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• The Washington Post about "Politicizing the Fed"

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 137
  "He has a point. The key to a central banks power is credibility, which in turn hinges on the perception and reality that it is focused on setting interest rates and not doing the short-term bidding of politicians. Under Paul A. Volcker, the Fed broke the back of inflation in the 1980s through sustained high interest ...
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• Influential US Senate committee proposes overhaul of the country’s regulatory architecture that would strip powers from the Federal Reserve and create a single banking regulator

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 137
  FT: US banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers, Nov. 10, 2009 An influential US Senate committee has proposed a sweeping overhaul of the country’s regulatory architecture that would strip powers from the Federal Reserve and create a single banking regulator. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, ...
  9 hours ago

• Senator Dodd Calls For ‘Sweeping New Government Powers’ To Prevent Another Economic Collapse

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 565
  More fairytales coming out of Washington today so as you and I can sleep better at night knowing the Great Nanny State is watching over us. From the Associated Press’ Anne Flaherty: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd on Tuesday called for sweeping new government powers to prevent another economic ...
  18 hours ago

• George Soros about the need for a new financial architecture

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 137
  Gulf Times: World needs new financial architecture, by George Soros/New York, Nov. 8, 2009 Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organisation: international capitalism and state capitalism. ...
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• Banking on the State Support and vice versa

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Andrew Haldane once again. I have been covering his works in the crisis and all have been excellent reading ( here , here and here ). In his recent paper cum speech  co-written with  Piergiorgio Alessandri  he tells you how banks have changed over the years: Historically, the link between the state and ...
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• Greece Statistical system as bad as India’s

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  Eurointelligence daily edition of 10 Nov 2009 has this interesting titbit: EU  finance ministers outraged about Greece FT Deutschland has an article about the sheer sense of outrage felt, and expressed, by EU finance ministers about the situation in Greece, where the new government suddenly revised upwards ...
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• S&P Price Oscillator Is Three Standard Deviations From Mean: 99% Outlier Market

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Sentiment Traders Price Oscillator reading just went off the charts. Earlier, it hit a value of 72%, an 18% increase, and a number which falls between two and three standard deviations from the mean : a 1% outcome assuming a normal distribution. As a reminder the price oscillator is a very common, reliable ...
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• Central Bankers Fears As They Watch The Plummeting Dollar

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Barclays, whose primary goal these days seems to be to enjoin the Fed in ruining the dollar (talk to a gummy bear salesman from Barclays and you will get a "short the dollar" pitch), presumably in order to make even more money on their alleged huge short dollar prop exposure, is out with a new note from currency ...
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• Central Banks Avoid Accumulating More Dollars

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 565
  The long-term prospects for the U.S. dollar don’t look too good, as other nations increasingly avoid the greenback in favor of other currencies— and gold. From Reuters’ Steven Johnson on November 3: Central banks with trillions of dollars in reserves that are already stepping up euro and yen purchases will ...
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• The Cost Of The 60% Market Move; The Benefits Of Free Liquidity

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  There is now no question that the sole, undisputed factor driving credit and equity markets is the dollar destructive collusion between the Fed and the major global central banks. As long as the Fed is dead set on inflation, and is willing to throw trillions of free liquidity at any problematic flare up, and is happy ...
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• Add Meir Kohn’s works to your reading list

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  I don’t remember which blog/article pointed to a paper by Meir Kohn . He is an eco professor at Dartmouth who has done tonnes of work on financial history to understand whether it helps in economic growth. What is amazing is his phd was in Operations Research. He took up economic/financial history as he was ...
  2 days ago

• We Can Expect More and More People to Want to Own Gold

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  Meanwhile, gold hit a new record high yesterday. Its at 1,089. More on gold, below. The Dow went up too - 203 points yesterday. Its over 10,000 again. Not very impressive for a bear market bounce. A 50% retracement would take the Dow to 10,300. But you have to give the bounce credit. Its been going on since March. ...
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• The Feds Nemesis: Exters $2 Quadrillion Of "Liquidity"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Another representation of what will likely become a prevalent topic in upcoming days: the Exter pyramid. When the system works, the various layers are in equilibrium. When the system is broken, like it is now, the Fed and all Central Banks try to refill the pyramid from the bottom-up with every single dollar they ...
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• Weekend Reading

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  "Im doing Gods work." Meet Mr. Goldman Sachs ( TimesOnline ) [Goldman getting trading tips from the big guy himself explains their Q3 P&L] Obamas failure in his core mission: curbing unemployment, which is now 50% higher than a year ago ( NYT ) Expect several dozen TV appearances on Monday to explain what ...
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• New paper about the consequences of the Lehman failure

  
  MarketObservation.com — Authority: 137
  William Sterling of Trilogy Global Advisors has an interesting new paper on the abrupt changes in financial markets subsequent to Lehmans bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. Looking Back at Lehman: An Empirical Analysis of the Financial Shock and the Effectiveness of Countermeasures, Paper Contributed for a ...
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• Rediscovering Gold’s Monetary Appeal

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 133
  ``Gold is a speculation. But it is a speculation on a certainty: the debasement of the currency.”-James Grant For some rising gold prices has been gladly cheered upon. For the gold is “barbaric metal” camp, rising gold prices account for as an intense denial to the vulnerability of their interventionist ...
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• Important News - Nov. 07

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Fannie Mae…up to $200 billion needed The Washington-based company, which posted $101.6 billion in losses over the previous eight quarters, has already tapped $44.9 billion from the $200 billion emergency lifeline. “They’re going to need that $200 billion in capital, if not more, when this thing’s all said ...
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• Probability of deflation in US has become fairly small

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  In this new short note from FRBSF economist analyses inflation expectations in US. Predicting the course of inflation is one of the most important challenges facing monetary policymakers. Useful aids to such prediction are the measures of expected future inflation obtained from prices in government bond markets. ...
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• Importance of knowing and understanding Central Bank Laws

  
  Mostly Economics — Authority: 501
  When we think about central bank functions, it is important to know that their functions are governed by an Act/Law etc. The act determines what a central bank should do, objectives etc. This is because central banks are created by governments and legislation is a way to tell the bank what to do and what not to do. ...
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• Why does China encourage the population to buy gold? Why does the US not encourage the population to buy gold?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Now the G20 is the supreme body that is ordained to saving the world from the impending depression. Their task share is not yet made public. But they are working unison for over a year now and it is only growing in strength. They have to jointly fight that the global imbalance is balanced. In my view, they have ...
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