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Want China to Float the Yuan? Careful What You Wish For

In Seeking Alpha - Posted 1 day ago

By Grey Owl Capital Management (Guest Contributor) On Monday, a bipartisan group of 130 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to ...

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We Don't Need More Regulations; We Need Better Regulators

In Seeking Alpha - Posted 1 day ago

We need new heads for US Treasury, Federal Reserve and the FDIC, not Regulatory Reform. Below I review the important regulations that were created, an...

Tags: bernanke fed federal reserve greenspan housing markets pipeline real estate system trading treasury secretary

Latest TARP Price Tag: $109 Billion

In Wall Street Journal: Real Time Economics - Posted 1 day ago

In the latest update of its cost estimates for Troubled Asset Relief Program, the $700-billion kitty Congress created in 2008 to bolster the banking ...

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Beware Lawmakers Who Don't Understand the Roots of the Financial Crisis

In Seeking Alpha - Posted 2 days ago

In an uncharacteristically dyspeptic opinion piece on his newsletter, John Lothian concludes that CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler has his eye on something ...

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Stock Rally Says Economic Boom; Fed Shows Concerns

In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 days ago

The Fed says that a zero percent funds rate is needed for an extended period. The Fed shares my concerns on housing and job creation, with housi...

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Stock Rally Says Economic Boom; Fed Shows Concerns

In Seeking Alpha - Posted 2 days ago

The Fed says that a zero percent funds rate is needed for an extended period. The Fed shares my concerns on housing and job creation, with housi...

Tags: fed fomc housing the fed treasury secretary

What the Fed and EU Finance Ministers Have in Common

In Big Picture - Posted 2 days ago

Good Morning: Our capital markets have lately been, in the words of one of veteran participant, just scintillating . Stocks, bonds, the dollar,...

Tags: bernanke bonds budget central bank china commodities discount rate economics fed fed funds federal reserve fomc housing inflation real estate

Dodd's Take on Regulation

In SeekingAlpha ETFs - Posted 2 days ago

Sen. Dodd's new financial regulation package is out and about. What does it mean? What does it do? What will it change? Will it work? The analysis has...

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Dodd's Take on Regulation

In Seeking Alpha - Posted 2 days ago

Sen. Dodd's new financial regulation package is out and about. What does it mean? What does it do? What will it change? Will it work? The analysis has...

Tags: federal reserve system treasury secretary

Bank Reform May Be Short The Votes It Needs

In 24/7 Wall St. - Posted 3 days ago

The healthcare reform package, the center of the Obama presidency, never made it though Congress, at least not in the form the President would have li...

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