The Greenspan Kaput
We can always count on Barron’s Alan Abelson to lay blame precisely where it belongs: At the feet of the maestro, Sir Alan...
Open Thread: Rescue Me!
(Since I hate embedded sounds, you can play this if you choose: Rescue_Me) >As we noted earlier today, the Fed, along with a slew of...
Time to Warm Up The Helicopters?
A few items worth passing along this morning: The "contained" housing slowdown, and the "contained" subprime...
Wild Pre-Fed Day: Open Thread
Wow — another wild and wacky day on the volatile Street of Dreams. While no one (well, hardly anyone) expects a rate cut, many...
Portfolios of the Federal Reserve Members
Frickin Hysterical: > > Source:Five Things You Need to Know: Portfolios of the Federal ReserveKevin DepewMinyanville, Aug 02, 2007...
What Are Fed Fund Futures Actually Forecasting?
Fascinating discussion on the meaning of the Fed Fund Futures. While many economists have taken to stating this means a likely rate cut...
QOTD: Bernanke on Inflation
Un-frickin-believable: "Delivering a speech to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Fed chief said "changes in energy...
Why I don’t buy the 4.5% Unemployment Rate
Where is the wage pressure? That’s the question on my mind as we await today’s NFP. Yesterday saw a stronger than expected...
Parsing the Fed
Some interesting changes in the Fed statement, via the public side of the WSJ: Click thru for the full parsing . . .