/11/2008 4:57 AM | Add Comment

Blame Wall Street for $135 Oil - from Bloomberg.com

Posted by Andrew at 5/24/2008 6:46 AM | Add Comment
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