Archive for June, 2009:

What’s Happening Today: Tuesday, June 30

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Erin Geiger Smith }
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Categories : All, Clusterstock
Macro 9:00 AM:  Consumer Confidence 9:00 AM:  S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index 9:45 AM:  Chicago PMI Earnings Sealy Corp. (ZZ) (After Market)   All times ET. Get This Delivered To Your Inbox You can get this dropped in your inbox every morning as The Daily Precap. It's simple. It's convenient. ...Read More »

10 More Madoff Minions To Be Charged

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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Yesterday we put together a list of Madoff's Little Helpers, the various feeders and inner-circle dwellers that investigators may go after next. Well, it sounds like we may not have to wait that long: AP: A person familiar with the investigation said ...Read More »

Yes, Wall Street Had A Blowout Quarter

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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After the major banks reported solid profits in Q1, the question on everyone's mind was: can it be repeat. The answer is yes, but maybe just for one more quarter. As the quarter rolls to an end, WSJ reports what many others ...Read More »

New Papers on International Finance: Crises, Puzzles, and Exchange Rates

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Menzie Chinn }
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Categories : Econbrowser, Money
Summertime is conference season, especially for those of us who don't live close to a major airport hub. The first conference I attended was the NBER's International Seminar on Macroeconomics, co-organized by Lucrezia Reichlin and Ken West. The conference was ...Read More »

New Papers on International Finance: Crises, Puzzles, and Exchange Rates and

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Menzie Chinn }
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Summertime is conference season, especially for those of us who don't live close to a major airport hub. The first conference I attended was the NBER's International Seminar on Macroeconomics, co-organized by Lucrezia Reichlin and Ken West. The conference was ...Read More »

Unsolicited Advice to Makers of Computers

{ Posted on Jun 30 2009 by Rdan }
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Categories : All, Angry Bear
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How To Avoid Banking Overdraft Fees

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by author }
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Categories : All, Money Crashers
There are many things that I hate paying for in life, but bank fees are definitely in my top three for most hated expenses. When you deposit your money into a commercial bank, you are already doing them a ...Read More »

Yemenia Airways Airbus 310 Crashes In Indian Ocean

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by Joe Weisenthal }
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Details remain scant: Reuters: An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people on board, a senior government official said on Tuesday. "We don't know if there are any ...Read More »

Inflation and You: Partners In Freedom

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by Tim Cavanaugh }
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Categories : All, Reason Magazine - Economics
If federal debt is so scary, why do people keep buying it? The panic I tried to spread over U.S. Treasury bonds earlier this month has gone nowhere. After breaking 4%, the yield on the 10-year Treasury has dropped ...Read More »

Greg Mankiw on Health Care Reform

{ Posted on Jun 29 2009 by Amanda Carey }
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Categories : All, Reason Magazine - Economics
Harvard economist and former George W. Bush adviser N. Gregory Mankiw wrote an excellent op-ed for the New York Times this weekend about President Obama's public health care plan. Mankiw writes:Even if one accepts the president's broader goals of ...Read More »
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