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• Could Dubai be the trigger?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 127
  Warren Pollock points out that the real danger lies, not in Dubai possibly deciding to default on its sovereign debt, but in the credit default swaps surrounding the debt, which may magnify the problem by 10 - 100+ times. If some of these huge side bets are wild ones not adequately backed by the gamesters capital, off ...
  9 hours ago

• An Overview of Unconventional Monetary Policies

  
  Alpha.Sources blog — Authority: 496
  The excellent research edifice at the Bank of International Settlements have conjured up one of those papers which needed to be written (by Claudio Borio and Piti Disyatat) on the back of the myriad of different monetary policy responses we have observed in the contex of the economic crisis. The abstract and ...
  19 hours ago

• Seizing the Commanding Heights

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 515
   by Jerry O’Driscoll  On the Opinion page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal , George Melloan spells out how government stimulus is stifling lending, crowding out private investment and impeding economic recovery.  He writes that “the credit market has been tilted to favor a single borrower with a huge ...
  1 day ago

• UK GDP since 1948

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Gross Domestic Product is the output of Britain. And these figures show its going down - fast • Get the data Britains economy remained stuck in recession in the third quarter of this year, official figures confirm today, with GDP contracting at a rate of 0.3% between July and September, more slowly than the ...
  1 day ago

• TIME FOR BILLIONS OF QUID PRO QUO’S FROM THE BANKS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 123
  The Bank of England, under the control of its Governor Mervyn King (pictured above) secretly loaned £61.6 billion to 2 banks at the height of the UK financial meltdown last year. Reportedly a “dire financial emergency” meant covert crisis loans were extended to the banks then in difficulty, the Royal Bank of ...
  2 days ago

• Credit Risk Contractors

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
    Credit Risk Contractors · Leading International Bank · Multiple Opportunities · Up to €500 per day This is a challenging position for experienced strong Quantitative Credit Risk Contractors. The contract will last from 6 - 18 months and will use your exposure to Basel and Scorecard ...
  2 days ago

• Credit Risk Contractors

  
  Jobs in Finance — Authority: 154
    Credit Risk Contractors · Leading International Bank · Multiple Opportunities · Up to €500 per day This is a challenging position for experienced strong Quantitative Credit Risk Contractors. The contract will last from 6 - 18 months and will use your exposure to Basel and Scorecard ...
  2 days ago

• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 479
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
  2 days ago

• Global warming may increase chances of civil war in Africa

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 24 (ANI): A new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, US, has suggested that climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades.The study, conducted by researchers at UC Berkeley as well ...
  2 days ago

• More Quantitative Easing by Fed has Markets Spooked About Inflation

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 571
  Well that was a short dollar rally. December gold futures hit $1,174 in intraday trading before settling down $1,164.80. That was still up nearly two percent. And gold is now up almost 32% on the year. Copper, silver, and oil were up as well. But then everything is up this year, at least since the markets started ...
  3 days ago

• Thinking About Quantitative Data Feed Optimization (DFO)

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 537
  When thinking about data feed optimization (DFO), the first step we talk about at SingleFeed is proper engine set up and feed delivery.  Did your products actually go live on the shopping engines?The second step in DFO is the quality of the data feed.  Are you includingWhen thinking about data feed optimization ...
  3 days ago

• A Daily Breakdown Of Thanksgiving Week History

  
  Quantifiable Edges — Authority: 532
  Seasonal influences are often cited around the Thanksgiving holiday. Therefore I decided I would examine returns during Thanksgiving week as well as the Monday following. Below is how the SPX has performed around Thanksgiving over the last 48 years. Monday and Tuesday don’t seem to carry a sizable edge. ...
  3 days ago

• IMF head: World economy still needs support

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn says it is too early to abandon stimulus measures • IMF managing director softens his opposition to the Tobin tax at the CBI annual conference The head of the International Monetary Fund has warned that the global economy is still in a "highly fragile" state following the financial ...
  3 days ago

• St Louis Fedhead Bullard: We Should Just Keep Buying Up Stuff.

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 141
  im going to ignore the Geithner ears. too easy. James Bullard has seriously gone out of his mind. Hes gone, no use trying to reign him back in, hes drifting out there somewhere between monetary madness and lucid dreaming, pushing down the gas and trying to get us the hell out of here. Bloomberg : Federal ...
  3 days ago

• Is Gold In A Bubble?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 135
  ``Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium." - Murray N. Rothbard, What Has Government Done to Our Money? In this ...
  4 days ago

• The Role and Characteristics of Marketing Research into Business

  
  Bloggy Business Today — Authority: 462
  Marketing research is a marketing process that includes extensive variety of activities such as systematic collection of data; recording; and data analysis regarding concern subjects in relation to marketing products and services. Each process is important and must conduct in same manner. This systematic process can ...
  4 days ago

• Why The "Output Gap" Inflation Model May Be Fatally Flawed

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  Could it be that the fundamental economic indicator that is gospel not only to Goldman Sachs , but to Ben Bernanke in estimating and determining monetary policy , the output gap , provides a flawed reading of the economy? As a reminder, Ben Bernanke has repeatedly expressed little regard for either commodity ...
  5 days ago

• U-M study: No new jobs in Michigan until 2011

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 650
  A new report from the University of Michigan’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics concludes that while we may be nearing the end of the worst decline, job growth in Michigan will continue to be virtually non-existent until 2011 — and it won’t exactly be going like gangbusters after that. The Detroit News ...
  6 days ago

• Time for banks to wean themselves off cheap money, ECB president says

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Jean-Claude Trichet said it was time to unwind some of the measures that propped up the banking system during the financial crisis European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet warned today that banks risk becoming addicted to cheap cash provided by central banks in their efforts get them lending again . ...
  6 days ago

• Sterling Lower in Currency Trading

  
  Forex Bull — Authority: 155
  U.K. pound edges lower in forex trading Sterling is a bit lower in currency trading today, thanks to the latest from the Bank of England
  6 days ago

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