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(In) Securitization

August 24, 2007
The meltdown in the alphabet soup of the derivatives market—from ABCP and CDOs to RMBS and CDS—has given rise to concerns that the problem is systemic to these kinds of financial products. No less than Warren Buffet, one of the most successful investors of our generation has called derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction”. Given the eve…
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Moral Hazard on Main Street and Wall Street

August 17, 2007
The Federal Reserve has taken several steps up a policy escalation ladder to address the turmoil in the capital markets. It has allowed the Fed funds rate to deviate sharply from its target, and has created conditions that have allowed an approximate five-fold increase in excess reserves of the banking system.
The Federal Reserve took additional s…
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Moral Hazard on Main and Wall Street

August 17, 2007
The Federal Reserve has taken several steps up a policy escalation ladder to address the turmoil in the capital markets. It has allowed the Fed funds rate to deviate sharply from its target, and has created conditions that have allowed an approximate five-fold increase in excess reserves of the banking system.
Moral Hazard on Main and Wall Street Moral Hazard on Main and Wall Street Reviewed by magonomics on August 17, 2007 Rating: 5
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China and the Dollar, Thunder but no Rain

August 10, 2007
Only the suggestion that China could use its vast US dollar holdings to influence American policy managed to rival the dramatic developments in the capital markets for the attention of investors and the media. Of all the things that investors and policy makers have to worry about, China’s dollar holdings should keep any one up at night.
China and the Dollar, Thunder but no Rain China and the Dollar, Thunder but no Rain Reviewed by magonomics on August 10, 2007 Rating: 5
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The Long and Short of It: Outlook for the Dollar

August 08, 2007
The US multi-year down trend is over. The process we described as “carving out a bottom” has been completed. Recent days have been a watershed, but it has been a long time in the making. The dollar bottomed against the British pound and Canadian dollar (half of the G7 currencies) last November, as the Federal Reserve expanded its lending facilitie…
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