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- Expert Reactions to the Geithner Plan: A Net Positive
- The Good News Economist submits: On Sunday you read one scenario for toxic asset appreciation over time. That would spell good news for big bank liquidity in the short term and good news for private investors and taxpayer equity gains in the long run.You may have heard that not...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Wilmington Trust: Not All Banks Increased Loan Write-Offs in Q1
- The Good News Economist submits: In the past two weeks, the majority of large and small banks have now reported earnings sharply higher than most analysts had expected. The surprises had experts questioning how banks could have cooked the books to pump up earnings. Many pointed to 'mark...
- External links 2009-04-26
- Mr. Roubini, Please Take a Seat
- The Good News Economist submits: From the gloomster Nouriel Roubini, on April 23, 2009: "Today we present some of the main conclusions of the recently released update to the RGE 2009 Global Economic Outlook: The global economy is in the middle of a synchronized contraction that will push global...
- External links 2009-04-26
- TARP Warrants: Good News for Taxpayers?
- The Good News Economist submits: On Friday it was announced that State Street Corp. STT became the first of 10 large banks to repurchase warrants held by the US Treasury. The warrants were put in place to assure that taxpayers are rewarded for their collective TARP loan to banks...
- External links 2009-07-12
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- The Fed's Comments Last Week, and the Market's Reaction Since
- The Bernanke era of the Federal Reserve will be remembered by economists and investors for many reasons, but the most flattering is that the Bernanke regime avoids mumbo-jumbo in explaining what it's up to. In its statement last week on the recent Federal Open Market Committee FOMC meeting, the Fed...
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- The New Job Market: Who Wins and Who Loses?
- Recession, government spending, and demographics are transforming the workforce right before your eyes. To protect your career, make sure you're on the right side of history. If history is any guide, unemployment will continue to rise after the recession bottoms out, according to Steve Hipple, an economist with the...
- Articles 2009-06-24
- The Payoff from Retiring Later
- Given the ferocity of the recent bear market mauling, odds are even a stock market rebound isn't enough to get your retirement plan back on track. The truth is you're probably going to have to work a few years longer. How to stay in the game... Let's get real. In...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Growth and Stability in China: A Q&A with UBS's Chief Asia Economist
- Will the country's economic fortunes fade as growth elsewhere declines? Jonathan Anderson doesn't think so. Even before the financial crisis descended on Wall Street in mid-September, the persistent slowdown of Western economies had observers in developed markets increasingly worried that the malaise would inevitably...
- Articles 2008-12-12
- THE WEEK AHEAD: Will business investment rise?
- There is one stand out event in the coming week, namely the June quarter business investment figures, released on Thursday. Apart from that key indicator it is a rather tame affair on the economic calendar with car sales data released on Monday and construction work figures released on Wednesday. While...
- News items 2009-08-23
- CIT and Ford: Two Tales of Economic Recovery
- With two months to go in the year, let's take a deep breath and assess where we stand. The economy is in a bottoming process that is neither smooth nor wildly different from previous economic recoveries. The weekend news of CIT's bankruptcy, 9 more bank failures (that makes it 115...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
- Is Saving More a Good Thing?
- Americans have cut down dramatically on spending and ratcheted up their savings rates. And while that's good for the economy long term, helping to finance valuable investment, in the short term, it's only making our economic woes worse…A recent store visit underscores just how dramatically spending habits have changed in...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- The Vanishing American Consumer
- Have Americans given up "retail therapy" for good? A permanent shift could be good for many strapped households — but would spell bad news for the recovery. American consumers have awakened, bolt upright, with belated sticker shock (“I bought what!? I spent how much!?”), from a shopping spree that’s...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- The price is not always right and markets can be wrong
- Irecently had the pleasure of reading Justin Fox's new book The Myth of the Rational Market . It offers an engaging history of the research that has come to be called the "efficient market hypothesis". It is similar in style to the classic by the late Peter Bernstein, Against...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Dissent Between Fed Presidents: Maybe That's A Good Thing
- The presidents of the New York and Richmond Federal Reserve Banks are taking different sides on whether to make an early withdrawal on measures to pump up the U.S. economy. It's more a matter of degree rather than a real smackdown. But maybe this is a good sign about the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Bad News from Labor Dept: What Does It Mean?
- New employment numbers are out from the Labor Department today, and it's not good news. The economy lost 4,000 jobs in August -- that's the first loss in four years and significantly worse than economists expected. The unemployment rate is steady at 4.6%. The markets are a different matter, however,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- Obama Speaks on the Economy
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: I am watching Obama's press conference and typing this as he speaks. Here is my take:ObamaHe definitely gets that our economy sucks wind and we are in dire straights.The fact that he is focusing spending on alternative energy, health care, infrastructure, education and similar spending that creates...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Reckless Myopia
- John P. Hussman, Ph.D. I was wrong. Not about the implosion of the credit markets, which I urgently warned about in 2007 and early 2008. Not about the recession, which we shifted to anticipating in November 2007. Not about the plunge in the stock market, which erased the entire 2002-2007...
- News items 2009-12-01
- Interview: Bloomberg's Pearlstine Says Buying BusinessWeek Matches Need?And Desire
- Last October, Bloomberg Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine told our Future of Business Media conference that the company was willing to look at acquisitions but, in the immediate future, wouldn’t be making “the major kind of acquisition that gets written about.” No, that took a year and it’s one...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Peeling Away the Economic Onion
- The Onion has a cunning bit of satire, Recession-Plagued Nation Demands A New Bubble To Invest In , that offers a welcome bit of relief from the oppressive sense of doom that pervades most financial news right now. A sample bit: ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Comments On the July Producer Price Index Report
- Business/Financial Editors BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--August 11, 2000 By Oscar Gonzalez Economist John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: JHF) "It's a new month but an old story--this report is good news all around. Just like last month, the PPI has been all about energy prices. Energy prices...
- Research articles 2000-08-11
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