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Review: American Monetary Policy Since the Financial Crisis
by James D. Hamilton, reproduced from EconBrowser.com The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced on Thursday that it had sold the last remaining securities from its Maiden Lane III portfolio, successfully closing the chapter on its assistance to insurance giant AIG. … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG bailout, bailout, Bear Stearns bailout, Great Financial Crisis, James D. Hamilton, Maiden Lane
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Spain and The Runaway Euro Bailout Train
By EconMatters Spain finally bowed to the rising interest rates and the billions of euros worth of bad loans at Spain’s regional governments to ask for a loan. After emergency talks between Euro Zone finance ministers on Saturday, Spain will get up … Continue reading
Posted in Eurozone
Tagged bailout, debt crisis, EconMatters, EU, euro, Euro bonds, euro rescue, Eurozone, Spain
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Greece: The Sudden Stop That Wasn’t
by Aaron Tornell & Frank Westermann
With economists’ eyes fixed squarely on Greece, this column tries to solve a puzzle. Since 2008, tens of billions of euros have fled Greek bank accounts. Yet somehow the country still has a current-account deficit. Where has this money come from?
Normally, things don’t work like this for nations in crisis. Greece has experienced severe capital flight yet its current-account deficit has remained almost unchanged; its international reserves are little changed. On net, €24 billion of private capital left the country between 2008 and 2010, but Greece still managed to accumulate a €85 billion current-account deficit – 12% of GDP.
Where has the money come from? The answer can be found by looking at the balance of payments statistics. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Eurozone, International Economic data
Tagged Aaron Tornell, account deficit, bailout, ECB, euro, Eurozone, Frank Westermann, Greece, IFO Institute, IMF
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EU: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Disease
The bail-out plan brings no real news. Europe keeps on fighting the crisis by keeping Greece on financial life support and demanding austerity. There is still no coherent theory to explain how this exactly should work. Continue reading
Posted in Eurozone
Tagged bailout, debt crisis, Dirk Ehnts, EU, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Portugal
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The Sovereign Debt Crisis and Currency Sovereignty
What if all goes wrong in Europe? How bad could it actually be? What’s the worst case scenario for the world economy, and do the twin debt crisis in the US and Europe have the potential to drag down China too? Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Eurozone
Tagged bailout, crisis, currency, debt, Edward Harrison, leverage, sovereign debt
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The Trillion Dollar Fraud
John R. Talbott argues that the accumulation of trillions in MBS by the Fed and the GSEs will amount to a gigantic backdoor bailout for the banks. Continue reading
Posted in Business News and Analysis, Federal Reserve, Home Sales and Home Prices, US Treasury
Tagged BAC, bailout, Fannie, FMCC.OB, FNMA.OB, Freddie, John R. Talbott
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