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The Financial Times – Banks lent billions to Madoff ‘feeder funds’ Leading banks from Britain, France and Japan helped investors treble or quadruple bets on Bernard Madoff by lending billions of dollars to “feeder” funds,...
Jim Bianco was a guest host on Europe’s Squawk Box yesterday discussing the Federal Reserve meeting and its inflationary implications. Click on the picture above to see the video. The Financial Times – The Fed rips up the rule book We are...
Tracking the True Cost Of The TARP The Treasury infused $247.26 billion into 184 companies over the span of the credit crisis. In exchange for these bailouts, the Treasury received securities that are currently valued at $255.10 billion. This means...
The Federal Reserve – FOMC Statement The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to establish a target range for the federal funds rate of 0 to 1/4 percent…The Federal Reserve will employ all available tools to promote the resumption...
The Wall Street Journal – Crisis Pushed Foreign Investors Toward Treasurys A global flight to safety sent foreign investors scrambling for short-term dollar-denominated assets in October, with buyers from around the world snapping up some $147...
MarketBeat (WSJ Blog) – A Tale of Two Credit Markets The 16-month nightmare that is the credit markets has improved from time to time, in fits and starts, but it has not looked better than it has now in a long time. It’s too bad it still...
CBS News – 60 Minutes: Saudi Arabia Bullish On Oil’s Future The good news is that the price of oil is falling – a lot; it’s also the bad news if you’re determined that the U.S. should kick its addiction to foreign oil....
The Wall Street Journal – Mark-to-Market Likely to RemainSEC Is Expected to Keep Accounting Rule but Seek Ways to Refine Its UseThe agency is completing a study on mark-to-market accounting ordered up by Congress as part of the bailout bill....
Financial Markets Outlook Federal Reserve of Chicago, Economic Outlook Symposium
Commitments of Traders Update/Analysis Statistics cover the CoT report for November 25, 2008. Further charts and comments include: 10 Year Treasury Note Futures: Large Speculators Turning Net Long S&P 500 Futures: Commercials Sell The Rally Yen...
The Latest On Credit And Deleveraging Audio Link of Conference Call A transcript of the November 20, 2008 conference call.
<Click on chart for larger image> Pimco.com – Paul McCulley: The Paradox of Deleveraging Will Be Broken The financial world will never be the same after the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve’s fateful decision of the weekend of...