Tim Duy
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Europe Can’t Move Fast Enough to Halt Crisis
Today the leaders of Germany, France, and Italy came together, offering a commitment to work toward new fiscal rules in Europe while keeping a leash on the European... Read »
And the Global Economic Saga Continues
The last week has been a non-stop flood of news. And, quite honestly, none of it is encouraging. I imagine the sole exception to that rule is the relatively... Read »
Fed Watch: Games of Chicken
The Eurozone is stuck on a path that leads to a very nasty equilibrium. From the Financial Times: In a day that euro-era records tumbled, Italian yields moved... Read »
Fed Watch: Endgame Approaching
Wall Street is again taking Europe seriously, at least for the moment. Today was unpleasant. The most important news of the day is that Germany and France are... Read »
Wall Street Ignoring Europe?
Ryan Avent is puzzled. He says so: I have to say, I’m puzzled. Recent developments in the euro zone seem incredibly negative to me. The probability of a reasonably... Read »
Widespread Lack of Conviction
Menzie Chinn at Econbrowser looks at the OECD data and concludes the world is close to stall speed. Alcoa is an early victim, as the impact of the European financial... Read »
A Boom in 2013?
While searching through market commentary, I came across these remarks, via Bloomberg: “We are focusing on major U.S. equities now, looking past the European stock... Read »
Don’t Let Monetary Policy Off The Hook
Re-reading Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s latest testimony to Congress left me increasingly puzzled by his conclusion: Monetary policy can be a powerful... Read »
The Fed Drops the Ball
By mid-summer it was evident the recovery was in jeopardy, that the slowdown in economic activity could not be entirely explained by temporary factors, that unemployment... Read »
Too Late for the Unemployed?
The debate between cyclical and structural unemployment arose last year. At this point, it looks like Federal Reserve policymakers increasingly favor the structural... Read »






