U.S. Consumer Credit: Total Collapse
De-leveraging: ON
Consumer credit fell by a record $21.6 billion, or 10 percent at an annual rate, to $2.5 trillion.
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Recent Entries - Greek Government Bond Market
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- Sterling Today
- Sovereign Risk Jolts Markets
- Monthly Trading Volumes in Greek Government Bonds
- Eurostat Statement on Greece’s Use of Derivatives
- The Bank Lending Channel Revisited
- The Future of Public Debt
- Systemic Risk: How To Deal With It?
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- Papers => FRBNY
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- Scariest Chart EVER: Loss Severity, Subprime First-Lien
- Google CDS => AAA
- Empty Creditor Claim
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- Quotes of the Day
- Fed’s MBS Program
- Variability in Nucleus Accumbens Activity Mediates Age-Related Suboptimal Financial Risk Taking
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- Worth Reading
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- Scorecard: Gross National Savings (% of GDP)
- Withdrawal and Expulsion from the EU and EMU: Some Reflections
- Review of the Differentiated Nature and Scope of Financial Regulation
- Link of the Day
- Summary of a Workshop on Recent Advances in Modelling Systemic Risk Using Network Analysis
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- The Mechanics of a Graceful Exit: Interest on Reserves and Segmentation in the Federal Funds Market
- [Update] Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves?
- Basel Committee: Consultative Proposals to Strengthen the Resilience of the Banking Sector
- The World’s Riskiest Sovereign Debt (Update)
- The World’s Safest Sovereign Debt (Update)
- Liquidity Hoarding and Interbank Market Spreads: The Role of Counterparty Risk
- Sovereign and Bank Credit Risk Premia during 2008-09
- Macro Stress Tests and Crises: What Can We Learn?
- Dollar Appreciation in 2008: Safe Haven, Carry Trades, Dollar Shortage and Overhedging
- Interbank Offered Rate: Effects of the Financial Crisis on the Information Content of the Fixing
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J'hésite
Chers lecteurs, mon temps et mon énergie sont comptés et j'ai envie de parler de trois sujets, mais ne peut dans l'immédiat en traiter qu'un. Quelles sont vos préférences? J'hésite ... [Link]
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Unlike most people who analyze investments, I think there are periods of time where domestic long-only investors may be consigned to low or even negative returns. As investors, we are ... [Link]
A Dash of Insight
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Money Supply
Splitting supervisory and monetary roles: a global view
The Bank of England does it. The Bank of Japan does it. So why can’t the Fed do it? Ben Bernanke spent the afternoon arguing before a House committee that ... [Link]
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September 8th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
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September 8th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
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