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April 6, 2012 | Author ECB Watch
The Blind Spot Surrounding the 2005 'Major Restructuring' of the Goldman/Greek Secret Loan
The EU Commission was at the forefront of the response to the revelation in 2010 of irregularities in Greece's government statistics and in particular the 2.8 billion Euros secret loan it received from Goldman Sachs in 2001 (see this article at Bloomberg).
Has it delivered and has parliamentary oversight been adequate?
We tried to answer in a December 2011 article by comparing the results of a thorough audit from Eurostat with initiatives from legislative bodies in the EU and the UK and Goldman Sachs' communication (see MarketOracle). In short, there were serious lapses that point to a deception.
We revisit the issue based on additional material, an April 2010 hearing in the EU parliament (video footage included in this article) and the work of the special committee in charge of studying the causes of the financial crisis, CRIS.
The time is opportune following Nick Dundbar's recent report which reveals important details about the imbalanced relationship between Greece's debt agency and the bank (see Bloomberg). That reinforces our case that EU's officials have limited their reach to regularizing the accounts, not investigating the actions of the parties involved.
February 27, 2012 | Author ECB Watch
The ECB-G30 conflict
In November 2011, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), a Brussels based lobby watchdog, asked Mario Draghi to withdraw from the group of G30 because it conflicts with his duties as ECB President. According to them the ECB's press office dodged their criticism and, in February 2012, they referred the matter to the ethics officer of the ECB.
This referral comes as it is uncovered that Draghi stated in writing that there were no relevant personal factors to be taken into account in considering his nomination in June 2011. It is misleading because it fails to disclose a conflict of interest (Nouvel Observateur). Specifically, his son has been working for some years as an interest rate trader at Morgan Stanley (LinkedIn). The code of conduct of the ECB warns against "potential advantage for [the] families [of the Governing Council]". It's a real risk. In January 2012 the president of the Swiss National Bank was forced to resign after it was found his wife traded on insider knowledge, reported The Telegraph.
January 26, 2012 | Author ECB Watch
Irregularities in the nomination of Mario Draghi
The Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs was in charge of evaluating Mario Draghi's credentials on behalf of the European Parliament. Keep in mind that, while independent,the European Central Bank is accountable to the European parliament via this Committee. The view of the Committee was described in a 36 pages report concluding to a favourable opinion to appoint Mario Draghi as President of the ECB. 75% of the MEPs approved, resulting in his appointment for a term of office of eight years with effect from 1 November 2011 by the European Council. The report ignores some strong reservations of some Committee members about his alleged role in the falsification of Greek debt. This, and other evidence, indicates a possible ethical failure. The contentious transactions were engineered by Goldman Sachs International in 2001. They were subsequently managed while Mario Draghi held the position of vice chairman and managing director of the bank's London office (European headquarter), and a member of the firm-wide management committee, from 2002 to 2005. In particular, a significant increase in the debt hiding scheme, engineered in 2005, has yet to be addressed in relation with this nomination.
January 25, 2012 | Author ECB Watch
Greek/Goldman 2001 deal, overlooked aspects, and open questions
In 2001 the Greece ministry of finance hired Goldman Sachs to enhance its books using derivatives. This became known in 2003. Two noticeable events occurred in 2010.
First, the EU mandates audits into Greece’s national accounts, uncovering huge irregularities, including those related to the 2001 deal. This received financial media coverage (Wall Street Journal…). It was suspected, then, that, in addition, Goldman Sachs shorted Greek debt which, on the face of it, is a market abuse. The final audit, however, came at a time when the media coverage had dissipated: we will see that it's unfortunate.
Second, Goldman Sachs’ wrongdoing in the subprime crisis was made official by the SEC and congressional investigations. The EU authorities and the UK (Gordon Brown) declared that they would carry out due diligence checks on this issue, in cooperation with the US.
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- Another “Patriotic” Step on the Road to Tyranny
- Italy: Where Entire Factories Are Shipped Out Overnight
- The Magical 'Second Half'
- Goldman Sachs Got Us on Gold; Why They Won’t Get Us on Stocks
- The Nature of the State
- Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part V (Falling Cycle)
- Crash Alert!
- A Few More Gold-Related Charts
- The President's Bubble Epiphany
- A Complex World
- Vindictive Governments
- Gold and Gold Stocks - What Comes Next?
- What the Bond Sell-Off Means for Stocks
- Don’t Trade Last Week’s Silver Story!
- India Heading Toward Crisis Point?
- Selling Low and Buying High: Hedging by the Gold Miners Part II
- Governor Christie’s Demagoguery
- What's Behind the Weakness in Treasury Bonds?
- Too Many Houses, Too Much House
- US Stock Market – the Party is on Hold
- Stay Away From This Gambler’s Market
- Egypt – From Spring to Winter to Bloody Confrontation
- Gold and Gold Stocks Update – John Paulson Sells GLD
- Iraq and Other Interventionist 'Success Stories'
- What Vampire Bats Can Tell You About Bond Yields
- Even Deep Discounts at These Stores Couldn’t Lure Customers in Last Month
- Credit Markets Update
- Parade of the Inflationists – or A World Gone Mad
- Aggregate Economic Data as A Means of Statist Propaganda
- Greece – Getting Better or Not?
- Gold Stocks – HUI Gap Spotting, ctd.
- A Strong Contrarian Signal That This Market Is Toast
- Gold – Frisky in Asian Trade
- Slightly Less Fake Japanese GDP Data 'Disappoint'
- France's Economy Slides Back
- SOD
- Gold and Gold Stocks – Seasonal Trend Coming to the Fore After All?
- The Bottom Is Still Ahead for This Bear Market
- Danish Sorrows
- Glowing in the Dark
- Revisiting: Is it Time to Short the Home Builders?
- The Claptrap Behind the Minimum Wage Debate
- A Few Observations on the Stock Market
- What Do Declining COMEX Inventories Signify?
- Gold, and Gold Stocks, a Brief Technical Update
- Playing With Fire
- How Safe is the Swiss Franc?
- A “Dark Horse” Candidate to Replace Ben Bernanke
- The Cavaliere Goes Down – But Not Without a Fight
- Policy Sans Ethics
- Tales from the Ruling Class Crypt
- Gold and Gold Stocks – the Bad, the Not-So-Bad and Seasonality
- And the Next Fed Chairman Will Be …
- Shopping in Communism versus Capitalism
- Too Many Un-American Americans
- Understanding the Future of Real Estate
- The ECB's Rate Decision and the Next Potential Bubble
- On Being and Nothingness ...
- Economics According to the EPA
- How America’s Working Stiffs Got Stiffed
- Targeting of Investigative Journalists
- Wall Street Greed Is So Predictable
- The July FOMC Statement – A Brief Comment
- Payrolls Preview: Trim Tabs Disputes Happy Consensus
- ► July
- An Unexpected Stand-Up Comedy Talent
- A Precis on Public Finance
- Presidential Musings About Inequality
- IMF Approves Greece's Next Bailout Tranche
- Gold and Gold Stocks – An Important Week
- It's not the Moon that Makes People Mad – it is the Sun
- The Honest President
- Amazon vs. Goldcorp: The Stock I Would Buy
- Backlash Against the Surveillance State
- Japanese Turn Toward Militarism – Here It Comes
- Strange Medieval Grave Sites Found
- Housekeeping Note
- Notable Consensus Extremes
- Southern Delusions
- The Housing Rescue Flop
- Train Accident in Spain (Off Topic)
- What Drives Negative GOFO and Temporary Gold Backwardation?
- My Rich Society: Novels, etc.
- The Rabbit Disaster Plan
- Norway is a Junkie, and Oil is its Heroin
- Global PMI Surveys - Mixed Signals
- Gold and Gold Stocks – More Signs of Life
- How to Secure a Free Country
- Leave it to Dexia: No Bad Trade Left Behind
- Reducing Bank Leverage
- A Friend’s Zimmerman/Martin Reflections
- Portugal: President Silva Pedals Back
- Real Vs. Fake Money
- Phoenix Rentals, Latest Developments
- Abe Wins Upper House
- Without a Proper Plan
- Larry Summers' bad bet
- Spain to 'Challenge German Doctrine on ECB'
- Global Business Confidence Slips to Multi-Year Low
- Gold Stocks – Long Term Elliott Wave Structure
- Ethnicity is Obsolete
- The Stock Market – Shades of Early 2000?
- Chief Central Planner Testifies
- Greece: Getting Even More Expensive
- Daily Bell, R.I.P.
- Gold Stocks – What to Look for Next
- Recourse or Non-Recourse
- Why Freddie and Fannie Failed
- LEAP Leaps
- Both Ends Burning
- Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part IV (Rising Cycle)
- Hidden Risks at German Banks
- EU Banking Union Dispute
- The EU and the Centralization Dispute
- Gold Stocks: Gap Spotting
- Kremlin Opts for Low-Tech Defense
- Portugal Crisis: Will Contagion Make a Comeback?
- How the Arab Winter Could Become a Spring
- France Shoots Down Anti-Piracy Law, Institutes New Tax Instead
- China: Bad Data, Fake Data and No Data At All
- Global Oil Slick Update
- The Absurd Fed Minutes Ritual
- Credit Revulsion and Omnipotent Central Banks
- Politicized Science Leads to Impoverishment
- Equal Opportunity Spy-Fest, An Update
- Gold Slips Into Backwardation
- The Fish Rots from the Head
- JGB Yields - A Bullish Consolidation
- Central Banker Thinks 'Central Banks Are Helping'
- Central Banks – Words and Deeds
- ECB Joins 'Easy Money Forever' Club
- Dear Mr. Carney, the British Pound Says 'Hi'
- Gold & Silver Elliott Wave Count
- Wealth Creation and the State
- Portugal Goes Off the Rails
- More Turmoil in Egypt
- Meeting 'Brother President' – Involuntarily
- Gold – Has the 'Narrative' Failed?
- Gold and Gold Stocks – A Study in Extremes
- Mervyn Kings Farewell Tour and the Inanity of the Week
- Analyzing Las Vegas Real Estate
- Equal Opportunity Spy-Fest
- ► June
- Gold and Gold Stocks – Signs of Life
- Dismal U.S. Consumer Spending to Drag Us Back into Recession?
- Scandinavian Sorrows
- Last Tango in Argentina?
- In Gold We Trust, 2013 Edition
- Selling Low and Buying High: Hedging by the Gold Miners
- Bond Market Losses – A Potential Crisis Trigger?
- Escape Velocity Superman to Alight on Albion's Shores
- Clouds Gather Over Italy
- Ganging Up on Gold
- Stocks, Bonds and the Federal Open Mouth Committee
- The New 'Conundrum'
- Real Estate - The Next Six Months
- Timeo Danaos ... The EU's Poisoned Pawn Acts Up Again
- A Bad Hair Day in the Markets – All of Them
- The Future of Real Estate in ONE TABLE
- China's Latest Credit Bubble Convulsions
- France Prohibits Sending of Cash or Gold by Mail
- The FOMC and the Ghost of 1937
- Gold and Gold Stocks, Post FOMC Update
- Fitch Notices Credit Bubble in China
- Brazil – Hit by Social Mood Downturn
- Surprise – Situation in Slovenia May Be Worse than Advertised
- 25 Years of Real Estate In One Chart
- Empire State: 'Better Than Expected', Details Falling Off the Cliff
- Syrian Disturbance
- Trade Talks and 'Cultural Exception' Update
- Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part III (Credit)
- What Is Up With Crude Oil?
- Failed Projections or Just Another Government Lie? You Judge!
- Spain – Hope Springs Eternal
- Why is Gold Draining out of COMEX Warehouses?
- Abenomics Fail – 'Things Not Going to Plan'
- How to Fix the Underwater Mortgages
- Stock Market Indicators – A Brief Update
- Glenn Greenwald on PRISM
- Credit Markets – More Fraying at the Edges
- The Last Parachute
- Japan's 'Reflation' Policy – Upsetting Global Market Balance?
- Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, it's Super-Bernank!
- The Limits of Resource Nationalism
- Cracks in the Dam
- Gold and Gold Stocks Update
- Liquidity Squeeze in China
- Hollande Says 'The Crisis is Over'
- Greece – Slightly Ominous Developments
- ECB – Bundesbank Spat: The Decisive Round
- Stock Market Technicals, Money Supply
- PRISM Waves
- The Flood in Europe
- The Perfect Real Estate Investment
- The Perils of Low Mortgage Rates
- Don’t Read This if You Thought the Economy Was Improving
- The Eternal and All-Encompassing Wiretap
- Gold and Gold Stocks Update
- The IMF and Greece
- France Threatens Trade Talks over 'Cultural Exception'
- 'Panic' in Emerging Market Currencies
- Credit Markets Update
- Martin Wolf's Paean to the Superman Among Monetary Bureaucrats
- Gold Stocks Relative to the SPX
- Stock Market -A Major Peak or 'Just a Correction'?
- Abe Speaks, Nikkei Tanks
- Euro-Area PMI Data Improve as Money Supply Growth Accelerates
- The Quantitative Beatings will Continue Until Economy Improves
- SPX & Gold: Elliott Wave Update
- Roubini Turns Bullish – Another Warning Sign?
- ISM Drops Into Contraction Territory
- A Setback for the EU's Centralization Faction
- Stock Market - A Correction Begins
- Unrest in Turkey: 'Just a Few Looters'
- The South African Rand Tanks – 2001 Redux?
- Gold and Gold Stocks Update, June 3
- How Much Subsidy is Left in the Real Estate Market?
- ► May
- A Novel Idea: Money Printing Creates 'Wealth'
- Keeping an Eye on Treasuries
- Euro Area: Rising Risk of Bank Failures
- Taper Dance
- Summers Alarm!
- More Food Speculation Nonsense
- Good News For Nuclear Terrorists in California
- Gold Update, Part Two – Technical Conditions and Sentiment
- Gold Update, Part One – A Plague of Experts
- Germany to 'Gamble on Stimulus'
- Double Irish Dutch Sandwich in Danger
- More Signs That a Giant Bubble is Underway
- The Climate Consensus
- 'Abenomics' a Race to Nowhere
- Not Enough Inflation?
- Real Estate Update - Does it Make Sense?
- Cyprus – A Stock Market Dies
- Japanese Stocks – An Update
- Japan - Worrisome Trends in Government Spending
- BoJ 'Concerned' Over JGB Market - So Are We
- Solar Absurdity Update
- ECB Ready to 'Expand its Toolkit'
- Shinzo Abe's True Agenda
- The EU and 'Loopholes'
- Market Volatility Spikes, Part 2: Japanese Markets Go Wild
- Market Volatility Spikes, Part One: US Markets
- Real Estate Mortgages - What Happened to Risk?
- A Dole of Doves to Send US Economy Into Outer Space
- Olli Rehn Concerned About his Austerity Enforcer Image
- While Rome Burns ...
- Dear Citizen: We Want it All
- Economic Expectations Continue to Clash with Reality
- The Dollar is Going Up
- The JGB Market – A Few Additional Remarks
- Gold's Bounce and the Disinformation Campaign in the Media
- Solar Madness
- The 'Growth President' Has an Epiphany
- Stock Market Indicators Update
- Gold and Gold Stocks, Part Two - Positioning and Sentiment
- Gold and Gold Stocks, Part One - Technical Overview
- JGB – A Classic 'Goodbye Kiss'?
- The State Moves Against Bitcoin
- It's Official: Gold is Now the Most Hated Asset Class
- Counter-Revolutionary Toilet Paper Shortage
- Newsflash: France Needs to Reform
- Theory of Interest and Prices in Paper Currency Part II (Mechanics)
- Euro Area Economy - Still Going Down the Drain
- Gold – An Update
- What Is Normal?
- Francois Hollande's Latest Cunning Plan
- The Stock Market, Part 3: Fund Allocations and Risks
- The Stock Market, Part 2: Fundamental and Monetary Data Points
- The Stock Market – Part One: Long Term Structure
- SPX Elliott Wave and Sentiment Update
- The ECB and Germany – Another Spat Develops
- 'Malta Is Not Cyprus'
- Cameron Faces Revolt
- Will Turkey Get Drawn Into Syria's Civil War?
- Taxman Used to Put Pressure on Tea Party and 'Patriots'
- Japan: Free to Inflate in Peace
- Venezuela's Crack-Up Boom
- Asmussen's Musings and the Orwellian EU
- Gold and the Yen
- Wild Market Moves in Japan
- Nether-Crumble, Part 2: The Meme Spreads
- Yield Chasers United Sets New Records As Well
- Arab Winter in Full Swing
- Argentina – Another Peso Devaluation Imminent?
- Kuroda's Policies Already Backfiring?
- Accused of Crimes that Don't Even Exist?
- The Age of 'Austerity' is Declared to be Over
- US Stocks – Another Ominous Record Falls
- Political Sea Change in the UK?
- Is it Time to Short the Home Builders?
- Why Gold Stocks Remain Subdued
- Gold Stocks: Insider Buying Surges to Record High
- Reinhart and Rogoff Let Their Inner Inflationist Hang Out
- Hedge Fund Manager Wants Fed to 'Rev Up the Printing Press'
- Theory of Interest and Prices inPaperCurrency Part I (Linearity)
- The ECB Rate Decision – A Brief Comment
- A Bubble in 'Safety' Driven by Bond Funds?
- Pulling Down Germany to 'Rescue' the EU?
- The FOMC Statement – A Brief Comment
- The Birth of the New Real Estate Market in the USA
- Nicholas Taleb Against Establishment Economists
- How Not to Trade the Dollar
- Real Estate Winners and Losers
- ► April
- Stock Markets and Those Pesky Fundamentals
- The Gold CoT Report – an Update
- Real Estate Strategic Adjustments
- How to Make Austerity Work
- Bank of Japan – Phony 'Divisions'
- Central Banks and Their Unerring Sense of Timing
- Credit Expansion in Europe – Going the Way of Japan?
- The Gold Futures Open Interest Caper
- BuBa vs. ECB - Euro-System Infighting Resumes
- Euro Area Credit Markets – a Brief Update
- Gold – Another Post-Crash Update
- The Mirage of Economic 'Growth', or Kicking Rogoff While He's Down
- Will Citizens Eventually 'Go Galt' in the EU?
- Euro-Land: Deficits and Growth
- The Last Contango - Basis Report April 21
- The G 20 Non-Surprise
- Poker and Trading – A Brief Update
- US Stock Market – Giddy Bulls Abound
- The Reinhart – Rogoff Study Controversy
- What Is Pushing Down the Gold Price?
- Gold – What We Like and What We Don't Like
- Central Bankers Concerned About 'Too Low Inflation'
- Canada – Running Out of Luck?
- Euro Area – Where Things Stand
- Gold's 1987 – What is Really Bothering the Gold Market?
- Panic on the Gold Titanic
- Why Real Estate Prices Cannot Go Higher
- Inter-Market Mystery
- Gold Breaks Support – What Now?
- Euro Area - More Time To Dig a Bigger Hole
- Cyprus, Gold and Bitcoins
- The Attack on Tax Havens
- EFSF Issues Bond – Partly Guaranteed by Cyprus
- Small Caps – A Technical Warning Sign
- The Plight of the Small Business Sector
- The Dilemma Prison
- More on Bitcoin
- Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P.
- Investors Lose Their 'Black Swan' Fears
- Gold - Technical and Sentiment Update
- Financial Alchemy in Spain
- Italy's Arrears
- More Monetary Quackery
- New Fed-Induced Credit Bubbles
- Whom the Gods Would Destroy ...
- The Chaos That is Called Real Estate
- Nether-Crumble
- Gold, Redeemability, Bitcoin, and Backwardation
- Fallen French 'Tax Czar' Embroiled in Tax Evasion Scandal
- The Greatest Collapse in History?
- Japanese Two Step
- Euro-Land Credit Markets: Something is Stirring
- Who's the Stranger that knows you so well?
- Euro Banknotes and the 'Irreversibility' of the Euro
- Cyprus Collapse Triggers Unintended Consequences
- Bizarre Updates from the John Law School of Economics
- A Paucity of Good Enemies
- ► March
- Another Real Estate "Recovery" Idea
- A Comment on Jeroen Dijsselbloem And a Few Charts
- Cyprus Forced Into Bailout Deal
- Nobody Likes the Gold Stocks – Except Insiders
- More Pain in Spain
- Investors Pounce on Slovenia's Debt
- The Russians Actually Got Their Money Out of Cyprus
- Bernanke's Exit Plan
- Pro Interventionist Propaganda – FDR the 'Savior'
- Rebels Take Bangui
- Cyprus Bailout Deal Altered
- Cyprus: Trichet's Welcoming Speech and Latest Developments
- Bitcoin Soars on Cyprus Crisis
- Europe's Economic Contraction Worsens
- Cyprus and Beyond
- Canaries in the Coal Mine?
- Cyprus Cartoons Selection
- Cyprus Update – Game of Chicken Underway
- The Bank of England's New 'Remit'
- A Brief Comment on the FOMC Decision
- Waving Good-Bye to Shirakawa
- Bailout 'Disarray' – Parliament of Cyprus Rejects Deposit Confiscation
- Spending Cuts Not Popular in France
- Climate to Keep Changing With Slightly Less Tax Payer Support
- Elliott Wave Update, SPX & Yen
- Evil Men Don't Have Songs – So How Come The Russians Have Songs?
- Wall Street Has Officially Arrived
- Cyprus Targets Its Savers in Bailout Agreement
- Cyprus – Initial Market Reaction
- Never Believe Anything Until it is Officially Denied
- Central Planner 'Super-Wednesday'
- The Empire of Lies - Confiscatory Deflation in Cyprus
- Germany – Trying to Defy the Deficit Spenders
- Is Greenspan Sealing the Market's Fate?
- Hollande Entered the Kitchen – Now He Feels the Heat
- Three Doves to Lead the BoJ
- Long Awaited Sheep Shearing Imminent
- Trying to Understand Credit/Debt
- Gold – Has the Bear Case Merit?
- Bitcoin Crashed. Again.
- Spain's Banking Mess Revisited
- Kuroda the Swift
- Europe's Demons
- The Public's View of the Euro
- Bizarre Lagardonomics
- Exchange Traded Funds 'Dumping Gold' – Does It Matter?
- Italy to be Governed by Another 'Technocrat'?
- Yet Another Northern European Property Bubble Under Attack
- Kuroda to Meet 'Wall of Reality'
- Gold Stocks and Gold, Technical and Sentiment Update
- Gold Caught With Its Backwardation Showing
- US Stock Market – Shorts Throwing the Towel
- A Storm Is Brewing
- Tidbits, March 4
- The 10 Minute Gold Standard
- The "Yet-to-be-Named" Real Estate Bubble
- A Few Charts: PBoC, Yen, Bank CDS and others
- UK Economy in Trouble – And Cameron With It
- Clowns and Powder Kegs
- Japan – In Thrall to Quackery
- ► February
- Canada Losing its 'Debt Halo'
- The Bernank on the Hill
- Minimum Wage Damage in Thailand
- Tidbits, February 27
- A Few Charts – PBoC Money Drain, Gold & SPX
- Real Estate and Household Deleveraging
- Bank of Japan: Abe's Likely Nominees
- Italian Woes
- What Drives the Price of Gold and Silver?
- Tidbits, February 22
- France: More Intervention Needed to Destroy the Economy Completely
- The BoE: „Pulling Out All Stops” to Further Impoverishment
- The Precise Definition of Inflation
- Gold – A Brief Remark on Sentiment
- Behind the Eerie Calm...
- The Curious Case of Falling Gold and Silver Prices
- The Minimum Wage Fallacy
- Bad Loans Drop in Spain – Seemingly
- Abe Threatens the BoJ Again
- Another Scandinavian Bubble is About to Burst
- Real Estate Advance Indicators
- The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part V (Real Bills)
- Gold Leaps Into Backwardation!
- Mervyn King and „Inflation“
- Weak Economic Growth Reported Around the World
- Euro-Land Banks in Trouble
- Greece: Where Honesty Gets You Indicted
- Currency War Officially Downgraded
- The Money Cranks Are Loose
- Four-Letter “G” Word Discussed on TV
- Resistance Against Basel Bank Capital Regulations Grows
- More Cold Feet in Japan
- Boli-Splat
- Tidbits, February 8 2013
- Gold – A Brief Technical Update
- Tidbits, February 7, 2013
- Another Snake Oil Seller Pops Up
- An Update on Stocks – Another Sentiment Record Falls
- Euro Area PMI – Germany Pulls Ahead, France is a Mess
- Shirakawa Has Had Enough
- Risk Briefly Pops in to Say Hello
- Why does the “Paper Gold” Price Track the Physical Gold Price?
- Invoking the Snake Oil Sellers of the Past
- Stocks, Money Flows and Inflation
- Tidbits, February 2, 2013.
- Spain – A Deepening Recession Amid a Widening Political Scandal
- Is Speculation in Agricultural Commodities 'Evil'?
- Capital Flight from 'Totally Bankrupt' France Intensifies
- ► January
- News from the Banking Realm
- The FOMC Decision and US Q4 GDP Data
- EU Banking Union – Another Ticking Time Bomb
- The ECB Worries About Competition from Bitcoins
- ECB – Worried about Cyprus
- Long Term Stock Market Elliott Wave Update and More
- Investors, Are They Good for the Future of Real Estate?
- Long/Medium Term Wave Count of Commodities (CCI)
- UK Referendum on EU Membership: Cameron Changes His Mind
- More Trouble in the Socialist Paradise
- EU Economic Policy Remains a 'Political Project'
- Spain – Unemployment and NPLs Continue to Soar
- US Stock Market – Elliott Wave Update
- The New Definition of 'Ceiling'
- US Stock Market – No Worries?
- Andy Xie on Why Money Can't Buy Growth
- IMF and EU at Odds Over Cyprus
- Impact of Germany’s Gold Repatriation
- Desert Surprises
- Turmoil in Pakistan
- Slavery May Finally be Abolished in Austria
- Charts – A Brief E-Wave Update
- The Currency War Idiocy
- The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part IV (Intro to Real Bills)
- Central Planners: Humility and Hubris
- Japan's Inflationistas – Getting Cold Feet?
- Real Estate and Two Dead Economists
- US Equities - Leverage and Risk Are Rising Further
- Euro Area: It's All Good
- Global Warming Becomes 'Inclement Weather'
- Cameron: „Clear Coice = False Choice“
- Will Olli's Curse Strike Again?
- Secession - An Alternative View
- Secession
- Kocherlakota's U-Turn
- Draghi's „Battle With the Markets“
- Japan Announces Purchase of European Bonds
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Round Hole Rule
- Cyprus Bailout DOA?
- TARGET-2 Imbalances Dip
- Welcome, Tovarishch !
- The Trillion Dollar Coin
- Outlook 2013, Part 4, Gold and Gold Stocks
- Jeffrey Tucker on the One Million Tiny Miseries Inflicted by Government Policy
- Real Estate Market vs Mortgage Rates - Let the Battle Begin
- Congress Passes Fiscal Cliff Deal
- Fiscal Deniers
- 2013 Outlook, Part 3 - Euro Area
- An Allegation of Plagiarism
- Outlook 2013, Part Two – US Stocks and Measures of Risk
- The 'Dairy Cliff' and Other Absurdities
- 2013 Outlook, Part One: Global Monetary Conditions
- Real Estate Facing First Test of 2013
- ► December
- ► 2012
- ► December
- Flying Pigs
- The Yen - What Everybody Knows Probably Isn't Worth Knowing
- IMF's Lagarde Gets Worried About German Austerity Plans
- Bankia Shareholders Wiped Out
- Arsonists Grab Matchbox in Japan
- Hidden Housing Subsidy Update
- Can You Trust a Visigoth?
- Reflections Over 2012
- Cliff Cartoons
- Cliff Dancing
- Spain - the big Restructuring
- Spain - NPLs Explode to New Record High
- The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part III (Features)
- The Fallacy of Affordability
- Japan After the Election – Is the Moment of Truth Near?
- The Latest Depredations of the Surveillance State
- Bidding the Highway Robbers Adieu
- Year End Chart Update
- France – Growing Despair, Clueless Politicians
- The MIT Cabal
- Year End Real Estate Thoughts and Reflections
- Egypt – From Spring to Winter, In One Go
- PMI Updates – Euro Area Weak, China Comes Up for Air
- The Investment Everybody Loves to Hate
- December FOMC Meeting: Spiking the Punchbowl Some More
- Housing Recovery From the Perspective of Financing and Refinancing
- Meanwhile in France - 'Unexpected' Bumps in the Road
- The Harbinger of Doom
- Monti Plays Hardball
- A Brief Comment On Satyajit Das and Gold
- Peace Prize Leaves War Racket Intact
- Japan: Where Sentiment Went to Die
- A Few Thoughts on Gold, Part 1 – Gold as an Investment
- Italy Alert – Monti’s Government About to Fall
- Greece Downgraded Again – Back in Default
- UK Non-Austerity, the Next Chapter
- Real Estate, Boomers and the Fiscal Cliff
- Lights Out in Paris
- Reconsidering Japan, Part 2
- Storm Front Approaching the Home Builders
- ESM and EFSF Slapped with Downgrade
- ► November
- Fiscal Cliff Diving
- Greek Debt Buyback Update
- Goldfields Splits in Two
- A Look at European Stocks
- Shooting the Messenger
- Stock Market Peaks Compared
- Mark Carney - Exalted Central Planner
- Paul Krugman's Dangerous Misconceptions
- China and the Commodities Markets
- Bulk Investors and the Real Estate Market
- Greece – Saved for the Umpteenth Time
- Mountebank contra Mittal
- Greece – Not Quite There Yet
- Stock Market Technical Conditions Update
- Twinkie Drama Update
- KeithGram: The “Crash JP Morgan” Campaign
- The Postal Service – Completely Broke Too
- The FHA is Finally as Broke as the Post Office
- Euro Area Flash PMI Data – Steepest Downturn Since mid 2009
- Big Brother Strikes Again
- Wrangling Over Greece
- Moody's Downgrades France ...
- A Few Remarks on the Stock Market and Gold
- Spain - NPLs Hit a New High, House Prices Keep Plunging
- Another Real Estate Bubble?
- The Unadulterated Gold Standard Part II (History)
- Misguided Optimism and 'Garbage for Brains'
- Italy's Political Stability in Question
- Euro Area – It Isn't Over Yet
- Twinkie, RIP
- Who's Who in China's New Zoo
- US Business Surveys – Weak Again
- Spain: Lifting the Bailout Fog
- Europe In the Grip of Anti-Austerity Protests
- Shinzo Abe: I Come to Bury the Yen
- The End of the World
- Stocks Remain Under Pressure
- Real Estate and the Psychiatrist
- Bizarre Barron's Article on Deflation
- Australia – Effects of the New Mining Tax
- Open Letter to Hugo Salinas Price
- Shorting the 'Fiscal Cliff'
- Greece – Saved! Again!
- Reconsidering Japan, Part One
- Prohibition: Up In Smoke?
- California Real Estate and the Neurosurgeon
- Something Wicked This Way Comes?
- Climate Change is Back on the Agenda
- Greek Austerity Vote Passes – Barely
- Stock Market: Non-Standard Behavior
- 'No Undue Fallout' from Money Printing
- Greece Paralyzed Again
- France – Update on Labor Market Reform
- Stocks and Euro-Dollar Futures Positioning
- Four More Years...
- Gallois Report Ready to Gather Dust
- Out of Whack
- A Final Selection Day Update
- The G-20 Yawnfest
- Rembrandt Not As Good As Advertised
- A Brief Gold Update
- Timid Bears
- Is Canada's Housing Bubble 'Different'?
- Greece – the Tension Rises One More Time
- Gary Shilling on the Hunt for Yield
- Wily Swiss Money Printers
- Three Peaks and a Doomed House?
- It's Just ... Stupid
- From Icarus to Phoenix – The Tale of a Gold Miner
- France's Sacred Labor Code
- US Presidential Selection – An Update
- ► October
- Hurricanes Do Not Have a 'Silver Lining'
- The Unadulterated Gold Standard
- Tidbits, Euro Area
- Fractional Customer Fleecing
- Has Deutsche Bank Been Fudging its Numbers?
- The Barron's Big Money Poll
- France – Peugeot Bailed Out, More Trouble for the Banks
- Chart Update: European Credit Markets and More
- Greece – Is Another Debt Restructuring Imminent?
- Book Review: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government
- The Crisis Heads North
- Central Banks Update - The FOMC Decision, Draghi Visits the 'Lion's Den'
- Gold and Gold Stocks, An Update
- Dare to short the builders?
- Plutonocrits
- No Joy for Rajoy
- Merkollande Becomes Merde
- The Vikram Pandit Exit ... And What Came Before It
- A Few Remarks on the Stock Market
- Bailing Out Spain, an Update – The 'Cheap Version' or 'Virtual Credit'
- Greece – Corruption Pays
- Spain's NPLs Hit Another Record High
- EU Banking Union 'Illegal' – But Who Cares?
- Armchair Planners Plotting Monetary Conflagration
- The EU's Trading Ban in Sovereign CDS
- News From Absurdistan - EU Wins Peace Prize
- Update of Selected Charts
- How To Bail Out Spain?
- China Bashing and the US Election
- The Return of Bubble Era Financing
- Spain Almost Junked
- The Toothless Tiger and Other Euro Area News
- The Many Guises of Financial Repression
- Tidbits, Euro Area
- 'QE3', Stocks, Bonds and the Economy
- ECB, Spain – Status Quo Maintained
- The Enron of Europe?
- Open Letter to Ted Butler
- Germany's HFT Ban – Be Careful What You Wish For
- The Scourge of Central Banking
- Spain Veers Off Target
- Stimulus and Housing Recovery
- Curdled Sauce Hollandaise
- ► September
- Spain's New Budget
- A Few Remarks on Elections
- The ESM Conference Call
- Spanish Convulsions
- A Few Words on Gold
- 'Austerity', UK Style
- The ESM Leverage Debate
- Europe Slightly Intrudes on Party
- Greece - Back in the Headlines
- Pavlov's Dogs – An Overview of Market Risk
- Odds & Ends, September 21
- Spain – Bailout Talks 'Behind the Scenes'
- Economic Activity Remains Weak Around the World
- The Bank of Yawn
- The i-Krug
- QE Forever and the Real Estate Market
- That Pesky Little Growth Problem and a New Twist on Collateral Vaporization
- European Banks Horror-Show
- Credit Market Charts Selection
- Investing in Real Estate - Why Bother
- Odds & Ends, Part 2 – The Fed & US Fiscal Policy
- Odds and Ends, Part One - Euro Area
- The Big Helicopter Money Drop
- Rajoy's Game of Chicken
- Fannie or Pacifica - Who Got the Better Deal?
- Selected Credit Market Charts
- Could the Spanish State Fall Apart ?
- Motion to Delay Germany's Constitutional Court Verdict on ESM Fails
- Cat, Bag, Hollande
- Credit Markets - Benign Reaction to the ECB's Plans, But Dire Fundamentals Remain
- Odds and Ends, September 10
- Breakout or Headfake? A Brief Look at Stocks
- A Few More Remarks on Sterilization
- The ECB Waves Its Magic Wand
- A Free Market for Goods, Services, and Money by Keith Weiner
- The Final Pre-ECB Credit Market Chart Update
- ECB Preview: Sterilized Bond Buying?
- A Market In Thrall to Central Planners
- Mortgage Rates, Bernanke and the Real Estate Market
- Euro Area: Pre-ECB Paralysis
- Ben Bernanke's Jackson Hole Speech
- ► August
- Odds and Ends, August 31
- Selected Credit Market Charts - Spain Said to Be in Bailout Talks
- China Is Going To Save Us – Again
- Suspiciously Busy Central Bankers
- Assessing Case Shiller
- Spain – Is the Bug About to Hit the Windshield?
- Silver and the Euro
- The Atlantic Weighs In on the Gold Standard ...
- Credit Market Charts Update
- Aggregated News, August 27 2012
- Mitt Romney's Fake Gold Standard Initiative
- Francois Hollande – Moving France Toward A Command Economy
- Aggregated News – A New Feature
- Global Manufacturing Contraction Continues
- The Roving Ambassador of the Printing Press
- Trading on Yesterday's News – What Does the Stock Market Really 'Know'?
- New Troubles May Loom in Europe
- A Brief Technical Look at AAPL, the Market's Leading Stock
- A New Aspect in Real Estate Investment – Risk
- Greece Pleads for More Leniency
- The Spain – ECB Vaudeville Show
- Selected Credit Market Charts – An Update
- Rise of the Robots
- In A Paper System, All Assets Are Backed by the Treasury Bond
- MF Global Vaporization Update
- Fins Prepare to Slip Away, Merkel Fantasizes About Political Union
- The Golden Revolution
- A Brief Observation on the Stock Market
- Wealth of Nations and the Wizards of Oz
- The Sentinel Case – Another Nail in the Coffin of 'Market Confidence'
- European Credit Markets – No 'Obvious End to Crisis'
- How to Make Money in Real Estate?
- Gold, Silver and Gold Stocks
- China's Economy Falters
- The 'Maturity Crunch'
- Selected Charts from Europe and Asia
- QE Forever and Ever?
- Chart Update, Janet Yellen, and China's 'Wealth Management' Time Bomb
- Greece Kept Alive via ELA, ECB Plan Criticized
- Spain Closing In On A Full Bailout, Italy Only Needs 'Moral Support'
- The ECB Announcement – Summary and Analysis
- Euro Area – More Wrangling, All Eyes on Draghi and the Roving Crisis Ambassador
- Global Contraction Confirmed - Fed Stands Pat, but Propensity to Ease Increases
- The Monetary Pre-Crime Division and The Battle Over Monetary Rectitude
- Switzerland's Money Printing Orgy
- An Unintended Consequence of the Crisis: A Free Market in Interest Rates Emerges in Parts of the Euro Area
- ► July
- It's 'Crunch Time' Again
- Credit Market Charts Update, July 28
- The War on Vegetable Gardens
- Gold and Gold Stocks, A Technical Update
- Real Estate - the Next Five Years, Part 6: The Final Chapter
- Central Banks Are Chomping At the Bit
- Not-so-Safe Bonds, Tax Inanities and Economic Weakness
- Euro 'Not In Danger' According to Bureaucrats
- Greece's Great Depression
- Euro Area - The Debt Crisis Intensifies
- Real Estate - A Different View
- Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital
- Recent Euro Area Monetary Data – Hold On To Your Hat
- Spain's Banking System: Circling the Drain
- Credit Market Charts, Update July 18
- Some Observations on Stocks and Gold
- A Case Study
- The Latest From the ECB – An Opportunity to Abolish the Central Bank Presents Itself
- Real Estate - the Next Five Years Part 5 - Can You Afford NOT To Own a "Home"?
- Credit Market Charts Update, July 16
- Fractional Reserve Banking versus Duration Mismatch
- Duration Mismatch Will Always Fail
- Never A Dull Day In Euro-Land: Bizarre Collateral Demands, Keynesian Ditch-Diggers and Miffed Statistics Minions
- Spain's Bank Bailout – A Political Nightmare
- In Gold We Trust, 2012 Edition
- The Karlsruhe Factor
- Real Estate - the Next Five Years, Part 4: Affordability Revisited
- Euro Area - Crumbling Faster Than They Can Fix It?
- Misrepresenting Austrian Theory – A New Mainstream Hobby Horse
- The Enarque-in-Chief Strikes Again
- Central Banks Resume Monetary Pumping
- Credit Market Charts Update July 6, ACTA Dies, Final Woolfson Prize Entry by Jonathan Tepper Online
- The Gold Silver Ratio As An Early Warning Indicator
- The Social Mood Express Can't Be Stopped
- Real Estate - the Next Five Years, Parts 2 and 3
- The Global Downturn Broadens and Deepens
- Real Estate Is Not Cyclical
- Credit Market Charts Update
- Party Time on the Titanic
- ► June
- Banksterdämmerung
- „We Wish You A Long Life“ – Is A Hyper-Volatility Event Coming?
- UK Economy: The Austerity Disappearing Act
- More Bank Downgrades in Spain, Germany Pressured, Italy Bails out Monte dei Paschi
- France: 'Ordering Nature Around' Some More and Why the EU May Break Apart
- Cyprus Officially Keels Over, Plus Credit Market Charts
- The Summit of Low Expectations
- Should Austrians Embrace the Euro?
- Spain's Banks, the ECB and Sovereign Ratings, Bailout Rumors and Denials
- From Beijing to Philadelphia – No Joy Anywhere
- Credit Market Charts Update, June 21
- The FOMC Decision
- Gold, A Quick Take
- Expensive Victory in Greece
- Germany and the G-20
- Irredeemable Currency versus Gold, Second Session
- Will France Go the Way of the PIIGS?
- Greek Election Euphoria Proves Short-Lived
- 'Pro Bailout' Parties Win Greek Election, G-20 Summit Begins - What to Expect
- The Rio Summit
- End of Week Credit Market Charts Update
- More Pain in Spain, 'Herculean Tasks' and the Latest from the ECB
- If the ECB Doesn't Print, Its Neighbors Will
- Preparing for the Greek Election
- Euro Area – A Well-Choreographed Circling of the Drain
- The New and Improved Real Estate Investment Model
- The Arbitrageur: Gold Manipulation Conspiracy Theory Revisited
- Pleas for More Spending and Money From Thin Air, Stimulus Failure Unearthed
- Euro Area - The Cacophony Resumes, More Bailouts Are In Train
- Buyer's Remorse in Time Lapse
- Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
- Ruin Spreads Near Famous Ruins
- Meanwhile, in the new Socialist Utopia...
- No Bank Bondholder Left Behind in Spain
- The Methodical Approach to Apocalypse
- The ECB Decision and Germany's Latest Plans
- The Economic Destruction of France Begins
- Woebegone Cooperation and Austerity Successes
- In a Gold Standard, How Are Interest Rates Set?
- The 'Choice' American Voters Face This Year
- The European Cacophony Resumes
- A Bad Week For Risk
- Selected Credit Market Charts
- The Global Economy – Misguided Decoupling Theories and the Difference to 2008
- ► May
- Spain - Everything Suddenly Stops
- The Issue of Morality
- Has the 'Gold Bubble' Popped?
- Housing Inventory
- Panic On the Euro Titanic
- Another Look at Euro Area Capital Flight
- Spain - The Big Squeeze
- Gold and Gold Stocks – End of May Update
- Catch 22 Revisited
- So Long Comrades, and Thanks for all the Shrimp
- Dollar Backwardation
- Ahead of the Euro Area Summit - The Pressure Mounts
- The G8 Pow-Wow: A Weekend At Bernie's
- The US Stock Market – Oversold, But....
- Euro Area Banks – Europe's Zombies On the Brink
- Pay Up Or Else - Tsipras Plays Hardball
- The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality of the New York Times
- Backwardation in Gold And Silver
- Greece: New Elections Called and the Run on the Banks Intensifies
- Euro Area – The Wheels Are Coming Off The Wagon Again
- Political Paralysis in Greece
- Whale of London Speared
- Insolvency Day in Spain
- The Witch Doctor Speaks
- Vacations From Reality
- Greek Chaos Update
- Gold and Gold Stocks, an Update
- Greek and French Elections – Has A New Phase in the Euro Area's Debt Crisis Begun?
- Madness in Spain, Plus Credit Market Charts
- Euro - Area - Worsening Contraction amid Faltering Credit Growth – is Credit Dirigisme on the Way?
- A Barrage of Keynesian Advice for Europe
- Understanding Affordability
- In Defense of the Corporation
- ► April
- Growth versus Austerity – A Phony Debate
- Financial Repression in Italy and Spain's Curiously Low Mortgage Delinquency Rates
- The Trap
- An Open Letter to Steve Keen
- The FOMC Decision
- Their Will Shall Be Tested
- The Euro Area's Economic Downturn Continues Apace
- Wealth Inequality – Spitznagel Gets It, Krugman Doesn't
- The IMF and Europe – Not of One Mind
- The French Election
- Richard Duncan's Faux 'Solution'
- Spain - Its Problems Mount, But No Help is Forthcoming
- A Typical Day in Europe: Oddly Successful Debt Auctions, Tough Talk, Inflation Surprises and Rising Socialist Extremism
- Oil Market Manipulation Silliness
- Argentina Update: YPF Repsol Seized
- Inner-European Capital Flight – A Growing Problem
- Who Wants To Buy Some REOs?
- Miserere Nobis – More Pain In Spain
- Irredeemable Paper Money
- Gold and HUI Revisited
- ECB Tries to 'Calm Markets'
- Is the Waiting Game Over?
- Euro Area Credit Stresses Are Coming Back
- The Unemployment Report and Stocks
- The Blind Spot Surrounding the 2005 'Major Restructuring' of the Goldman/Greek Secret Loan
- Argentina's Totalitarian Economy
- Credit Market Charts Update
- Is A Turning Point At Hand? 'Risk Assets' Fall as Monetary Stimulus Hopes are Dashed
- Failure Is Not An Option
- Spain: Lose-Lose Situations and 'Absurd Ideas'
- Keith Weiner's Open Letter to Ben Bernanke
- The Wolfson Question
- Bundesbank Rejects Dubious Collateral
- ► March
- Central Bank to Defuse Financial Threats It Creates
- Burn Down Detroit?
- Euro Area Stocks: Harbingers of a Bleak Social Mood
- Gold and Gold Sentiment
- LTRO Fail – Euro Area Credit and Money Supply Shrinks
- Greek Ambush
- Spain – Still the EU's Main Fount of Bad News
- Dirty Harry and the Stock Market
- Portugal's Insolvent Town Halls and the Trouble with Greece's New Bonds
- HUI Quick Take
- Pot, Kettle and the Bailout Fund
- The Bernank's Misguided Mission
- Spain Remains in Focus, Credit Market Charts
- Stress Test - FHA
- A Slowdown in China, and Ill-timed Socialist Interventions in Australia
- Geithner Extends Fiscal Incontinence Plea to Europe
- Halfway to Recovery, Three Quarters of the Way to Default; LTRO Exit?
- A Brief Remark on Gold and Bond Market Sentiment
- Party On Dudes! The Latest from Euroland
- Gold & Gold Stocks – An Update
- Spain – The Next Domino Is Getting Ready to Tumble
- Caution: Falling Currencies
- Heroes and Villains - A Paean to the Money Printer-in-Chief
- The FOMC Statement – A Comment on Current Policy and its Effects
- Market Comments, Fear Barometers, Credit Market Charts
- The Congregation of Deadbeats
- Money For Nothing' and Your Chicks For Free ...
- Low Volatility Period Close to Ending? Credit Market Watch, March 12
- Euro Area - The Day After
- Odds and Ends – Updates on Japan, China, Iran
- The Stock Market & Gold – A Brief Update
- Greece 'Saved' Again as the Non-Default Default is Consummated, plus Credit Market Charts
- The ECB Decision, Greek Debt Swap Optimism
- More Monetary Tinkering Is In Train
- The Breaking of A Taboo - An Update on the ECB-Bundesbank Rift
- Debt Swap Deadline for 'Sick Child' Nears, Plus Credit Market Watch
- China's Economy and the Soft versus Hard Landing Debate
- Crude Oil – Nothing to Spare
- No 'Leeway' for Spain's Deficit, but Deficit to Grow Anyway - Plus Credit Market Watch
- A Few Market Observations
- CDS on Greece Continue to Surge - Credit Market Watch, March 2
- A Treaty Only Its Mothers Can Love
- No 'Credit Event' in Greece Just Yet - Credit Market Watch, March 1
- Jeremy Grantham and Karl Marx – The Odd Couple of the Month
- More on Mega Bulk Sales
- ► February
- Credit Market Watch, February 29
- The February LTRO – Flood of Free Money Swells to €530 billion
- G-20 Aid for Europe 'Deferred', More on LTRO 2.01, Credit Market Watch
- Manufacturing A Model Student - Portugal's 'Troika' Review
- Greek PSI Deal Details, Credit Market Watch February 27
- The ECB-G30 conflict
- Gold And Gold Stocks – Same Old Song?
- Fresh Pleas To Abolish Cash
- 'Inflation Excuses' Are Being Prepared
- A Broken Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism? Credit Market Watch
- Why Greece Needs A Nudge In the Right Direction
- Stocks – Revisiting the Valuation Question
- The Age of Kremlinology
- Has Real Estate Hit Bottom?
- Post Greek Rescue Update – LTRO 2.1 A Damp Squib? - Credit Market Watch
- Spain's NPLs
- The Echo Bubble Problem
- Greece 'Saved' Again
- Chess, Poker and Trading
- Variant Perception – A Primer on the Euro Break-Up
- Is There A Bull Market in Stocks?
- The Mortgage Deal - Brilliant
- Stocks vs. Flows
- Credit Market Watch – ECB To Participate in Greek Debt Exchange
- Odds & Ends – Moody's, Crazy Mervyn, Small Business Desperation
- Credit Market Charts and Market Observations
- The European Punishment Union
- Warren Buffett and Gold
- Credit Market Watch - Update
- Euro Area – It Rains More Downgrades
- Bank of Japan – Promises of Inflation and The Cheese That Walks
- An Endless Greek Tragedy? Perhaps Not
- Ad Acta
- Greece – Economy Spirals Down the Drain, Violence Erupts
- BoE and ECB – More 'QE' and The 'Cash Grab'
- Deficit Spending, Monetary Pumping and The Business Cycle
- Greek Debt Talks - A Fine Mess Gets Even Worse
- A Few Additional Remarks on The Stock Market
- Risk Perceptions and Reality
- Greek Debt Negotiations – The Farce Drags On
- The 'Unloved' Stock Market – An Article of Fund Manager Faith
- Occupy Everything
- The Gold Standard Debate
- The January Unemployment Report and Gold – A Game Changer?
- Euro Area Crisis - Papered Over
- US Stock Market - A Brief Update
- Credit Market Watch, February 2 2012
- The Perversions of The Modern Monetary System
- A Really Big Deal
- ► January
- The 'Gold Bubble' In Perspective
- EU's New 'Fiscal Compact' Signed, While Portugal Goes Off the Rails
- More Euro Area Downgrades By Fitch, plus Credit Market Watch, January 30
- Another European Summit – Derailed Before It Even Begins?
- Gold Bonds: Averting Financial Armageddon
- Greek Debt Talks Still in 'Final Stretch', plus Credit Markets Chart Update
- The LTRO Induced Hopium Trance
- The FOMC's New Communication Strategy
- Irregularities in the nomination of Mario Draghi
- Credit Market Watch, January 26
- Mega Bulk Sales - a Lose/Lose Proposition?
- Credit Markets Chart Update, January 25
- Central Banks Stand Ready to Pump
- Wall of Worry? Try 'Mountain Range of Worry'
- Portugal - The Next Greece? The Portuguese CDO
- Greek/Goldman 2001 deal, overlooked aspects, and open questions
- The Euro Area's 'Fiscal Compact': It's All A Giant Waste of Time
- The Latest Euro Area Escapades: Bank Capital Rules Rumors, the Greek Debt Wreck, the ESM Treaty and Monti's Yield Cap Dreams.
- The Market Economy Under Siege
- It has never been easier to qualify for a loan
- The Loan: An Exchange of Wealth for Income
- Euro Area Troubles Back in the Spotlight
- The 'Technical Recession' and the Search for Growth
- Is Capitalism in Danger From People Trading With an Informational Advantage?
- What Are the Markets Discounting? A Review of Recent Developments
- The Road to Socialism
- The Euro Area and the Paradox of Xeno
- REO to Rental - a Good Idea?
- Glimmer of Optimism Doused
- More News on Euro Area Downgrades Emerge – Greek Negotiators Have a Zen Moment
- ECB in Premature Victory Lap, Threat of Downgrades Renewed – Is the Party Over?
- Greece On The Edge of The Precipice - Again
- The Catalonian Blunder
- Some Thoughts on the Euro
- Greek Debt Negotiations Stuck, Cosa Nostra Becomes Italy's Most Liquid Lender
- Inflation: An Expansion of Counterfeit Credit
- Credit Markets Chart Update, Jan. 10
- How Catastrophic Would a Break-Up of the Euro Zone Be?
- Fraying At the Edges – European Credit Markets Remain Tense
- Summit Time – Batten Down the Hatches
- How Can Negative Interest Rates Arise?
- New Twists in Hungarian Drama, the End of the AAA Era and Credit Markets Chart Update
- Understanding the ECB's Balance Sheet Composition
- Euro Area Credit Market Charts Update and A Mixed Bag of News From Euroland
- Euro Area – Summit Inflation Continues Amid Deceptive Calm
- Keynes Was Not Right
- ► December
- ► 2011
- ► December
- What To Expect In 2012
- ECB Balance Sheet Grows Strongly, Bank Collateral Worries Remain
- Euro Area Credit Market Charts - Update
- The Rhetoric of Class Warfare - Punishing Success
- Japan – Land of the Rising Debt
- Bini Smaghi Demands European 'QE', Austria Retains 'AAA' Rating
- Euro Area Credit Market Charts – An Update
- Gold and Gold Stocks – Technical Picture, Fundamentals, Sentiment
- The ECB's LTRO - A Giant Inflationary Push
- IMF Loan Target Missed, Draghi Is Worried, Merkel on Vacation
- Real Estate and the Rule of Law
- The Dear Leader Is No More
- Interventionism vs. Markets – The Struggle Continues
- Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe - And It Ain't A Fountain Either
- A Downgrade Spat, Spain's House Prices Tumble, EFSF Draft Prospectus Released
- The ECB - Europe's Biggest Bad Bank?
- Italy's Bond Market Remains Under Pressure, Angela Merkel's Political Troubles Mount
- The Greek Tragedy – Chaos Beckons
- Euro Area Banks Deleveraging, Credit Market Charts Update
- The Bundesbank and the IMF
- A Brief Comment on the FOMC Decision and US Economic Data
- The 'Tangled Web' and Euro Area Credit Market Charts Update
- The Great Unraveling
- Euro Area Credit Markets Chart Update
- The Great Leap Sideways
- Euro Area Credit Market Charts
- The ECB Decision - A Detailed Analysis
- Euro Area Credit Market Charts
- The 'Tiny Tax' - A Trojan Horse
- Central Bank Disaster Planning
- Operation Bazooka Resizing
- Euro Area: S&P Waves the Downgrade Stick At The Looters Club
- Fixing Freddie and Fannie
- Euro Area – Another 'Big Week' Is On its Way
- Market Observations - Stocks, Bonds, Commodities
- Euro Area Credit Market Chart Update
- The ECB and 'Balance Sheet Recessions'
- Sarkozy and Merkel Ahead of the Euro-Group Summit and a Credit Market Chart Update
- A Pause In The Euro Area Debt Crisis - Fundamentals Remain Weak
- ► November
- Ten Days to 'Solve the Crisis'?
- Euro Area Debt Implosion - A 'Work In Progress'
- Central Banks and Monetary Cranks
- Apocalypse Postponed – For Now
- Euro Area – A Week Filled with 'Event Risk' Lies Ahead
- Location, Location, Location
- China – Can The Planners Do It One More Time?
- Update on US Banks and the Euro Area – Things Look Grim
- Euro Area – Game Over?
- The 'Print or Die' Conundrum
- Betting Against the Euro, Spanish Legerdemain and Vestiges of Sanity
- Teetering On The Edge – A Brief Euro Area Update
- Debt, Money Supply and Economic Growth
- ECB Under Pressure – The Bank Funding Crisis Escalates
- Euro Area - Wrangle Over ECB's Role Continues
- The Crisis Eats Its Way Into The Core
- No Let-Up in the Euro Area's Debt Crisis Yet
- Rescue 'At All Costs' – The Rush Toward the European Super-State Is On
- The Euro Area – False Dilemmas and False Choices
- Meanwhile in Yurp ...
- The Bernank Comes to Town
- Euro Area Chart Update
- Interventionists Are Manning The Barricades
- Italian Titanic hits Iceberg, Technocrats Supposed to Save the Euro
- Addio Cavaliere?
- Germany Rejects Money Printing Again, Berlusconi To be Supervised by International Bureaucrats
- Gold, Gold Stocks and the Stock Market
- The EFSF and Italy, US Payrolls and a Euro Area Chart Update
- ECB President Mario Draghi – A First Impression
- Papandreou Falters
- Euro Area Chart Update
- Euro Area Economy Weakens Further, ECB Cuts Rates and Bernanke's War on Savers
- A Brief Comment on the FOMC Statement
- A Bull Market In Emergency Meetings
- Euro Area: Democracy To Interfere With Financial Engineering
- The Demise of MF Global
- ► October
- That 'Strange Currency' – The Crisis Doesn't Skip A Beat
- The View From the Titanic: Iceberg Still Dead Ahead, Though Slightly Smaller
- A Quick Glance At a Few Charts
- Euro Area Credit Markets – Chart Update
- The Games of Banks and Governments
- Euro Area Summit – A Brief Update
- The Problem of Global Imbalances
- Observations on Recent Developments in Real Estate
- The Latest from the Socialist Commonwealth of Europe
- US Monetary Policy – Disharmony and An Unbroken Will to Plan
- Euro Area Summit: The Art of Going Nowhere Fast
- Euro Area – No Agreement and More Silliness
- The Euro Area Crisis May Be Coming To A Head
- More Euro Area Downgrades and Another Spike In UK CPI
- The Horn of Plenty
- Euro Area – The Bearers of Cold Water
- Crisis? What Crisis?
- Secular Cycles and the Stock Market
- The Fed's Options
- One of the Biggest Stock Market Collapses in History
- Slovakia, Greece, EBA – the Latest from the Euro Area Vaudeville Show
- The Most Stupid Trade of the Decade ?
- The 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests
- The ECB's 'QE Lite' and New Downgrades of Euro Area Sovereigns and Banks
- Real Estate - Light at the end of the tunnel ?
- The ECB and BoE Decisions – Monetary Pumping Resumes
- 'Something Shall Be Done' – Rumors and Speculation in the Euro Area
- Gold – Positive Signals Emerge
- The Post Mortem of 'Turnaround Tuesday'
- Greece On The Brink Again and Banks In Big Trouble
- Establishment Quacks Call For More Money Printing
- The EFSF Leverage Debate, Euro Area Inflation and A Market Update
- Thomas Hoenig's Final Parting Shots
- ► September
- Is A Flood of Money About To Be Unleashed?
- The European Idea and The Eurocacy's Latest Silly Plans
- Ruled By 'Macro'
- Euro Area Cacophony And Market Reaction
- Chartalist Fantasies
- Whither Gold?
- Euro Area Update – More Leverage Mooted Amid Endless Squabbling
- Update on Financial Markets and the Banking Crisis in Europe
- From Breeze to Gale to Hurricane
- Waiting for a Trigger And the Illusions of Bank Accounting
- Remembering Weimar and Oddly Cheerful Greeks
- Euro Area Developments and Financial Markets Update
- Banks Not Going Belly-Up Right Away = Rally
- A European Divorce and A Stressed Banking System
- What Determines the Price of Gold?
- Euro Area Update
- The Crisis Rolls On, Full Steam Ahead
- Gold and Gold Stocks, A Brief Review
- Greece Casts a Pall over Markets
- Chaos Makes A Swift Comeback
- Real Estate in the USA - from Darkness to the Abyss
- A Barrage of Calls For More Interventionism
- Close The The Edge, Down by The River...
- The Production Structure
- A Perfect Storm
- Market Observations – Stocks, Gold, Euro Area Charts
- Euro Area Fun & Games
- B&G Mortgage
- ► August
- More Monetary Experimentation Is On Its Way
- The Sword of Damocles
- US & European Stocks, Money Supply Growth and Gold
- The Rabbit Trick Countdown
- Could the Unthinkable Happen?
- Market Review and Euro Area Update
- Waiting For The Mad Hatter
- US Markets – Stock Market and Precious Metals Update
- Euro Area – The Pressure Remains On
- The Central Planners Fail, Plus A Chart Update
- Anatomy of a Bad Hair Day – Bank Troubles & Recession
- Karl Marx Resurrected – Let's Quickly Bury Him Again
- A Few Remarks on Gold and a Chart Update
- Euro Area - A Deceptive Calm
- The Market Rebound Continues ...
- Space Aliens To The Rescue!
- Gold and Gold Mining Stocks, An Update
- Markets, Banks, Money Supply – An Update
- Welcome Back To The GFC
- A System On The Brink
- The Global Crash Continues
- Praying For A Luxury Miracle
- From Serenity to Chaos
- The Rearguard Battles of the Authoritarian State
- Euro Area Chart Update
- Euro Area – The Party Line Crumbles
- Market Update – Gored Bull
- The End of an Era
- Euro Area – The Crisis Intensifies
- Secular Contractions And Interventionism
- Markets and the Debt Ceiling
- ► July
- Euro Area – The Fat Lady Has Yet To Sing
- The Stock Market and Some Odds & Ends
- Debt, Money Printing and Prosperity
- Euro Area – Another Intervention Doomed to Fail
- The Debt Ceiling Dance
- Euro Area Chart Update
- Euro Area Summit – Our Comment on the Statement
- Euro Area Summit – Misguided Plans and Hopes
- Where's The Fear?
- Euro Area – The Crisis Rolls On
- The EBA's Stress Test of European Banks
- Ireland Greecified
- Addicted to Monetary Heroin
- Euro Area Crisis - A Small Reprieve
- Buon Giorno, Ecatombe
- Stocks and Precious Metals Update
- Ireland, The European Superstate and a Chart Update
- Italy In The Spotlight
- The Subprime Loan Revisited
- The ECB's Rate Decision
- Mamma Mia!
- The Never-Ending Crisis
- Farce Still In Fine Fettle
- In Gold We Trust
- Could the Dollar Be Ready to Rally Soon?
- The Case Against DSK May Be About to Collapse
- Wealth and Income Inequality in the US
- ► June
- Hurrah, We're Saved - Again!
- Tough Vikings
- Greek Farce Update
- 'Deep PASOK' and A Brief Chart Update
- Some Remarks on the Stock Market and Gold
- Out of Control
- Euro Area - A Deepening Crisis
- Why The Market Didn't Like the FOMC Statement
- Alan Blinder and Unemployment
- Papandreou Survives
- Greece Continues to Pose a Major Risk
- Playing With Fire
- America's Killjoys
- Let's Have A Rumor
- A Whiff of Panic Is in the Air
- The Free Market's Market Police
- Euro Area - The Moment of Truth Approaches
- The Edifice of Debt
- Deliberations On The US Stock Market
- Credit Markets – A Gathering Storm
- State-Capitalism And The Banking Cartel
- Bernanke In Denial
- Greek Default Within Hailing Distance
- Gold, Gold Stocks and the Stock Market – A Brief Review
- Re-thinking Real Estate
- The Potemkin Economy
- Support For The Free Market Dwindles
- Australia – Coming In For A Soft Crash Landing?
- ► May
- More Extend And Pretend In Store and A Few Remarks on Stocks
- Some Thoughts On The EU
- Precious Metals Review
- Is Austerity Doomed To Fail?
- Et Tu, Italy?
- The Revival of Chartalism
- Japan's Economy, Threats From the ECB and US Debt Ceiling Woes
- Juncker Has An Idea, Portugal's Banks Get A Subsidy And Irate Mother Hen Lashes Out
- Euro Area Update
- The 'Anti-Austerity' Crusade Of Joseph Stiglitz
- A Few Comments On The Gold Sector
- Euro Area Developments And A Look At Risk Assets
- Open Season On The Squid
- Euro Area – The Waiting Game Continues
- Liquidation In Commodities Resumes
- Meet Europe's 'Radicals'
- Will Greece Leave The Euro-Area Roach Motel?
- Markets Signal Growing Risk Aversion
- Some Thoughts On The Silver Crash
- Central Banks In A Box
- Signs And Portents
- Precious Metals And Mining Stocks – An Update
- ► April
- Japan And The Ministry of Dreadful Dreams
- FOMC To Speculators: The Music Is Still Playing
- The Magic of the Echo Bubble
- Euro Area – The Mountain of Debt Keeps Growing
- Strategies for Default
- Fractional Reserve Banking Revisited, part II
- Looking Into The Abyss
- A Brief Update - April 20
- The Heavy Hand of The State
- Undesirable Meets Unavoidable in the Euro Area
- More On Money and the Fed's Predicament
- Precious Metals Update
- Euro Area Crisis – Is the Reprieve Over?
- Thomas Hoenig's Parting Shot
- Vade Retro, 'Magical Solution'
- Risk Is Growing Like A Weed
- Chart Update, April 9
- Portugal 'Gets the Begging Bowl Out', ECB Hikes Rates
- Moments of Financial Hilarity
- IMF Head Strauss-Kahn Disparages the Free Market
- Euro Area Update – The Crisis Sine Wave
- Argentina on the Cusp of Hyperinflation
- ► March
- Lectures from the Austrian Scholars Conference 2011
- The Federal Open Mouth Committee Is Back in Action
- Fractional Reserve Banking Revisited
- Euro Area Debt Crisis – A Brief Update
- What Should the Bank of Japan Do Now?
- 10 Reasons Why Real Estate May Not Recover For Years
- Shock and Awe in Libya
- Ganging Up on the Yen
- A Proliferation of Black Swans
- Throwing More Good Money After Bad - Euro Area Update
- Apocalypse Now?
- Catastrophe Strikes Japan
- 'Risk Off' Makes a Comeback
- Germany and the PIIGS – Can A Greek Default Be Avoided?
- Of Lost Dignity and Cheap Tricks in Euroland
- Communism - the Failed Experiment, Part III
- Meet Christina Romer's Inner Inflationist
- Bernanke and King Defending Their Policies
- A Crash In Saudi Arabia, Arrogant Eurocrats and a Look at the Markets
- ► February
- Precious Metals – An Update
- Observations on Recent Events
- Unrest in the Middle East and What It Means for the Markets
- The Errors and Dangers of the Price Stability Policy
- The Next Phase Of The Debt Crisis
- Playing With Fire
- The Teflon Market
- The Illusion of Control
- A Blow Against Monetary Rectitude
- Goodbye Mubarak, Hello Debt Crisis!
- Gold – Still Misunderstood
- Market & Economic Observations, February 10
- The Waiting Game Continues
- The Road to Perdition
- Chart Update, February 8
- Market & Economic Observations, February 4
- Egypt, continued
- The Condition Our Condition Is In
- ► January
- Observations On Recent Events
- The Ponzi Scheme Lives On
- A Review of The Policy of Inflation
- Inflation in the U.K.
- Market Update , January 19
- Communism – The Failed Experiment, Part II
- Hurrah, We're Saved (Again) ! Euro Area Credit Watch, January 13
- Communism – The Failed Experiment, Part I
- Credit Watch - A Brief Chart Update for January 11
- Euro Area Credit Watch, January 10 - Portugal Inches Closer To A Bailout
- Ramsey Su's Real Estate Predictions For 2011
- The Coming Collapse of the Welfare State
- Market Observations - January 3, 2011
- ► December
- ► 2010
- ► December
- Euro Area Credit Watch, Dec.29
- Pope Innocent I and the Sack of Rome
- Market Observations, December 20
- Money and Credit – There Is A Difference
- A Brief Comment on the FOMC Decision
- 2010 Year End Real Estate Observations
- Turbulent Times Dead Ahead?
- The Run-Up to World War One
- Market Update, December 13
- ECB Board Members Throw Cold Water on 'QE' – For Now
- Rescued By The Printing Press
- Economic and Monetary Conditions in the United States
- The WikiLeaks 'Affair'
- Uncle Jean-Claude Is Going To Bail US All Out – Really?
- The 'Merkel Crash' – Euro Area Disaster Watch
- ► November
- Stock Market Update, November 29
- The Insider Trading Probe – What Exactly Makes Insider Trading A Crime?
- Euro Area Death Watch – November 25
- Euro Area Disintegration Watch - November 23
- Paul Krugman's New Model
- Ireland Bailed Out – What Comes Next?
- Quantitative Easing Explained
- The European Bailout Union
- The Dominoes Are Toppling
- Robert Zoellick Mentions the Un-Word
- Paul Krugman - It's Never Enough
- Ireland Creeps Closer to Insolvency - Credit Watch, November 9
- The Apostle of Unsound Money
- The FOMC Decision - More Monetary Pumping In Train
- Credit Watch, Euro Area – November 4
- The Myth of War Prosperity
- Credit Watch, November 2
- ► October
- Credit Watch, October 29
- Venezuela – Slowly Circling The Drain
- 'QE2' Turns Into 'Damp Squib' Overnight
- Austerity in the U.K.
- G 20 Meetings – Do They Make Any Sense At All?
- China's Rate Hike – the First of Many to Come?
- Credit Watch – October 20
- Another Lost Opportunity
- The 'Lesson of Japan's History'
- Credit Watch, October 18
- Should the US Government Sell its Gold?
- Paul Krugman Tries to Rewrite History
- Credit Watch, October 13
- Total Chaos
- Currency War, Capital Controls, Trade War
- Market Update – A Bohemian Rhapsody?
- Is this the big crash?
- Credit Watch, October 6
- The Will to Plan
- Krugman and the 'Other Half'
- ► September
- Credit Watch, September 30
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe in Vienna
- Credit Watch, September 27
- The Debate over Hyperinflation
- Credit Watch, September 23
- The Waiting Game
- Translation of the FOMC Announcement, September 21
- Credit Watch, September 20
- China Bashing in High Gear Again
- Credit Watch, September 15
- A brief Market Update, September 14
- A Dose of Buiternomics
- Credit Watch, September 9
- Credit Watch, September 8 – The Troubles Are Back
- Some Ruminations on the Stock Market
- Credit and Market Watch – Euro Area CDS in Retreat
- The Myth of the 'Scientific Monetary Policy'
- Gold Mining Stocks revisited
- ► August
- Credit Watch, August 31
- Paul Krugman and the Invisible Cavalry
- Japan – Still Firmly on the Road to Nowhere
- Bernanke at Jackson Hole
- Credit Watch, August 27
- Credit and Market Watch Special, August 26
- Credit Watch, August 25
- The Debate within the Fed
- The Turmoil in Euro Area CDS Markets Continues
- Credit and Market Watch, August 23
- The ad hoc Policy of Inflation
- The 'Bond Bubble' receives the Siegel Seal of Disapproval
- PIMCO's Bill Gross wants Housing Communism
- Credit Watch
- Thomas Hoenig and the Fed's 'Dangerous Gamble'
- Paul Krugman is wrong again
- Interesting Times Return
- Markets in the Wake of the FOMC Decision
- Tim Geithner's Letter from Mars
- Chart Update, August 10
- Alert: Economy in urgent need of 'better designed' Stiglitz Plan!
- Rational expectations can not stop the boom-bust cycle
- Chart Updates, August 6
- The Gold Mining Sector in the Wake of the Kinross/Red Back Deal
- Next on the Fed's Menu: 'Symbolic QE'
- Chart Update, August 2
- Richard Koo and the 'Balance Sheet Recession'
- ► July
- BIS Gold Swaps Update – the 'Mystery' is lifted
- James Bullard Makes a Plan
- Comrade Blinder is at it again
- The War Racket
- Market Update, July 27
- Tidbits and Charts, July 26
- Fed to Economics Bloggers: You have nothing to say
- Strident 'Double Dip' Denial
- Hungary in Moody's and S&P's sights after giving the boot to the IMF
- Bernanke urges more 'Stimulus Spending'
- Chart Updates, July 22
- Errare humanum est ...
- Ben Bernanke: Will He Turn Stones Into Bread?
- Periphery Watch: The Debt Crisis Still Marches On
- Philip Klapwijk of GFMS comments on BIS gold swaps
- Germany's Hypo Real said to have failed 'stress test'
- Periphery Watch: Hungary ditches Austerity
- Unwelcome Intrusions of Reality
- BP and the Anti-Capitalistic Mentality
- Chart update, July 14
- Good News: Prosperity Is Just Around The Corner!
- More Kremlinology
- A Buy Signal for Gold?
- Moody's downgrades Portugal ...
- Spain's banks borrow record amounts from the ECB
- Rejoinder to Jesse's view of the Austrian School
- The Fed and „QE2“ - will they or won't they?
- Losses become Profits
- A brief look at the markets (Market update, July 12)
- The Problem of Fractional Reserve Banking, Part 3
- The Problem of Fractional Reserve Banking, Part 2
- Chart update, July 9
- The Stress Test Controversy
- Regime Uncertainty
- Central Bank gold swaps with the BIS– how important is this for the gold market?
- Faith in the Impossible
- Periphery Watch: Kiev in debt roll-over trouble
- Fun in the Sun
- The Problem of Fractional Reserve Banking, Part 1
- Chart updates, July 2
- Euro area bailout runs into unexpected snags
- More evidence of economic weakness emerges
- AIG - was its CDS business a scam from the outset?
- ► June
- Moody's finally goes after Spain's credit rating
- Chart updates, June 30
- Alarm! Russian spies spotted!
- Euro Area Drama - calming down?
- A Global Liquidity Squeeze looms
- BP update
- 'Cheap Bailout' Fantasies
- European yield spreads continue to widen
- A grunt from the grave: NAIRU resurrected
- The Kill Switch
- The Greatest Possible Calamity
- A few Chart Updates
- Magical Thinking
- Krugman contra Weber – an update
- Greek Tragedy, the next Act
- A brief look at the Fed
- Prohibition and Secular Bear Markets
- Propaganda from the Engine of Inflation
- Transatlantic Dissension
- Krugman contra Weber
- The Tea Party Phenomenon
- Financial Abyss glimpsed in early May
- Joe Biden wrestling with Large Numbers?
- Spain remains in the Hot Seat
- Dubai, UAE – an update
- Economic Ignorance Lives On
- Currency collapse is good
- More Inflation is on its Way
- The Broken Window Fallacy
- The Great Deception
- Update on Markets
- The Financial vs. the Real Economy
- The Foreclosure King
- Gauweiler's challenge - an update
- Establishment Intellectuals continue to favor more Spending and Inflation
- Update regarding 'Sweden discusses Cash Ban'
- Recent Market Developments
- 'Keynesian endpoint' spotted
- Gauweiler's Challenge
- Hungary - update
- Laffer on Taxes
- Market turmoil continues
- Sweden discusses 'cash ban'
- Hungary and the struggling European periphery
- Dubai - Trouble in Paradise
- Australia's 'Super Profits Rent Tax' on Mining
- A brief update on Spain
- BP on the brink ?
- Short and Long Term Cycles
- ► May
- All Hail Gnarr!
- Some thoughts on gold, part II
- Elephant in Europe's room belatedly spotted
- Interest Rates, Investment and Production – why central planning of interest rates doesn't work
- Some thoughts on gold
- The euro area debt crisis clearly explained ...
- When is the US economy reasonably safe?
- Say ' ¡hola! ' to Spain's banking system
- Monetary conditions in the US
- The stock market becomes emotional again ...
- Government Actions in Times of Emergency
- Politicians vs. markets - part II
- Christina Romer urges more deficit spending
- The failure of deficit spending and inflation
- Entire archive back-on-line
- Some thoughts on the stock market and other 'risk assets'
- Euro area debt crisis - the bailout update
- The euro area debt crisis
- Dress rehearsal for the fully automated crash
- ► December
- ► 2009
- ► 2008
- ► December
- ► November
- Gold stocks and the stock market – an update
- 'Spitting in the wind'
- Why the stock market keeps plunging
- The collapsing value of mortgage debt and the stock market
- A little housekeeping note
- General Motors and the pending car industry bail-out
- Should we return to the gold standard?
- Quo vadis, stock market?
- ► October
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