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Wednesday, May 27
Washington's Grim Economic Prospects
NY According to the Journal, a survey of prominent currency watchers revealed a diminishing interest in US Treasury notes. The cause for this loss of appetite? The threat of inflation and low interest rates -- in short, the prospect of a poor return on ...
Thursday, Dec 18
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Actually -- There Is A Credit Crunch
Step 2: The yield on various bonds and assets are compared to the Treasury curve to measure "risk". People assume that US Treasury Bonds are the safest investments in the world. Therefore, comparing the interest rate on various assets to the comparable Treasury (the Treasury with the same...
Tuesday, Nov 18
Mark Weisbrot: South America: Recession Can Be Avoided
Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States? Since the financial meltdown began... Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States? Since the fi...
Sunday, Oct 12
Nathan Gardels: My Interview with George Soros: End of Financial Crisis Could Be in Sight
They have finally now come around -- with the government buying equity in banks -- because they see the financial system is on the verge of collapse. That changes the power relations. The powershift toward Asia is a consequence of the sins of the last 25 years on the part of the United States.
Sunday, Sep 28
David Sirota: Top 5 Reasons to Vote Against Paulson's $700 Billion Bailout
NYU's Nouriel Roubini, the visionary who had been predicting this meltdown, says "The Treasury plan (even in its current version agreed with Congress) is very poorly conceived and does not contain many of the key elements of a sound and efficient and fair rescue plan."
Wednesday, May 2
Mark Weisbrot: IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal
This instantaneous show of financial support for a newly installed dictatorship - one which immediately dissolved the country's constitution, general assembly, and Supreme Court - was unprecedented in the IMF's history. Typically the IMF does not react so quickly, even to an elected...
Friday, Apr 20
Norman Solomon: Bowing Down to Our Own Violence
The first task of the occupation remains the first task of government: to establish a monopoly on violence," George Will wrote three years ago in the Washington Post. But now, his latest Newsweek column laments: "Vietnam produced an antiwar movement in America; Iraq has produced an anti...
