As noted yesterday and earlier this morning, the surprise Fed discount rate hike has everyone guessing as to the motivations: •...
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From the BIS, a paper on the future of public debt, some lucid and helpful musings on the entitlement mess on the other side of the...
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Yesterday’s surprise hike in the discount rate has US futures sharply lower, though the rest of the trading bourses seem hardly...
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Incidentally, I have no idea what the story is with all those gold ads. I assume they are a form of content based ad words thingie. I...
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At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid...
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After reading yesterday morning’s discussion “Deficit Hawks Want New (or double dip) Recession,” a friend emails the...
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The Federal Reserve just announced they are increasing the primary credit rate (generally referred to as the discount rate) from 1/2...
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Most news is inter-connected by various degrees of separation. People, places, story lines — very often overlap. News Dots...
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Yesterday, we noted that the Fed seems to have declared the end of the recession based upon Industrial Production (Federal Reserve...
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