May 3, 2010 · 7 comments
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On April 27, 2010, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greece’s credit rating to junk status – meaning that it is unlikely Greece can pay back its creditors, which means that it is not worth it for the hypothetical investor to invest in Greece.
The same day, the USD spiked and the Euro and other currencies fell a [...]
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April 13, 2010 · 10 comments
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Thus spake the Congressional Budget Office on the long-term future of American fiscal integrity (or rather, the coming lack of it). As Niall Ferguson reported in his piece for the Financial Times back in February,
“The long-run projections of the Congressional Budget Office suggest that the US will never again run a balanced budget. That’s right, [...]
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March 23, 2010
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This is the news in US debt catching our eye early this week following the passing of the health care reform bill late Sunday night: charts of yields on US Treasuries are showing a spike in short-term, two-year treasury yields – a spike that lifts them above the yields on corporate bonds for the same [...]
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January 27, 2010 · 2 comments
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The Obama administration sits between an economic rock and a political hard place. Others might call it a contradiction. Obama needs to cut spending, but he’s doing this at the same time that more spending is being introduced (on job creation, more troops in Afghanistan). Slight cuts in some areas are supposed to offset increased [...]
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January 4, 2010 · 5 comments
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Aside from American financial institutions and the Fed (the buyer of last resort), the largest buyers of US Treasuries and notes are all Asian countries. You can probably guess which ones.
#1 – China
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China, more than anyone, is probably most concerned with the value of the US dollar and the stability of their US dollar investments. [...]
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November 27, 2009 · 10 comments
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A gold tsunami is at our doorstep. It’s not about a bubble, trade or even a wall of fear. It might be partly some of each of those things, but that’s because it’s much, much bigger than each of those things. And I’m no gold bug – nor do I keep a cabin hideaway full [...]
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There are two short-term advantages to a weak US dollar.
The primary advantage of purposefully driving the value of the US Dollar down, as Bernanke and Geithner both know, is that it makes US exports more attractively priced for foreign buyers. This, of course, helps the US economy in theory (if more goods are purchased as [...]
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