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• Clouds over Greece.

  
  fxmadness.com — Authority: 467
  Couple of weeks after Dubai scare, concerns over credit worthiness of other small countries are spreading. Greece, which had been on a hot seat for some time over its fiscal policies, just had its sovereign credit downgraded. The rating on countries government bonds was  cut by Fitch Ratings to BBB+ and the two ...
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• End the Fed? Or End the Market Economy?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 546
  End the Fed?  Or End the Market Economy? By Shamus Cooke When Republican Congressman Ron Paul recently introduced legislation to audit the Federal Reserve, diverse sections of the political spectrum applauded. And rightfully so.  The Fed’s role in the still-developing bank bailouts is one of utter secrecy; the ...
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• Gerald Celente Says Bernanke Has Devalued The Dollar And Destroyed The Economy

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Gerald Celente Says Bernanke Has Devalued The Dollar And Destroyed The Economy Politics / Central Banks Dec 08, 2009 - 03:22 AM By: Submissions Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute is strongly opposed to the idea of Ben Bernanke seeking and getting a second term as head of the Federal Reserve. Celente ...
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• New stimulus package.

  
  fxmadness.com — Authority: 467
  After enduring its worst recession since World War II, Japan’s economy grew for the second straight quarter in the July-September period, expanding at an annualized pace of 4.8 percent. It was the strongest growth in more than two years thanks to previous stimulus measures and improvement in global demand. However, ...
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• Andy Xie: “Whole world is drinking poison to quench the thirst”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 686
  Andy Xie believes ultra-low interest rates in the U.S. and elsewhere are fuelling an asset price bubble which will pop dramatically in 2012.  In his view, the policies of the world’s central banks are reckless and will lead to worse down the road. Bloomberg quotes him as follows: “There is a Chinese saying ...
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• Ben Bernanke at the Economic Club of Washington DC

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 143
  Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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• Mobile Banking basics and issues

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  RBI Dep Governor, K.C. Chakrabarty gives nice insights into mobile banking/commerce. It is a good reality check on mobile-banking from an Indian perspective. We usually think using technology should make it very easy to provide fin services, but there are many risks as well. He draws experiences from international ...
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• Central Bank Rate Decisions Outlook

  
  CFD Trading | Contracts For Difference | CFD News and Signals — Authority: 142
  Federal Reserve Rate Decision Outlook: Rate hike expectations for the Federal Reserve remain muted as commentary by Chairman Bernanke and others alluded to a prolonged period of “exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period.” Prior to raising the target rate, Fed officials are likely ...
  2 days ago

• The Coming Banking Crisis (it could be worse than todays’s)

  
  Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks — Authority: 503
  David Stevenson, Associate Editor at MoneyWeek, UK , offers his analysis of the current state of British Banks and the implications for the global economy for the next few years. David Stevenson ( MoneyWeek, UK ): It’s not been a great week for British bankers. There’s the ongoing spat between RBS and HM ...
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• Riksbank Balance sheet expansion and were negative interest rates useful?

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  It is balance sheets gaore. All central bankers are busy explaining how they used their balance sheets in this crisis. See Bank of England , Fed , Comparison between Fed, Bank of England and Bank of Japan  and other posts on the topic here . Now, Svante Öberg, Riksbank’s First Deputy Governor explains how ...
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• Bottom up vs Top Down Macroeconomic thinking

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  Paul De Gruawe  has written a brilliant post in voxeu  on exciting things to come in economics. The post is a summary of the paper he has written on the subject. Here is a presentation on the paper. He says The extraordinary assumptions of macroeconomic models have left the outside world perplexed about what ...
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• RBI on financial outreach tour

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 432
  I had just pointed  a while ago that Charlie King, Bank of England’s Deputy Governor is going around UK to explain quantitative easing and BoE role in the crisis. I came across this Business Standard news story  which says RBI top bosses (including Governor and 4 deputy Govs) are on a financial outreach tour ...
  3 days ago

• Without the government’s extraordinary rescue measures, the entire financial system was on the verge of collapse (Bloomberg)

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 143
  click for larger image Source: Reuters Rolfe Winkler shows that this financial crisis was as bad for banks, resp. worse, as the Great Depression: Reuters: Geithner: “none…would have survived”, by Rolfe Winkler, Dec. 6, 2009 Geithner acknowledges that banks would definitely not have survived without ...
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• Gold: Technical Correction Before the Final Frontier

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 141
  Gold fell for the first time during last week, off 4% on Friday to $1,162.40 an ounce, the biggest drop since Dec. 1, 2008 after the new U.S. jobs data showed unexpected strength. The Dollar rallied against rival currencies while traders reversed the “Sell Dollar/Buy Gold” strategy. ( Fig. 1 ) The Dollar’s ...
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• No one questions why the dollar is set to raise.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Suffice to say as the dollar rises any attempt to increase interest rates will multiply the effects of a strong dollar.The fed cannot lower interest rates so if the dollar takes off with a lot of velocity the effects had better be good and not bad because the fed is all out of bullets. As investors sell off gold a ...
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• Placing a huge burden of debt

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 143
  click for larger image Robert H. Frank tries to explain that huge deficits are not necessarily bad for the economy and for our grandchildren: NYT: How to Run Up a Deficit, Without Fear, by Robert H. Frank, Dec. 5, 2009 "It’s a pity, because there are really only three basic truths that policy makers need to ...
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• India’s high growth offset by rising food inflation (Comment)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Sushma RamachandranThe Indian economy’s 7.9 percent growth in the second quarter of this fiscal has taken everyone by surprise, but rising food inflation, which has seen the daily grocery bill shoot up sharply, has dampened some of the euphoria.Those taken unawares by the high growth included economic pundits, ...
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• Euro: It’s Still Mostly About the Dollar

  
  Forex - Foreign Exchange Blog — Authority: 148
  It’s been a while since I last wrote about the Euro (October 26: Euro Optimism (And not just Dollar Pessimism)). That’s because my perspective recently has been mainly Dollar-centric; I continue to believe that much of the recent movement in forex markets (with the exception of certain cross rates) can best be ...
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• The role of the Fed contd

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 143
  Vincent Reinhart takes a stand for the Fed not being a regulator itself: Washington Post: The right role for the Fed, by Vincent Reinhart (resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute), Dec. 3, 2009 "I have generally supported the Federal Reserves actions to combat the financial crisis. But I take ...
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• Global Central Banking Bureaucracy And Performance

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 133
  The Economist chart below shows of the bureaucracy or the ratio of number of people employed by the worlds major central banks relative to the population. According to the Economist , ``AMERICAS Federal Reserve may be the most important central bank in the world, but it has a smaller staff than the Reserve ...
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