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Where Will the Cash End Up

Nov 03, 2010 at 12:00 | Dave Forest

We're a few hours away from the Federal Reserve's expected announcement of more quantitative easing for America. The general expectation is the Fed will buy hundreds of billions worth of…

How Would a Corporate Government Perform

Nov 02, 2010 at 13:14 | Kurt Cobb

In the 1948 Frank Capra film State of the Union aircraft tycoon Grant Matthews is drafted as a candidate for president of the United States. Matthews has never sought office…

India is Catching Up With China

Oct 29, 2010 at 12:24 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

When I first visited Calcutta in 1976, 800,000 people were sleeping on the sidewalks, I was hauled everywhere by a very lean, barefoot rickshaw driver, and drinking the water out…

Bernanke’s Learn as you Go Approach

Oct 28, 2010 at 11:09 | Bruce Krasting

Jon Hilsenrath at the WSJ has been THE mouthpiece for Bernanke for the past few months. Bernanke has been telling him what is on his mind and Jon prints it.…

Foreigners Buy $117 Billion in Treasuries During August

Oct 20, 2010 at 13:01 | Dave Forest

The U.S. bond market is murky these days. Yields have been plummeting. But some of the action is almost certainly due to the Federal Reserve once again buying Treasuries. Since…

Lunch With the Treasury Secretary

Oct 19, 2010 at 13:38 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

When I wake up at 4:30 am each morning to check the overnight markets and review the opening salvo of incoming emails, I often have trouble focusing in my groggy…

Jockeying To Succeed ECB’s Trichet Is Well Underway

Oct 19, 2010 at 09:24 | Darrell Delamaide

Out of the gate, Italian central bank governor Mario Draghi was the frontrunner. He had restored the integrity of the Bank of Italy that was tarnished by the scandals of…

What Do Katy Perry and Eminem Have in Common?

Oct 19, 2010 at 08:59 | Dave Forest

Answer: both were quoted in the keynote speech last week by U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) commissioner Scott O'Malia, at the 13th Annual Energy and Commodities Conference in Houston.…

Indonesia is On Fire

Oct 17, 2010 at 09:56 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

Who said quantitative easing wouldn’t work? The only problem is that you have to speak Bahasa, eat nasi goreng, and live South of the equator, to take full advantage of…

America’s Unhealthy Obsession With the Chinese Exchange Rate

Oct 15, 2010 at 08:56 | Open Democracy

The US obsession with the Chinese exchange rate is a classic example of blaming foreigners for domestic woes. And we’ve been here before. In the 1980s, the US government –…

Swiss Finish Sets New Standard for Global Bank Regulation

Oct 13, 2010 at 08:30 | Charles Kennedy

The traditional Swiss finishing school taught young women etiquette and social graces, but international bank regulators are talking about something much tougher when they refer to a “Swiss finish” for…

Rio Tinto (RTP) is Firing on all 16 Cylinders

Oct 12, 2010 at 22:52 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I managed to catch an interesting interview on TV the other day with Tom Albanese of Rio Tinto (RTP), the planet’s second largest producer of iron ore. It is one…

The Inflation Boogeyman is Back

Oct 09, 2010 at 10:08 | Dave Forest

Japan pulled out the firepower this week in terms of qualitative easing. Speculation is running the Fed will announce same at the beginning of November. And so people are worried.…

The Seductive Allure of Brazilian Bonds

Oct 07, 2010 at 09:30 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

OK, let’s say that if you don’t own bonds, but someone is holding a gun to your head, dangling you by your ankles outside a window on a high floor,…

Bank of Japan Plans to Make Investing Unprofitable

Oct 06, 2010 at 09:48 | Dave Forest

Overnight, the Bank of Japan announced unprecedented monetary policy. The Japanese are going "all-in" on economic stimulus. Since the financial crisis, "monetary easing" has been a buzzword globally. For many…

The Very Long View on China

Oct 06, 2010 at 09:29 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom. So, I jumped at the…

Could This be the Next Financial Disaster?

Oct 04, 2010 at 21:45 | Dave Forest

I wrote last week about big changes coming to financial regulation in Europe. Look for the sequel soon in the U.S. America is buckling down for a new era of…

Volcker Critiques Every Corner of the Financial System

Oct 01, 2010 at 08:40 | Dave Cohen

Last week, octogenerian Paul Volcker lost his grip. Volcker, who was the Fed chairman before Alan "Bubbles" Greenspan, remembers a time when the Wall Street (aka. the Financial Industry) worked…

The Long View on Emerging Markets

Sep 29, 2010 at 16:09 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I managed to catch a few comments on TV yesterday in the distinct northern accent of Jim O’Neil, the fabled analyst who invented the “BRIC” term, and who has been…

Yields Leap on Commercial Paper – What Does This Tell Us

Sep 29, 2010 at 06:46 | Dave Forest

Things seem pretty good in the markets these days. Gold once again touched $1,300/oz yesterday. And there's growing talk of $1,500. Base metals prices have remained firm. And equity…

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