Conan: Jack McBrayer (30 Rock) & Triumph the Insult Comic...
CONAN highlight: Jack McBrayer & Triumph the Insult Comic Dog cross swords with Chicago’s infamously hostile hot dog stand.
America’s presidential race
With Mitt Romney formally assured of the Republican nomination, the presidential battlefield is expanding into states where Barack Obama...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events (6.22.12)
Succinct summation of week’s events: Positives: 1) Spanish bond yields fall about 50 bps across their curve. Italian yields lower...
Top 5 RMBS Cases to Watch: No. 1
All this week, we will be looking at Isaac Gradman’s Top 5 RMBS Cases to watch this Summer (author bio at bottom). ~~~ After a...
Inflation Ex-Deflation (this time, INCLUDING energy)
Here is a twist: We used to discuss how the Fed loved their core (ex food & energy) inflation measures. I termed that Inflation...
Subordinated bondholders in Spain may get clipped
Taking a cue from what Ireland did in its bank bailout, BN is reporting that Spain is looking into clipping subordinated bank bondholders...
Lacker tells why
In an unusual gesture, Richmond Fed Pres Lacker is giving an official statement laying out why he dissented to the FOMC decision to...
10 Friday AM Reads
Some fascinating stuff to end your workweek: • Bank Investors Dismiss Moody’s Cuts As Years Too Late (Bloomberg) see also Here We Go:...
Spain needs a maximum of E62bn to recap its banks –...
Taiwan’s unemployment rate rose to 4.25% in May (forecast 4.20%), from 4.19% in April, yet more evidence of a slowing economy,...
Choose Your Rationalization . . .
Yesterday’s ugliness has the pundits looking at numerous explanations, correlations and motivations for what was the causation of...