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Robert Folsom
3/12/2008 5:15:00 PM
Amidst all the happy words and noises that followed yesterday's story that "Fed Offers $200 Billion Lifeline for Spurned Debt," most news accounts either failed to include or buried the truly relevant details. Looked at closely, the Fed's "Offer" of a "Lifeline" comes attached with the kind of terms you'd expect from a benevolent loan shark.
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$200 billion, AAA rating, AAA ratings, banking, Fed, Federal Reserve, subprime mortgages, Treasuries
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Economy
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Robert Folsom
3/6/2008 6:00:00 PM
The Economist magazine published a favorable review today of a book about the housing market crisis, and one comment from the review kind of jumped off the page: "The story has no single villain, but Alan Greenspan comes close. Under him, the Federal Reserve fuelled the housing boom by sharply cutting the cost of short-term money." So, from "Maestro" to "Villain" -- how's that for a reversal of fortune?
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banking, Fed, Federal Reserve, Greenspan, personal finance, recession, Wall Street
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Economy
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Alan Hall
8/13/2007 2:45:00 PM
Stock markets closed lower today, Monday, August 13, 2007
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real-estate, conquer the crash, banking
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Economy
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Alan Hall
11/21/2006 12:45:00 PM
I write from the catbird seat here at EWI, with access to the best technical market analysis in the world. In the space of an hour I can read forecasts of commodities, currencies, stocks, metals, and interest rates, and compare them to socionomic observations of news and events. Nowhere else can you grab such a broad, detailed snapshot of the clockworks of the “engine of history.” Today’s digital snapshot is a family photo of a resurging financial mania.
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Real Estate, housing, real-estate, Economy, banking, credit crunch, personal finance, Wall St., socionomics, debt
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Cultural Trends
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Alan Hall
10/25/2006 1:05:00 PM
Once-transparent global financial systems have become opaque, changing too fast to be visible. New varieties of financial contracts are evolving rapidly, such as credit derivative futures, credit default swaps, binary options, and soon perhaps, derivatives of credit derivatives, or even derivatives cubed (D3, perhaps?).
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Stocks, U.S. Markets, European Markets, Economy, banking, credit crunch, personal finance, financial markets
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Cultural Trends
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