by Rebecca Wilder Global slowdown underway – it’s more than the Japanese supply chain disruptions The global economic rebound is slowing markedly. With a tightening bias in emerging markets and…
…deposits, lines of credit, commercial loans, IPOs that are often used in part to pay off debt, and the like. Normal course of business options, with the selection influenced by…
For all of our economic problems here in the US, a simple measure of ‘misery’ illustrates that US households are less miserable in March 2011 than those in the Euro…
…finance 40.3bn in 2012, up from the 11 bn required in 2011. Furthermore, they’ll need to issue debt with longer maturity than the 3-month bills they’ve been marketing this year….
From his column in today’s FT: Even this is too simple, once one allows for banking: Ireland’s net debt was a mere 12% of GDP in 2007 In other words,…
…Synthetic Structures: The trader then went on to tell me that Commercial Bank of Korea would sell credit default protection on bonds issued by the Commercial Bank of Korea. “That’s…
Not certain this link will work, but at Interfluidity, SRW replies to Karl Smith, closing with a sentiment with which I am very much in sympathy: It is not technocratic…
Echoes of Japan, echoes of the Great Depression. One of the few economists who knows history closes a post by presenting the proper context for the choices: A quick exit…
by Linda Beale Irish Bailout–impact on taxes uncertain crossposted with Ataxingmatter As plans for the $100 billion bailout of the Irish economy and banking system by the European Commission, International…
The NYT notes this morning: Ireland Will Apply for Bailout Package Irish finance minister Brian Lenihan confirmed today that Ireland had formally applied to Europe and the International Monetary Fund…