by cactus Foreclosures Are Not the Problem. Those Who Build Financial Time Bombs, and Those Who Pick Them Up, Are the Problem I hesitate to disagree with Hilzoy – she…

…over 30’ (until of course we started turning 30 in 1976). Did we deserve being called self-absorbed, I daresay we did. But did we deserve the label of ‘selfish’. Well…

…return signal will be Doppler shifted. The Doppler problem is a frequency pass filter problem which is has been solved for about a century and such that modern electronic equipment…

…you use a postage label purchased at a USPS customer service window or vending machine, the date on the label is the postmark. This is the USPS recommended way to…

An explanation of over-reaction to new data starts with a principal agent model. The idea is that the forecasts are made by agents who are trying to impress people who…

…paying off all the principal going forward. Because as noted in a previous post in a Steady State Social Security system principal NEVER needs to be paid down, instead all…

…when interest and principal were honored down to the next to the last dime or as they are being honored TODAY in respect to the DI Trust Fund which has…

…current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities. The Fed announcement is NOT a second version of quantitative easing (QE2). Quantitative…

…problematic from tax and regulatory perspectives. Swaps, CDOs and other securitization instruments continue to be traded between counterparties without the widespread knowledge of important market information to inform the trades….

…http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r49_nOHQG4QdHuwcbMGmP0Q The column fourth from the Right is labeled Trust Fund Ratio and if graphed would show a perfect shape, a Trust Fund topping out with a ratio of 375…