2017-11-19 02:04
Just thought I'd get that out there after watching Ian Bremmer on Charlie Rose (long sweep of history and all that). Clearly, I'm not the first, but still... Thinking about subscribing… Read More
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How 18 Years of Easy Money Have Changed the World
2016-10-07 16:20
Don't know what might appear here in the days, weeks, or months ahead, but figured I'd see if the old blog still works. It seems to Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Please update your bookmarks, RSS readers, or any other means that you might have used to read what is written here because The Mess That Greenspan Made has moved to:http://timiacono.comIt w… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It's been exactly five years since publication began at this blog and, if all goes well, this will be the second-to-last post at this location since a new and better self-hosted blog has bee… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
In a bit of irony that is quite appropriate for today, the five-year anniversary of this blog (more on that in an hour or so), it looks like the rental home in Southern California - where we… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Well, it looks like many more billions of dollars will be spent to aid the nation's housing market in what is, in large part, an ultimately futile attempt to keep home prices above where the… Read More
2010-03-26 13:48
As compared to activity last year at this time it wasn't much, but recent additions to the gold holdings at the SPDR Gold Shares ETF (NYSE:GLD) are certainly a move in the right direction if… Read More
2010-03-26 13:22
EU Steers Greece to IMF, Pledges Loans as Last Resort - BloombergObama To Order Lenders To Cut mortgage Payments For Unemployed - HuffPoJPMorgan, Lehman, UBS Named as Conspirators in Muni Bi… Read More
2010-03-25 23:03
Left sitting in my draft folder for a few days are these thoughts from Peter Schiff about the former Fed chairman following his 48-page defense of monetary policy last week. Now seemed like… Read More
2010-03-25 19:53
Toward the end of this New York Times story about the Social Security "trust fund" experiencing net withdrawals this year for the first time are a few words from former Fed chairman Alan Gre… Read More
2010-03-25 19:16
Stan Humphries, the chief economist at Zillow.com talked to Aaron Task of Tech Ticker and inadvertently ended up generating the somewhat sensational headline that now accompanies the related… Read More
2010-03-25 15:56
More evidence of how wacky things have become in today's real estate market comes via the overlap of the expiring Federal homebuyer tax credit of $8,000 with local versions of the same, in p… Read More
2010-03-25 14:05
The CFTC (Commodities Futures Trading Commission) is meeting today to discuss the trading of futures and options in metals markets and the possible use of prophylactics, but not the kind of… Read More
2010-03-25 13:39
TOP STORIESMerkel Sets Greek Terms, Calls IMF-EU Aid Last Resort - BloombergEuropean Central Bank Blasts Merkel on Greece - Spiegel OnlineUS CFTC faces naysayers on metals trade limit idea … Read More
2010-03-25 00:45
The lone dissenter at the last two Fed meetings, Kansas City Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig, talks to Fox Business news about, among other things, the perils of short-term interest… Read More
2010-03-24 17:59
One of the things that many people go through their entire lives without ever realizing is that conditions haven't always been the way they remember them to be. Due to the length of a typica… Read More
2010-03-24 15:19
The Commerce Department reports(.pdf) that new home sales reached all-time record lows last month, below the levels seen in early-2009 at the height of the financial market crisis.Sales of n… Read More
2010-03-24 15:16
It's at times like this for situations like the one in Greece where indecision seems to be more harmful than making any decision at all. Bail them out, kick them out, just do something. In t… Read More
2010-03-24 14:17
There's an interesting new website called Blytic that has all kinds of economic data for those who dabble in this sort of thing and, after speaking with its creator yesterday (who is also th… Read More
2010-03-24 13:23
TOP STORIESFitch Downgrades Portugal on Budget Concerns - CNBCGermany Seems to Signal a Compromise on Greece - NY TimesBank of America to start reducing mortgage principal - Reuters TARP wat… Read More
2010-03-23 23:50
As usual, when the gold price languishes for a while, it tends to get bashed by those who don't understand it and think that, surely, after ten years and a 300+ percent gain, there can't be… Read More
2010-03-23 20:11
Well, it looks like they're really going to have something to discuss this Thursday and Friday when the European Union meets to talk about what the group can and can not do to help Greece wi… Read More
2010-03-23 14:17
The National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes fell 0.6 percent in February after a drop of more than 7 percent in January and sales are now at their lowest leve… Read More
2010-03-23 13:58
The Financial Times reports that Germany is not backing down from last week's tough talk about a bailout, recent charges by Greece that German banks are profiting from the crisis no doubt on… Read More
2010-03-23 13:31
Martin Feldstein talks to Bloomberg News about, among many other things, the possibility for a double-dip recession in the U.S., an event that he believes is a "significant risk".Click to pl… Read More
2010-03-23 13:07
TOP STORIESGreek Crisis May Provoke Fed-ECB Split as Euro Slides - BloombergSenate panel passes sweeping financial-regulation bill - Washington PostServicers Streamlining Short Sales as HAFA… Read More
2010-03-22 20:43
Given that the health care bill is about to be signed into law, the long hard slogging now all but done, attention turns to the financial reform legislation that, based on this exchange betw… Read More
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