We at the Big Picture have never been fans of economist Michael Boskin. The infamous Boskin commission was an intellectually dishonest...
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Frederick Sheehan is the co-author of Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve. His new book, Panderer for...
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David Stockman, a former budget director in the Reagan administration, talks about about the state of the banking system. Stockman,...
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The Greek 2 yr yield is falling again and is now around 9.5%, a one month low. Greece wants to issue next week 900mm euros of 6 month...
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I have a quote in today’s Ahead of the Tape column in the WSJ regarding the improving tenor in the markets post-August: “The...
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> Martin Wolf, who has been more right during the period leading up to the crisis, and thereafter, than anyone else I can think of,...
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Religion has a surprisingly high correlation with poverty, according to a Gallup survey conducted in more than 100 countries. The more...
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Interesting chart forwarded to me by GW — I am not sure precisely what to make of this: > click for larger graph Source: Gold Daily
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Fascinating chart in the BIS Quarterly Review that helps to explain how any banking crisis can go viral, infecting the entire globe: >...
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Interview with Bob Ivry of Bloomberg News, who led a reporting team on an award-winning series of articles showing the true cost to the...
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