May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Lakshman Achuthan, chief operations officer of the Economic Cycle Research Institute, talks about his renewed call for the U.S. to enter another recession this year. Achuthan speaks with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday." (Source: Bloomberg) … [Read more...]
What We’re Reading 5-11-12
Of Course 70% Tax Rates Are Counterproductive, Alan Reynolds, The Wall Street Journal Estimize, an Earnings Crowd That Beats the Street, Ira Boudway, Businessweek Stimulus Spending Keeps Failing, Robert J. Barro, The Wall Street Journal It’s too late for Germany to save the euro, Jeremy Warner, The Telegraph … [Read more...]
NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism Highest Since 2007
The Index of Small Business Optimism from NFIB rose 2 points in April to 94.5, the highest index value since 2007. This is the second time the index has reached 94.5 since 2007, reaching it once before in February of 2011. Despite the improvement in the index, overall index levels are not cause for optimism. The NFIB commentary on the index states: “The Index continues to hold at the higher values of what would be considered recession level readings. Optimism has been unable to break out into expansion mode for years, producing a few false starts with no follow through.” The … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Do Earnings Surprises Matter?
See also, "The Quarterly Earnings Con Job." … [Read more...]
What We’re Reading 5-4-12
The Fed's Jelly Donut Policy, David Einhorn, The Huffington Post Gold Standard for All, From Nuts to Paul Krugman, Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg Our central bankers are intellectually bankrupt, Ron Paul, Financial Times The True Lessons of the Recession, Raghuram G. Rajan, Foreign Affairs … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Martin Feldstein on Fed Policy, Stocks, Economy
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University, talks about the impact of Federal Reserve monetary policy on the stock market. Feldstein, speaking with Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," also discusses the outlook for the U.S. economy. (Source: Bloomberg) … [Read more...]
VIDEO: EU Needs Tougher Bank Capital Rules, Borg Says
April 30 (Bloomberg) -- Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg discusses bank capital rules and a European Union proposal to fix core capital requirements at 7 percent of lenders' fixed-weighted assets. He spoke with Bloomberg's Johan Carlstrom in Stockholm on April 27. (Source: Bloomberg) … [Read more...]
What We’re Reading 4-27-12
Congress Finally Takes on the Fed, George Melloan, The Wall Street Journal Why the Euro Isn't Worth Saving, Matthew O’Brien, The Atlantic TARP: Billions in Loans in Doubt, McGrane, Sidel, and Sparshott, The Wall Street Journal US Tire Tariffs: Saving Few Jobs at High Cost, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, PIIE … [Read more...]
VIDEO: Sell in May & Go Away?
Bernanke: Krugman Policy ‘Reckless’
On April 24 The New York Times Magazine published an article by Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman. In his article, Krugman lambastes Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for not doing more to help the economy. Krugman seems upset that Bernanke once advocated for greater intervention by the Bank of Japan to stem economic malaise in the Japanese economy, but the Fed Chairman will not intervene more forcefully to help the U.S. economy. The “evidence” for Krugman’s critique comes mostly in this paragraph: In a hard-hitting 2000 paper titled “Japanese Monetary Policy: A Case of … [Read more...]
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