FRED Gets Even Better: Excel Add-in
The St. Louis Fed’s huge data repository, FRED, now has an incredible new feature: an Excel Add-in, which is available here. ...
Will A Downgrade Cause A Funding Crisis?
• The Financial Times – Short-term US funding highly restricted Conditions in the short-term US funding market remained highly...
Economists Cast Opinions During Fishing Trip
> 20110808_me_10 > Source: Economists Cast Opinions On S&P During Fishing Trip Chris Arnold NPR, August 8, 2011...
Sovereign Ratings: AAA Edition
For those who are (inexplicably) shaken by S&P’s downgrade of the United States last week, and who only want to own debt of...
Change We Can Believe In
“All the signs are right this time You don’t have to try so very hard If you live in this world You’re feeling the change of the...
Monday AM Reads (DownGraded for your protection!)
Some interesting reading to start off your week: • Police raid Milan offices of Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s...
Warning: Flying into NY
Just an FYI — I am flying into LaGuardia today from Bangor, Maine. Those of you who are regular readers of TBP know that volatility...
At least right now, its still all about growth
Putting aside the embarrassment and humiliation of losing our AAA credit rating for the first time ever, it has been and will always be...
Downgrading USA: S&P Bites the Hand That Feeds It
Dan Alpert is a founding Managing Partner of Westwood Capital. He has more than 30 years of international merchant banking and investment...