In Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - Posted 1 week ago

Inflation is soaring in Vietnam. The cure is simple. All Vietnam has to do is stop the expansion of money and credit. Vietnam is instead looking at tr...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 weeks ago

On Thursday, China dropped a bombshell with the news that it was raising prices on refined products, gasoline and diesel. Detailed reports are confusi...

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In Calculated Risk - Posted 2 weeks ago

From Bloomberg: Yuan Extends Gains to 20% Since End of Peg Before Paulson Talks The yuan extended gains to 20 percent since China ended a fixed exchan...

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In Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - Posted 2 weeks ago

Food and energy prices are soaring everywhere. Eurozone inflation is a record 3.7%Inflation in the eurozone has a climbed to a record level amid highe...

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In Econbrowser - Posted 3 weeks ago

Over the past few days, I've been trying to identify appropriate measures of the output gap (and trying to relate that to exchange rate changes). As I...

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In Economist's View - Posted 4 weeks ago

Why is the U.S. sending inconsistent messages on exchange rate pegs?: It's no time for oil currency hypocrisy from the US, by Kenneth Rogoff, Projec...

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In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 4 weeks ago

I think Europe could surpass the US ad market if for no other reason that different markets means different languages and different ad campaigns. In o...

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In Economist's View - Posted 4 weeks ago

Tim Duy argues that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke can be criticized for following the wrong playbook in his response to the financial crisis:The Perils ...

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In Economist's View - Posted 5 weeks ago

Stephen P. A. Brown, Raghav Virmani, and Richard Alm of the Dallas Fed look at why oil prices are so high, and whether the high prices are likely to c...

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In Economist's View - Posted 5 weeks ago

There are two different topics to choose from, so let's start with the latest news on GDP. Today, GDP growth for the first quarter was revised upward ...

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