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18 Dec

NYT: Blaming the Fed for the Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis

by Barry Ritholtz
> “Hindsight is always 20-20, but it’s clear the Fed should have acted earlier. Financial innovation is great, but you have to...

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12 Dec

Federal Reserve Department of Irony

by Barry Ritholtz
The Fed released these two announcements today: Federal Reserve and other central banks announce measures designed to address elevated...

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9 Dec

More Trouble for Mortgage Securitizers?

by Barry Ritholtz
Looks like the Bankruptcy Courts in San Diego are challenging parties far removed from the original mortgage to provide actual proof that...

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6 Dec

Treasury Plan to Freeze Mortgage Rates

by Barry Ritholtz
>"More than 30 percent of borrowers with subprime adjustable- rate mortgages are behind on their payments before their loans...

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29 Nov

No Conspiracy Theory — Just Data

by Barry Ritholtz
One of the things people do not understand is a basic truth about the BLS, BEA, Commerce Department, and other government data sources. I...

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27 Nov

US Leading Global R&D Spending

by Barry Ritholtz
Nice interactive data set, from FT: Source:US ahead as global R&D spending up 10%John Willman in LondonFT, November 11 2007 18:21 |...

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21 Nov

The Abysmal Track Records of Moody’s, Fitch and S&P

by Barry Ritholtz
> “How could the credit-rating agencies be so wrong consistently? [They were] wrong on Mexico, wrong on Asia, wrong on Enron, wrong...

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12 Nov

How Sick the Dollar?

by Barry Ritholtz
Be sure to check out the WSJ article (Doctor the Dollar? Depends How Sick) on page C1 this morning: "The dollar has fallen 9.5%...

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6 Nov

Headline of the Day: Electricity Deregulation

by Barry Ritholtz
File this one under DUH! Competitively Priced Electricity Costs More, Studies ShowRetail electricity prices have risen much more in...

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1 Nov

Now we know Argentina is REALLY in trouble

by Barry Ritholtz
Headline of the day: Fernández, to copy US inflation data methods Cristina Fernández, Argentine president-elect, has vowed to restore...

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