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Making Cents of the Dollar

September 21, 2007
The US dollar’s slide is once again prompting a steady drum beat warning that the end is nigh. While a further dollar decline seems likely, its demise is likely being exaggerated and a recovery is likely late this year or early next year. This view is predicated on the understanding that what is ailing the dollar is largely cyclical in nature and…
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Trade and The Dollar

September 14, 2007
One of the interesting elements in the US dollar’s recent decline is that few, if any, are suggesting that it is being driven by its perennial nemesis, the large trade deficit. Most seem to recognize that the divergence of monetary policy and the anticipated trajectory of interest rate differentials are the significant force driving the greenback …
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The Rubicon is Crossed

September 07, 2007
The unexpected decline in non-farm payrolls, the first such decline in four years, leaves no doubt that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates at the September 18 FOMC meeting. The jobs data, which included a downward revision of 81k jobs over the past couple of months, is simply horrific and fans the most pessimistic fears. The housing mark…
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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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