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“Gone Too Far?” You’re Freaking Joking Right? or Here Is Where the Story Ends
While we spent the early part of the week looking under the hood of our slow down call – which was really made in Feb / March – we now turn our attention to the recent kerfuffle over banking regulation in the US (and for that matter abroad). But first a quick review of where [...]
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Soft Patch or if You’re Feeling Sinister Something Worse
Our title references one of the best albums of the 1990′s, Belle and Sebastian’s, If You’re Feeling Sinister . In fact, when it was released in 1996 the Internet was infantile, the tech bubble just getting under way, and the full blown melt up in financial based assets was just getting out of the gate. How curious [...]
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Irish Looking to Leave Euro Zone
Yesterday morning I awoke to a note in response to a recent post that concerned the latest round of machinations from the ECB G8 and other collective groups looking to solve the world’s debt problems with more restructuring laid at the foot of the global tax payer. An old Irish American friend suggested the following: [...]
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Exposure
As Sunday night comes into full view, and we in North America get ready to thank our Veterans for defending the US, its worth taking a look as who in Europe is going to be defending whom in the coming weeks. The FT is currently breaking a story that not only has huge implications for [...]
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Sustainability
There are dynamics emerging in the Developed Economies that suggest the large-scale bifurcation between wage earners and white-collar workers that has emerged in the last thirty years may have gone too far and the return to a more normalized distribution of compensation in the cards. Unfortunately we don’t think this helps the US and European [...]
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In The Beginning
It seems appropriate to start off our new home at EconoMonitor with a post rapture “tip of the hat” to the weekend that was (or was not). As we sit pondering another bout with the East Coast deluge of rain, we are wondering if the Arc metaphors of last week are not about to have [...]
