The Best Writings of Ben S. Bernanke
Now that Greenspan has ridden off into the sunset, what do we know about his successor, Dr. Ben Bernanke? His temperment, economic...
PARSING THE FED
The online WSJ writes: THE FED’S STATEMENTS reflect how the members of the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee...
New Column: Myths of the Greenspan Era
My new column is posted at TheStreet.com, titled Myths of the Greenspan Era. Its a modest look at some of the economic urban legends that...
Free Lunch: Myths of the Greenspan Era
Federal Reserve Chairman Greenspan’s imminent retirement has become the largest love-fest since Woodstock. Alas, we cannot avoid...
Chart of the Week: 10 year Treasury 1974-2006
Greenspan garners all the credit for the low interest rates of the past 20 years. We believe the chart below proves otherwise. The Oil...
Has the Fed Kept Inflation in Check?
Panzner answers no: click for larger graph Inflation has accellerated since the 1929 crash . . .
Danger time?
This week’s Economist pulls the gloves off and laces into Mr. G pretty good. In a pair of articles, they diussect the US economy,...
Read it here first: The World Isn’t Flat, but Its...
Earlier this week, we brought to your attention "A World of (mostly) Flattening Yield Curves." In the Sunday NYTimes today, Dan...
NFP & Operation Quicksilver
Today’s Non Farm Payrolls data is due at 8:30, and the consensus is for 215,000. (Why break the streak? I’ll take "the...