Former Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President William Poole talks about monetary policy, the outlook for inflation and the housing...
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A little birdie at the WSJ told me that Greg Ip, their longtime Federal Reserve reporter, is leaving the Journal for The Economist. His...
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Fun little Java applet that let’s you create a word cloud based on any text (including a blog post). I did 3: 1) Our earlier...
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Someone beat me to it: "Here’s our new policy on A.P. stories: they don’t exist. We don’t see them, we don’t...
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Markets opened strong, then rolled over and went negative. If you were a pure contrarian, you would think that sentiment readings were a...
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The freefall in housing continues, but with a silver lining: HOUSING STARTS: Privately-owned housing starts in May were at a...
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The 3rd and final part of the WaPo series is posted, and this one is subtitled: "How the housing bust started a panic in Florida,...
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Last year, we looked at the issue of risk adjusted gains for the S&P500, and most especially for the Financial sector. At the time,...
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Naked Capitalism looks at the question "Just How Did Lehman Delever?" I tracked Lehman’s (LEH) stock action before and...
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The Fed is putting the spotlight back on inflation concerns: click for video
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