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Over the last few months I have written a lot about the global financial crisis. My posts have focused on specific events as news has broken, ranging from a programming bug by Moody’s to the enormous US bailout plan and Government guarantees from Ireland to Australia. Here I will instead take a broader perspective and provi (Read More)
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Asian markets were smashed today and Europe is following suit: everyone seems to have decided that the dream is over!. (Read More)
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Andrew Lahde, the hedge-fund manager who quit after posting an 870% gain last year, said farewell to clients in a letter that thanks stupid traders for making him rich and ends with a plea to legalize marijuana. (Read More)
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Since the damage wrought by the global financial crisis appears to have led to a revival of the ideas of Keynes, here are a few of his pearls of wisdom. (Read More)
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A look at the views of some of the senators who opposed the bailout. "Their concerns spanned a panorama of issues: frustration over the lack of long-term regulatory changes in the legislation; alarm that $700 billion in taxpayer money would be at risk; anger that the Treasury secretary would not be subject to more stringent (Read More)
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In the latest development in the ongoing train-wreck that is global financial markets, the Irish Government has stepped in to guarantee deposits and debt of all Irish Banks. This is an extraordinary step to take and reflects a banking system that is truly broken. Finance, particularly banking, is built on trust more than la (Read More)
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