Brazil urges fiscal measures – elsewhere beyondbrics Wall Street Journal ataca a España: "¿Es muy grande para caer o muy grande para salvar?" Cotizalia Why America is going to win the global currency battle Martin Wolf, FT (hat tip Swedish Lex) Italy’s crackdown on Gypsies reflects rising anti-immigrant tide in Europe WaPo (Xenophobia is increasing […]
Read more...This is my last links post at Naked Capitalism. I want to thank you all for being patient and open-minded over the past two weeks. It is always a pleasure to read your comments as they are an integral part of the experience on Yves’ site. I also appreciate the links and Antidotes you have […]
Read more...Is this xenophobia? Video – Jan Brewer: Most illegal immigrants are ‘drug mules’ CNN (Hat tip Glenn) Bias and Bigotry in Academia Patrick Buchanan Losing White America Patrick Buchanan Long-Term Economic Pain for American Families Bob Herbert, NYTimes (this is why latent xenophobia has come to the surface in my view) Xenophobia is the uncontrollable […]
Read more...Dear Naked Capitalism people! Here they are: the links. Today, I have more links than I can possibly put in the links post. I’ve chopped some good stuff. If you want to see them all, either go to the News Feed at CW or subscribe to it here. Ed PS – My home has been […]
Read more...Dear Naked Capitalism readers, the links are a tad thin today because I was away until yesterday and my house was blacked out when I got back so I’m still getting back up to speed. Feel free to send more links. Cheers, Ed Wikileaks The Afghanistan Protocol: Explosive Leaks Provide Image of War from Those […]
Read more...Since Bob Goodwin decided to take the conservative tack on Post Racial White Flight, I thought I should start the links off with the attack on affirmative action from within the Democratic party. It is not just Republicans who are looking to roll back the civil rights agenda. The next three links are of this […]
Read more...Naked Capitalists, I am away from my computer for most of the weekend. But I do have some links for you all. Since I have cobbled them together rather haphazardly due to my time constraints, they may be a bit heavy on the (depressing) economy/finance side. Sorry for that. I hope to make amends on […]
Read more...Today is the day we will finally learn the stress tests results for European banks. Rumours are everywhere already. Hypo Real Estate is expected to fail. Slovenia’s largest bank is expected to fail. Many of the Spanish savings banks are expected to fail. Gotta have some failures if you want this to be believable. Timmy […]
Read more...Banks accused of ‘disingenuous’ capital claims – view from dc FT (interview with Sheila Bair on her thoughts on the new resolution authority. See this blurb from 2008 on excess leverage for context.) Straws in the wind at the convenience store: "Welcome to America" Corrente (Thanks Lambert) From stress-test inferno to capital purgatorio FT Alphaville […]
Read more...Here are the links for today. I really appreciate all the link suggestions from readers by the way. To ping me with links, you can also try twitter. I use twitter a decent amount to tweet or retweet stories as I find them. I am @edwardnh. I appreciate foreign language stories too because with the […]
Read more...Here are the links today. I have a lot more than this but some time limitations this morning as I am preparing for a spot on BBC Five Live for 5PM UK time (12PM EDT). The Prime Minister is in town and I will provide some economic commentary on Five Live for anyone in the […]
Read more...Greetings Naked Capitalists! I had the good fortune of receiving lots of Antidotes yesterday. So I wanted to thank you all for the e-mails. There was a lot to choose from, so some of you will see your handiwork over the coming days. Thanks again. Ed What Germany knows about debt (Here is Tyler Cowen […]
Read more...Hi everyone. Yves is off in Denmark eating this. She asked me to do the links for her over the next few weeks. I have a favor to ask of you all: please send me antidotes du jour. I need them because I just don’t have any photos which fit the bill. E-mail your goods […]
Read more...By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns Everybody in the west knows the fabled effectiveness of weight-loss dietary programs designed around intense cardiovascular regimes which burn huge amounts of calories. The people who work hard, doing as much cardio as possible lose weight. Those that pump iron may get muscular, but they aren’t working as hard […]
Read more...Edward Harrison here with an article I posted last evening at Credit Writedowns. Since I posted this, the markets have sold off in Asia and Europe. The U.S. will open way down. Clearly, contagion has spread. The areas where I could see contagion spreading beyond Spain should be Ireland because of their banks and Eastern […]
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