Succinct summation of week’s events: Positives: 1) Yields in Spain and Italy back off from retest of recent highs. 2) China’s...
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Check out the epic infographic on the Stockton bankruptcy from the Boston Review; this is only the first 20% or so of it! : > click...
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In light of the California bankruptcies and the usual belated downgrades comes this nice overview on Municipalities from UBS analysts...
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Preliminary UoM confidence for July was 72, 1.5 pts below estimates, down from 73.2 in June and is now at a 7 month low. The components...
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My morning reads: • Why the USA is the Comeback Kid (Economist) • Americans Living Larger As New-Home Sizes Defy Economy (Bloomberg)...
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China released its GDP and other data today: GDP (Q2) Y/Y 7.6% vs exp 7.7% (Prev 8.1%) GDP (Q2) Q/Q 1.8% vs exp 1.6% (Prev rev 1.6%); GDP...
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So I am still catching up with some of the more interesting reads from while I was away, and this THIS damned cover made me fall off my...
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China reported Q2 GDP growth of 7.6%, essentially in line with expectations of 7.7% but it is the slowest growth since Q1 ’09....
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I love how this graphic explains the inherent limitations and various ways we interpret visual data. You are a biomechanical machine that...
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