…the talk about China, its currency, and the question of the Chinese “financing the U.S. deficit”, the media always forgets about Japan! From the FT: One of the largest buyers…

…in spite of the bubbles and wealth talk in China, confidence hasn’t been this low since 2003. In Brazil, consumer confidence is back to peak levels before the onset of…

…NAME?… This isn’t “standing on the shoulders of Kindle.” It’s giving the Kindle half a nod from across a ballroom full of other people you’d rather talk to…. What about…

…flat on the table or held in their hands are free to look at each other and talk and share, it is just a totally different look and feel both…

…a threat to democracy. His triple key proposal in the talk was a consensus among the Fed, Treasury and FDIC. Further, he’d require notice to Congress, and an ex post…

…and see the points at which the Federal Reserve finally starts addressing the issues: they talk in 2005—Alan Greenspan’s last year—begin hearings under Bernanke in 2006, and only take action…

…Best of All Possible Worlds while Finance never is; how tax and regulatory arbitrage drives structures and products; how transaction costs are never minor; how intermediation drives investment in specific…

…manage it….That was, after all, the “right thing to do” as they had been taught by their parents and grandparents. But then the bailouts with taxpayer money started. The “too…

…credit-fed consumer binging happening “over here,” there were no pics, no war bonds, and certainly no war taxes to pay for it. Instead, we actually cut taxes year after year…

…without someone else being in a position to start undoing or changing those policies. Reagan and GW both cut taxes their first year in office; Clinton raised taxes in his…