…some illustrations of the polarizing of bond markets that’s coincident with the euro area bond crisis. (Notice I do not say currency crisis because it’s really the bond markets that…

…will depend not just on the level of outstanding debt but also on interest rates of various maturities and the timing of the turnover of the debt as existing bonds…

I thought that the whole point of fiscal austerity was to turn the balance of trade and capital flow within the Euro area: debtors becoming savers and capital flows out…

…Eurozone as per the Lisbon Treaty. Rebecca Wilder Update: It should be noted that Lisbon allows a country to leave the EU, of which the Eurozone is (effectively) a subset….

…euro assets $23.6 billion in new “other currency” assets Of note, the quarterly increase in euro assets is the largest since Q2 2009. Central banks saw the weak eurodollar as…

…can drop its financial deficit without incurring behemoth debt burden growth (in the case of the Eurozone, the term “burden” actually applies since Greece, nor any one economy, can print…

…with student debt to those households without student debt; as Chopra remarked, 30 year olds with no history of student debt are more likely to have mortgage debt than those…

…of outstanding debt. The US Treasury issues debt with maturities as short as one month and as long as 30 years. Short-maturity debt requires frequent rolling-over of the debt which…

…depend on the interest rates of various maturities, the timing of the turnover of the debt as existing bonds mature, and when new debt must be sold. If interest rates…

Today Eurostat released their estimate of Euro area growth for the first quarter of 2011. The economy grew smartly, or 0.8% on the quarter on a seasonally- and working day-…